List of Best to Worst
A New Hope- Just something special about the first one and Alec Guinness is plain and simple the man.
Empire Strikes Back- The only problem with the movie is at least to me there was some lull spots to an otherwise flawless film.
The Phantom Menace- I certainly didn't like Jar Jar, but I didn't think he was the anti christ either. I loved the race with Anakin, loved Darth Maul and the lightsaber duel gave me chills when I first saw it.
Return of the Jedi- Loved the Jaba scenes, loved Darth-Luke final showdown with the emperor, loved the death star battle. Hated hated hated that the universe was saved by teletubbies.
Attack of the Clones- hated the acting, hated the writing, hated the love story, hated the lightsaber duel, hated the action scenes. The only redeeming quality to the movie was Yoda fighting, but 45 seconds don't make a movie.
It's a close bet between ESB and RotJ.
ESB has the classic "No, I am your father"
RotJ has the intense Battle of Endor
ESB has the introduction of the Imperial March
RotJ has the death of Vader
ESB has no Death Stars!
RotJ has a half naked Death Star
So I say RotJ - because the Battle of Endor gives it more scale.
P.S - Battle over Coruscant is going to be 10X bigger!
tomcat <---- Thousands of these babys over Coruscant
Why do people NOT like the Ewoks?
I really bought the idea of a primitive race ironically saving the day. That was a nice touch in my opinion. I thought the Ewoks were charming too.
A New Hope isn't slow moving, it's one of the fastest of the movies in my opinion. It's faster than all of them in my opinion. It doesn't have any slow, calming conversations, and the sets are bright and eye catching/interesting.
A New Hope is like bang bang bang bang bang, one sequence after another.
Most of the Trilogy is like that, but ESB and ROTJ slow down in a few places for the story that ANH didn't know if it was ever gonna get the chance to explain.
A New Hope was the closest to an "adventure". A boy gets whisked away on a fast adventure and ends up saving the day. Phantom Menace tries to copy that same feel but fails miserably.
In terms of script, character and story development, ESB wins by a mile. It moves well and is truely engrosing. The action scenes fit well, theres nothing superfluous about any of it which always makes it that much better. For the most part this is also true of eps 4 and 6 ...not quite the same can be said for the prequels so far sadly (in my view).
Jedi would come a close second...slightly sicklier scripting in parts..but I'm such a sucker for the speeder bike chase and most the other action scenes in it that I just had to give it a mention as being my second choice anyway.