Every Star Wars movie and show ranked (I bet you can't guess which one I HATE) 

Honestly, I love this long-form content every bit as much as I love your usual, shorter formats. I'd be thrilled to see more videos at this length!

I seriously questioned my friendship with my best friend when he said solo was his favorite Star wars movie. I don't know what terrible choices he's made in his life, but they must be significant for him to come to that conclusion. This is a solid list in my opinion, very glad you listed rogue One as high as you did.

I love hearing your nerdy rants! Keep them coming 🎉 I would have still watch this if it was 40 minutes 😂

Luke’s story in TLJ helped my little brother overcome huge anxieties in his life, so this movie and what happens with Luke will always matter to me, even if it doesn’t work for others.

I know it's a lot, but you should make some time for the Clone Wars and Rebels. Particularly for Prequel fans it really redeems those movies and adds so much to the story.

Don’t ever apologize for being a prequel apologist. 🤌🏻

Only thing I would disagree with is TPM and ROTS, I'd definitely swap those.

Your ranking tiers are delightfully unique and fun. I would be interested in hearing your thoughts on the animated shows too. Like you, I came out of Force Awakens thinking "well, they played it super safe, now they can take it somewhere interesting for the next two." Ha ha... oh the naive optimism.

Early!! This is such a fun idea!

Great video! I love Star Wars. It's one of my favorite fictional universe's, from playing with action figures as a kid and being way too happy about wearing a Darth Maul backpack into my 2nd grade class, to watching and reading them annually as an adult. Beyond ignoring the core elements of what made us love the original characters, the biggest problem with the sequels is they make the universe feel repetetive, small, and inconsistent. With the different eras of Star Wars we get in the movies and the Expanded Universe timeline, while there are elements of consistency with the battle between Light and Dark, the landscape with how those battles take place are constantly changing based on the actions of humans and how it impacts the galaxy. Disney completely halted, went backwards, then blew up, the storytelling progression and logical consistency of the universe because they never understood it in the first place. I'd love to hear more of your thoughts on some of the SW books if that's ever on the table! I'd be curious to hear what you've read so far and if you'd be open to trying others. May the Force be with you!

I love your videos so much, that I watched this one, even though I have not seen a single Starwars movie😂

I'm with you regarding the prequels and regard the fight scene between Obi One, Quigon, and Maul, paired with the epic Duel of the Fates piece by John Williams is easily one of the very best moments (well, set of scenes) of the entire Start Wars universe!

Please don’t fight me, but Rogue One is my favorite SW film by a long shot. I’m happy that you put it in A tier.

It's nice to see that other people enjoy the prequels as well! My favorite is ROTS, but TPM and AOTC are criminally underrated and don't deserve the amount of hate they get sometimes.

Solo was bad but has one of my favorite movie theater memories. We were laughing at all the fan service and my friend got up to go to the bathroom and said “it’s not like the Sith are going to show up”. While he was gone boom Darth Maul. He didn’t believe me until he rewatched the movie.

Great video, I also loved the phantom menace as a kid, you got me beat I went 5 times to see it lol You have the coolest dad I cant believe he took you to see it after you lost your tooth lol just curious though you said you have the books and have read them who is your favorite character from the Expanded Universe? Mine is Jacen Solo him and his sister Jania are just the best, and I have always thought he was such a better villian when he turned to the dark side and became Darth Cadeus than what we got from Disney with Kylo Ren. And its a travesty what Disney did to Luke I always hoped to see him on the big screen with Mara Jade from the books. Sorry for the long comment like you said its just star wars its fun lol

I collected those pop cans too! So great to see I wasn't the only one nerdy enough to do this lol The picture of the cans made me so nostalgic.

Such a great video. Love your thoughtful analysis and completely get why you have a soft spot for the prequels. As a kid who was born in the 70s and grew up in the '80s, that is probably my biggest gripe with your list because I really did not like the prequels except for revenge of the sith which was okay. I also would have ranked Mando a little higher and Rise of Skywalker to me was the only one that in that bottom tier. There were so many issues with it, and I completely agree that walking away from the Rey being nobody was a huge mistake. I also hated reincarnating palpatine, but more than anything, I hated that it literally felt like a completely different story from the previous one, which was admittedly flawed. You could actually see the internal fighting that happened at Disney to make this movie reflected on the screen, which can't be a good thing. Thanks again for the great video

Once you said, you were a prequel apologist, i knew your tier tist was going to be good

Really appreciate your nuanced takes on an often polarizing subject. 😅Hope to see more Star Wars content in the future! I would recommend you watch the highlights from the Star Wars Holiday Special just so you can understand why George Lucas hates it so much. 🤣

The tragedy of Andor: By the time it came out, the Star Wars franchise had been damaged to such an extent that Andor was virtually ignored by the audience in proportion to the quality of the show.

