B5Erik

1. Empire Strikes Back
2. Star Wars (none of this, "A New Hope," crap - it was just Star Wars when it came out, and that's when I first saw it)
3. The Force Awakens
4. Rogue One
5. Return of the Jedi (the Luke/Yoda/Vader/Emperor stuff was great, the rest just OK)

6. Revenge of the Sith
7. Attack of the Clones
8. The Phantom Menace

bunkaroo

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

musick

5
4
6

r1
1 *
tfa
2
3

* the Maul scenes and Dual Of The Fates music was better than anything in the derivitive TFA

Sonic

You nailed it.

TomOpus

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

MR Round

Return Of The Jedi
Empire Strikes Back
A New Hope
The Force Awakens
Rogue One
Attack Of The Clones
Revenge Of The Sith
Phantom Menace

GoldenJCJ

1. Empire Strikes Back
2. Star Wars
3. Return of the Jedi
4. Rogue One
5. The Force Awakens
6. Revenge of the Sith
7. The Clone Wars
8. The Phantom Menace

It goes without saying that the prequel trilogy is well below the other 5.

BearFan

Empire
New Hope
Return of the Jedi (these three are really close)
Rogue 1 (these three are really close)
Force Awakens (these three are really close)
Revenge of the Sith
Attack of the Clones
Phantom Menage

hasslein

Star Wars
Empire
Jedi
Phantom Menace
Revenge Sith


Rogue One
Attack of the Clones


TFA

mhg83

From best to worst

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

stvn1974

Star Wars
The Empire Strikes Back
Return Of The Jedi
The Force Awakens
Rogue One
The Last Jedi
The Phantom Menace
Revenge Of The Sith
Attack Of The Clones

Guru Askew

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

Mountain Biker

The Empire Strikes Back
Star Wars
Return of the Jedi
Revenge of the Sith
Attack of the Clones
The Phantom Menace
The Force Awakens
Rogue One
The Last Jedi

keyed

Classics
1. The Empire Strikes Back
2. Star Wars
3. Return of the Jedi

Good, but not reaching Greatness
4. Rogue One
5. The Force Awakens

Forgetable
6/7/8. The Last Jedi / Revenge of the Sith / Attack of the Clones

Wish I Could Forget it
9. The Phantom Menace

Mike86

This could change but for now:
1. The Empire Strikes Back
2. A New Hope
3. The Force Awakens
4. Return of the Jedi
5. The Last Jedi
6. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
7. Revenge of the Sith
8. The Phantom Menace
9. Attack of the Clones

The top six are all solid to me. The prequels are the only ones I don’t care for and have no desire to rewatch or own.

nasesco417

For now:

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

Paul_SD

Since the Special Editions of the OT are all that really exist officially at this point, it makes making any lists a whole lot easier

Rogue One
...
...
....
...
Star Wars
Empire Strikes Back



and that's it. Everything else can can get put in a landfill for all I care. If the original releases were available my list would probably be SW, RO, ESB.

ESB was a good film for a long time. But the problem is that it was only the establishing half of a story and Lucas decided to shit all over it when it came time to provide the resolution. ROTJ actively and consistently negates or invalidates every major conflict ESB set up-
1) a love triangle in which there are no easy bad guys that deserve to lose
2) a conflict between ostensibly pure good and pure evil that is also a conflict between parent and child and a sure footed master vs a sophomore troubled with doubts
3) the resolution of a galaxy wide conflict with civilization destroying/ apocalyptic stakes.

The dumbing down and pussying out when it came time to resolve every major conflict set up in ESB retroactively makes that former film a lesser one than it should be. It was also the film which started to introduce half baked concepts that would ultimately cripple this series.

mcnabb

Great
1. ESB
2. ANH

Good
3. ROTJ
4. Rogue One

Bad
5. ROTS
6. AOTC
7. TPM
8. TLJ

Honorable Mention: TFA should be ranked #3 ahead of ROTJ and Rogue One, but it is utterly ruined now after that abysmal TLJ.

My Saga may be: Star Wars, Empire, and Jedi with Rogue One as a Prequel, and forget about the PT and ST. That's how much I hate TLJ.

Super X

Esb
anh
r1
tlj
rotj
tfa
rots
aotc
tpm

GoldenJCJ

WTF, people?!

I haven’t seen it yet but what happened to all the hype about the Last Jedi being the best Star Wars yet?

I thought Rian Johnson was supposed to be the second coming...what with being given control over the new franchise and all?

mcnabb

I posted this in another thread but something suspicious is going on in the reviewer community. It’s getting 93% positive among reviews yet only 56% positive among the fans. Somebody is paying these reviewers because this movie is not even in the same league as ESB, like most of them proclaim.

Brack

Reactionary fanboys being butthurt on Rotten Tomatoes doesn’t surprise me. Did you try to read any of those “fan” reviews? Oh they’re bad.

kefrank

That's what I posted back in 2016. With the release of The Last Jedi, my list now looks like this:
Star Wars
The Empire Strikes Back
The Force Awakens
Return of the Jedi
Rogue One
The Last Jedi
...
Star Wars Holiday Special
Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure
Ewoks: The Battle for Endor
...
...
the prequels

It's possible I might move it up above Rogue One after another viewing.

tanman

It's more to it then that. Look at TFA. IMHO I think the people who hated that movie could be described as butt hurt because the consensus is a 93% critics score and an 88% fan score. That's much more in line than 93% and 57%. But I don't think there is a conspiracy. Look how much flak Disney got when they tried to black list the LA times.

I think it's just critics judging the movie in a vacuum as a singular movie and not part of a larger narrative.

outcastja

So since Justice League got 40% with critics and 80% with the audience, is there something suspicious going on with that too? Is Disney paying critics to give DC movies a bad score?

Or is it because you personally didn't like TLJ there must be something wrong and there must be a conspiracy?

I know there is a small sample size of 60 votes in the DVDtalk Review thread, but currently, 70% of the votes are 4 stars and above, 15% 3 - 3 1/2 stars and 15% 2 1/2 stars and below. So it does seem like you're in the minority.