Ranking the Star Wars Movies by their R2-D2 usage 

Star Wars ranked by how long their in space

Wow thats a long and oddly specific title

Cant wait for the next unusually titled video

Considering he is the only guy to make those, he better win it!

I ranked the boss explosions from the Mario and Luigi series.

Luke makes R2 concede. However, I still love this detail, so thank you.

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As bad as the Prequels could be with the call-forwards and future references and falling into that "everybody knew each other" trap, there were plenty of more subtle moments that aren't emphasized but absolutely work. This is one of them.

lose. Sorry.

​@@GODCONVOYPRIME 😂

Nah! We can easily guess where he would place the movies

Obi-Wan's "Oh I have a bad feeling about this!" during the opening of Revenge of the Sith easily wins for me though that may just be because it's Obi-Wan and because it's in Revenge of the Sith.

That'll be a banger

Last Jedi would be last in that regard, since it’s not even actually spoken. It’s implied to be “said” by BB-8, who doesn’t speak English lol

@@camo6465just another attempt at TLJ trying to be different for the sake of being different smh

He'll have to rank them eventually. It's only a matter of time.

He kind of already did if you go to his Letterbox

​@@biodock2003what was the ranking?

@@goldmamba9719 11. Rise of Skywalker 10. Attack of the Clones 9. Phantom Menace 8. The Last Jedi 7. Solo 6. Rogue One 5. Revenge of the Sith 4. The Force Awakens 3. A New Hope 2. Return of the Jedi 1. The Empire Strikes Back

@@biodock2003 no way he put force awakens a over revenge of the Sith

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That’s… really sad…

I think it’s a fair argument that R2 is one of if not the most famous of all fictional robots because of these attributes. I also think it’s a testament to how well he is personified that most people don’t blink an eye about referring to R2 as “he”, as opposed to how most modern Star Wars droids tend to be correctly referred to as “it”. At this point, calling R2 “it” feels wrong on so many levels, as if all the of the emotional and personal connections made with R2 didn’t happen.

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What about R4, obi-wan’s droid from the prequels

@@RyanTheSharkie691. Attack of the clones 2. Revenge of the sith.

@@RyanTheSharkie69 is that the one that got is head cut of.

Only Movies mate

@@grathem9789 I know, just pointing out that it exists in some capacity. Not saying the ranking should change.

@@zantosender3348 I know but we have to rank the movies specifically

Poor R2 ;-;

@@grathem9789 He's not asking for a book ranking.

Similar paths can be seen here in the U.S. Former governors can become federal senators and then attempt to become president of the United States. If you want a real-life example of this, look up Huey Long.

@@supernerd8067 Oh--I remember learning about him in my APUSH class! If I recall correctly, he was... a character, to say the very least!

@@supernerd8067 Jim Justice of West Virginia is essentially trying to do the same thing right now.

@@billdestroyerofworlds interesting. I didn't know this.

That sounds great

Or Force usage!

oh hell yeah

@@emmavanlieshout9389 OOO! That’s a good one too!

I personally would put ep 5 or 6 as #1 just because of the luke and darth Vader fights, they’re great! Ep 8 would be last because the one actual lightsaber fight they do have is really not very good when you break it down, and I hate how they had Luke almost use his lightsaber to kill Ben in the flashback (ruining Luke’s character)

At least it was until Disney decided that their marketable droid should get more attention than the one that’s been part of the saga from the beginning

If i had the chance i would kick bb8 like a soccer ball ​@gplgs4640

That’s part of my in-universe explanation for why the sequels were so… strange, I guess? R2 didn’t really have a whole of involvement in the last 3 Skywalker saga movies, so he probably had a much harder time keeping up with what was going on and heard too many contradicting stories.

Holy shiii this headcanon bangs​@@alpacawizardman6778

i really like this idea, but how exactly would he be able to recap the prequels after getting his memory wiped at the end of rots?

Honestly I always assumed either the jet fuel had been outlawed by the empire or it was too expensive to be worth it

And Arturito is now the informal noun to call tiny drawers and office furniture that resembles R2.

That was only in the Original Trilogy but is always so funny 😂

That's adorable.