Wow!! We are spot on with all of this!! Definitely on the same page!! I agree with all your points 😄😄... You're saying everything I've been saying all along!! 👍

Don't apologize for how long it is. The lengthy rant about Solo is the best part of the whole video. I agree with every take here, though perhaps I would have put Mandelorian a little lower, based almost entirely on it being overrated and overhyped.

Do you still read any of the Star Wars books? I find myself avoiding the new stuff put out, but have been really enjoying digging through and finding some of the older ones I missed. My hot take on Star Wars is that I liked the Last Jedi. I wish they would have changed a few things, but I enjoyed a lot of it.

I have all those Episode I PepsiCo cans boxed up somewhere. I was able to collect all of them as they came out except for Darth Maul. The next year I was at my aunt's house and was surprised to find one in her garage fridge, allowing me to complete the set.

Can you link the template so we can make our own tier list?

great list, i pretty much agree, but i would put solo in the great section. probably because i'm not the biggest star wars fan, but i really liked how they explained and showed a bunch of stuff.

Fun stuff! Haven't seen the tv serials just the movies so can't comment on those. Your comments made me think, imagine if Solo had described the arc of an optimistic naive young man who is made bitter and cynical by the realities of life under the Empire, and embraced selfishness and a life of crime. Totally family-unfriendly in the plot and messaging, but could have been really different and potentially a 'good' movie set in the future, rather than more space opera. I did like Kylo Ren's story arc, more so than Rae's which again was not particularly original.

Perfect perfect list. And I might try Andor now. I had given up all hope after watching Obi Wan.

Great ranking. Solid fandom reasoning. I agree with about 95% of this, but I still have the Rise of Skywalker dead last. Book of Boba Fett felt like Mandalorian season 2.5. If you ever decide to watch it, there are a few characters in that show that took me out of the Star Wars universe altogether. Also, I'd swap Ep 1 and 3 in your ranking. That order 66 scene is one of the best scenes of the prequels!

I had the same experience with TPM as a teen when I first watched it. I was obsessed! For me into SW in general, from the original movies to books.

My personal ranking of the movies from worst to best: Attack of the clones Rise of skywalker Phantom menace Solo Force awakens A new hope Rogue one Return of the jedi Revenge of the sith The last jedi (dont hate me plz) Empire strikes back Some context for this list: I grew up watching the originals a lot of the time and i also watched the prequels a fair bit I have seen everything else from force awakens and rogue one in theaters

Empire Strikes Back was one of the first movies i got to see in the theater without my parents. We had to get to the theater early because the lines were so long everyone was excited. It was almost like waiting in line for a rollercoaster. Expectations were so high that you would think it would be impossible for the movie to live up to that, but it did. People would walk out of the movie and go straight to the ticket booth to buy tickets to see it again. There was no way to improve on Empire so i think star wars fans were always sort of doomed to be disappointed. If there were 2 brain cells to rub together at Disney they would not have gotten anywhere near Star Wars, but they had their hubris.

I highly recommend the Pitch Meeting for the Star Wars Christmas Special, it recaps its greatness in about 6 minutes! And it's a good call to avoid Boba Fett but I must admit that the ensuing rant would be amazing to witness lol

That throne room fight is a very controversial scene! 😂 It’s a beautiful setting thematically, but the actual fight choreography is horrible. Worst large budget movie fight ever. I will never understand why they didn’t use the guy that coordinated the prequel fights. He’s still alive and his work is incredible.

As much as I disliked solo, I would swap Solo and The Last Jedi, and bring all sequels to what is happening.

Pretty close to my list. I'd move Phantom Menace down one, swap The Last Jedi with Solo, place Boba Fett in What is Happening. Did not see Andor due to dropping D+. A New Hope was the first movie I saw in a theater. It gets pride of place at the top of Perfection. For The Force Awakens I left the theater relieved they hadn't completely messed it up. Also, prequel trilogy suffered from the complete lack of chemistry between Hayden & Natalie. I think this was more about direction and writing than the actors.

