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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.

On Episode VII I walked out if the cinema. When my brother bought Episode VIII on DVD I gabe it a shot but turned it off after about an hour, never tried Episode IX.

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.

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.)

First one is alright. Second one jumps off a cliff. Third starts off on a new cliff to jump off from

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.

no, you shouldn't have watched the prequels either.

I watched all of the trilogy of trilogies with my dad in theaters, so they will always have a special place in my heart. I enjoyed all of them for that reason, but I look at the sequels as good entertainment for the afternoon, but I'm not interested in seeing them again. I also don't intend to watch any of the shows. I'm sure they are good, or at least momentarily entertaining, but I'm not so interested/invested in the franchise anymore. I've moved on.

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.

I very much enjoyed Force Awakens and Rise of Skywalker. Last Jedi was painfully bad IMO. I like those other two much more than any of the prequels, true to Lucas' vision or not.

But, it doesn't really matter what anyone else thinks, if you want to watch them then do. And if you do, and you like them, then all good. And if you do watch them, but don't like them, also all good. And if you decide not to watch them, also also all good.

Life's too short to worry about a bunch of movies.

I enjoyed The Force Awakens, but the other two I enjoyed more for just cool individual scenes (lightsaber boat battle, etc) than the movies themselves.

I recommend Rogue One, the Clone Wars, and Bad Batch

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).

Disagree, the prequels aren’t worth watching.

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.

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.