De pequeño siempre pensé que se llama arturito pensaba q las letras y los números eran como su marca o como su nombre científico (como decirle equino a un caballo)

So essentially Smol Arthur

I’m your 200th like and also I guess he’s cool

Best Star Wars character ngl

That's why Star Tours is so good in Disneyland

Literally the icon for the original Lego Star Wars on PC

Indeed

I’ve always wanted my icon to be a rolling hairdryer

They also made him into a Lego set

@@pocketmarcy6990 yeah they did

I mean we all would know where he would put them in ranking Especially TROS

He already has a ranking on Letterboxd

His ranking is on letterboxd and he’s pretty vocal on his opinion on them in all his videos

​@@edward8380why there instead of RU-vid

Also, a ranking for each Wilhelm scream usage in every Star Wars movie

Also, a ranking of every “May the force be with you” in each Star Wars Movie.

@@CyberDrewanMAy ThE SCHwaRtS be WItH u

I feel like this may have been an easy way to explain why R2 didn’t go with Rey and the others in IX. If someone had just said “He just hasn’t been himself after he came back after Luke died”, it would have given him the perfect excuse to stay with Leia. Not only would R2’s heart not been in it without Luke, he would probably want to stay with Leia as a last connection to Luke. This makes it all the more sad when Leia dies.

It's amazing how simple scenes that last like 10 seconds could add so much

Why the hell was my first thought reading this “they fly now?”

​@jacksawack6724 because the memes.

​@@jacksawack6724Because they now fly

Yeah, it’s like poetry sort of, it rhymes

I still love Star Wars, but Lucasverse Star Wars specifically. Disney Star Wars I want nothing to do with.

@@SpaceJawa Would Rise of Skywalker work better as a Looney Tunes movie than as a Star Wars movie? Chris aka 3C Films has said that the Looney Tunes are great at turning really stupid ideas into something awesome.

@@Richard-3874 If you've never heard of the webcomic "Darths & Droids", I recommend taking a look. It's been adapting all the Star Wars movies as if they didn't exist but were instead made up as an RPG campaign. Currently in the middle of Last Jedi. Does a really good job adapting the material into something that's actually enjoyable.

Plus it removes the real queen from the equation in case of an emergency potentially allowing her to survive

Bro this is such cope lmao. Like this is a terrible attempt to head cannon our way out of this. Let’s be honest here, none of those other fuckers standing there ever did anything, and also, who the fuck is keeping track of which of the Queen’s handmaidens are getting sent on menial tasks and how often? Only the body guards would maybe even notice, and they’re in on the whole thing anyway. Also, to the other dude saying it “removes the queen from a potentially dangerous situation” literally how? I would want the queen to be in the throne room if there were an emergency, you know, where all the guards are? Also there’s literally no threat of an assassination or anything while they’re in hyper drive fleeing Naboo, what dangerous situation are they removing her from? In fact, why did they even keep up with the decoy shtick at that point and not just tell the Jedi at the very least who the real queen was? Seems like important information to have. How can the decoy even order the queen around anyway? Did Padme ask to go clean this dirty ass droid, or did Keira Knightly just take it upon herself to send Padme to do that? Let’s not trick ourselves into thinking any of this shit makes sense

​@@batsmetal8106 The actual answer is that Padme wanted to be part of the action. Before the substitute decides anything, she always exchanges a look with the actual queen, and Padme makes clear that she wants to be the handmaiden in charge of accompanying the expedition on Tatooine. You can not like it because it's dumb, but we're talking about a 14 year old girl that had monarchy thrusted upon her. It's an elective democracy, but I bet the other candidates were equally young members of other noble families. So yeah, pretty obvious that she's famished for adventure and real life experiences.

Also, maybe Padme wanted to show her appreciation to R2 personally.

