star wars

Oh Dear, here it is, this one will have hate or love no matter what I say. So lets get to it.

Disclaimer these movies are all watchable ( *cough* even phantom menace) but on some days i want to see one over the other so when I rank these films number may not be number 1 forever.

Lets start by ranking before discussing.

1.)  Return of the Jedi
2.) Revenge of the Sith
3.) Empire Strikes Back
4.) Attack of the Clones
5.) A New Hope
6.) Phantom Menace

I can see it now... WHAT the original star wars is fifth! Now hang on, let me explain, ill work my way up.

Episode 1 Phantom Menace was such a let down. i was lucky enough not to be allowed to go to go and see it  in 1999. When i did see it, WOW i was so lost, and bored, and annoyed! like this is start wars! what am i watching! The only goo part of this movie is darth maul, and the pod races. other than that it is practically 2 hours of crap. shame on you George Lucas,

The first time I saw A New Hope unfortunately it was when it was called episode 4. but that didn't take away its impact.  Luke was a movie hero. WE ALL played start wars on the play ground. And if i got the choice i was yoda, but when he was taken I was luke. Luke showed us that everyone has a destiny for greatness, we just have to pursue it. He did luck into finding R2 and C-3PO. after that point he could have given up. When his aunt and uncle died, he moved on, when he was out numbered on the death star, he moved on. when he was the last pilot with a 2 meter hole to shoot at at he kept moving on. That is a powerful message to the audience that luke may be faced with impossible odds, but he will keep moving on, he will not quit. But why is this powerful message movie fifth of six?! well I dont desire to see this one as much. There are not quick passed fight scenes, there is a space fight but the climax is what is interesting and it doesn't have yoda.

My first in theater star wars movie of coarse is going to be in the middle. With the last movie released being garbage, the world was sceptical, but they did have great promotion. They had T'shirts, Stormtrooper( clone) talking helmets and lightsaber pens in cereal boxes. When i got my mace windu lightsaber i lost my mind. Attack of the clones as a whole is not all that good,. But it has redeeming qualities. Like the origins of the stormtroopers, the CGI of yoda, which looks awesome. Count dooku, anakin losing his arm, ( the explanation of why death was a robot basically), showing the parallels to like and anikin, and lastly, Mace freakin windu doing something played by Sam L jackson. I understand this is not a great film but there is so much nostalgia for me that it cant go lower than 4.

Now for the better half of the franchise. For the longest time Empire strikes back was the lowest of the original trilogy to me. I was the lowest because I was a child who didnt understand what was going on. But now have seen the films post teenage years i can understand that these scenes hit home to people who saw it in the theater. Like the " luke i am you father" thing. They blew peoples minds in the 80s. But for me in the 2000's who has seen it parodied a thousand and a half times. it meant nothing. but objectively lets look at why it is so important. It introduced the fact there are other jedi out there (yoda) it revealed who luke's father was, expanded on han and leia's relationship, and lando.

Revenge of the sith is the  most recent start wars film and i feel that it ended on a good note. more specifically the last 30mins ended on a good note. The epic fight between obi wan and evil ani has its own meme, parodied numerous times and was awesome. The last 30mins is why we needed the prequels. Not for the lame origins of darth vader they were trying to explore but the modern day animation to show how epic a fight cold be between two jedi. We couldn't get the full effect in the 80s. and hopefully episode 7 will countie to show epic fights. Also general grivus who i think was only mentioned in the 2nd movie makes his awesome appearance with 4 arms and 4 lightsabers. Also it is the film that rounded off start wars......until it was sold to disney, signs for 3 new movies, numerous animated series, and merchandise. so basically we will come to hate star wars do to over exposure

And my number 1 for now is Return of the Jedi which is an odd title becuz there was no return of any jedi, only the fall of the empire. Much like revenge of the sith, this movie rounded off start wars. it also showed us a resolution from empire strikes back where han was frozen. Also we got our last image of a hot carrie fisher in slave leia. Boba fetts death, darth vaders face, and identify in ghost forme, yodas death :(, another death star destroyed, and many other great scenes. the fact is while typing this i dont want return of the jedi to be number 1 an more but i have to stick to what i said.

If you havent figured it out, im a starwarys fan or a nerfherder.... but that is our word!