Which Star Wars movie is your favorite?

[HNation]

For me, definitely Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. I love the tragic story, and I think the acting, lightsaber duels, and effects are all very well done. The scene on Mustafar is especially good. For all the flack George Lucas gets, the script really is excellent. "I have the high ground" and "you underestimate my power" are iconic memes for a reason. For those who say that Hayden Christensen can't act, he does a really good job of playing angry/evil Anakin, and the way he screams "I HATE YOU!" after being defeated is really quite powerful.

The first sequel was so bad I didn't even bother watching the next two. The arc of the character I actually cared about (Anakin) was already over, Return of the Jedi ended with all the plot threads wrapped up nicely, there was no reason to make the sequels other than as a blatant cash grab. They should have just done more stuff like the Obi-Wan Kenobi series instead.

 

[Kyriakos]

I was never a fan, so Empire Strikes Back.

 

[HNation]

I was never a fan, so Empire Strikes Back.

Sorry for the off-topic, but a lot of the graphics in your graphics library, the screenshots are not showing up. I remember really liking your city graphics when I first saw them like 13 years ago.

 

[Kyriakos]

Sorry for the off-topic, but a lot of the graphics in your graphics library, the screenshots are not showing up. I remember really liking your city graphics when I first saw them like 13 years ago.

Glad you liked them
The preview images were hosted at sites many years ago, so most are gone now. The dls should still be up, however.

 

[Zardnaar]

ESB of course.

Rogue One I like a lot out of the new ones.

 

[Manfred Belheim]

Star Wars. But I'm not voting for "A New Hope".

 

[amadeus]

I saw the 20th anniversary theatrical re-release in 1997, and that was the last time I saw any of them.

 

[Klaus Hergersheimer]

A New Hope. Hard to think of another movie starting with 2 robots walking in the desert and finishes with an epic space battle a la The Dam Busters and 633 Squadron. It's brilliant. The other in the original trilogy get too cutesy for me. In ESB after Hoth, the rebels just sort of vanish and it's a lot of bandying around after that. Same with ROTJ, with the Jabba's palace stuff having nothing to do with the rest of the story. I imagine Lucas just went "this'd make a neat toy set" and rolled with it...

Btw, I saw these before the "special edition" versions, on VHS, the 3-box set that came out in like 1995 (?) or so. So with those now officially dead except as collectors items, I practically have no interest in watching any of these movies ever again.

Unlisted: Rogue One, although it adds very little to the genre. It's nice to see a movie that's not Skywalker-this-and-Skywalker-that, though.
Screw the Force. It's just wizard stuff I don't care about. Good in a pinch but other than that I don't care.

 

[Gori the Grey]

Manfred beat me to my joke, but my answer is "Star Wars," from back before it was "A New Hope."

Hard to think of another movie starting with 2 robots walking in the desert and finishes with an epic space battle

Hey, hey, hey now. Star Wars (known to some as A New Hope) also begins with an epic space battle! The Imperial Star Destroyer pursuing Leia's ship was the most epic space battle any movie viewer had ever seen prior to that moment. Just its movement across the screen was epic! Admittedly, two hours later, those viewers had seen an even more epic space battle. But still . . .

 

[Smellincoffee]

The original, followed by Revenge, but as a young teenager I really liked Natalie Portman and Attack of the Clones has strong nostalgia for me.

 

[GoodEnoughForMe]

Empire. Just fantastic cinematography. The fight with Vader in Cloud City has phenomenal use of lighting and color and yet is still dark, a lot of modern directors could learn from it (dark scenes these days are usually just hard to even see). Starting the movie with the penultimate battle was gutsy. It’s so dark and brutal it got criticized for it in original reviews - it’s just two hours of good guys getting their butts kicked. And Yoda was a great character. The “I know” response to I love you. Etc etc.

Honorable mention is RotJ. That ending sequence where it seamlessly moves between 3 different settings and fights without being confusing is a masterclass in editing.

 

[Klaus Hergersheimer]

(dark scenes these days are usually just hard to even see)

reminds me of a video I watched:

tl;dr lots of technical stuff but the Kodak Eastman film used at the time (late '70s, into the '80s) inadvertently produced a lot of deep darks and blown-out lights, so cinematographers really had to craft scenes with any high contrasts very well and lug around a lot of lighting equipment.

The Cloud City fight today would be just a blue haze over everything to represent a dark interior.

 

[lymond]

Yep...def Empire for me

 

[Valka D'Ur]

The “I know” response to I love you.

So many people in the theatre laughed at that line, thinking Han was just being an arrogant jerk. It didn't occur to them that this exchange of dialogue was one of the best in the series.

 

[GenMarshall]

Empire Strikes Back for me out of the six Star Wars films.

 

[Gorbles]

Empire Strikes Back for me out of the six Star Wars films.

Yeah, nobody likes the prequels.

Toss-up between RotJ and TLJ for me! ESB is a classic, just not a personal favourite. Both the opening and finale of EotJ were ace, and TLJ is to me almost chronically misunderstood.

Opinion opinion opinion etc.

 

[r16]

the Stuntwoman loves the Prequels , hence ı was made to memorize the single scene she is in The Darkness Falls and the Sith . Coruscant night club extra and next to some Senator . Will need a magnifying glass for each . Better safe then being sorry . Luckily ı have enjoyed them all from I to VI . No sequels or something .

 

[Hygro]

I watched Empire wrecked-level stoned and it was like, why are the same 5 people always in the same place at the same time, no one else, in brightly lit parts of otherwise very dark spaces?

I think 6 impacted me the most of all of them, as a kid, it really has it all. 5 is dope. 4 is dope. 3 is really good. Rogue One was the coolest of the new ones. And 8 was the only good one of the 7-9, and stands alone really well. Episode 1 is actually sick, especially the first half. And has aged very well. And has more plot content in the first 10 minutes than all of that beautiful borefest that was episode 7.

 

[GenMarshall]

Yeah, nobody likes the prequels.

Other than Rouge One and Andor. I do not acknowledge the existence the garbage Kathline Kennedy puts out.