Fans argue Rogue One is the best modern Star Wars film

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Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is being praised as the best post‑Lucas Star Wars film for its World War II 'men-on-mission' tone, tight squad-raid plot and darker, scarier moments. Gareth Edwards directed the film while Tony Gilroy performed late-stage rewrites and reshoots that sharpened the first two acts and the film's wartime pacing. The franchise logged 33 billion streaming minutes in 2025, with films making up 44.2 percent of that total and Rogue One placing third among films behind A New Hope and The Phantom Menace; Andor led live-action viewing with 7.4 billion minutes. That emphasis on grounded, morally messy raids and Darth Vader's relentless hallway sequence explains why many now view Rogue One as the Disney-era entry that most successfully expanded Star Wars beyond the Skywalker saga.

Jim

@shamusking.bsky.social

Rogue One is the best Star Wars movie by a country mile.

20145d ago

Local Observer🇮🇶🇵🇸🍉29

That seems to be a popular opinion on Bluesky🤭

nudraxon.bsky.social4

I see I've met my nemesis. bsky.app/profile/nudr...

Dark Web Hall Monitor3

Rogue One is awful, and marks the downward descent of Star Wars Media. It's a depressing, morbid, excruciating slog. Gareth Edwards enitre pitch must have been "What if Star Wars... but also Twitter Poltiical arguments, and it ends with glorious suicide!"

Steven B2

Just needed to end with the beach being destroyed. Everything from then on is thematically inappropriate.

rlgottwald.bsky.social2

I don't agree per se although it's one of the three in my top tier of SW films, but this argument seems barely controversial.

Jessie Gender

@jessiegender.bsky.social

Star Wars ranks; worst to best. Some hot takes prob. RoS Resistance Tales of the Empire Tales of the Underworld TPM AotC Obi-Wan Boba Fett Mandalorian TFA Ahsoka TLJ Solo Maul Shadow Lord Tales of the Jedi Skeleton Crew Visions Acolyte Clone Wars Rebels Rogue One Bad Batch RotJ RotS ANH ESB Andor

14245d ago

Jessie Gender100

To be clear, Clone Wars and The Last Jedi would prob be higher if I just ranked them on how much I love their best parts alone, but they also have some real low lows that pull them down. And yes, I like the Acolyte that much, fight me.

Mehve4

Glad to see skeleton crew that high up. However, for all its flaws, I can't help but love phantom menace- my only real disagreement here

MADPUNISHMENTWHEEL3

people really have been unduly kind to Revenge of the Sith😅

caesarcv.bsky.social3

I misread your post and thought it was best to worst for a moment, lol.

David, perpetually confused2

I read "worst to best" the wrong way around and was _incredibly_ confused starting to read that list.

narcoticisland.bsky.social2

I somehow missed that this was worst to best and thought you were trolling for a second

emma best 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ Mxy2

Me, an EU fan: Which Tales of the Jedi? 😭

ALCA, Goddess of Lust 💜2

is the old clone wars being lumped in with the 3D version?

Tristan Call2

Andor is basically perfect, imo.

Zwiebelbaguette/Taaya2

Did I just miss it or did you forget the Ewok Adventure? (That was the English title, right?) Yeah, it's silly, but to me that was one of the best. 🙈

AltSpaceForce 🚀🇺🇲

@altspaceforce.altgov.info

#MayTheFourthBeWithYou 🚀 “Rebellions are built on hope.” – Jyn Erso, Rogue One

9345d ago

Amy Is a Third-Generation Union Member3

Watched Rogue One at the cinema opening weekend — a few weeks after Trump won the 2016 election. After that line, the entire theater erupted in cheers.

Star Wars Holocron

@swholocron.bsky.social

The final episodes of MAUL - SHADOW LORD feature Easter Eggs + References to…. • The Force Unleashed • Ralph McQuarrie concept art • Halloween • Friday the 13th • Rogue One + more Check out Easter Eggs + Hidden Details in the final MAUL episodes: theholofiles.com/2026/05/03/e...

4545d ago

Derek Powazek

@fraying.bsky.social

The best Star Wars trilogy is Andor, Rogue One, and the first movie.

