Due to a combination of boredom and insanity, I decided to reach out to a bunch of different people I know and ask them to each rank all live-action, theatrically-released Star Wars films (yes, all eleven of them).
Out of all twenty-five people part of this experiment, only five were women, and the rest were all men. Furthermore, four people here are Zoomers born after mid 1995, while seven are Gen-X’ers who are old enough to remember the original trilogy when it was new, and the remaining fourteen are all Millennials born in the early 90’s. Through my findings, I have found that Zoomers seem to favor the prequel trilogy, and women seem to favor the sequel trilogy (or at least think highly of it).
I changed most of the names here to “protect” identities, and at the bottom of this post I did some analysis/ number-crunching (so feel free to just skip to that part, if you want)…
Welp, here you go!:
TROY
1.Star Wars, 2.Solo, 3.The Empire Strikes Back, 4.Return of the Jedi, 5.The Phantom Menace, 6.The Last Jedi, 7.Attack of the Clones, 8.Revenge of the Sith, 9.The Rise of Skywalker, 10.The Force Awakens, 11.Rogue One
LYDIA
1.Return of the Jedi, 2.Star Wars, 3.The Empire Strikes Back, 4.The Force Awakens, 5.The Last Jedi, 6.The Rise of Skywalker, 7.Rogue One, 8.Solo, 9.The Phantom Menace, 10.Revenge of the Sith, 11.Attack of the Clones
MANNY
1.Rogue One, 2.Star Wars, 3.The Empire Strikes Back, 4.Return of the Jedi, 5.Revenge of the Sith, 6.Attack of the Clones, 7.The Phantom Menace, 8.The Last Jedi, 9.The Force Awakens, 10.The Rise of Skywalker, 11.Solo
SAL
1.Revenge of the Sith, 2.Attack of the Clones, 3.The Phantom Menace, 4.The Empire Strikes Back, 5.Star Wars, 6.Return of the Jedi, 7.Rogue One, 8.Solo, 9.The Last Jedi, 10.The Force Awakens, 11.The Rise of Skywalker
DAN
1.The Rise of Skywalker, 2.Return of the Jedi, 3.The Phantom Menace, 4.The Force Awakens, 5.Star Wars, 6.Revenge of the Sith, 7.The Last Jedi, 8.Attack of the Clones, 9.The Empire Strikes Back, 10.Rogue One, 11.Solo
KEVIN
1.Star Wars, 2.The Empire Strikes Back, 3.Return of the Jedi, 4.Solo, 5.Rogue One, 6.The Force Awakens, 7.Revenge of the Sith, 8.The Rise of Skywalker, 9.The Last Jedi, 10.Attack of the Clones, 11.The Phantom Menace
RONALD
1.The Empire Strikes Back, 2.Star Wars, 3.The Last Jedi, 4.The Force Awakens, 5.Return of the Jedi, 6.Solo, 7.Rogue One, 8.Attack of the Clones, 9.The Phantom Menace, 10.Revenge of the Sith, 11.The Rise of Skywalker
DANTE
1.Revenge of the Sith, 2.Attack of the Clones, 3.The Phantom Menace, 4.Return of the Jedi, 5.The Empire Strikes Back, 6.Star Wars, 7.Solo, 8.The Rise of Skywalker, 9.The Force Awakens, 10.Rogue One, 11.The Last Jedi
ROY
1.Star Wars, 2.Rogue One, 3.Solo, 4.The Empire Strikes Back, 5.Return of the Jedi, 6.The Force Awakens, 7.The Phantom Menace, 8.The Rise of Skywalker, 9.The Last Jedi, 10.Attack of the Clones, 11.Revenge of the Sith
CARLA
1.Star Wars, 2.The Empire Strikes Back, 3.Return of the Jedi, 4.The Force Awakens, 5.The Rise of Skywalker, 6.The Last Jedi, 7.Rogue One, 8.Solo, 9.The Phantom Menace, 10.Attack of the Clones, 11.Revenge of the Sith
RYAN
1.The Empire Strikes Back, 2.Star Wars, 3.Return of the Jedi, 4.Revenge of the Sith, 5.Rogue One, 6.The Force Awakens, 7.The Phantom Menace, 8.Solo, 9.The Last Jedi, 10.Attack of the Clones, 11.The Rise of Skywalker
JOHN
1.The Empire Strikes Back, 2.Rogue One, 3.Return of the Jedi, 4.Star Wars, 5.Solo, 6.Revenge of the Sith, 7.The Phantom Menace, 8.Attack of the Clones, 9.The Rise of Skywalker, 10.The Last Jedi, 11.The Force Awakens
WILL
1.Return of the Jedi, 2.Revenge of the Sith, 3.Attack of the Clones, 4.The Phantom Menace, 5.Rogue One, 6.The Empire Strikes Back, 7.Star Wars, 8.Solo, 9.The Rise of Skywalker, 10.The Last Jedi, 11.The Force Awakens
CHRISTOPHER
