Regarding my rankings (and Gary's), we just had a different experience weasel. I guess I am more forgiving on CGI than others, as story takes precedence to me over effects. Not saying it doesn't to you guys, but I can overlook some flaws if I enjoyed the story itself. Anakin killing the children, even unseen, and the Order 66 scenes both sent literal chills throughout me. I can't recall any film, any time, anywhere, that got that reaction in me. And I'm not blindly forgiving them. I may have liked the PT, even Hayden's performance to me was exactly what the character needed in ROTS, but I despised Natalie Portman's acting throughout all three films. Yoda and Jabba were both embarrassingly badly rendered CGI. Vader's "NOOOOO" was horrible. But, conversely, I thought Luke's "NOOOOO" in ESB was equally bad. Someone mentioned my dislike of the humor in TFA, and mentioned there was humor in the OT. True, and to be honest, I'm not a fan of most of the humor in the OT either. 3PO's humor was funny in the OT, but most other bits of humor to me fell flat even back then. And there's a difference. When Han called Chewie a fuzzball, it's corny, but still spoken in the language of the universe, so to speak. Poe's "so who's going to speak first" crack, to me, was more 2015 Earth smart assery, and not really "in universe". To me, that kind of joke will, in time, be dated. And how does "WOOOO" and "YEAH!" from Finn get a pass where Anakin's "YIPPEEE!" remains a source of derision 16 years later?
Anyway, my point was that even acknowledging faults in the other 6 movies, this is where I place them, in my own opinion. Obviously, some agree with me, but obviously again, we're in the minority. It'd be nice if people could just accept that, instead of regarding us as trolls, haters, or whatever.
