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Rank?
"I recognized your foul stench when I was brought on board."
"What an incredible smell you've discovered!"
Haha! Lucas had a thing for odors didn't he?
"I thought they smelled bad... ON THE OUTSIDE." -- George Lucas while whiffing car fumes during drag racing
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"I thought they smelled bad... ON THE OUTSIDE." -- George Lucas while whiffing car fumes during drag racing
So he liked run while dressed in women's clothes.
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1) Star Wars
2) The Empire Strikes Back
3) Return of the Jedi
4) Phantom Menace
5) Revenge of the Sith
6) Attack of the Clones
7) The Rise of Skywalker
8) The Force Awakens
9) Ewoks: The Battle for Endor
10) The Ewok Adventure
11) The crappy one with Benicio del Toro (I forgot what was it called)
12) The Star Wars Holiday Special
13) Rogue One
14) Solo: A Star Wars Story
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I have a GOOD feeling about my list!
A) Empire Strikes Back.
B) The Phantom Menace.
C) A New Hope.
D) Revenge of the Sith.
E) Return of the Jedi.
F) Attack of the Clones.
Sorry but I cannot bring myself to rank the DISNEY films.
The above six are cannon fodder.
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"I thought they smelled bad... ON THE OUTSIDE." -- George Lucas while whiffing car fumes during drag racing
So he liked run while dressed in women's clothes.
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...from "Best" to "Worst". Or, more accurately, from your "Favorite" to your "Least favorite".
There you were, joking in another thread about how nerdly we-all is, unable to talk long without mentioning The Big JG.....
And YOU go and open THIS! 
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There's no "right" or "wrong";
In a FSM thread????
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jenkwombat
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...from "Best" to "Worst". Or, more accurately, from your "Favorite" to your "Least favorite".
There you were, joking in another thread about how nerdly we-all is, unable to talk long without mentioning The Big JG.....
And YOU go and open THIS!
Actually, "THIS" had drifted off of page one. Till you woke it from the dead. (BTW, thank you for doing so...)
And just to clarify, JG is one of my favorite film composers of all time. When JG is brought up on this board, 99% of the time it's, understandably, to praise him. (And where did I say anything about JG fans, FSMers, or anyone else being "nerdy"?)
When SW is brought up on this board, more often than not, it's by members complaining, ironically, about how much SW is brought up on the board.
Oh, and thanks again...
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(And where did I say anything about JG fans, FSMers, or anyone else being "nerdy"?)
By describing something that looks like a nerd, walks like a nerd.... (see below)
quote:
Jerry Goldsmith
...oh, sorry. I thought that was supposed to be our answer to all threads.
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Only seen one, TPM. Not my thing.
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MY RANKING OF THE TWELVE STAR WARS FILMS... FROM BEST TO "NEXT TO BEST" (THERE ARE NO WORST)...
#01 - STAR WARS............................;......(10/10)
#02 - THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK.......(10/10)
#03 - RETURN OF THE JEDI..................(10/10)
#04 - REVENGE OF THE SITH...............(10/10)
#05 - THE PHANTOM MENACE.............(10/10)
#06 - ATTACK OF THE CLONES............(10/10)
#07 - ROGUE ONE...................................(9/10)
#08 - THE LAST JEDI...............................(9/10)
#09 - THE FORCE AWAKENS..................(9/10)
#10 - THE RISE OF SKYWALKER............(8/10)
#11 - THE CLONE WARS (MOVIE)...........(8/10)
#12 - SOLO................................................(8/10)
AND FOUR HONORABLE MENTIONS... MY FAVORITES FROM TELEVISION:
#01 - THE CLONE WARS (SERIES)...........(8/10)
#02 - KENOBI..............................................(8/10)
#03 - EWOKS: THE BATTLE FOR ENDOR.(7/10)
#04 - THE EWOK ADVENTURE..................(7/10)
NOTHING CAN BEAT 1977'S STAR WARS: A NEW HOPE...
IT ALWAYS HAS BEEN THE BEST SW FILM... IT ALWAYS WILL BE THE BEST SW FILM... PERIOD... END OF STORY...
THE SIX SAGA FILMS FROM GEORGE LUCAS ARE WITHOUT QUESTION THE BEST STAR WARS FILMS...
THE ORIGINAL TRILOGY FILMS ARE CLASSICS, AND THE THREE GREATEST FILMS EVER MADE...