Somehow I saw the last Jedi in theaters and had no idea what was going on (even though I had seen the movies before as a kid- but mostly with other people who would always talk over them) so seeing the last Jedi is what made me go back and watch all the movies in my spare time so I have a special place for it, I feel like rise of the skywalker was the worst thing Star Wars ever did

I love this ranking so much - it shows Bookborn is a true Star Wars fan. A "true" Star Wars fan is a fan who has OPINIONS. I have to admit that I'm at most a low-tier level Star Wars fans. I do have OPINIONS on various Star Wars things, but for the most part I'm just easy to satisfy. Anyway, I do recommend checking out The Book of Boba Fett. They do something a bit unexpected with Boba Fett's story and character development, and Fennic Shand is absolutely delightful.

I think your list is spot on with mine. I’m surprised you didn’t include Clone Wars the movie, Clone Wars the series and Rebels.

A video on the books would be fantastic. I wanna read them but no idea where to begin

Some thoughts: - Agree totally about your assessment of the prequels, their stories are excellent buried under clunky/bad dialogue and not the best direction. But so much about those movies is fantastic, I love that you brought up the fashion, Amidala's looks are amazing, but the varied Jedi costumes, the clone armor, the looks of the different droids. And Dooku is tragically featured in the worst of the 3, but he is iconic. - I like Last Jedi a lot, I disagree with a lot of the takes out there on it. I think there are some amazing ideas there, and I actually think Luke's story there is great, though I wish they didn't show the flashbacks to his breakdown, let it be ambiguous. That said, I understand why it didn't work for everyone, and I wasn't pleased with the sequel trilogy overall anyway. I would have rather had Johnson's take on an original Star Wars story rather than a saga entry, and I wish JJ hadn't been involved at all. - I will always go to bat for Solo, on the basis that it is a fun and serviceable Star Wars adventure if you just pretend that the lead isn't Han Solo and is instead a wholly original character in the universe. Ehrenreich is charismatic enough as a lead, but he's not Harrison Ford, and he's not Han Solo. And I fully agree that explaining backstory stuff from the OT is unnecessary and giving Han a heroic arc before his heroic arc is dumb. But the story works as a stand-alone one-shot about some random thieves operating in the galactic underworld. AND IT INCLUDES A TRAIN HEIST, IN STAR WARS! Edit to add: Andor is the best Star Wars thing.

I also came late to Andor because I had sworn off of Disney Star Wars after being burnt by the Kenobi and Boba Fett shows (and had serious issues with the sequel trilogy). Andor is A+, what I had been wanting of Star Wars for a long time.

Really enjoyed this ranking not too different from my ranking

When Darth Vader yelled "no" in ROTS I laughed for like... A half an hour

As someone who knows almost nothing about star wars, i loved the han solo movie 😂😂

After seeing some of the content beyond the main storyline, I'm using the following two thoughts to frame my readings of the narrative so far. 1. The greatest lie the Sith have ever told is that there are only ever two of them. 2. Yoda and the rest of the council have a very accurate sense of the word balance. As for the rankings, Boba Fett sold Han out to Jabba and will get no extra eyeball time from me in anything for which he is the star. Mandalorians can take their armor and polish it until the cows come home. If those bounty hunters were not necessary from time-to-time, they would be better off guarding the Imperial bank roll on some third moon somewhere.

The prequels have such staying power. Pod racing, Darth Maul, Grievous. Maybe its because star wars is just that big, but they have stuck with me. I thought Solo was mid, but I am not the largest of Star Wars nerds. When you do a LOTR character ranking I will be locked in.

"Mandalorian is definitely worse than the prequels" Wow we were doing so good back when we used to be friends

I was 5 years old in phantom menace (first cinema movie ever) ... I had to piss at the start of the pod race, and my mom doesn't blame me for missing it... But she brings it up a lot...

What a Herculean task! It's as insane as it is magnificent! Brava!!

I would have put Mandalorian in JarJar Tier, but otherwise 100% agree with the list Asohka would probably sit in "No"

ROTJ was the first Star Wars movie I ever watched so that is my favorite. I rented it so much he was constantly asking me if I wanted to rent a different movie haha. The original trilogy will always have a special place for me.