@@TheDahaka1 this is definitely a way better explanation, and I think the only real problem with it is that it’s not fully established or explored in the actual movie. It’s an interesting concept for a character but the dialogue and execution of it is so clunky that Padme comes across more as a blank canvas. I guess this is partly the problem with the fact that it’s only revealed to us, the audience, way later into the movie that she was the queen all along, which raises multiple questions and doesn’t make sense in many places. There should have been a scene earlier in the movie where her secret is revealed in a small way to a character like Jar Jar or something or even a scene where she talks to the decoy, and they swear not to tell anyone and Padme would get a chance to tell them (and the audience) why she feels this way and why she wants to put herself at risk despite the fact that it’s really dangerous and stupid to do so during this situation. There might even be a good reason, like she feels uncertain about her capacity to lead due to her overprivelged background or something. That necessary character context would be way more important than the “twist” later on that she’s the queen and would even make that scene more powerful as a character moment. But that’s not the movie we got an even this explanation which feels the most likely is really at the end of the day just our way to retrospectively justify poor writing. Let me put it like this, in this particular situation, if there was no problem with how this plot thread was handled than no one would have a problem with it or even notice the oddities of it, but instead it stands out to us as an audience because something just feels off about it because the whole “decoy” plot is never really explained. Some choose to go with the movie and act like there must be a good reason because they want to be lenient towards it, others choose to see it as terrible because they lean against the film, the real problem is that we have to speculate in the first place because George Lucas doesn’t know how to build his characters properly

I’ll try spinning that’s a good trick

Would've been cool to have 3PO retell the entire Star Wars saga and the events of the movies

It is possible, but because it is episode 9, we dont know for sure

@@lexramstudios1386You should definitely check out Lego Star Wars: Droid Tales. The show is basically what you just described but done in a humorous way that lightly makes fun of the prequel and original trilogies.

@@lexramstudios1386there’s a direct to tv Lego Star Wars special literally about that

that would, to me, make both R2 and C-3PO's roles in TROS so much more impactful if it was outright stated in the movie. It actually turns C-3PO's cheap emotional "death" scene into a real emotional scene where C-3PO finally gets all of his memories back. It does raise the question of "well, why didn't R2 restore his memory earlier", but the movie does say that R2 units are unreliable with it so it could have maybe been a risk he wouldn't have been willing to take (as i guess you'd have to say R2 somehow merged his pre-ROTS and post-ROTS memories into one set), but now he's already lost his memory, there's no reason not to.

I guess that makes C-3PO one of the most relatable characters in Star Wars: he cares a lot about R2.

@@CyberDrewan second only to mon mothma, who spent too much money on star wars

I mean he did help luke blow up the death star

He saved the ship in the Phantom Menace and helped it run the blockade. That's pretty much the entire franchise right there.

@@mpar8107 He also saved padme, is the reason obi-wan and anakin were able to kill dooku, is the reason that Luke was born and he ended up saving the galaxy and if it wasn’t for R2 saving Luke as well he wouldn’t have been able to redeem Vader.

@@kirbystar7474 While I'm not going to argue against the overall point, if he doesn't save the ship, Padme dies. Anakin isn't found (or is he since there's a prophecy). Then how does Order 66? . I guess the Trade Federation would then just control Naboo? Would the Republic then respond if they found out the Queen was literally blasted from the sky/space? How would the Jedi Council respond knowing their two peace-representatives were also just blasted into smithereens ( that's a whole crazy 'what-if'). But yeah, when it comes to story moments, R2D2 saves a ton (trash compactor, cloud city in opening doors, etc.)

R2 is evil but that's Ok!

To add to that, Padme being royalty in some way makes her daughter being a future princess feel way more right, as does it make the royalty of naboo appear smarter by sticking to there decoys in all situations where there's any chance the real queen may be in danger, and it makes Quigon appear more clever when he reveals he's well aware of who Padme is, as for why send padme to clean r2d2, cleaning r2 is hardly hard work, it's giving him a light scrub, padme chooses to walk through a desert rather then chill with the ship, there's no way she'd have an issue doing that to maintain her cover

and when the Falcon manages to escape, the character thinks she is going to be killed by Vader, but Darth just walks off like in the movie

Would Rise of Skywalker work better as a Looney Tunes movie than as a Star Wars movie? Chris aka 3C Films has said that the Looney Tunes are great at turning really stupid ideas into something awesome.

@@Richard-3874I mean the Lego game “skywalker saga” made the sequel sections a LOT more bearable, so maybe?

@@captainpep3 I haven’t played the Lego games

More personality than modern characters

Not really, its more like state governor to US senator, which I guess is still a glow up and a thing that happens in the US quite a bit

@@nizam5568 I mean given how big galaxies are, its reasonable to equate a planet to a city on earth for example. I would think a space governor would govern certain prefectures of the galaxy

Wasn't queen of Naboo more like representative role?

