Yet another Star Wars thread: Best-Worst

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On a scale of 1-10…

  1. Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back 10/10 (My all time #1 film)
  2. Episode IV: A New Hope 9/10
  3. Episode III: Revenge of the Sith 8/10
  4. Episode I: The Phantom Menace 7/10
  5. Episode VI: Return of the Jedi 4/10
  6. Episode II: Attack of the Clones 3/10…so utterly terrible.
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  1. The Empire Strikes Back: 10/10
  2. Revenge of the Sith: 8/10
  3. Return of the Jedi: 8/10
  4. Star Wars: 7/10
  5. Attack of the Clones: 5/10
  6. The Phantom Menace: 5/10

I never saw the original (Episode IV), until I was in my teens, so it doesn’t have the nostalgia factor the other two of the original trilogy have for me. When I was a kid Return of the Jedi was my all-time favorite movie. (I liked it better than Empire because of the happy ending and the Ewoks.)

Episodes I and II are on even footing for me. Bot have a few good scenes surrounded by a lot of mediocrity.

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I’d say my best->worst list goes 5,4,3,6,2,1.

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Empire Strikes Back
Star Wars
Revenge of the Sith
Return of the Jedi
When Clones Attack
Phantom Menace

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I saw the first two when they came out in the 70s and were numbered differently. They’re now 4 and 5 I think. I never saw the third one.

Then I saw the first of the newer ones when it was released a few years ago. I thought it was utter rubbish and I haven’t seen any since. I won’t be going to the latest one.

My ratings:

Episode 4: 7/10
Episode 5: 7/10
Episode 1: 3/10

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  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
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1: Star Wars 9/10
2: Empire Strikes Back 9/10
3: Return of the Jedi 8/10
4: Attack of the Clones 6/10
5: Revenge of the Sith 3/10
6: Phantom Menace 2/10

Man, Sith was bad. Some good moments, but the fight scenes were so Byzantine I often didn’t know what I was supposed to be looking at. Christiansen and Portman were more wooden than ever. Sloppy pacing throughout. Once again, Ian McDiarmid makes a lackluster movie better, but he couldn’t save this one. Highly overrated.

And what’s with the Jedi hating? Poor editing, but it wasn’t that awful.

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  1. Empire Strikes Back (10/10)
  2. Star Wars (10/10, but Empire edges it out)
  3. Return of the Jedi (9/10 - Ewoks are all right by me)
  4. Revenge of the Sith (8/10 - with one viewing under my belt)
  5. Attack of the Clones (6/10)
  6. The Phantom Menace (5/10)
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  1. Empire Strikes Back 10/10
  2. Revenge of the Sith 9/10
  3. A New Hope 8/10
  4. Attack of the Clones 7/10
  5. Return of the Jedi 7/10
  6. The Phantom Menace 5/10
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  1. Empire Strikes Back - 10/10
  2. Star Wars - 9/10
  3. Revenge of the Sith - 8/10
  4. Return of the Jedi - 7/10
  5. Phantom Menace - 6/10
  6. Attack of the Clones - 5/10
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  1. The Empire Strikes Back (9/10)
  2. A New Hope (8/10)
  3. Revenge of the Sith (8/10)
  4. Return of the Jedi (8/10)
  5. Attack of the Clones (5/10)
  6. The Phantom Menace (3/10)

I think both Attack of the Clones as the Phantom Menace were just too childish.
I wouldn’t want to be the parent of a kid who saw these.
“No, Timmy, I know you loved the first 2, but you aren’t allowed to see the third until you are at least 12 years old”.

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  1. Empire
  2. Star Wars
  3. Jedi
  4. Sith
  5. Spaceballs*
  6. Phantom Menace
  7. Clones

*Not actually a Star Wars film, I know, but the gap in quality between Sith and the other prequels was high enough to demand a placeholder.

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In order of preference, with the 1-10 scale

Empire (10)
New Hope (8)
Jedi (5)
Sith (5)
Phantom (3)
Clones (3)

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Empire
Star Wars
Jedi (I grew up with the Ewoks and never realized there was widespread Ewok-hatred until recent times on the Internet)
Sith (very close to Jedi; I think Sith is a better movie throughout, but the great scenes in Jedi elevate it slightly above)
Clones

Phantom Menace

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Empire - 10
ANH - 9
RotJ - 8
Sith - 3
Clones - 2
Phantom Menace - 1

I actually can’t believe how many people are rating the Sith in the top 3.

Personally, I prefer to think of the original trilogy as one self contained work of art, and the new trilogy as a completely different work or… er art (or something)*.

*with the amount of fecal matter present in various works of modern art over the passed decade or two, I guess the word “art” could apply here.

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I predict there will be 620 replies to this thread.

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Star Wars: 8/10
The Empire Strikes Back: 9/10
Return of the Jedi: 8/10

The Phantom Menace: 4/10
Attack of the Clones: 5/10
Revenge of the Sith: 6/10

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Make that 720.

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Just my ranking in order of preference - no ratings.

Star Wars
ESB
RotS
RotJ
AotC
TPM

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No one is going to agree with me, but what the hell:

Phantom Menace - 7/10

Attack of the Clones - 6/10

Revenge of the Sith - 7/10

Star Wars - 6/10

Empire Strikes back - 6/10

Return of the Jedi - 7/10