Can you please make a ranking of star wars books you have read?

The Phantom Menace doesn’t deserve its bad rep. I think it was poorly received because it was the first Star Wars movie that wasn’t great, and people were disappointed that it wasn’t in the same class as the original trilogy. Also, it has the best light saber duel in all of Star Wars. Regarding The Last Jedi, when Mark Hamill told Rian Johnson that he had to think of Luke as a different character in order to play him, one of the producers should have said, wait a minute before we start filming, we’ve got a problem here…

I'm Gen-X, so I dont like the Prequels or Sequels, but appreciate your honest opinion on them, and largely agree with your other comments

really like this list

For me, there’s really only one title on this list that I don’t care for all that much and really struggle to watch. Thats the bottom one. The rest I either love or at least like and enjoy to some extent, and it’s often hard to choose. Nostalgia is also a factor, but personally: 1. Revenge of the Sith 2. The Empire Strikes Back 3. Return of the Jedi 4. A New Hope 5. The Last Jedi 6. Andor 7. Rogue One 8. The Phantom Menace 9. Attack of the Clones 10. The Mandalorian 11. The Force Awakens 12. Solo 13. Obi-Wan Kenobi 14. The Book of Boba Fett 15. The Rise of Skywalker

The christmas special isn't "bad", it's the most trippy thing ever. You need to see it!

I should do this. I don’t think I’ve ever actually ranked all SW things for myself. 🤔 -T

Wow, I’ll never agree about Obi Wan, best Star Wars thing we’ve gotten in my opinion

Prequel zoomers who grew up on them are the equivalent to the OT kiddies who hated on the PT at release. The hypocrisy is astounding.

Obi-Wan is AMAZING!! Great story!

I have the same nostalgia love for The Phantom Menace like you but its just not nostalgia its the feeling in the movie the soundtrack and especially the end fight between Darth Maul and Obi Wan, Qui Gon

Solid list. I originally saw Star Wars in 1996 after my dad got the Original Trilogy on VHS in the 1995 "One Last Time.." box set that came out before the Special Editions came out in 1997. Though I had watched both the Droids and Ewoks cartoons when I was even younger, had the toys and had the third issue of the Star Wars: Dark Empire comic book series. What got me into Star Wars, being that I am a Star Trek fan since birth, were the novels. Particularly the Han Solo Trilogy by A.C. Crispin, which did Han Solo's backstory a thousand times better than Solo did, and the X-Wing series by Michael A. Stackpole and Aaron Allston. My best friend in the sixth grade lent them to me. I saw The Phantom Menace in theatres twice within a week of each other, and then didn't see Attack of the Clones or Revenge of the Sith until they came out on home video. I saw the remaining movies and shows as they came out. I went to the first showing of Rogue One on the Thursday night preview night and, while I'm not as big of a fan of that movie as other people are, I still enjoyed it for what it was. I didn't see Solo in theatres though. I thought it was pointless because my Han Solo backstory had come out 21 years earlier in the novel trilogy by A.C. Crispin, and the movie felt wrong. I love The Mandalorian, though I do think season one is the best season. They keep trying to cram too much into these six to eight episode seasons and it doesn't work. I like Obi-Wan Kenobi just because Ewan MacGregor and Hayden Christensen got to reprise their roles, which nobody could've anticipated happening. The sequels aren't great either. Book of Boba Fett was pointless and really just a way to get Mando and Grogu back to together without wasting time in The Mandalorian to reunite them. And I haven't watched Andor yet. That's just a me thing though, it in no way represents the show as a whole.

My list would be very similar to yours except Hope and Empire are 1 and 2 with Rogue 3rd best. And Andor is fantastic! Love your channel!

This is a great ranking! Pretty similar to mine overall. My biggest difference is I do like Revenge of the Sith more than The Phantom Menace. I also didn’t hate Solo quite as much as you. And you’re definitely not missing anything by having skipped Boba Fett. What a lame show that was.

