What are your favorite (and least favorite) Star Wars sequences or scenes?

[Mercurius]

We talk a lot about Star Wars in this forum, and several times I've seen good old-fashioned ranked film lists. But I thought I'd try something different, partially inspired by my half-serious, half-silly list here.

The task of this thread is to list your very favorite Star Wars sequences, as well as your least favorite ones. I think this is an interesting take, because Star Wars is filled with so many great sequences, but also quite a few that weaken a given film, even threaten to destroy it.

By "sequence" I mean something more than a scene, but I'll leave it for you to decide (I edited in "scene," as I found myself gravitating to listing a few). The entire Hoth part in Empire Strikes Back is a sequence, but so too is the smaller sequence within it of Luke getting his ass whooped, spending the night in tauntaun entrails, and then floating in a tank wearing a diaper. You decide - they're your favorites, after all.

Feel free to list as many as you want, just rank them. If you want a number to work with, how about five? Similarly with your least favorite.

I'll post mine in a reply.

 

[Mercurius]

I'm tired (its midnight here in Hawaii), but will offer my first thoughts:

Five Favorite Star Wars Sequences and Scenes
1. The Emperor-Vader-Luke sequence in Return of the Jedi. This is the best of all SW sequences, imo. And man, that haunting theme with the silhouettes of Luke and Vader dueling.
2. Cloud City. The whole damn thing. (Empire Strikes Back).
3. The Battle of Yavin. Frickin X-Wings! Endor in space was probably better, but this is more iconic (A New Hope).
4. Han Solo et al flying from Hoth to Cloud City. The space worm, but perhaps the kewlest moment of all Star Wars moments; Han doing his great floating away with the garbage thing, and then Boba Fett one-upping him and following (Empire Strikes Back).
5. Mos Eisley, especially the cantina - the original only, though. So classic. (A New Hope).

Five Worst Star Wars Sequences and Scenes
1. Leia flying through space in Last Jedi. No words.
2. The pod race in Phantom Menace. The announcer alone was just so annoying. And I know he was a kid, but Jake Lloyd..ugh.
3. Anakin-Padme romance in Attack of the Clones. Tear my eyes out.
4. The casino sequence in Last Jedi. Why?
5. The lava fight between Obi-Wan and Anakin in Revenge of the Sith. Would be OK if not for that horrible "I hate you!!!"

Hard to leave out so many good ones (Hoth, fight vs. Darth Maul, Luke with Yoda, Whiny Luke on Tatooine, Leia's rescue on the Death Star, etc), so I'll have to revisit tomorrow.

 

[Zardnaar]

In no particular order.

Battle of Hoth

Space Battle of Endor

Luke/Vader lightsaber duel RotJ

Anakin/Obiwan Mustafar

I'm your father reveal+preceding duel


Worst ones

Leia in space TLJ

Anakin-Padme romance Attack of the Clones

Dooku-Yoda duel Attack of the Clones

Space Battle kid Anakin TPM.

Jar Jar Phantom Menace tongue in podracer TPM

 

[Morrus]

The Luke/Vader/Emperor/Shield Generator/Space Fight combo of RotJ, which was all intercut together.

Plus the Trench Run in ANH.

Although there's plenty of others I liked a lot there's nothing which matches those two scenes.

 

[Doug McCrae]

I like the slow opening of The Force Awakens where we see Rey living her life as a scavenger amid the wreckage of a space battle. It's good because it's basically the opposite of what we've come to expect from a Star Wars film - exciting action scenes with the fate of the universe at stake.

 

[Maxperson]

My favorite sequences are pretty much light all lightsaber fights from episodes I, II and III. My least favorite sequences are pretty much the rest of episodes I, II and III.

 

[lowkey13]

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[basaipete]

Best:

The lightsaber battle between Luke and Vader in Cloud City. Luke never had a chance but his determination and commitment in a doomed situation is great. - ESB

The Luke, Vader, Emperor confrontation. The payoff that makes 3 movies into one great story. - ROTJ

The Asteroid Chase. Never tell me the odds! - ESB

Obi-Wan giving Luke the history of the Republic and Empire. That was all the prequel I ever needed. It was certainly better than most of Ep I-III. - ANH

Worst:

Pod Racing - TPM
Space Leia - TLJ
Any Anakin/Padme scene - Ep I-III
Jedi Rocks - ROTJ-SE

 

[Jacob Lewis]

Darth Vader attacks at the end of Rogue One. That scene was so awesome. I was afraid for those poor rebels! In all the movies and shows, Vader was never so terrifying and so powerful than in this one scene. So, yeah.

What was the question?

 

[Gladius Legis]

Best:
All of Cloud City, ESB
Luke/Vader/Emperor on Death Star II, ROTJ
Death Star I trench run, Star Wars
Battle of Hoth, ESB
All of the climactic battle, Rogue One

Worst:
All Anakin+Padme scenes, TPM/AOTC/ROTS
All Jar-Jar scenes, TPM
Casino, TLJ (I understand its purpose, but about 85% of it should've been cut)
All mentions of midichlorians, TPM
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, ROTS