What's the WORST Star Wars movie?

[cbwjm]

Episode 8 was the only one I thought was a little weak, had some rather unexciting moments in it and I felt the whole casino scene could have been cut completely.

 

[Corinnguard]

I picked 7, 8 and 9 even though I had only watched The Force Awakens. The New, New Hope feel of The Force Awakens discouraged me from seeing the last two Star Wars films. It would have better if the producers had taken one of the post Return of the Jedi books and made it into a movie or another trilogy.

Which post Return of the Jedi novel is best left to another poll.

 

[MGibster]

1. Rise of the Skywalker
2. The Last Jedi
3. The Force Awakens

I'm going to ignore for a moment that they absolutely crapped all over the original triology in what I can only describe as character assassination and undoing everything our heroes did. The tiology just isn't cohesive. The Last Jedi made me hate Poe, who I really liked in the first movie, I hated the casino, I hated the whole chase, I hated the mutiny, and I hated the weak ass death of Luke Skywalker. And then in the Rise of Skywalker we find out it was the #%#%# Emperor behind it all? Well, why the %#%# not? Why start caring now?

 

[Tun Kai Poh]

You're missing The Star Wars Holiday Special!

And Caravan of Courage! And Battle For Endor!

I need all three of those movies on the poll so I can rank some movies beneath them!

 

[Zardnaar]

Voted for II and IX AotC/RoS. The animated movie would be number 3.

Then it's probably TPM or TLJ. Last Jedis not bad as such but its a poor sequel. TPM is kinda worse but more coherent if that makes any sense so it's a toss up between those two. TPM marginally better on rewatches VIII and IX get worse more you watch.

I forgot the Ewok movies. As a kid they were fine now throw them in with AotC I suppose. RoS is more stupid than God awful.

Solo is underrated IMHO.

 

[ART!]

I picked just one, Attack of the Clones. That's the only one I have no interest in sitting through again. Solo would probably be my second choice - I bet the Lord & Miller version would have been a lot more fun.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I loved the original 3, and The Phantom Menace was so bad that it killed the franchise for me and my family. There may be better and worse stuff released since then, but I have ZERO interest in it.

 

[JiffyPopTart]

I voted for 8 and 9.

I didn't mind that 7 was a retelling of 4 because I recognize it needed to get a lot of younger people invested in the SW universe.

Then 8 came out which I assumed was a continuation of 7 (that's how trilogies work!) But instead it was just a completely different story using the same bunch of characters.

9 came out and tried to force the sequels back into a trilogy box, but it was a straigt nonsensical mess.

Why on God's Green Earth did Disney not have an entire trilogy story arc be hammered out before filming and then film it?

 

[Deset Gled]

And Caravan of Courage! And Battle For Endor!

I need all three of those movies on the poll so I can rank some movies beneath them!

I actually like Caravan of Courage and Battle for Endor. Other than the fact that they're obviously made for a younger audience (and extremely lower budget) than the original trilogy, I don't get the hate.

 

[RangerWickett]

Yo, the prequels are stiff and often boring, but at least they're coherent, and at least attempt to have character arcs. The Rise of Skywalker was narrative gibberish, with heroic seeming moments that are wholly unearned and character changes that are completely unmotivated.

TLJ I can forgive because JJ Abrams effed things up with TFA. Luke's a hermit? There's suddenly a giant new Empire 2 Electric Boogaloo? All of the heroics of the first trilogy were pointless? And then the movie ends with a cliffhanger as you finally see Luke? That's not an easy thing to follow up on and have it be satisfying.

I voted only for TROS, because I hate it so much I don't want to dilute my hatred by also voting for merely 'bad' movies. Ep 9 was wretched.

 

[Zardnaar]

Yo, the prequels are stiff and often boring, but at least they're coherent, and at least attempt to have character arcs. The Rise of Skywalker was narrative gibberish, with heroic seeming moments that are wholly unearned and character changes that are completely unmotivated.

TLJ I can forgive because JJ Abrams effed things up with TFA. Luke's a hermit? There's suddenly a giant new Empire 2 Electric Boogaloo? All of the heroics of the first trilogy were pointless? And then the movie ends with a cliffhanger as you finally see Luke? That's not an easy thing to follow up on and have it be satisfying.