THE PREQUEL TRILOGY FILMS ARE EXCELLENT AS WELL...
BUT THEN, I LOVE ALL THINGS "STAR WARS"... SPECIAL EDITIONS, PREQUELS, SEQUELS, SPIN-OFFS, TV SHOWS... WHAT HAVE YOU... YOU NAME IT... I LOVE IT ALL... I GUESS THAT I SHOULD JUST CONSIDER MYSELF LUCKY!
WELL, THAT CONCLUDES MY RANKING OF THE SW FILMS...
HOWEVER...
IF YOU NOW WISH TO HEAR ME GUSH ENDLESSLY ABOUT MY #1 FAVORITE MOVIE OF ALL TIME...
AKA - THE GREATEST FILM EVER MADE... AKA - STAR WARS: A NEW HOPE...
THEN I INVITE YOU TO CONTINUE READING...
A long time ago in the summer of 1977, I was a 10 year old kid who, one day, walked into a movie theatre to see "some far-out space movie" that was rapidly becoming "the talk of the town" on the schoolyard playground... I walked in an innocent, naive little child, only interested in Duncan Yo-yos, Mad Libs, Marshall Brodien TV Magic Cards, and Evel Knievel toys...
I walked out CHANGED FOREVER.
On that glorious day, I had seen the greatest movie that would EVER be made... STAR WARS... This groundbreaking film from creator George Lucas TOTALLY changed my life... It absolutely blew me away, filling my heart with joy, stimulating my imagination, and kick-starting my love for cinema... That day was momentous for me, and I would never be the same again.. I will never forget it..
From the moment the 20th Century Fox fanfare and John Williams' theme blasted through the theatre speaker system, and "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away" and that "Flash Gordon inspired" opening crawl came on the screen, and that gigantic Star Destroyer appeared, flying over my head, towering above me as I sat in my theatre seat... and kept going... and going...and going... and as the entire audience gasped with amazement... at that very moment, I was instantaneously mesmerized, transfixed, and transformed... and I was only 5 minutes into the movie... I still had 2 more hours to go!
As I sat In amazement, I was terrified by a helmeted figure in black, Darth Vader... In fact, the whole audience "booed" him as he made his entrance.. .We knew NOTHING about the story yet, but just KNEW that this guy deserved a collective "booing"!... It was like we were watching a SILENT MOVIE!... And as the movie continued, I was thrilled by the heroic exploits of the dashing smuggler Han Solo and the feisty Princess Leia, and emboldened by the brave, heroic, idealistic actions of the farm boy turned hero of the galaxy, Luke Skywalker! And by the film's spectacular climax of the rebel assault on the Death Star (the greatest ending ever committed to celluloid), my heart was pounding, and my spirit was soaring... And I will NEVER forget the standing ovation of applause that erupted as the credits rolled... Everyone in that audience didn't know it yet, but we had all just been first-hand witnesses to cinematic HISTORY!
This was NOT The Apple Dumpling Gang, Herbie Rides Again, Benji, The Bad News Bears, or any of the other 70's kiddie "dreck" that I was being subjected to at that time... No, this was something VERY DIFFERENT... I was beginning to come of age...
Qf course, it wasn't ALL "dreck"... Even at that young age, I'd managed to see a small handful of very good and (for their time) very impressive big-screen spectacles in the theatre: Films such as: The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1974), At the Earth's Core (1976), Logan's Run (1976), and King Kong (1976)... but NOTHING could have prepared me (or the rest of the world) for the phenomenon that was STAR WARS and the change it would bring... the film that would propel an unprepared 1970's audience far beyond their wildest film-going expectations, and revolutionize the motion picture industry FOREVER. Words can never fully describe what it was like to be alive in the summer of 1977 during the peak height of "Star Wars Mania"... except to say that it was pure MAGIC.
I became an instant fanatic... I saw the film 11 times in the movie theatre (which wasn't hard to do, as it stayed at our local theatre for an entire year!)... I sneaked my portable tape recorder into the theatre and audio-recorded the entire film so that I could listen to the adventure over and over in the comfort of my own bedroom (the ONLY way that I could relive it at home for 6 years until it finally came on TV!)... I filled up countless sketch pads with my crude drawings of all the creatures and spaceships... I dressed up in a make-shift Darth Vader costume for Halloween...I collected the action figures, the trading cards, the posters, the books, the model kits, and much more (and I STILL have all of that "stuff") ... I always wore my Star Wars T-shirt... I always drank out of my Star Wars cup... I listened to John Williams' Star Wars soundtrack album constantly, becoming a fan of symphonic and film score music...
