Saga Rank the Star Wars Films, TPM to SOLO

1. Revenge of the Sith: Especially after the Clone Wars. Dang. i cri evertim. plo koon though
2. Attack of the Clones: Childhood nostalgia all the way! I just love the designs, worldbuilding, music and setup for Clone Wars and RotS. It messes up Anakin's character, but Clone Wars fixes that, so who cares.
3. Return of the Jedi: I loved it as a kid. The scenes between Luke, Vader and finally Sheev are so tense, the archetypes are on point. And the (new) music at the end! Ah man. So much epic. (Also almost makes me tear up when Anakin appears as a ghost. The circle is *now* complete.)
4. A New Hope: It is honestly the greatest and the one that started it all, but it hasn't made me get super emotional yet so
5. The Empire Strikes Back: Liked it, it's just a bit slow.
6. Rogue One: I loved it, but it made me *too* sad...
7. The Phantom Menace: lkdjasdfisidojf
8. The Last Jedi: It's so nihilistic and cynical, tries to insult you for wanting to see good guys do good stuff. Who needs that in Star Wars when I can just turn on the news?
I can't rank Solo and The Force Awakens because I haven't seen them.

 

1. The Last Jedi - Just genius film making and takes the story to very new, unexpected places, which is a tall order for a Star Wars movie. Also filled with subtleties and new things to notice with each viewing.
2. Return of the Jedi - Some of the most powerful scenes in the entire saga and my favorite ending of all time.
3. The Empire Strikes Back - Balances all the elements so well. Definitely the best made of the OT, but I favor ROTJ over it due to the personal meaning ROTJ holds for me.
4. The Force Awakens - Wild ride and nonstop action as is JJ's specialty. I like the repetition of themes as per TPM and ANH, allthough I thought Maz's castle was less thematic and more of a direct rip off of the Mos Eisley Cantina, lacking in any sense of originality.
5. Revenge of the Sith - Clunkily made, but contains scenes that are so significant to the saga, that it overshadows ANH even though the latter is smoother.
6. A New Hope - Fun movie to see with a crowd, but drags on a little at the beginning and seems a bit clunky.
7. Solo - A fun movie to watch in it's own right, but the Darth Maul thing gets a little too EU referency for me
8. Rogue One - Well shot and filled with great moments that both tie into and explain ANH, but the storytelling was generic
9. The Phantom Menace - Embarrassingly lacking in life and relatability, but the best looking visually of all the movies.
10. Attack of the Clones - Some cool action sequences but really embarrassing to watch otherwise.

 

Any reason you didn't see TFA and then saw TLJ without seeing TFA?

I'm not trying to make any underlying point, I'm just curious.

 

New ranking!

1. EP V: The Empire Strikes Back
2. EP III: Revenge of the Sith
3. EP IV: A New Hope (Star Wars)
4. EP VI: Return of the Jedi
5. EP VII: The Force Awakens
6. Solo: A Star Wars Story
7. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
8. VADER EPISODE 1: SHARDS OF THE PAST - A STAR WARS THEORY FAN-FILM
9. EP I: The Phantom Menace
10. EP II: Attack of the Clones
11. EP: VIII: The Last Jedi

 

Funny story, at the time I didn't want to see TFA because I was going through a weird phase where too much mysticism in movies made me feel a little squicky, and it looked like TFA was going to have a bit of that from the trailer. And then by the time TLJ came out I was over that, but by then I knew the story of TFA pretty well from having it told to me, and a lot of people I spoke to said TFA was bland, so I never bothered.

