What's the WORST Star Wars movie?

[Ruin Explorer]

And yet Prey was really good lol.

???

What does Prey have to do with anything? It was surprisingly amazing (quite close behind Predator itself), but it's a Predator movie, not an Alien movie, and it's not by Ridley Scott.

Prequels aren't inherently bad.

Ridley Scott just doesn't "get" why Alien was a good movie, nor what was good about it, and the dude has been butthurt about not getting 100% credit for Alien since the 1980s. I remember as a young teenager I was obsessed with Alien and Aliens, and read everything I could about them, including a lot of interviews with Scott and others, and even back then, I noticed that Scott was very keen to take 100% credit for anything good about Alien, and blame anything not good on others, which seemed... uncool. He did express some ideas about what was going on that were subtext/unstated.

And then Prometheus solidly proved that his ideas were dumb and bad, because he really did use the same ideas to make it. Then again with Covenant. Prometheus' terrible script isn't 100% him, but he demanded what elements were in it and kept firing people and replacing them over and over until it was appropriately horrible, at which point he said "SOUNDS GREAT" and made one of best-looking terrible movies ever made. Lunatic. Then he did it again, with a slightly better script but even worse ideas and less beautifully shot.

There are four and half bad Star Wars films: the prequels, Rise of Skywalker, and the first half of Rogue One. Solo is alright, everything else (including the second half of Rogue One) is great to incredible.

I will be taking no questions.

No questions are needed for this obviously correct opinion.

 

[Cadence]

It can be decided that way in this world, too, but no one thinks it's a great idea.

Don't make me go see how many people on Twitter think that's a good idea... ;-)

 

[Parmandur]

Ridley Scott just doesn't "get" why Alien was a good movie, nor what was good about it, and the dude has been butthurt about not getting 100% credit for Alien since the 1980s.

Weird how thar works, isn't it? That also applies to George Lucas and the Prequel movies. With Rogue One and the Dianey+ shows, it nice to see Star Wars story prequels.made by people who actually liked and understood Star Wars.

Auteur theory not holding up too well these days...

 

[payn]

I didnt vote for it but TLJ definitely sticks in my craw. "They killed chewie!" J/K. "They wiped C3-POs mind of memories from every single movie!" J/K

Also, hidden dark fleet, Snoke clones, and zombie emperor were just dumb.

Edit: my bad ROS not TLJ

 

[Haplo781]

I didnt vote for it but TLJ definitely sticks in my craw. "They killed chewie!" J/K. "They wiped C3-POs mind of memories from every single movie!" J/K

Also, hidden dark fleet, Snoke clones, and zombie emperor were just dumb.

That's not TLJ

 

[Ruin Explorer]

Auteur theory not holding up too well these days...

Cameron has yet to miss/be inconsistent. Avatar 2 was genuinely a good movie, and a movie only Cameron could have made. But yeah, most of them? Ooof.

I didnt vote for it but TLJ definitely sticks in my craw. "They killed chewie!" J/K. "They wiped C3-POs mind of memories from every single movie!" J/K

Also, hidden dark fleet, Snoke clones, and zombie emperor were just dumb.

That's all TRoS not TLJ. Literally every single thing.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

And yet Prey was really good lol.

Also good, Bridesmaids.

Neither of them is an Alien movie, though.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

This was more or less Lucas's original plan for the sequels, actually. Leia as Chancellor of a new Republic that gets severely tested by basically Space al Qaeda led by Maul, and there's a faction of the fledgling government that wants to go all shock and awe on the terrorists while Leia desperately tries to hold to their peaceful ideals.

Would it at least start with a long discussion of trade tariffs?

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Don't make me go see how many people on Twitter think that's a good idea... ;-)

They love it on Facebook!

 

[Older Beholder]

Can you make this clearer? I don't know of a remake of the original trilogy that happened before the prequels.

Yeah sorry, as someone else mentioned, I’m talking about the special edition films. Which are the only version of the original trilogy available these days.
The idea of an old movie having cgi stuffed into the background and then rereleased is worse to me than anything that happened in the prequels or sequels.