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The Ben Shapiro Show

Ranking Star Wars Films With The Critical Drinker

The Ben Shapiro Show

The Daily Wire

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4.4152.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2023

⏱️ 17 minutes

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When it comes to Star Wars, every fan has an opinion on which is the best film, and which is the worst. In this discussion, Ben was joined by The Critical Drinker to break down everything Star Wars, including Ben's definitive ranking of the movies from best to worst.   - - -   Today's Sponsor:   Genucel - Exclusive discount for my listeners! https://genucel.com/ben Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The game.

0:02.0

The Furnace...

0:03.0

...get on the fun begins. Folks, we're here to talk about something like that.

0:27.1

Folks, we're here to talk about something light, something frothy, with Critical Drinker.

0:31.3

Thanks for joining me.

0:32.3

Cheers, sir.

0:33.1

So, we're both Star Wars fans.

0:35.1

I assume that you're a fan mostly of the original trilogy.

0:38.0

Yeah, that's pretty much all we got left at this point. Yeah. So let's, why don't we just start from the rankings of the Star Wars movies? And then we can just start ripping into Kathleen Kennedy and talking about how she's destroyed the entire universe and how they've wrecked some of the great IP ever created and all of that. Okay, so what's your number one? it's going to have to be empire. Of course empire. Okay, so everyone agrees. Sorry, it's predictable, but...

0:57.4

No, you're right. Okay, so what's your number one? It's going to have to be empire. Of course,

0:54.7

Empire. Okay, so everyone agrees. Sorry, it's predictable, but... No, you're right. I mean, there's only one right answer to that particular question. Okay, so what's your number two? And you hope. Okay, I'll agree with that as well. So, okay, and it's going to diverge somewhere in here. Okay, number three. Then it's going to be Return of the Jedi. Okay, so here I have sort of an

1:13.5

internal battle. I be Return of the Jedi. Okay, so here I have

1:12.9

sort of an internal battle. I love Return of the Jedi. The second half of Revenge of the Sith is great.

1:18.4

The first half is a little bit of a mess. And I do have a peculiar liking for Rogue One. I think that

1:22.9

Rogue One is a good piece of content. So I have to decide between those three, and it sort of varies

1:27.2

based on the day. So I'm going to go with Rogue One maybe here in place number three.

1:34.0

Interesting. Yeah. I mean, I know why people have a lot of issues with Return of the Jedi,

1:38.7

and I certainly do as well. I think we could all have done without those Ewok things.

1:42.5

But for me, it's still up there just for all those big emotional payoffs. You know, Luke Fight Invader for the final time, the climactic battle to destroy the Death Star. There's some incredible stuff there. So for me, it's still up there. But I definitely see why people have issues with it. And as for Rogue One, sure. Sure. I mean, I think we can all probably say it's the best movie that, or the best Disney Star Wars movie that's been made.

2:06.2

And that's a pretty low bottom. They made one halfway decent with that. I'll give them that.

2:11.5

Yeah. I mean, they kind of tie in between the end. They had at least respect for the series,

2:15.4

which is the giant failure of Kathleen Kennedy is that she decided to basically do what she accuses the Adam Driver character of doing,

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