7 times?! what a little geek! hehe love it

Boba Fett was a very strange setup of disjointed elements, weirdly it also contains a piece of Star Wars sequel - mostly in episode 6 you get a lot of AI-enhanced Luke trying to train Grogu at his Jedi training academy under construction. Episode 5 was a complete Mandalorian episode. To continue the Mandalorian storyline you should watch episodes 5-7. Mandalorian season 3 was not that bad, it contains some new angles and plots. And it also explores the thing you mentioned, former imperial officers at least seeming to turn (although most people complain this was boring, I found it more of an adult content, not that action-packed but interesting).

"The original trilogy was about trios." I will not stand for this Chewbacca erasure!

This might be the best Star Wars opinion I’ve ever seen. Phantom Menace is my favorite!

How I would rank them: 1) Two way tie between Revenge of the Sith and The Empire Strikes Back Yeah, I couldn't pick what I liked more between these two. Live with it 🤷🏿‍♂️ What can I say about Empire Strikes Back that hasn't been said before? All of the action scenes in this film are a spectacle. The Hoth Battle being my second favorite in the series, Yoda's training with Luke, Luke fighting Vader, a good developing love story, topped with the biggest twist in cinema history. All in a film where the villain wins? It pretty much adds up to a five star movie. And it hurts being born in the late 90s where everyone knew this. Even non Star Wars fans, and it sucked I got it spoiled for me before I ever got to watch Empire. As for Revenge of the Sith, yes I know me having a prequel film at #1 is blasphemy, but having the best of the three at this spot should be satisfying enough. Revenge of the Sith was the firat Star Wars film I've seen in theaters, and I was blown away by it. Albeit the acting still leaves a lot to be desired, it was a little better in this film, especially Hayden, Ian, and Ewan. I could actually feel Anakin's dilemma in this film in regards to his distrust in the Jedi and desire to save Padme. All of which leads to his transition into tha masked sith lord we all know and adore. The scenes are great and emotional too. Immediately opening in the middle of a space battle was perfect. Seeing Order 66 being called and being forced to watch the Clones kill the Jedi always hurt to watch, and explains why their numbers dwindled to just a few. And what was supposed to be the final battle of the saga between Anakin and Obi-Wan? Need I say anymore from there? 2) Return of the Jedi A beautiful conclusion to the original trilogy. The offical end of the empire (I fucking wish) Vader's sacrifice to save his son, and wonderful wrapped up conclusions to the characters we followed along with. And the fight on Jabba's Sail Barge, good lord that was great to watch. 3) A New Hope The film that started it all. I apologize for not having this higher by the way, but can you blame me? It was the best way to get us introduced into this universe, and everything about it was perfect. From the battle on the Death Star, to the lore, to the introduction of Darth Vader. A New Hope is just amazing. 4) The Force Awakens The only sequel trilogy film I actuallu like. Idk if it comes down to the Episode IV copy and paste, but this was pretty enjoyable for the most part. This film actually made me give a damn about the new characters they introduced. 5) The Phantom Menace I know, people will find it a crime that I have The Phantom Menace as high as this. But my first time watching it, I honestly liked a good chunk of it. Admittedly, I'm one of a few people who got a kick out of watching the Pod Race, and do I even need to mention Duel of the Fates or Darth Maul? Or even Space Jesus Qui-Gon Jinn?Jar Jar was literally my only gripe with this film. If he had a deeper voice and no accent, and had better jokes to work with, this would almost be a spot higher if those other four films didn't make the top of the list. 6) Attack of the Clones I will admit, the prequels are a small guilty pleasure of mine. But that doesn't change the fact that Attack of the Clones is easily the weakest of the three. Just like with the Phantom Menace, I am very aware of it's many problems, do not get that twisted. But in this case, if it wasn't for this film, we wouldn't have gotten either of the Clones Wars series (the 2003 one AND the 2008), and the driving force that led to what we get in ROTS and the OT 7) The Last Jedi FUCK. THIS. MOVIE. If it wasn't for Rise of Skywalker being the abomination that it is, The Last Jedi would be unanimously at the bottom of the list. There is just so much wrong with it that it's impossible to name all of the issues with it. So I'll just go with the major one: THEY RUINED LUKE'S CHARACTER. Luke is supposed to be the ultimate symbol of hope in the Star Wars Universe. And to see this film completely throw away the most important of his many good qualities is absolutely insane. 8) The Rise of Skywalker Say what you want about the prequels, but at least they developed a story that transitioned to clarify any important storylines. This film takes those storylines from the previous two trilogies and retconned it to absolute shit. Wasn't Anakin supposed to be the one to kill Palpatine and bring balance to force? Why the hell is Palpatine alive for no reason, and why is it his granddaughter (which brings up another issue I won't get into) that kills him for real?

