Ranking EVERY Star Wars Movie & TV Show
Added 2022-11-21 14:01:04 +0000 UTCOh boy, this won't be controversial.
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I'm a pretty casual fan of Star Wars and have only seen the movies here (not even the prequel series) and haven't been excited about the new stuff coming out....but I just might need to check out Andor. You are very convincing!
Lily Blaney
2022-11-21 21:51:38 +0000 UTCI also remember watching the Holiday Special when it came out. I thought I'd be so excited cuz my parents told me about it. But I remember getting bored and turning it off
Wellington Marcus
2022-11-21 16:52:31 +0000 UTC-- Although by and large I did not love 'Last Jedi,' I liked that it subverted some of the tropes and expectations. We just *knew* that the gallant little band charging into the jaws of death would pull off an (expected) unexpected victory-- but then they didn't! Yoda helping Luke torch the library when one would expect him not to-- brilliant. And other examples. Although it had many weak points, I find it more interesting than "Force Awakens" as time goes on. (ETA: I never did watch 'Rise of Skywalker.' As soon as I heard some of the buzz I realized it would never get close to the end-story in my "head canon." Best to let the characters go on the fuzzy arcs my mind had them on than to let the movie wreck them for me.) -- I'd have ranked Rogue One a little higher, top of A I think. It stands out to me as the best of the Disney-era movies and fits so well into the 'main saga' stories that it effectively killed "Machete Order" (IV-V-II-III-VI) for me-- now it's IV-V-VI / I-II-III / R1, and brings it all around in a circle. -- You liked "Solo" more than I did. I think they'd have done better to work with the material in the old Brian Daley Han Solo books. -- Some of what you call "cynical" I'd label as "derivative" or "unoriginal." The thing that the ones at the top of the list share is that they dare to do new things and contemplate new ideas, starting naturally with the grandparent of them all. The ones farther down on the list competently color within the lines at best (and incompetently at worst) but the top tiers established the lines and the palettes to begin with. --- And finally, I have seen nothing of Andor, but you have convinced me it's worth a serious look. Thanks!
MARK F JENKINS
2022-11-21 16:04:27 +0000 UTCActually, by and large, I agree with your rankings and reasoning. Some comments I jotted down while watching... -- I think Phantom Menace has aged well, and Force Awakens has aged poorly. No doubt, Jar-Jar should have been severely de-emphasized; he's a one-joke character who is given far too much screen time. But Phantom Menace has some original ideas in it that stand out to me over time, whereas Force Awakens looks less and less original each time I consider it. -- I need to check out the Clone Wars series based on your comments. I saw the original Gennady Tartovsky shorts, but not the follow-on series; if you rank it that highly, I may need to give it a try. -- I saw the "Holiday Special" in its original broadcast in 1978 (9?) and it was pretty dreadful, even though I was 11 or 12. It felt all along like it was talking down to the kiddies, and I resented that. It's good as a running joke, though. -- I keep wanting to call the cloners' planet in Attack of the Clones "Kaminar." It's something close to that, but much less memorable than Saru's world... -- I LOLed when you said that killing younglings is about all the newly-minted Darth Vader does apart from going up against Obi-Wan, because you are completely right! It is so disturbing and menacing when it happens, but surely Palpatine had better uses for his carefully-crafted weapon. Maybe if there had been some grownup Jedi there, it would have played better; Vader destroying the Jedi Temple and Library seems more appropriate than just attacking the kindergarten. -- Hayden Christensen grew into his role, but unfortunately it sticks out next to Natalie Portman's more polished appearances. -- Cont'd:
MARK F JENKINS
2022-11-21 15:46:54 +0000 UTCINCOMING
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2022-11-21 14:02:12 +0000 UTC
