Star Wars: Attack of the Rankings!

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Here's my ranking of all the Star Wars films thus far:

1) Star Wars: A New Hope (the first and best IMHO)

2)Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back

3)Star Wars: Attack of the Clones (Almost knocked ESB off the #2 spot!!! Maybe if I see it again...)

4)Return of the Jedi

5)The Phantom Menace

Where do you rank the films? Chime in once you've seen EpII!!!

 

1. Return of the Jedi

The others are crap.
So tell me, what kind of person can love anti-space opera?

 

1. Star Wars
2. Empire Strikes Back
3. Return of the Jedi
4. Star Wars Holiday Special
5. Ewoks: The Battle for Endor
6. Phantom Menace

I haven't seen Clones yet. I figure it will be 3 or 4.

 

Extremist how can you say The Empire Strikes Back and A New Hope are crap? What elements exist in Return of the Jedi that are lacking in the others?

 

The multitude of muppets of course!!! Extremist's first choice for a nick on these boards was "Ewok" ...but sadly, it was taken!!!

 

*cannot* believe no-one has placed empire at the top of their lists yet!

1. empire
2. jedi
3. new hope
4. clones
5. menace

have only seen 'clones' once so far and really liked it, might go up my chart. definitely better than menace.

 

*cannot* believe that anyone would put Jedi over New Hope. Ewoks?

 

1. Empire Strikes Back
2. A New Hope
3. Return of the Jedi
4. Attack of the Clones
5. Phantom Menace

Star Wars Spin Offs:
1. Great Ewok Adventure
2. Battle for Endor
3. Holiday Special

 

Bel, ROTFL!

I posted that because I don't see how can one even rank those movies between themselves. All of them are at my top and at the same place. The ranking would be ok, if you've put other SF movies. Yes, yes, even the outstanding Final Fantasy noone liked because it efficiently deals the maniacal generals and such people on high places generally. Your idols. And noone likes touching their idols.

Ooh, I see you place The Phantom Menace at the bottom.
But I love JarJar Binks, I love the non-realistic Anakin kid there, I love poor jedi dialogs there, I love immaturity there, I love EVERYTHING there.
Too bad you don't see that the same things you say you don't like in The Phantom Menace your parents also said they don't like in "older" trilogy - when it was released.

 

1.Empire
2.New Hope
3.Jedi/Clones Damned if I can decide which is better yet, I'll have to see it again
4.Phantom

 

Extremist - Phantom Menace isn't at the bottom of my list because of Jar-Jar. True, I didn't care for his character very much, but that's not my gripe with Episode One...My issue, is with the Force, and the way it was portayed.

Turning the mystical powers of the Force into nothing more than a bunch of microscopic parasites hitching a ride on people's cells pissed me off! I prefer it to be more intangible and more difficult to explain.

I liked little Anakin's performance in EP1, he was an almost sickly sweet little kid, which gives even more power to his character when you think about who he becomes. I think that subtlety was lost on many of the viewers when it first came out.

 

1. Empire
2. Clones
3. Hope
4. Jedi
5. Menace

Sorry but i think after another viewing it could beat empire........you just have to get over the fear of anything beating the origionals and realise that that episode 2, really is, the greatest achievement of cinema ever............well apart from peewee's great adventure of course.......

PS. On the official site 37% of the hardcore fans who had seen Clones at the midnight showing thought it better than all the others!

 

I'm going to second Sapiryl's list.

1 - Empire
2 - A New Hope
3 - Jedi
4 - Clones
5 - Menace

Anyone who thinks the new movie is better than Empire needs to watch them both again and then get their head examined.

 

I second Sir B's ratings, with intermittent switches between SW and ESB, I can never decide. E1 sucked. ROJ was only so-so, kind of half and half. AOC/E2 was pretty good. The pace became irritating at times ("love" scenes messing up the action oriented narrative), the acting was generally bad, but only a Lucas production can combine mediocrity with excellence so well. And yes, the whole "metichloriate" deal was stupid (E1). "I've never seen so many metichloriates...".

Pluses for AOC: Awesome geneological deal with Jango/Boba Fett, probably my all time favorite SW character ever. Almost forgot-when Obi talks with Jango, and Jango's like almost all up in his face? I'm like, Jango, dude, step off, Obi gona slam some Jang.

More insight into the Sith scene.

Finally an answer as to how the Empire was able to hire all those dumb Stormtroopers who just run into danger shooting from the hip.

Just who the hell Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru really were..."I was jus' hangin' out, ya know, cleanin' the moisture 'vaporaters, and here come this shany chrome ship out-a-da skyyy wit' a Jedi, a senator, and a couple a' droids.. Damndest thang I ever seen...Landed right in the back forty."

Unanswered SW questions...

Why did Obi Wan allow Darth Vader to kill him so easily in SW? (No lame answers like "he read the script" or "because he didn't want to fight his old student"...Anyone have any real answers?)

Who is the dude who tells 'Vader to chill in SW, he looks like Vincent Price, he's like an Imperial mastermind/commander guy. He interrogates Leia with 'Vader. How is it he trumps Vader? Whats the Empirial Organizational scheme? He's not a Jedi or anything, just some Nazi lookin' freak. What's the E-inside story here?



[This message has been edited by Orkrist the Cleaver (edited May 18, 2002).]

 

I dont know how played him but that was Grand Moff Tarkin in the movies. The Grand Moffs had superiour authority in they territories, sort of like governors. He didnt outrank Vader but this was his turf so to speak. Vader was only the emperors personal agent I dont think he had any offical office. This is idle speculation mixed with half forgetten memories from a SW encyclopedia so I might be way off.

 

He is played by Peter Cushing - a great friend and collaborator of Christopher Lee.

 

1. Empire (i love those AT AT 's curse the rebels for blowing them up)
2. New hope
3. Jedi
4. Phantom
5. I haven't seen Clones yet but it won't have to do much to beat phantom for me.

 

Orkrist - Here's my take on Obi-Wan's death. I think he knew he was trapped and prepared himself to become a spirit so that he could help Luke continue his training. I think that's why you won't see Qui-Gonn come back as a spirit in any of the other movies.

Qui-Gonn didn't prepare himself for the transition to the spirit realm (or whatever you want to call it)he was focused on the moment and when he was killed by Darth Maul, he just died. As opposed to Kenobi and Yoda, both of them prepared themselves and chose their time to go. I don't know if I explained it well enough, but that is my take on it...

The scene with Jango and Kenobi on Kamino was awesome!!! You could feel the tension between the two during their dialogue. I thought that was one of the best scenes in the film!!!

 

*cannot* believe anyone would put a new hope over empire!

admittedly the ewoks weren't great -the original muppets in space. 'jedi was the first film i saw (born in '79!). also, after seeing a new hope and empire i thought luke was really cool in ep6. especially when vader takes him to meet frank and he's tempted by the dark side, followed by anakin's redemption. i think those scenes outweigh the endorian blip.

 

1. A New Hope.

I did not like Empire Strikes Back, it was too dark and dull for my tastes.

Return of the Jedi was good, except for the damn ewoks. If the Empire's best troops, armed with Laser Rifles, cannot defeat a rag tag ban of ewoks armed with spears and rocks, they would have fallen a long time ago.

Phantom Menace was just plain pathetic. Somebody teach those people how to act, my 9th grade forensics class could act better with 5 mins of prep time.

Attack of the Clones had about 30 to 45 mins of good footage the whole movie. The first hour and 30 mins, where people were talking, was horrible. The general acting and romance dialogues was pathetic. The lightsaber duels and battle scenes at the end were cool and well done.