I voted only for TROS, because I hate it so much I don't want to dilute my hatred by also voting for merely 'bad' movies. Ep 9 was wretched.

TFA seemed to a rehash of IV mixed with the worst elements of early 90's legends material. Basically formula of resurgent imperial faction, bigger badder superweapon, and a new darksider.

Somewhat enjoyable first viewing gets old fast. I xan understand them playing it safe after the prequels (TFA is better than TPM and AotC). And it set up some interesting plot hooks they abandoned or screwed up (Finn a Jedi, Reys parents, Anakins lightsabre etc).

 

[John R Davis]

Some were good, some were ok but I came out of TLJ just thinking it was utter garbage.

 

[MarkB]

Why on God's Green Earth did Disney not have an entire trilogy story arc be hammered out before filming and then film it?

Exactly. I still find that the most baffling aspect of the sequel trilogy.

 

[Zardnaar]

Exactly. I still find that the most baffling aspect of the sequel trilogy.

Not baffling they rushed it.

Each sequel movie could almost be expanded into a trilogy by itself.

 

[Weiley31]

Rise of Skywalker is quite the spectacle.

And honestly, they should've gone the Hobbit/Death Hallows route by having Rise of Skywalker being its own trilogy.

If it's pretty much being made/seen/established/sold as the "series finale" of the saga as a whole, then you DON'T try to cram all of that into one movie. It just won't work.

 

[Zardnaar]

Rise of Skywalker is quite the spectacle.

And honestly, they should've gone the Hobbit/Death Hallows route by having Rise of Skywalker being its own trilogy.

If it's pretty much being made/seen/established/sold as the "series finale" of the saga as a whole, then you DON'T try to cram all of that into one movie. It just won't work.

RoS is essentially Dark Empire rehashed just less competently. At least there theyvexplained how Palpatine returned and how to put him down permanently vs bouncing between clone bodies.

And look it's another superweapon and another darksider. They stopped doing that circa 1998.

 

[Yora]

I haven't watched 9 or Solo, so I have to go with 8. (Which I only watched because my family had already bought tickets without asking if I want to watch it with them.)

 

[Morrus]

For me it's Attack of the Clones, without a doubt.

The Last Jedi is the best actual film in the series (except for the CGI llama sequence), although not the best Star Wars film--it comes in 4th place after the original trilogy, but ahead of the prequels or other sequels.

Solo would have made an OK generic sci-fi film, but as a Star Wars film it didn't work for me--possibly because of the way there was so much origin story stuff crammed into it. It defintely had its moments though!

So I went with AotC and Solo in the end.

 

[Warpiglet-7]

Episode 8 was the only one I thought was a little weak, had some rather unexciting moments in it and I felt the whole casino scene could have been cut completely.

That casino thing was so superfluous and the whole side plot so bolted on…I was bewildered at the theater much less than when I had time to reconsider and think about it.

Weird choices!

 

[Bedrockgames]

This really is a hard one to answer. My least favorite to re-watch, definitely is the Phantom Menace. It just drags in the middle so much, and I don't like the whole child protagonist thing. I also have pretty strong quibbles with the next two prequels but they do at least entertain me. It would also be a toss up between the Last Jedi and Rise of Skywalker for me. Th latter is just bad. But the former, though I found the film entertaining even if very out of place for a star wars movie, kind of cratered the center of a trilogy and left it no real place to go to (it was like the opposite of Empire in a way, where the latter set up all this suspense about Han and where things would go, leaving you excited for the Return of the Jedi, the former ended and it almost felt like I didn't need to see the next movie). So I think with star wars it is complicated because you kind of need to weigh them in terms of are they a good or bad movie on their own, how to they serve the franchise overall, and how do they serve the trilogy they are part of. I would say on the whole, the first trilogy is the best and Empire remains, for me, the best installment. While I thought the new trilogy got off to a promising start, those last two films just ruined it for me, so as bad as the prequels are, in terms of what I would prefer to watch: first trilogy followed by second two films of the prequels. I don't think I need to see the new trilogy anymore as the whole thing just feels incoherent as a whole (though individually there is some entertaining stuff in there)