Are Star wars movies getting better or worse? The Star Wars movies have arguably been the best movie series ever made. Pretty much everybody knows what it is or has at least heard of it. If you have ever watched the movies and you know a lot about it, then you know the original movies started in the late 70’s. The trilogy didn’t start again tell 1999 and George Lucas’s series ended in 2005. Well, besides some Ewok movies and the animated Clone Wars movie. Recently the trilogy has returned and movies have been coming out pretty fast. Not only that, but the movies have a moderately different style than the previous ones. It’s mostly because they’re just new movies, but it's also because Mr. Lucas isn’t directing them anymore. For each new movie
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One fact is that between the critic ratings comparing the first and last movie has only gone down three percent on rotten tomatoes. That means, according to the critics the movie’s are still in high quality. The first Star Wars ever made, A New Hope, had 93 % rotten tomatoes and The newest, The Last Jedi, having 90%. Although in the middle of the movie release dates there is a massive gap. The Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clone’s didn’t get good ratings when they came out in 1999 and 2003. But right after that, the movie of Anakin developing into Darth Vader came out. It was called Revenge of the Sith and it went up a lot in ratings compared to the other two when it came out in 2006. It could be because it shows Darth Vader and explains a lot about him as well as where Luke and Leia came from. It had a bit of that ancient Star Wars element to it. And similarly, so does the new movies. So that does mean that the revival of Star Wars movies actually could have been profitable for Star Wars. Up to this point, it seems it has for the critics at least.
However, the audience ratings are different. While the first Star Wars movies got a 96% in audience ratings on Rotten Tomatoes, the newest film only got a 49%. So to the audience's point of view, which is the most important for movie watchers to know, the score is pretty low. That means that you not as likely to get recommended to see that movie. Which is pretty appalling for the movie and
One fact is that between the critic ratings comparing the first and last movie has only gone down three percent on rotten tomatoes. That means, according to the critics the movie’s are still in high quality. The first Star Wars ever made, A New Hope, had 93 % rotten tomatoes and The newest, The Last Jedi, having 90%. Although in the middle of the movie release dates there is a massive gap. The Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clone’s didn’t get good ratings when they came out in 1999 and 2003. But right after that, the movie of Anakin developing into Darth Vader came out. It was called Revenge of the Sith and it went up a lot in ratings compared to the other two when it came out in 2006. It could be because it shows Darth Vader and explains a lot about him as well as where Luke and Leia came from. It had a bit of that ancient Star Wars element to it. And similarly, so does the new movies. So that does mean that the revival of Star Wars movies actually could have been profitable for Star Wars. Up to this point, it seems it has for the critics at least.
However, the audience ratings are different. While the first Star Wars movies got a 96% in audience ratings on Rotten Tomatoes, the newest film only got a 49%. So to the audience's point of view, which is the most important for movie watchers to know, the score is pretty low. That means that you not as likely to get recommended to see that movie. Which is pretty appalling for the movie and