My very imperfect criteria for whether I will generally agree with a Star Wars fan is whether they like or dislike Rogue One.

Good, I feel your anger. Your journey to the dark side is almost complete. 😂

My fav is star wars 3 action from start to finish fantastic movie peek star wars

Glad to see some ROTJ love and some prequel love here. Huge fan of both. And I think TPM is often derided unnecessarily. That movie mostly works. I'll acknowledge Lloyd wasn't the best actor, but I don't think he's bad. I'm actually a bit of a Jar Jar defender. I enjoy him and think he's perfectly fine. Neeson and McGregor are fantastic. Portman's no slouch. McDiarmid's Palpatine is perfectly set up for where he'll go. Maul is effective as a threat. The podrace is exciting. Etc. I'm going to grant that the immaculate conception isn't my favorite thing, but I do think it effectively sets up the story Lucas wants to tell, and no one acknowledges this. People rag on the prequels for Anakin's place as a chosen one because "chosen one" trope is boring. I will never understand this take because the prequels are a critique on the idea of a "chosen one". The Jedi break all of their rules to allow Anakin to train. They tell him he's a chosen one. The amount of undue pressure being placed on him is immense, and no one can see how close he is to snapping until it's too late. It's a warning against chosen ones. It's an exploration of the kind of pressure a prodigy like Anakin would face and is essentially exploring imposter syndrome. And midi chlorians are no different than "energy field". Okie... so the rest. We agree on Mandalorian. It's fine. We agree for the most part on TFA. In some ways, I was more frustrated because of the ideas taken from the books while casually disregarding and discontinuing the books, but I also enjoyed the flavor of the movie as it stands. For TLJ and ROS, they aren't even close for me. The Las Jedi has some great ideas planted. They reneg on them all, but most of the setups are good, great even. The followthrough is dismal though. ROS was a disaster. A fetch-quest contrivance filled mess full of random cameos and returning characters while reversing the one great idea that carried through the previous installment (Rey's parentage). Boba Fett terrible. Kenobi-redeeming elements and even a great first episode, but a disaster by the end. Still working on Andor. I don't like Solo, though I do love AC Crispin's trilogy of books. Seeing the kessel run doesn't bother me. The execution does. Rogue One - also not a movie I particularly enjoy. It's pretty bland IMO, but not detestable.

I literally don't even remember the Solo movie at all, even though I know I watched it- so I am incapable of loathing it as much as you. Lol But that, in and of itself, probably speaks fair volumes all of its own. ^^

I personally liked TFA, I felt like it had an element of like "time repeats itself and the force is a cycle" or whatever and I thought it had the potential to be a great set up for the other two movies to expand out into something new and original... which I guess they did but not in the way I wanted 😂 But I thought Adam Driver was great, I thought the Kylo/Rey dynamic had the potential to be really interesting, I'm a sucker for the nostalgia factor... just a shame the rest of the trilogy took a nose-dive!

I'm glad this wasn't a review that just blatantly hate Disney star wars. Even if you don't like the sequels, rogue one is so good (i haven't seen andor yet) So just to defend solo a bit (of the movies, it ranks second to last behind attack of the clones) i think the idea behind Solo's arc is we are essentially seeing why he is a cold character in the beginning of a new hope. We see him as warm in Solo, but the betrayal from the love of his life probably wore on him

May be a hot take but I would put RotS over A New Hope 😬 I was 4 when Phatom Menace came out so I have a huge soft spot for it, Christmas ‘99 was all Darth Maul toys

I agree with you 100%

Sorry to say you forgot two classic Star Wars movies: The Battle for Endor and Caravan of Courage!! If you’re going to include the Holiday Special you have to include those two gems, hahahaha.

I think you nailed it👍

okay so obviously you know I love this video 😎 WHY are you apologizing for going TOO LONG? You seriously need to do a long form SW discussion so you can talk about all the things! My ranking is so close to yours. The most important things to me in a movie are story, characters, and cinematography, and if you consider those elements and compare Lucas SW to Disney SW, it's pretty obvious why one series is great and the other is... what it is. You said it best when ranking the bottom tiers and your tiebreaker was "it's shorter" 🤣😂🤣

Damn skipping the animated stuff kinda hurt a bit but I get it. Personally Clone Wars is my single favourite piece of Star Wars media of all time

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

I like your thinking for the most part. I think the only things I would change is revenge of the sith over the other prequels by a long shot.