I also think they mention in Episode II that Padme was term-limited as queen. And since the Queen at her funeral is a girl, and Padme left office as a teen, maybe Naboo doesn’t allow adults to be Queen so they don’t get too powerful.

@@JohnSmith-dh8zxwhich calls into question how poorly run Naboo is and how much of a puppet state it really is. Imagine if some comparatively irrelevant country like Canada decided to place a teenage girl as their all powerful leader and representative on the world stage. No wonder the trade federation considered them to be easy pickings…

It was so kind of Disney to give film critics such an evergreen punching bag

Would Rise of Skywalker work better as a Looney Tunes movie than as a Star Wars movie? Chris aka 3C Films has said that the Looney Tunes are great at turning really stupid ideas into something awesome.

Anakin and Obi wan being up there as one of the best Even if the dialogue is a little wonky and them spinning around their lightsabers a lot, I thought it was an iconic duel

@@UltimateDespairado Yeah, I feel like Luke vs Vader 1, Anakin vs Obi-Wan, and Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan vs Darth Maul are the top 3, with Luke vs Vader 2 and Luke vs Kylo Ren being the runners-up. Maybe Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan vs Darth Maul falls out of the top 3 for not having much actual emotional tension, but I feel like between the choreography and the music it's cool enough that it makes up for that.

Episode 8 is going to be dead last so hard

@@segadoeswhatnintendont what about Obi-Wan vs Vader from episode 4, I know it is the first ever lightsaber duel but it is still pretty lame, at least there is an attempt at action in episode 8

I think personally, I'd rank these 1. Episode 3. The Anakin Obi Wan fight is incredible. I love it. And the other 3 are pretty good. 2. Episode 1. The Duel of Fates is iconic and probably the second best in the series. 3. Episode 8. Kylo and Rey vs. Guards is fantastic, and the Luke vs Kylo at the end is great too. 4. Episode 5. The battle between Luke and Vader is a great use of suspense and fear. The side cave doesn't stand out as much to me, especially since it's in slow motion. 5. Episode 9. Rey vs Kylo is great with them fighting in different locations, and Kylo vs the knights of Ren is also a great moment. 6. Episode 2. The fight between Yoda and Dooku is great, but the part between Anakin and Dooku is abysmal. You only see them swinging lightsabers in the dark with light flashing across their faces and barely even see their lightsabers connect. 7. Episode 7. Finn vs Kylo is pretty good and watching Kylo chase Rey is pretty good too. 8. Episode 6. The Vader Luke fight is mostly Luke hiding which is not as suspenseful as episode 5. 9. Episode 4. Obi Wan and Vader just kinda poke at each other and that's it.

He flies now

He flies now!

He flies now?

Would Rise of Skywalker work better as a Looney Tunes movie than as a Star Wars movie? Chris aka 3C Films has said that the Looney Tunes are great at turning really stupid ideas into something awesome.

who is the other one?

@marius7810 Good question. I believe Luke Skywalker, but I just read that in a visual dictionary.

What's the other one?

I mean technically he isn't a minifigure

So true she also steals Luke’s role of being the new hope that brings the Jedi to a new age and to quote Ahsoka a new beginning, got nothing towards Daisy Ridley, but I could care less about Rey…

Honestly I don’t get people getting so angry at her having the Skywalker name I thought it was an alright things for her to have

@@lestatcanada The problem is she did absolutely nothing to earn it. The skywalkers didn’t adopt her or anything. She’s still a Palpatine. She just stole the Skywalker name.

@@SplendidSuperman122 she killed palpatine saved the universe was technically both pretty friendly with both Luke and Leia at least to some extent if that’s both earning I don’t know what is look the sequels have lots of issues Rey being called Rey Skywalker isn’t one of them

@@SplendidSuperman122 yeah exactly. Anakin was always meant to fulfill the prophecy, but no rise of Skywalker says that it meant nothing. Every once in a while, I rewatch Star Wars chronologically from Phantom Menace to Ahsoka And the more I do that the more I just don’t see the sequels fitting in with the rest of the franchise…

Me too

I'm shocked you're even alive tbh

Holy shit its you.

oh my god don't check his community tab

@@atoo7yt490 PLEASE check his community tab its fucking gold.

​@@atoo7yt490 PLEASE check his community tab its fucking gold.

Thought I only noticed but cool you noticed that