 

Revenge of the Sith
The Empire Strikes Back
The Force Awakens
A New Hope
Solo
Rogue One
Return of the Jedi
Attack of the Clones
The Last Jedi
The Phantom Menace

 

1. Return Of The Jedi
2. Empire Strikes Back
3. A New Hope
4. Revenge Of The Sith
5. Rogue One
6. Solo
7. Attack Of The Clones
8. The Phantom Menace
9. The Force Awakens
10. The Last Jedi

 

1. Rogue One
2. Solo
3. Attack Of The Clones
4. The Last Jedi
5. Revenge of the Sith
6. The Force Awakens
7. The Phantom Menace
8. A New Hope
9. The Empire Strikes Back
10. Return Of The Jedi

 

Would this not be specific enough:
1) The Lucas Episodes
2) The Star Wars Stories
3) The Disney Episodes

 

1. The Empire Strikes Back
2. Revenge of the Sith
3. A New Hope
4. Attack of the Clones
5. The Phantom Menace
6. Return of the Jedi
7. Rogue One
8. Solo
9. The Clone Wars
10. The Last Jedi
11. The Force Awakens

 

1. The Empire Strikes Back
2. A New Hope
3. The Last Jedi
4. Dark Empire comic
5. Return of the Jedi
6. The Clone Wars TV series
7. Marvel Star Wars comics (both 1977 and 2015 versions)
8. The Force Awakens
9. Rogue One
10. Revenge of the Sith
11. Solo
12. The Phantom Menace
13. Attack of the Clones

 

Updated my list from the last two month of re-watching all the films.

I hadn't watched TFA and TLJ since March of last year when I got to them. They do not hold up well at all. They're really poor examples of world building and logical character progressions. Abrams and Johnson methods of storytelling do not work well together at all. I think any excitement I actually felt for Episode IX evaporated.

 

Rogue One/The OT
The ST
Solo
The Ewok movies
The PT

 

1. ROTS
2. ROTJ
3. TPM
4. ANH
5. RO
6. AOTC
7. ESB
8. Solo
9. TLJ
10. TFA
I find all of them to be at the very least watchable, though.

 

Do you guys consider the TCW theatrical release a proper Star Wars, that it should be ranked with the rest of the films? I feel like it's tricky ground.

 

My rankings are:

(1) ROTS, ANH, RO and TLJ
(2) AOTC and SOLO
(3) TFA, ESB and ROTJ
(4) TPM

 

My rankings are given in my sig. I don't even try to rank the six films that I don't like. I just don't like them, and that's that.

 

Nope. It’s just three or four episodes edited into a movie, and it looks as such. IMO, releasing it theatrically was a serious misfire. Should never have happened.

 

It's the sole reason I put off watching the actual series for so long, and I've seen a ton of people say the same. The four episodes that comprise the film aren't awful on their own, but when you're either forced to watch all four of them edited together or leave the theater, it makes the unenjoyable aspects of all four taken as a collective borderline grueling. If they simply premiered the series on Cartoon Network with "The New Padawan" as the pilot episode and taken it from there, I think a lot of people (myself included) wouldn't have been so quick to dismiss the show.

 

Yeah I remember how tedious the amount of arcs were in Season 5. I think that's where a lot of the charm from Season 1 and 2 come in, where many episodes were standalone serial adventures.

 

ESB
ANH
R1
TLJ
ROTS
ROTJ
TFA
SOLO
AOTC
TPM

 

I know this is cheating a little bit but...

1.Star Wars (1977)
2.The Empire Strikes Back
3.Return of the Jedi
4.The Force Awakens
5.The Fallen Knight (Last Jedi fan edit)
6.Solo
7.The Phantom Menace
8.Revenge of the Sith
9.Attack of the Clones
10.The Last Jedi (actual movie)
11.Rogue One

Note: For those who don't know, Fallen Knight is a 95-minute Last Jedi fan edit that removes all of the comedy and sub-plots, focusing the story down almost entirely to just Luke, Rey, and Kylo Ren.

 

Sorry, slight correction to my ranking above:

1.Star Wars (1977)
2.The Empire Strikes Back
3.Return of the Jedi
4.The Force Awakens
5.The Fallen Knight (Last Jedi fan edit)
6.Solo
7.Revenge of the Sith
8.Attack of the Clones
9.The Phantom Menace
10.The Last Jedi (actual movie)
11.Rogue One