I watched "The Making of Star Wars" TV special, becoming fascinated by the way movies were made, even making a few myself with my Super-8 camera... I watched the Academy Awards for the very first time to see my favorite movie sweep the Oscars
with 10 nominations and 7 wins...
I even watched the now "infamous" Holiday Special in 1978 ...
Lumpy... Itchy... Harvey Korman... Bea Arthur... Wookiee-ookiees... And I loved it... ("Hey, I was 11 when it aired!").
And after 46 years, I continue to love STAR WARS: A NEW HOPE more and more... It has aged like fine wine... It is my #1 favorite movie of all time, followed by my 2nd favorite movie of all time: The Empire Strikes Back, and my 3rd favorite movie of all time: Return of the Jedi...These 3 movies are flawless and perfect, collectively making up not only the greatest cinematic trilogy ever made... but the three greatest films of ANY kind ever made... and the greatest cinematic story ever told...
Thank you so much, George Lucas, for taking me to your galaxy far, far away... Words can never express the utter happiness and joy that your six STAR WARS films have given me.., and continue to give me to this very day... And in particular, thank you so much for that life-altering experience that you gave me when I walked into that movie theatre at 10 years old in the summer of 1977 to see "that far-out space movie", aka: THE GREATEST MOVIE EVER MADE! ...It's odd to think a that a mere movie could have that kind of power to change one's life in such a profoundly positive way... but I'm proof that one can.
As summed up perfectly in the film's teaser trailer narration: "It's the story of a boy, a girl, and a universe...
A big, sprawling space saga of rebellion and romance... of heroes, and villains, and aliens from a 1,000 worlds...
A spectacle, light years ahead of its time"... That says it all!
It is the perfect story... the perfect film... a phenomenon... a bona fide classic.. a MASTERPIECE..
And just think, things could have gone VERY DIFFERENTLY and HORRIBLY WRONG that glorious day if I had instead gone to see some "awful piece of dreck" that was also playing in theatres at that same time...
like Tentacles ("Yikes!")... or Viva Knievel ("Ouch!")... or Pete's Dragon ("Uhg!").
PS: An amusing "soundtrack related" aside: I will NEVER forget when my parents took me to the record store in 1977 to get the STAR WARS soundtrack by John Williams... We were driving home, and I was in the back seat of the car, looking at the LP... "Something is WRONG here", I said to myself... Well, it turned out that my parents had accidentally purchased the MECO DISCO VERSION! ... What did they know, after all? Obviously, we had to turn around and go back to the store!
Oh, by the way... John Williams ended up becoming my #1 favorite film composer of all time... I can't imagine how THAT happened!
WATCH THE STAR WARS 1976 TEASER TRAILER https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHk5kCIiGoM&pp=ygUZc3RhciB3YXJzIHRyYWlsZXIgMTk3NyBoZA%3D%3D
WATCH THE STAR WARS 1977 OFFICIAL TRAILER https://youtu.be/1PxxIpPSyR0
WATCH THE OPENING SCENE FROM STAR WARS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqE4VSnT5sc
WATCH THE ESCAPE FROM MOS EISLY FROM STAR WARS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1U7sAAcYzA0
WATCH THE RESCUE OF PRINCESS LEIA FROM STAR WARS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dxv7ldWhkKg
WATCH THE TIE FIGHTER ATTACK FROM STAR WARS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSvPxNopdHs
WATCH THE BATTLE OF THE DEATH STAR FROM STAR WARS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6H0vFP_jXN4
WATCH JOHN WILLIAMS LIVE CONDUCTING THE STAR WARS THEME https://youtu.be/54hoKbTWon4
WATCH LIVE PERFORMANCE OF THE THRONE ROOM & FINALE FROM STAR WARS https://youtu.be/2vG_zkLFkIs
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#1 Star Wars
None of the others make my list. I watched THE UMPIRE STRIKES BACK a few years ago and got bored. I was going to go through more but decided against.
They seemed to be playing to a different audience. I found the first one more general in appeal.
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#1 Star Wars
None of the others make my list. I watched THE UMPIRE STRIKES BACK a few years ago and got bored. I was going to go through more but decided against.
They seemed to be playing to a different audience. I found the first one more general in appeal.
Gentlemen, start your Nerd Weapons!
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