A New Hope 10/10
Revenge of the Sith 9/10
The Empire Strikes Back 9/10
Return of the Jedi 7/10
The Last Jedi 7/10
Attack of the Clones 5/10
The Phantom Menace 4/10
The Force Awakens 3/10
The Rise of Skywalker 2/10
Solo: A Star Wars Story - 7/10
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story 5/10
Just wondering: What made you rate Solo over Rogue One? I think Solo is very underrated, but I also think Rogue One is has the tightest narrative with the highest stakes and lowest margin for error in possibly all the Star Wars films, and I seem to live in a echo chamber of Rogue One > Solo with my friends around me.
Two major problems with the film:
1. I hate the opening so, so much. I don't understand why we need every character in these new films to have a tragic, orphaned backstory told to us in the most blunt way possible. They do this again with THE MANDALORIAN and THE RISE OF SKYWALKER. I absolutely love how we don't know so much of Solo's backstory at the beginning of Solo. We are just thrown in and we are forced to figure it out as the plot unravels.
2. CGI Peter Cushing, CGI Leia. Personally, I think this is, without a doubt, the absolute worst aesthetic decision of ANY Star Wars movie, especially the Cushing one because he is in the film for the most of its running time. The visual effects are straight up bad and the fact that they decided to do it instead of recasting the role or rewriting him out of the plot is borderline unforgivable. I know the Cushing estate is fine with the decision, but man does it leave a poor taste in my mouth. I shudder at the idea that someone right now is working on the technology to bring James Dean or Marilyn Monroe back to life to further profit off their likeness. Soon the very identity of an actor will become a patent.
Those are the two biggest problems. My minor quibbles with the movie pertain to general poor pacing and the extensive reshoots that were forced in order for it to "feel more like STAR WARS", whatever-the-hell that means.
It's fine. I think SOLO is the first of these movies to buck the trend so of course it gets labeled as the worst one.