It's hands down the worst one. If you have some special attachment to it, or it conjures up happy memories, that's all good, but from a standpoint of acting, scriptwriting, pacing, and any other metric of a film's quality, this is 9th out of 9 in the Star Wars franchise. It's literally 180 minutes of nonsensical plot that exists only to move from point A, Anakin, to point B, Darth Vader. It may well be the worst film of all time if one factors in budget, audience and expectation.
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3 years ago
I agree, I’m genuinely baffled when people say this is their favourite Star Wars film.
Of course TPM and AOTC have plenty of flaws but this is the film where almost every character is a dumbass and Palpatine is made out to be this evil genius when really he only succeeded because the other characters are very dumb.
Obi-Wan and Yoda are so stupid here, why not team up to fight Palpatine and then worry about Anakin? Heck they have some security recordings now as evidence against Palpatine, they could get the whole galaxy to rebel against Palpatine with those, Jar Jar Binks would have been getting his Gungan army to come kick some clone trooper ass.
Like you said it just gets from point A to Point B in the most unimaginative, farcical and stupid way possible and throws a bunch of noisy, overlong action scenes at you to try and cover up this shoddy writing. It’s difficult to care about the action as well because every character has just been frustratingly dumb. It’s tragic because the characters are too stupid not because Anakin was seduced by the dark side.
Darth Vader screaming ‘NOOOOOOOOO!’ at the end is just Lucas putting a shit cherry on top of the trilogy. Way to ruin the greatest villain in cinema history George with this laughable bad scene, you got James Earl Jones back for that?!
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3 years ago
You're agreeing with some moron who ranks Last Jedi as better than ROTS? Then YOU must be a moron, TOO.
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WhereIsRent (1080)
3 years ago
The Last Jedi is actually second from bottom of the Skywalker Saga for me.
Like ROTS I think it’s screenplay is awful but it just about edges out the former due to the cinematography.
But overall I’m not a fan of the prequel or sequel trilogies. There are parts of them I like but not enough to justify their existence.
The prequel trilogy ruins the backstory of Darth Vader by making Anakin Skywalker whiny and annoying rather than a hero who is tragically seduced to the dark side. Revenge of the Sith also ruins Obi-Wan and Yoda by making them very dumb. Also Palpatine is an idiot and his plan only succeeds because the other characters are even more idiotic.
The sequel trilogy ruins the original trilogy characters (particularly Luke, but it also craps on Han and Leia as well) and the new trio of Rey, Finn and Poe are nowhere near as fun, charming or likeable as Luke, Leia and Han.
Genuinely I see the prequel and sequel trilogies as pointless cash grabs. They’ve made for some funny memes and they have some good action scenes but that’s about it. The original trilogy is untouchable even if I take my nostalgia glasses off, the other two trilogies don’t have a fraction of the character growth or emotional depth of that trilogy.
Just because TLJ is shit doesn’t automatically make ROTS good.
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