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by klimov
Lol. The first SW is the best by a country mile. It's the only one with Alec Guinness, for a start. And of course it's the origin of the whole thing, the real moment of inspiration. Even in ESB you can feel Lucas scrabbling, revising characters to enlarge the story and make more money.
I started watching the prequel trilogy again when I was isolating last month - hadn't seen it since the original release. Phantom Menace has its flaws but is actually fairly decent all in all. However, I'd forgotten or perhaps hadn't realised at the time just how truly awful Attack of the Clones really is, especially in terms of script and performance. I think I was more focused back then on the godawful CGIfest, which is actually less distracting now, being par for the course in any such movie these days (Lucas was certainly ahead of his time). Anyway, I couldn't make it to the end and therefore never got to revisit ROTS, which I remember thinking was the worst of the three.
Of the Disney films, Solo is the best I think. Probably thanks to Ron Howard. I enjoyed TFA when it came out (haven't seen it since) but unfortunately it's a road that doesn't lead anywhere. Mandalorian was pretty decent. They owe Werner Herzog a debt for making them stick to a puppet Grogu. Unfortunately not a message they took to heart with all the CGI Lukes and whatnot that appear in later episodes. And yeah, that Bobba Fett series was pointless, wasn't it.
Not going to happen of course, but it would be wonderful if they could just put Star Wars to bed at this point, alongside Marvel, which is also starting to feel tired. At this rate we're going to end up like the Ancient Egyptians with only a small canon of stories allowed to be told, over and over again, for 3,000 years...