If Solo didn't do it for you then I'd recommend the Han Solo trilogy by A.C. Crispin. While it does explain Han's backstory, most of the explanations are better than the movie, and it's at least stretched over a trilogy instead of being condensed into a couple hours.

Despite a few flaws, I thought that The Last Jedi was a pretty entertaining movie.

We share a braincell!!! I feel pretty much identical on all of these! The one slight difference is that Revenge of the Sith is *almost* my favorite, purely because of the score. John Williams is an incredible artist and made every emotional scene punch so hard even when the actors/lines couldn't carry them. I also didn't totally love Phantom Menace for a long time, but my son's obsession with it made me see all the greatness in it.

My rankings are very different (RotS is the only prequel I unironically enjoy and I love TLJ, partly cause of Luke's story, lol), but I still had a great time watching this ^^ I'm hoping Star Wars fans get to the place where we can civilly disagree, cause I don't think that's very common in the fanbase. I watch you for book content, but this a fun way to mix up the stuff 😊

15:15-15:23 thank you!! There's a certain content creator that was mad that there was no jedi. Like come on!

Solo is a better movie if you take Han out of it. It has interesting set pieces, new characters, tie-in with Maul, but we get distracted from the good because they kept trying to make it a story about Han.

I truly believe Disney dropped the ball by doing a Solo movie. They could have done a Lando movie which has so much space to explore. They coukd even have the Millennium Falcon in it for merch sales since we know he owned it before Han did. I think that movie could be at minimum solid if not done complete wrong.

I feel like there should be some category between "No" and "solid", like "very flawed but still entertaining", i would put Boba Fett and Obi wan Kenobi there. The Mandolorian would be (near) perfection The original trilogy, the prequels, The Last Jedi and Rise of Skywalker would be "Good to Great" The Force Awakens is "Jar Jar Binks Bad" Solo and Andor are "what is happening"

This list is very close to mine. I would shuffle where each original and prequel is in my ranking, and swap Boba and Solo (If you're not watching Mando S3 you've no reason to watch Boba Fett, so good on you) I figured Han was better as just... a guy. Glad to know I made the right call on that. I can't tell if I disliked 8 or 7 more anymore, I was also disappointed with 7 but I watched 8 on Netflix with zero expectations, and disassociated the sequels from Star Wars as a whole. Also I only watched each movie once as well. I hope they let Gilroy cook with Andor S2 because that and Rogue One are the very best live action that Disney will ever put out.

I'm fairly close in my rankings, except that while I didn't like Solo I definitely put the sequel trilogy below it. The reason for this is that I genuinely feel like the sequel trilogy was intentionally written to lessen what came before, especially the original trilogy. That's worse than them just genuinely being really bad movies on their own. It starts with The Force Awakens giving us the exact same conflict that ended in Return of the Jedi. It doesn't matter that they rename the factions, it's still the same thing and that changes the climax of the OT from being this extremely satisfying victory against the Empire and against the dark side, to basically just achieving a lengthy cease fire. What the heroes and the rebels did just wasn't all that important anymore in the grand scheme of things. After removing that they go on to shatter all the character development that Luke had and basically wrote him as a completely different character (since he now lacks his two main traits that defines him throughout his development), so that OT thing also becomes irrelevant. I guess they do sort of the same with Han Solo, reverting him back so he can have his character development again, but this time thanks to Rey because everyone must love her. And finally they bring Palpatine back, making sure that Anakin's sacrifice ended up not balancing anything. The destruction of the original trilogy was now complete, and that is far worse than even something like Solo having to explain how he got his last name. Nothing actively hurts previous Star Wars canon as the sequel trilogy.

Another Prequel apologist, lets go. Being a kid when the Phantom Menace was in theaters was magical.

Fun book review idea: Original Tim Zahn trilogy - Heir to the Empire/Dark Force Rising/The Last Command - The TRUE sequel to the OT.

RotS should be higher but the rest I agree with you on. I don't know why they picked Andor as a character to base a show on but I guess people like it so I'll give it a shot.