STAR WARS!!!
Watch episodes 4-6 (although they’ve been tinkered with.) These are classics, particularly IV & V.
Episodes 1-3 feature impressive special effects, but mainly suck. To watch them in episode order as opposed to order of release will rob you of a great filmgoing experience.
Uh-oh, somebody peaked!
Watch them 6-3-2-5-4-1. It’s the magic combination.
@Ari
i thought i was the only one that knew…
Yeah, definitely watch them in the order that they were released (4-5-6-1-2-3). You can probably actually leave off episodes 1-3 for a while, and just watch episodes 4-6 a few times each.
Given the films you list as your favorites, I’m surprised you’ve gone this long without seeing Star Wars. Were you intentionally avoiding it?
@captain
I’ve always wanted to see it i guess its one of those films you always wanted to see but never do. well now i will in a week and whats so wrong with the episodes 1-3?
1-3 will spoil twists 4-6, so watch 4-6 first.
If you possibly can, watch the original cuts.
watch the episodes chronologically… people who tell u otherwise are jealous because they never got the chance 2 do so :O)
Farenheit, regarding your last post, this thread may be helpful:
Basically, Lucas bit off way more than he could chew from the very beginning.
He had the idea for an epic multi-film space opera before any films were actually made, so he was pretty much in over his head. Don’t get me wrong, I adore the original trilogy, but his massive-scale idea was basically destined to go wrong at some point (i.e. the late ’90s).
The main thing I dislike about the new trilogy is the way it completely messes with the wonderfully mysterious qualities of the originals (I can’t really elaborate without giving away plot details, but you get the picture). So I recommend you watch the originals first, to experience these qualities.
Like2Sleep, I think that’s the first time I’ve seen you troll. Congrats!
well why is he getting the complete saga if he ain’t gonna watch all six films? and he is better off saving the best till last right?
Oh, I guess I assumed he knew someone had purchased it for him. Maybe it’s more of a gift card purchase or something of that sort.
I would say watching episodes 4-6 allows you to experience them without any of the tarnish that 1-3 introduced. As mentioned above he won’t be able to experience some great reveals in the same way many others have (although I wouldn’t imagine he could have gone this far without hearing them anyways!) and the magical qualities will be reduced to some bullshit about midi….. you know.
Is it true the younger generation of kids prefer the prequel to the original? Someone told me that recently and I had trouble believing it?
have u seen this
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“Is it true the younger generation of kids prefer the prequel to the original? Someone told me that recently and I had trouble believing it?”
My sister prefers the original trilogy (she’s 7). The prequels really get quite boring for kids. There are some funny critiques of that in those Mr. Plinkett reviews, not to mention The Simpsons own mockery of the prequels.
From what I’ve witnessed, from going to school events and seeing other kids play and talk about Star Wars, it seems to be about 50/50 (50% being for the original and 50% being for, not just the prequels, but the prequels and TV show and Clone Wars movie), which sounds bad, but seeing as the toys are primarily for the prequels and The Clone Wars movie and TV series it at least means all these kids aren’t just conforming to what’s being advertised to them.
Like2sleep, I’ve seen the holiday special. Holy crap. It’s bad! Two Christmases ago my brother and I thought we had quite a brilliant idea to finally watch the holiday special! We got some pizza, setup around the TV, started it, and were bored to death! It’s not even fun to laugh at. It’s so slow, there’s so many long and boring segments, and the Chewbacca family drama is some of the worst TV I’ve ever witnessed. We never made it past the halfway point.
…and before somebody says it’s so bad it’s good…
thanks Maximilian Bercovicz for the thread
If it’s really a 50/50 split among young kids, and not the massive win for the prequels that Lucas claims in interviews, that really tells you something.
In a world where you need fancy cgi to keep kids interested, half of kids prefer the far lower tech one, which was made with tastes from 40 years ago in mind.
That’s like saying the originals played the prequels in ping pong blindfolded, and the score was tied.
Don’t bother with 1-3 at all. Throw them out. If you must keep one, keep 1.
Keep 1? Really? That’s the only one directed by Lucas, and from the first trilogy it’s the worst one.
But of course, it’s easily 300 times better than any of the new stuff.
It would be great if you were able to watch the original cuts, without the new CGI, the stupid music show, the new sound design… It really gets me angry…
One of many things that made the first trilogy so amazing was its rusty look, the dirt, how cheap it looked so many times… That’s why everyone loved so much the Millenium Falcon… It was cool for many reasons, but its appearance was the best of them all. It looked like Chewaka and Han Solo spent 5 years looking for different metal parts and just attached them altogether. Old, rusty, dirty… Beautiful. And of course, there’s the superspeed.
And the sound design… If it was not for the amazing sound design of the originals (with only 8 tracks!), probably we wouldn’t be talking about this movies right now… probably there wouldn’t be more than 1.
Watch the originals, and try as hard as you can and find them in the original version. No 5.1 dolby shit, no CGI, no extended version… Crap, crap, crap.
First trilogy? I was talking about the prequels. I don’t believe there is a ‘worst one’ of the original three. They’re all my favorites.
Oh, and RiffTrax makes the Holiday Special almost bearable.
Almost.
First trilogy? Ok, so call them 4,5,6… I guess that’s the first trilogy… The other ones are just… “If you don’t have anything nice to say, it’s better not to say anything” Bambi
Man, a lot of the children I’ve asked love the new 3 and think the original 3 are boring. Argh.
I really want to try this 6-3-2-5-4-1 combo. Are you guys just BS’ing? Haven’t ever seen PHANTOM MENACE, and this could be the ticket!
Of course they like them. They’ve been focus grouped directly for them. And they have so little real character development and such constant CGI they fit nicely within their hypersaccharine, overmedicated attention spans.
Kids 20 years from now will think they’re all boring. But those who grow up and discover older movies, bet you they like the originals better.
Definitely go 4-6 then, if you must, 1-3. Watching the prequels first will probably taint what luster and magic pop culture references have not in the original triogy.
Don’t buy the Blu Rays at all. Lucas’ perverse need to keep one-downing himself and kill and distort the original films must be punished. He is not getting another dollar from me until he gives me a product I desire; I desire the original films, unaltered, in a format conducive to high-quality home viewing.
And the prequels are absolute garbage. They should only be watched as a thought experiment. They are structurally unsound, horribly written, busily designed, clumsily directed, indifferently acted (which as good as one could hope for when you take talented actors and tell them to emote with off-screen tennis balls), and undermine what was intriguing about the backstory in the original films. Lucas hides behind the excuse of “kids movies” while he focuses plots on tax codes, committee meetings, genocide, infanticide, and death during childbirth. The music is good, though, as is the sound design in general.
And robots with emphysema.
The thing about the current state of CGI graphics is, so often they aim too high with the cool stuff they want to show, and then the combat ends up not making any kinetic sense. So there’s the immediate wow factor, but no fantasy to get immersed in.
So with the prequels you get “Wow, that CGI looks cool.” With the originals, you get drawn into the action a lot more. You suspend disbelief that the outcome has not already been decided, and that is the only reason action films should exist.
Mister Fahrenheit
I know I’m going to get the complete saga on blu-ray for Christmas. I have never seen Star wars before (It’s been on my films to watch list) and I heard that episodes 1-3 were disappointing. So I’m wandering if I should just watch episodes 4-6 or all 6 episodes and if I should watch all of them, which order should I watch them in?