Spoilers ahead: for the puzzle and the movies/games
This page reveals all categories and answers for this puzzle. It also discusses plot details, story endings, and other spoilers for some of the movies/games shown.
easy
Disney-era Star Wars movies
Star Wars: The Force Awakens · Rogue One: A Star Wars Story · Star Wars: The Last Jedi · Solo: A Star Wars Story
medium
Space operas outside Star Wars
Flash Gordon · The Fifth Element · Dune · Guardians of the Galaxy
These films go big on interplanetary politics, strange worlds, chosen heroes, or scrappy crews, but none of them lives in George Lucas's galaxy.
hard
Astronauts cut off from home
Apollo 13 · Gravity · The Martian · Moon
Each film turns distance into the problem. A crew, a lone astronaut, or a worker on the Moon has to solve the next practical crisis before home becomes impossible.
tricky
Fourth franchise entries without a plain 4 in the title
Mad Max: Fury Road · Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol · Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull · Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
The fourth entry is hiding in the release order, not in the title. Each franchise got to number four and chose a full subtitle instead of a boring digit.