Star Wars opinion

[BigRed]

Lets say someone hasn't seen any of the Star Wars movies and you wanted to be the one to 'introduce' them to the movies. In your opinion, would it be best to watch episodes 4-6 and then 1-3 (like how they were made), or in chronological order (1-6)?

[Birdsonbat]

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Lets say someone hasn't seen any of the Star Wars movies and you wanted to be the one to 'introduce' them to the movies. In your opinion, would it be best to watch episodes 4-6 and then 1-3 (like how they were made), or in chronological order (1-6)?

I'd just say no to chronological order. The first three movies are so much better anyway, and that's where the great story is. If you go chronologically, they may get bored with it and never even get to Eps. 4-6. If Lucas had done a better job on the three prequels, my opinion might have been different.

[Beantown]

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I'd just say no to chronological order. The first three movies are so much better anyway, and that's where the great story is. If you go chronologically, they may get bored with it and never even get to Eps. 4-6. If Lucas had done a better job on the three prequels, my opinion might have been different.

Hm...I thought the third one was the best out of all six. -shrugs-

[airbarrett]

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me too... i don't know i think either way the person would like the series... if you show them 4-6 first they're gonna wanna watch 1-3 to find out what happened to anakin to make him vadar, and if you show them 1-3 first they're gonna wanna watch 4-6 to see what happens to vadar and luke and leia.

[Skerik]

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My kids are definitely, without question, watching the movies in the order they were released. Only way to view them, imo.

[aukevin]

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We had a thread exactly on this at one time and I really liked Anaxamander's order:

Here is the order:

4, 5, 1, 2, 3, 6

That way, you don't spoil the Vader surprise. You find out Vader is Luke's father, then you learn the history with 1-3, then you get the conclusion.

I have watched the 6 movies in this order twice now and I agree, it is very good this way, and I think that it would be a good order for a new Star Wars fan.

http://forums.operationsports.com/vB...24#post1687324

[SlimKibbles]

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http://forums.operationsports.com/vB...24#post1687324

Yeah, that was the thread. I'll take the other one out of mine.

[APOC]

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If your showing them to your kids, then it has to be 1-6. It just doesn't make sense to show them 4, 5, and 6 first.

[Defel]

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I would treat each trilogy as entirely separate movies. I would not mix all of the episodes together as the stories in each trilogy are totally different.

The original trilogy should be watched first. It shows the birth of a Jedi from beginning to end. The scenes on Dagobah leading up to Luke's confrontation of his father are vital to understanding what makes a jedi.

The prequels show the fall of a jedi. It skips all of the training since it expects its audience to already know what a jedi is.

You show the birth of a jedi and then you show the death. That's what makes the most sense to me. Plus, the original trilogy is 100x better and you want the audience to be hooked from the start.

[The GIGGAS]

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aukevin, that seems like the best order. It kinda serves as kind of... a flashback, of sorts?

[SonicMage]

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The problem with showing them as 4,5,1,2,3,6 is that there is too long a viewing gap between Empire and ROTJ. Three movies is definitely enough time to forget certain elements about certain characters. Nothing is mentioned in Phantom or AOTC (IIRC, except the movie poster for 1) about the Anakin/Vader link so you can show those before 4, if so desired. However, it is true that the first original Star Wars is the attention grabber, so my proposed orders would be:

1,2,4,5,3,6 if you think Phantom and AOTC are enough to capture a viewers' interests

or

4,1,2,5,3,6 otherwise

The only problem with showing 6 last is that it has the better shocker about the whole twin thing, but I still think its decent..

[malrak]

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Talk about complicating the heck out of things...

[rudyjuly2]

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I'd just say no to chronological order. The first three movies are so much better anyway, and that's where the great story is. If you go chronologically, they may get bored with it and never even get to Eps. 4-6. If Lucas had done a better job on the three prequels, my opinion might have been different.

I agree. The original three had great characters and meaninful story lines. You cared a heck of a lot more about Luke and Han Solo than any character in the new ones. The new ones were high on special effects and short on story. Hayden Christenson's acting was so bad in episode 2, its simply hard to watch.

[SlimKibbles]

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... Hayden Christenson's acting was so bad in episode 2, its simply hard to watch.

I agree with you. He did however improve a great deal in episode 3, at least in my opinion. Well, except for the scenes with him and Padme. Painful. Thank Lucas for those since he doesn't know how to write them.

[warnerwlf98]

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Hayden Christenson's acting was so bad in episode 2, its simply hard to watch.

After watching Christenson appear on the tonight show promoting episode 3, I know why he was cast. In real life he acts like the character he's portraying.

I agree that it just doesn't work, but it just shows that Lucas had this vision of how Anakin was supposed to behave - and he picked an actor who actually is like that.