Star Wars movies ranking

[Gusington]

You can't rank Return of the Jedi above Empire Strikes Back because of the Ewok menace!

[Sir Slash]

Teddy Bears from Hell!  :hide:

[Gusington]

A very cheesy, annoying kind of hell.

[SirAndrewD]

Yub nub, eee chop yub nub;

Ah toe mee toe pee chee keene;

G'noop dock fling oh ah

[Sir Slash]

NEVER said better!  :clap:

[al_infierno]

Everybody's gangster until the trees start speaking yub nub.

[SirAndrewD]

Everybody's gangster until the trees start speaking yub nub.

Echuta

[JudgeDredd]

Good
4. Rogue One (though the end doesn't make sense in my opinion)
5. Revenge of the Sith
6. Attack of the Clones
7. Phantom Menace
8. Solo

I think the internet might be broke  ;D

[JudgeDredd]

In terms of movies

• The Empire Strikes Back
• A New Hope
• Rogue One
• Solo

I do not recognise any others

[Destraex]

WOW! Not even ROTJ?

[JudgeDredd]

WOW! Not even ROTJ?

There were elements of it I really enjoyed - but teddy bears fighting Storm Troopers never made sense after I came out of rehab

[Gusington]

 

[SirAndrewD]

I pretty strongly dislike the cannibal Teddy Bears.

However, my real hatred for them comes from what could've been.

After I read the late JW Rinzler's exhaustive deep dives into the making of the six George Lucas helmed films, I was very disappointed with how much better the early ideas for ROTJ's jungle insurgents were.

Originally, they were to be Wookies, an idea abandoned early because Lucas felt the Wookies were too "high tech" for his long standing idea that the Empire should suffer a Vietnam War style defeat at the hands of low tech freedom fighters.

In the actual early drafts, they were "Ewaks" small, vicious lizard like creatures with disturbing eyes and an absolute carnivore attitude.  Imagine ROTJ with armed, intelligent velociraptors.

Of course this was deemed too scary for kids.  Lawrence Kasdan fought hard to keep the Ewoks either Wookies or Ewaks, but Lucas had kids and toy sales in mind over substance. 

Man, I just can't help but think how great ROTJ would've been if it was a Wookie slave revolt, Spartacus style rather than a bunch of 4 foot teddy bears.  As a kid I'd have found that absolutely badass.

[Sir Slash]

That would've been good. The Empire should really check beforehand where they decide to build their Death Stars. They have so many problems with those things. 

[Pete Dero]

My local magazine just published their ranking in an article today (no doubt triggered by these posts) :

1. 'EPISODE V - THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK' (1980)
2. 'EPISODE IV - A NEW HOPE' (1977)
3. 'EPISODE VII - THE FORCE AWAKENS' (2015)
4. 'EPISODE VIII - THE LAST JEDI' (2017)
5. 'EPISODE IX – THE RISE OF SKYWALKER' (2019)
6. 'ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY' (2016)
7. 'SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY' (2018)
8. 'EPISODE VI - RETURN OF THE JEDI' (1983)
9. 'EPISODE III - REVENGE OF THE SITH' (2005)
10. 'EPISODE I - THE PHANTOM MENACE' (1999)
11. 'THE CLONE WARS' (2008)
12. 'EPISODE II - ATTACK OF THE CLONES' (2002)

https://www.humo.be/tv/humo-rangschikt-de-star-wars-films-dit-is-onze-intergalactische-top-12~b124b2c6/