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Ranking the Star Wars Movies From Worst to Best

What's the best Star Wars movie? What's the worst Star Wars movie? Well, IGN's council of Star Wars nerds convened to rank all of the Star Wars movie from worst to best. That's right, we're ranking The Empire Strikes Back, The Last Jedi, The Phantom Menace, Rogue One and all the rest. The Star Wars has had its highs and lows, so we took careful consideration to weigh each film's strengths and weaknesses before stacking them up in our definitive Star Wars movie ranking. Want to know where The Rise of Skywalker lands on our ranking compared to Attack of the Clones and Solo? What about Revenge of the Sith, A New Hope, and Return of the Jedi? Check out our list of the best and worst Star Wars movies to find out!

The Last Jedi is a bad film. 

Seeing it so high on lists is always frustrating. 

It doesn't build on the first film. 
It doesn't serve as a good bridge in a trilogy (seeing as it ties off too many ends, while seemingly creating what is a new launching point for a whole different art in what should've been leading into the conclusion of the trilogy). 
It suffers from the same "rehash" as the The Force Awakens (taking a considerable amount of it's story beats from the Empire Strikes Back, with a dash of Return of the Jedi). 
It spit on a beloved character just for the sake of being cynical. 
A third of the movie is slow, boring, and ultimately pointless (Finn and Rose' side adventure). 

Everyone says this film was surprising... but the only thing that surprised me was that they made some of the most boring reveals and other head scratching moments that just made feel like "what was the point of this? Why would this character do that? Where are they supposed to go from here??" 

Didn't matter who helmed the third film, it was already set up to be a disaster. Rian had basically concluded the trilogy by the second film.

I think Ep 3 shoulda been higher (just cuz it’s my favorite lol) Also Last Jedi is def the best out of the sequels. Actually offered new ideas even if yes Rose and Finns plot is negligible and the physics of the whole ship chase doesn’t make sense. I think Last Jedi might’ve done better as the first of the movies to setup a Kylo turn earlier and give us a proper movie with Ben Solo. The whole Luke argument however I find dumb. We literally have Obi Wan in his show letting a Jedi die cuz he doesn’t wanna do anything and refusing to save Leia at first to remain exiled. Yes, his decision to change was made faster but it’s a show not a movie they can’t have him like that forever. But Luke is very similar in that fashion so I don’t get how people are ok with Obi Wan doing the same thing but not Luke and claiming it ruined his character and blah blah blah. Like sorry someone tried to add a little depth to the overly optimistic hero.

The Last Jedi at number 4 is surely gonna get the angries riled up. The Rise of Skywalker is a disaster but it’s a bit harsh to put it below Eps 1 and 2.

A fair list.  The prequels do have some good qualities but they are bad movies. This revisionist history about them is getting annoying. So happy to not see that trend here.

It's really pathetic to see people praise movies full of plot holes, lousy characters, unsatisfying plot line endings, and completely negligible side stories....TLJ is a fine movie if it wasn't a star wars movie, but it has to exist in a larger universe, and it fell way short. Stop praising something for "having the guts" to subvert expectations. Everything Ruin Johnson chose to do was a horrible idea that was chosen just to subvert expectations. The guy is a stuck up snob who doesn't like the fans and thinks he's the smartest guy in the room. TLJ set up Rise of Skywalker for failure and the entirety of the sequel trilogy is mediocre at best. You may not like the stories told in the prequel trilogy but it was a consistent-coherent story that set up a lot of other great stories.

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RotS should be higher
TLJ should only above TRoS and <em>maybe</em> AotC, but I'd watch AotC over TLJ any day.

The last Jedi…… to keep my opinion unknown (only on this post lol) I’d say…. It’s a movie I saw in theaters, opening weekend, front row seats. And as we all know…. Front row seats aren’t considered, royalty, in a movie theater….

<p>rogue 1 is the best star wars movie.</p>

Revenge of the Sith should be 1. Empire is overrated.

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