1.The Empire Strikes Back, 2.Star Wars, 3.Return of the Jedi, 4.Rogue One, 5.The Force Awakens, 6.Revenge of the Sith, 7.The Phantom Menace, 8.Attack of the Clones, 9.Solo, 10.The Rise of Skywalker, 11.The Last Jedi
JAMES
1.The Empire Strikes Back, 2.Return of the Jedi, 3.Star Wars, 4.Revenge of the Sith, 5.The Force Awakens, 6.The Phantom Menace, 7.Rogue One, 8.Solo, 9.Attack of the Clones, 10.The Last Jedi, 11.The Rise of Skywalker
DARLA
1.The Force Awakens, 2.Solo, 3.Rogue One, 4.Star Wars, 5.The Empire Strikes Back, 6.Return of the Jedi, 7.The Rise of Skywalker, 8.The Last Jedi, 9.Revenge of the Sith, 10.The Phantom Menace, 11.Attack of the Clones
JACOB
1.Solo, 2.The Empire Strikes Back, 3.Star Wars, 4.Return of the Jedi, 5.The Force Awakens, 6.The Last Jedi, 7.Rogue One, 8.Revenge of the Sith, 9.The Phantom Menace, 10.Attack of the Clones, 11.The Rise of Skywalker
JIM
1.The Empire Strikes Back, 2.Star Wars, 3.Return of the Jedi, 4.The Last Jedi, 5.Rogue One, 6.The Force Awakens, 7.The Phantom Menace, 8.Revenge of the Sith, 9.Attack of the Clones, 10.The Rise of Skywalker, 11.Solo
FRANK
1.Return of the Jedi, 2.The Empire Strikes Back, 3.Star Wars, 4.The Force Awakens, 5.Rogue One, 6.Solo, 7.Revenge of the Sith, 8.The Phantom Menace, 9.Attack of the Clones, 10.The Rise of Skywalker, 11.The Last Jedi
EVELYN
1.The Last Jedi, 2.The Empire Strikes Back, 3.Star Wars, 4.The Force Awakens, 5.Return of the Jedi, 6.Solo, 7.Rogue One, 8.Revenge of the Sith, 9.The Phantom Menace, 10.Attack of the Clones, 11.The Rise of Skywalker
OCTOBER
1.The Last Jedi, 2.The Force Awakens, 3.Return of the Jedi, 4.The Empire Strikes Back, 5.Star Wars, 6.Solo, 7.The Rise of Skywalker, 8.Rogue One, 9.Revenge of the Sith, 10.Attack of the Clones, 11.The Phantom Menace
LOUIS
1.The Empire Strikes Back, 2.Star Wars, 3.Return of the Jedi, 4.The Force Awakens, 5.The Last Jedi, 6.Rogue One, 7.Revenge of the Sith, 8.Attack of the Clones, 9.The Phantom Menace, 10.The Rise of Skywalker, 11.Solo
HANK
1.The Empire Strikes Back, 2.Star Wars, 3.Return of the Jedi, 4.The Last Jedi, 5.The Force Awakens, 6.Rogue One, 7.Solo, 8.Revenge of the Sith, 9.The Rise of Skywalker, 10.The Phantom Menace, 11.Attack of the Clones
EVAN
1.The Phantom Menace, 2.Attack of the Clones, 3.Revenge of the Sith, 4.The Empire Strikes Back, 5.Rogue One, 6.Star Wars, 7.Return of the Jedi, 8.The Last Jedi, 9.The Rise of Skywalker, 10.The Force Awakens, 11.Solo
KEITH
1.The Empire Strikes Back, 2.Rogue One, 3.The Last Jedi, 4.Star Wars, 5.The Force Awakens, 6.The Rise of Skywalker, 7.Return of the Jedi, 8.Solo, 9.Revenge of the Sith, 10.The Phantom Menace, 11.Attack of the Clones
And with that, let’s do some analysis:
FAVORITES
The Empire Strikes Back: 9
Star Wars: 4
Return of the Jedi: 3
Revenge of the Sith, The Last Jedi: 2
Attack of the Clones: 0
Everything else: 1
LEAST-FAVORITES
The Rise of Skywalker: 6
Solo: 5
Attack of the Clones: 4
The Last Jedi: 3
The Phantom Menace, Revenge of the Sith, The Force Awakens: 2
Rogue One: 1
Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi: 0
DIFFERENTIALS
The Empire Strikes Back: 9
Star Wars: 4
Return of the Jedi: 3
Revenge of the Sith, Rogue One: 0
The Phantom Menace, The Force Awakens, The Last Jedi: -1
Attack of the Clones, Solo: -4
The Rise of Skywalker: -5
So there you have it! As you can see, the original trilogy is still beloved far more than everything else, in general. Though as I said at the top of this post, some of that might have to do with demographics. Nevertheless, it’s cool to see a whole bunch of different opinions! Thanks again to everyone who willingly participated in this. And for what it’s worth: No, I won’t be doing this again when the new movies are finally released, whenever that’ll be… If ever…
Peace!
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