ST After repeated viewings, which Star Wars/Disney film is the best/more enjoyable?

I have to go with The Last Jedi. It's the movie that keeps the most with you everytime you finish it. It makes you re-think everything you thought you knew about Star Wars, the Force and all it's characters.

The Force Awakens is very enjoyable and it's pacing is arguably better, but being very similar to ANH it offered little new besides the new characters (I love Rey btw)

And Rogue One is a very gritty Star Wars war film and very well done, but it's characters don't develop much and are some very one-dimensional.

 

Clearly The Force Awakens which did build up a lot of great things, only to be ruined by The Last Jedi.

 

rogue one for me. i loved it immediately and didn't feel the need to convince myself that i did. i've warmed up to tfa over the past two years although i still wish that it hadn't gone the route of "empire vs rebels" (sorry to bring up that tired discussion again). i still need to see the last jedi a second time to really get a sense of how i feel about it but as of now i can't find the energy to sit through it again so that's that (for now at least)

 

In terms of just pure quality for me it's definitely TLJ > R1 > TFA.

Though TLJ has some structural issues and some bloat that TFA doesn't, what it accomplishes blows it out of the water for me.

 

Rogue One, followed by The Last Jedi and The Force Awakens. I find the complex themes of the first two more appealing.

 

Rogue One for me, with TFA and TLJ languishing at the bottom of the pile...

 

The Force Awakens. It’s my favourite film of all time. But I love all three of them.

 

TFA is a more consistently thrilling – and therefore enjoyable – pop spectacle, if not necessarily the better film. Rogue One was good, but marred by a shaky first hour. I am still attempting to reconcile some of my feelings toward TLJ.

 

RO. Best SW movie in 30 years and the only one that feels like its set in the same universe.

 

TFA, I wasn`t fully onboard with some story choices either but I found it to be engaging with likeable new characters.

Then RO, simply for its insanely strong third act.

TLJ... sigh, not my cup of tea for the most part.

 

The Force Awakens is my favorite Star Wars movie ever, it is perfection! I've rewatched it more times than I can count and love it with all my heart.

Rogue One is some good stuff. I admire it for making A New Hope shine even brighter than I thought possible.

The Last Jedi, bad. I'm struggling to accept it, but I don't think I ever will. It left me with the worst feeling ever.

 

The Force Awakens and Rogue One are not perfect Movies. And not every Star Wars Movie has to be a flawless Masterpiece at least for me.
So i enjoyed TFA very much for what i think it wants to be: celebrating the Fun of Classic Star Wars.

With Rogue One i had some more issues. But it has grown on me in the past couple Month. And now i would say it is the best of the new ones.

TLJ is a whole different thing. I never felt so uncomfortable with so many Scenes/Characters/Storytelling- and Plotchoices. It felt nothing like an Star Wars SAGA Film. It felt more like a 3-Story-Arc from Rebels. And don't get me wrong, i love Rebels and the Ghost Crew sooo much (Hera! ), but it is a different Kind of Star Wars.
I saw it four times now and nothing changed my mind. Basically i think that LFL and Johnson did the same thing with this Movie what Luke did with the Lightsaber, they tossed it away and try to sell it as Bold and fresh. And i am disappointed especially because of that:

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All 9 obviously!!

 

In terms of most fun, definitely TFA for me. I think it's the most enjoyably paced of any SW film, and I was surprised by how much I liked the new characters right from the get-go.
I've only seen TLJ once, so it's hard to judge it fairly. I liked the deeper themes it explored, but I found it overall less enjoyable than TFA.
Rogue One has a fantastic second half, but its first half is a mess. Also, I just never warmed to its characters the way I warmed to the characters of the ST. That's not to say I dislike them, but they just lacked a certain level of charm for me.

 

Most enjoyable and best are two different things, though I suspect The Force Awakens would be the majority pick for both measurements.

Rogue One is dense and the characters don't pop like the newbies in the proper trilogy, Jyn really gets lost in the shuffle, though that may be by design seeing that they all died. It's definitely good, but it doesn't lend itself well to causal viewing. The Force Awakens is pure entertainment, a pop corn flick as it were. I like The Last Jedi, but I can already tell there's aspects of it I probably won't be excited to see again.

 

Force Awakens, but could be TLJ in the future, watching the movie in home.

 

Rogue one is a direct prequel and has more drama and tension than both movies, especially vii.

 

I think it’s simple, at least from my perspective. Rogue One & The Last Jedi took chances, were not safe and had Legendary lore and expectations to meet, which I believe they both accomplished. The Force Awakens was safe (which is 100%) okay, and set up characters. The only risk Force Awakens took was the death of Han Solo.

Because of those risks for my viewing pleasure the answer is The Last Jedi. It takes risks, forces characters into uncomfortable positions and alliances. It challenges the cast and audience both emotionally but also psychologically. It makes you use critical thought ~ I love it.

 

Rogue One, definitely. This movie gets better with each rewatch. Followed by TFA, even though I had plenty of issues with it but I still enjoyed it better than TLJ.

So, it's RO > TFA > TLJ, for me.

 

TFA is the most fun, but TLJ is more interesting.

 

Rogue One seemed like the better example of taking risks while respecting what Star Wars is about.

 

Interested to see the support for R1 here since for me it's absolutely the weakest Disney movie, although still head and shoulders above the prequels of course. The third act is magnificent, and the overall plot is strong, but the characters are all paper-thin and Jyn especially undergoes a complete change of heart central to the film apparently offscreen and with no obvious rationale.

Still though, that third act lets me forgive a lot.

 

Rogue One benefits massively from its time and setting obviously. It's set in the time period most fans around here love and shows us Vader doing things we wish we could have seen in the OT but didn't. It slots in right before ANH and enriches ANH the way many hoped the prequels would.

It's also unique in that it caters to people who had secretly wished for more realism in Star Wars and less magic/Jedi/Sith stuff. For all of those fans it delivers huge. I'm a fan personally but I think those are its strengths along with how it retconned a huge question/matter of convenience (the weakness) into something deliberate.

The Last Jedi, for me, is Star Wars at its best and most offbeat and original from all other franchises that exist with a mix of magic / Jedi lore / military action / emotion / humor personal setbacks and growth / family conflicts / Space opera relationship issues and surprises that no other franchise can top so it's currently my favorite of the new films.