The original and prequel trilogies are worthwhile viewing. The sequel trilogy, however, presents a different case. While George Lucas provided story treatments during the 2012 sale, these were ultimately discarded. The sequels also marked the end of the Expanded Universe, removed from canon to allow creative freedom for filmmakers. Given that the stories deviate significantly from Lucas’s original vision, is there really a compelling reason to watch them?
The sequels suck but Andor is a legit masterpiece.
AFAIK, there’s only three Star Wars films. Episode IV, V and VI.
Rogue One is good.
I recommend Rogue One, the Clone Wars, and Bad Batch
I would add Rebels. First season is a liiiiittle more kid friendly and toned down than it really needed to be, the rest of it is fantastic and finished the story of Darth Maul.
If you hadn’t heard Maul and Ventress are getting their own show. She has hair!
There’s nothing magic about Lucas’s vision. But JJ Abrams vision is exclusively “bigger is better”. Death Star destroys planets? Well, this Death Star IS a planet. And it kills multiple planets, and it’s called Starkiller, and it shoots through hyperspace.
Star Destroyer? Let’s make each one a Death Star. With a big gun. And you can ride horses on the hull.
Stormtroopers? They fly now.
(Godzilla? Uhh… My monster is just as big as Godzilla, and it’s only a baby.)
No.
They are all terrible movies, with droid-like performances, plot holes the size of a Sarlacc pit and effects and fight choreographies as pointless as the little pistons on the exterior of a surrogate hand.
Mark Hamill should be ashamed of agreeing to participate in them, even more to compensate the fact that apparently Ford cannot help himself from doing it here and in the Indy movies.
I lost all interest in the entire series when they were chasing the fleet and shooting lasers in an arch…to combat wind resistance in space, I guess. Oh man, I laughed (unintentionally) when I saw that. I almost walked out of the theater.
I don’t even know if the space in Star Wars is supposed to be empty space like ours. I seem to recall they have a rule not to show anyone ejecting or drifting in space for that same reason.
I’d argue you should watch A New Hope because it was groundbreaking at the time, Empire Strikes Back because it’s amazing by any standard, and Return of the Jedi only if you crave resolution. Then watch Rogue One because it’s borderline better than Empire Strikes Back.
There’s only 2 good Star Wars movies that are good by the standards of modern cinema.
They would be if they were good.
Disney should have known to create an overall writer/producer for the sequels; they had done it Marvel and the thing that set Star Wars above other sci-fi was Lucas creating a deep universe for the stories to exist in.
Abrams was a shitty choice to control writing of VII; he basically made a Star Wars fan film and reset a lot of VI to keep the same kind of conflict as the original series. Johnson had some interesting ideas, but he broke a lot of previous world building for VIII, like the Resistance militia leaders keeping their plan a secret and the kamekaze ship. Then, somehow, Abrams returned.
It says something that, while the prequels aren’t seen as good as the original series, they still resonate in a way that the sequels haven’t. A lot of that can be attributed to why Lucas was a great producer.
Then, somehow, Abrams returned.
Fucking gold.
I truly could not believe my eyes when I saw “Somehow, Palpatine returned” on the opening crawl…
Just awful.
Then, somehow, Abrams returned.
They were fun to watch but I don’t take anything from Disney as canon except for rogue one and andor
The animated stuff like clone wars and rebels make the filoniverse come alive. Early mandalorian was great, andor was as well. So skip the movies and enjoy good star wars stuff instead.
Bad Batch got so close to delving into Palpatines force clone experiments, and went some dark places.
Yeah I still enjoyed it overall
First one is alright. Second one jumps off a cliff. Third starts off on a new cliff to jump off from
i think they’re worth watching just so you can see how bad they are and how much disney fumbled the bag by hiring the worst people imaginable to write/direct the garbage.
it really shines how much they finally “got it” by hiring Tony Gilroy to come in to fix/salvage Rogue One before letting him loose with Andor - arguably the greatest Star Wars ever made that’s on par with the originals.
See, here’s how it is-
The movies suck ass. BUT the story still continues. And it continues in a way that I personally am liking so far. The new Ahsoka show, the mandalorian, etc. have worked out pretty fine. So I you want to be invested in the franchise (I would recommend this), then try watching the sequels.
The prequels for example imo sucked-ish too. It’s the surrounding story and shows that made them a lot cooler (the clone wars especially).
BUT the story still continues. And it continues in a way that I personally am liking so far. The new Ahsoka show, the mandalorian, etc. have worked out pretty fine.
Biggest problem is that they butchered Luke character beyond repair in TLJ. Luke is destiny to fail to understand why he won against the emperor and he can’t understand that the message of no attachments from the prequel era jedi is totally wrong and bullshit. In the Expanded Universe that Disney killed Luke succeed on that and the new jedis understand the force better, in the Disney canon the character that probably will do that is Rey. There’s absolute nothing that Filoni and the others creators can do to fix this.
If you’re don’t like star wars, they are just sub-standard slop. 9 is a heavy contender for “so bad it’s funny” like sharknado
I never saw 9 since 7 & 8 were so bad. After your comment ai might check it out, I love Sharknado.
I don’t think they’re as groundbreaking as the original trilogy (my preferred trilogy) but they’re still watchable. Sometimes you gotta take things with a pinch of salt, even your favorite movie franchise.
I can rewatch the prequels. But the sequels are to me a single time popcorn movie.
I liked the starkiller base scene.
I liked the first one from the sequel trilogy, the second one made me hate movies for a while. It was so bad, inconsistent and out of character. I couldn’t force myself to watch the third one, and lost interest in the franchise altogether.
