Star Wars films, rating
On Star Wars Day, May 4, the final rating of gaming incarnations of the space fantasy franchise, about which no one on the Internet has a clear opinion, will be compiled.
May the Fourth has always seemed like a particularly fake corporate holiday because Star Wars Day is like the conspicuously absent Children's Day: isn't it every day? Do we really need a day to pay tribute to a space fantasy franchise that accounts for 12% of the top 50 grossing films in North America, including its current number one spot, which looks set to remain unchallenged for several years to come?
We don't do that. But it still comes, especially when the new Star Wars movie comes out. It might have seemed crasser if Star Wars, under the direction of its original master George Lucas, wasn't already retail and media gold (and, for what it's worth, the "original" May Fourth celebrations were unsanctioned, fan-created, pre-Disney events). Or if the actual Star Wars movies and TV shows weren't, by and large, pretty good. Sometimes it's great. And experience more fun than you might imagine in their often toxic fandom.
It may seem jarring that since Disney acquired Lucasfilm in 2012, Star Wars has gone from six films overseen by Lucas (plus a couple of Ewok spin-offs) to about a dozen films and nearly 100 television episodes. they are vast in imagination and too logistically complex in production to really be confined to a single brain.This is a series that resists stripping down and going back to basics; even if that happens, part of the process inevitably involves collecting strange alien creatures to gawk at and perhaps buy in action figure form.
Moreover: As easy as it may be to blame Disney for mishandling the series, the post-Lucas era arguably produced almost as much great work as before, and, yes, there were a few misfires of various forms. Look at it this way: the nerd business of expressing preferences through ratings just got a lot more interesting now that there are more than six movies to play with.
So, before we get too boring, a few basic rules: a Jedi should not know anger. No hate. No animation. I take the first two especially seriously: if Star Wars makes you angry, maybe this list will make you angry, because I don't hate any of the Star Wars movies or shows that I've seen. I'm not saying that a true fan lets anything slip, but I am saying that despite the best efforts of Disney executives (and, for that matter, fan wishes or Mark Hamill's terrible brainstorming), Star Wars never produced Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania or Captain America: Brave New World. Before Disney - well, there's something I dug up for the symbolic spot in last place, without even resorting to the out-of-circulation holiday special.
And to be clear, I don't hate animation either. It's just that with so many episodes of The Clone Wars, Rebels, The Bad Batch, etc., the animated side feels like a whole separate universe, with too many pros and cons to easily compare to feature films or relatively short-season TV shows. So we leave that for live-action projects. I can only imagine that this will immediately clear up the only possible controversy that this undisputed and definitive ranking will bring to mind.
19-20. Caravan of Courage: Ewok Adventures & Ewoks: The Battle for Endor
18. "Skywalker." Sunrise"
17. "Ahsoka"
15-16. "The Book of Boba Fett" & "Obi-Wan Kenobi"
14.Skeleton Crew
13. "Solo. Star wars. Stories"
12. "The Mandalorian"
11. “Rogue One. Star wars. Stories"
10. "Acolyte"
9. "The Force Awakens"
8. “The Phantom Menace”
7. "A New Hope"
6. "Andor"
5. Attack of the Clones
4. The Empire Strikes Back
3. "The Last Jedi"
2. Revenge of the Sith
1. Return of the Jedi