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Hello there. Somehow, Star Wars memes have returned. It's not a trap, this is where the fun begins.

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[–] [email protected] 77 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Empire was 5. All other answers are wrong.

Hoth was cold, the movie was cold and dark, evil wins.... Just like real life.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is the correct answer. A New Hope and Return of the Jedi are quite good as well and Rogue One is amazing, but Empire stands alone at the top and it’s not close.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Finally some sanity. It's 5 and it's not even remotely close.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

Rogue One was good, but it wasn't exactly Empire.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (5 children)

It's almost correct, in the sense that Rogue One is the prologue (postlogue?) to Andor, which is the best SW media even tho it's not a movie.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

(postlogue?)

Epilogue? Haven't seen Andor yet so don't exactly know what you're looking for.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (5 children)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

WATCH ANDOR

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Could be either depending on the order you watch them, but I’m really getting the giggles thinking about Rogue One ending with a record scratch and “I bet you are wondering how I got here!”

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Absolutely. Star Wars is at its best when it gets away from the goddamn Skywalker.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Dang dude, the infants in this comment section saying 3. It's clearly 5, there is no other answer.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Watching through them all with my daughter, started at 1, just finished 5. It's full of errors, like Obi Wan saying that Yoda had trained him and that he (Obi Wan) was as rash and impatient as Luke was. If I didn't know any better, I'd say that the people making episode 5 hadn't even seen episodes 1 or 2 and barely paid attention to episode 3!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Lol, is this a joke? I can't tell on the internet.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

As one of those infants, yeah. ESB is a technically superior film. RotS is in the top spot purely for nostalgia reasons.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

Dude... Its obviously the first movie, 4.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

When they saved the whales

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Good effort, Crewman.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Exterminate! Exterminate!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Empire stands high above the rest. The characters are fleshed out and the structure of the film is impeccable, the story just flows.

Kershner was the best director the series had.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There is only one good Star Wars film, ESB.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I can only imagine gen Z who didn't see the originals first and instead saw the prequels in theaters would put 3 over 5. For me the gap between 5 and the others is just massive, but I also love Star Wars and to me no movie has lacked that specific magic. Even if I need to turn my brain completely off for 2, 7 and 9 to be able to enjoy them...

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My answer is 3 because of the Anakin Obi-Wan fight. Is there anyone that likes 3 for a different reason?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Order 66 and how everything came together was cool

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Grievous, lots of Jedi doing Jedi things, the hot start with Anakin and Obi-wan going in alone to save the chancellor, did I say Grievous?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Don't forget Mace Windu's fight with Palpatine, the only person who could outright beat him 1 on 1 (other than maybe Vader if he had the guts to actually try). Though I don't know why he had to wind up for that killing blow; that seems like a big writing/directing error. It's a lightsaber, just dip it down inside his face briefly and then scold Anakin for leaving the council chambers.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

5,4,6,R1 The rest are largely rubbish but the ending of 3 was solid.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I didn't mind 7 at all.

It's just 8 and 9 that retroactively made it shit.

6 is where it started to turn into a toy advert.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

My personal order from best to worst Saga movies would be:

5, 4, 6, 3, 2, 1, 7, 8, 9

1 and 7 are kind of on equal footing for me (ranking is almost interchangeable), but overall I think TPM was just kind of a bad start to the Prequels (though they got better), whereas TFA was actually a somewhat strong start to the Sequels that got exponentially worse.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

5, 3, 6, R1, 4, 1, 2, Solo, 7, 8, 9

R1 and 4 is really hard to decide so both can swap positions, 1 is better than 2 because of maul, Solo could be a great movie if they didn't make the whole Han background happen in a few days, 8 and 9 sucks.

[–] dangblingus 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

1 is better than 2 for basically every single reason you can think of. At the end of the day, 1 is simply less boring than 2.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Hmmm... It's a toss up between Rogue One and the Ewok Holiday Special.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (11 children)

5, 4, 6, 8, 7, R1, Solo, 1, 3, 9, 2

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, you're uninvited from the may the 4th party, and the revenge of the 5th follow-up party.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

TLJ is flawed but great and would be higher if TROS weren’t such a cowardly backtracking shitshow of a movie.

ROTS is very nearly as hard to watch as AOTC, though it has some higher highs. I will personally never forgive it for forcing the most brain-twisting mental gymnastics ever to retcon ROTJ’s Luke-Leia “real mother” scene in the Ewok village.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you thought about ewoks you're old

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[–] dangblingus 4 points 1 year ago

shakes finger at post that's bait.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Rogue One is the best in my opinion

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

Best to Worst

3, Solo, 5, R1, 6, 4, 1, 2, 7, 8, 9

RotS has a special place in my heart since I grew up with the prequels. Getting to watch Anakin's fall into becoming Darth Vader was incredible. It really felt like the whole series had been building up to that one moment.

Solo is my favorite of the Disney offerings since it recaptured the fun of Star Wars. It's stupid and schlocky and I love every minute of it. Really wish it hadn't bombed and I blame TLJ entirely. We could be in a golden age of standalone Star Wars movies like Solo and Rogue One if not for TLJ and ROS ruining everything.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm surprised to see Solo so high. It was definitely way better than 8 or 9 and I 100% agree with you that the movie was punished for the sins of 8. Han meeting Chewbacca and getting the Falcon was great. The Parsec Run was made well and I'm glad they included it.

For me, the movie just has too much fan service. Han getting his gun, his vest AND his name in the movie was too much for me. Maybe it sounds nitpicky, but it was so much fan service that I felt disrespected as a viewer. It is almost like they wanted to bribe me with nostalgia so I like the movie, and that backfired. The overall pacing of the movie was alright, but every 10 minutes they had to add a "oh remember this from Star Wars?" moment and that was too forced for me.

My List is 5, 3, 4, R1, 6, 1, Solo, 2, 7, 8, 9

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Is anybody else thinking 6 was the best? Or am I crazy?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

The Battle of Endor is definitely the best space battle in a Star Wars movie. People give ROTJ crap because of the Ewoks, but to me they’re a non-issue, especially by prequel/sequel standards.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I enjoy that 6 is non-stop fight scenes, its my favorite one to watch, followed by R1 then 3. 5 is objectivly the best movie, 8 & 9 are the worst...

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