4645d ago

Derek Powazek3

I am actually completely sincere about this.

ttrpgifs 🦀

@ttrpgifs.bsky.social

On this day we celebrate the best of Star Wars.

4944d ago

ttrpgifs 🦀12

And by we I mean me and my bb-8 lego.

John Champion2

Honestly I think (most of) the best Star Wars stuff is in the various animated series. Which will never be watched by a majority of fans simply because it's animated and "for kids".

Chicago Tafia Welsh Society

@chicagotafia.bsky.social

Gareth Edwards who directed ‘Rogue One’ easily the best of the Disney era of Star Wars films, parents are from Pontypool, Wales. #MayThe4thBeWithYou #StarWarsWales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

3745d ago

The Ghost of Mark Twain

@ghostofmarktwain.bsky.social

Seriously, May the 4th be with you friends Best Sci-fi (non-book) list 1. Battlestar Galactica reboot 2. Andor/Rogue One 3. Star Wars 4-5 4. Fifth Element 5. Blade Runner (original) 6. Wrath of Khan 7. Alien/Aliens 8. District 9 9. Dr. Who 10. Close Encounters 11. Expanse 12. Fringe

2345d ago

Nathan Goldwag

@goldwagnathan.bsky.social

Another piece about ANDOR, but also SOLO and ROGUE ONE, looking at why I think the former works so well and the latter two feel so hollow---and I think it comes down to a question of how they treat the films and world of Star Wars, and the notion of respect versus reverence.

1845d ago

Sam Lloyd

@llamsoyd.bsky.social

live action Star Wars movies, ranked: 1. New Hope 2. Return of the Jedi 3. Empire 4. Rogue One 5. Guardians of the Galaxy 6. The Last Starfighter 7. Spaceballs 8. Revenge of the Sith 9. GOTG 2 10. Star Trek (2009) 11. Solo 12. GOTG 3 13. Phantom Menace 14. Flash Gordon 15. Wing Commander 16. Clones

1445d ago

Sam Lloyd4

additional thoughts: - The Black Hole is a mad scientist movie, not a Star Wars movie - Interstellar is just Contact 2 - Moonraker is Space James Bond, and Han Solo is James Bond’s polar opposite, so no - Holiday Specials are not movies - The sequels to Star Trek (2009) are Star Trek (but bad)

💜 Big 💚 Roux 💛

@thegatesofmel.blacksky.app

I have been in the theater for every Star Wars movie until Solo on opening weekend since 1977. Empire Strikes Back ties with Rogue one for the best.

745d ago

💜 Big 💚 Roux 💛5

I don’t think that last three were as bad as people make them out to be. We’ve just got decades of fandom and critique that will strip the entertainment out of anything if you let it.

Editor In-Between Szn2

Solo was 🔥 I know a lot of ppl slept on it but 🤌🏾

Deer Space Nine 🕊️🦌

@valkyri-anna.bsky.social

Rogue One was middling and Solo: A Solo Solo was terrible Less controversial but the best piece of Star Wars media is the Genndy Clone Wars miniseries and it’s not close

745d ago

ZoE2EMO 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️

@zoe.northsky.social

If you think Rogue One is the best Star Wars movie, you are a boring person who is probably a pain in the ass to be around. Andor is good, but overrated, and leaves out much of what makes Star Wars great, to its detriment.

445d ago

the final pearl

@pearlsnapped.bsky.social

They should’ve stopped making Star Wars after ROTJ. Like, I guess TLJ and Rogue One were pretty alright, and I hear good things about Andor, but that’s a some shitty RBI for 50 years.

745d ago

Starlit_Stella

@starlilstella.bsky.social

For Star Wars Day, give us your top 10 sci-fi films:: 1. Rogue One 2. The Empire Strikes Back 3. The Force Awakens 4. Rise of Skywalker 5. A New Hope 6. Andor 7. Revenge of the Sith 8. Phantom Menace 9. Return of The Jedi 10. The Last Jedi

645d ago

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fxoxo.comOn the set of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016). Behind the scenes - F*XOXO nathangoldwag.wordpress.comStars Wars and the Difference Between Reverence and Respect

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