Hawki said:
Hmm, let's see. Confining this to films only...
I'm only counting the live-action SW films, btw.
STAR WARS
The Bad
The Clone Wars
The Average
Attack of the Clones
Rogue One
The Phantom Menace
The Force Awakens
The Empire Strikes Back
The Good
Revenge of the Sith
The Excellent
Return of the Jedi
A New Hope
Holy crap... you rate Phantom and Clones
average?!
For SW mine would be (only going from the Limited Edition theatrical releases):
V.BAD: Phantom, Attack Of The Clones, Revenge
AVERAGE: A New Hope (though at times it certainly teeters across the brink into the lowest bracket. I find the last 10mins or so pretty painful, especially all the weird, awkward staring at the very end... the digitally tampered version would be marked as bad, because that was a real hatchet job by Lucas)
GOOD: Jedi, Rogue One, TFA, Empire
EXCELLENT: ...
As much as I love the franchise [bar the risible prequels], I don't think SW is really
that good, all things considered. Empire and TFA would be at the top of the Good pile, though, with Rogue One fairly close behind. Empire would be the only film to maybe sneak into that empty upper tier, at least for sections of it.
The Xeno franchise:
BAD: the AvP's, Resurrection, Prometheus
AVERAGE: Alien 3
GOOD: Aliens
EEEEEXCELLENT: Alien (probably... not seen it for a while, but the last time I saw Aliens I wasn't as enamoured with it as I used to be. I found the end kinda boring, frankly, and prefer most of the lead-up in the first third - maybe half - to the action that eventually unfolds)
Not seen Covenant and I have no intention of doing so any time soon, but given how awful Prometheus was (it's a rare film I end up disliking more each time I see it. quite the feat, Ridley!) I find it hard to believe I'd not shovel it into the box marked BAD.
So for me SW is certainly stacked forwards the very positive, with only three genuinely poor films I'd rather never see again. The Xeno series has one top tier entry that I feel's endured through the decades, one below it, and everything else under that (Alien 3 is more of a mess than any of the non-prequel SW's). Arguably I could maybe just split the lot into Good/Bad, with Alien and Aliens in the former and everything in the latter.
The plundering Lucas did of his own IP was at least--- novel, and cohesive in terms of his own egoistic mind (he had good intentions). The Xenomorph series was immediately mistreated and abused after just the second film, and I feel Scott's Prometheus arc is just brain fryingly idiotic and aimless, almost as if he's incapable of comprehending why the first two - and the Xenomorph itself - became so iconic.