What is the best order to watch Star Wars in?

[Matt]

So while locked down in Bangkok while the bombers went crazy, found ourselves watching Ep3 of Star Wars, when it turned out that someone in our midst had never seen any of them, and thought Ep3 was quite interesting.

Wants to see them all now, so what would you guys say is the best order for a newbie to watch them in?

1-6 and follow the family from beginning to end or 4-6 then 1-3 like we all did, so you get his story and then fill in the history?

 

[Tiranis]

I would say 4-6 and then 1-3, cause that's how it was filmed...

 

[whoopee]

I really think 1-3 and 4-6 should be considered separately, though some characters are the same. The differences in visual effects, plot design, and overall direction outweigh the similarities. There's a mythological majesty present in 4, 5, and 6 missing in 1-3. If he/she was impressed by 4 (not surprising) 1-3 could only be disappointing, plsu moving on to 5 and 6 would make sense chronologically. 1-3 simply do not have the substance to stand alone and are effective only in filling in the history.

 

[Matt]

oh ****....let me go edit my post...

we watched 3 on NYE not 4. Saw Anakin turn to Darth.

Sorry....

 

[Bandwagonesque]

1-3, then 4-6 if he knows already that Darth is Luke's father.
4-6, then 1-3 if he doesn't know that Darth is Luke's father.

Since he just saw 3, and knows now... do it from 1-6. I'm pretty sure that nearly everybody knows, since it's become such a cliche, the whole "I AM your father!" thing.

 

[marc237]

4-6 and then stop.

 

[Dormouse]

Originally Posted by marc237

4-6 and then stop.

I would have to agree.

 

[The Grapist]

Originally Posted by marc237

4-6 and then stop.
Alternatively, you can just watch 5 three times.

 

[lawyerdad]

Originally Posted by marc237

4-6 and then stop.
+1
the problem with 1-3 then 4-6 is 1-3 are mostly backfilling crap that will have poisoned your mind by the time you get to 4.

Unfortunately, there's no way to recapture the experience of seeing the original (IV) in a movie theater as a 10-year old (or thereabouts) when it was first released.

 

[Thracozaag]

4-6, then throw 1-3 in the garbage bin.

koji

 

[globetrotter]

Originally Posted by lawyerdad

+1
the problem with 1-3 then 4-6 is 1-3 are mostly backfilling crap that will have poisoned your mind by the time you get to 4.

Unfortunately, there's no way to recapture the experience of seeing the original (IV) in a movie theater as a 10-year old (or thereabouts) when it was first released.


+1

I haven't actually seen any but 4 and 5. one day I will get the series and see it, 1-6, with my son. very possibly when he is 10. and then he will look at me and say "boy, dad, movies sure were crap when you were a boy, weren't they?"

 

[skalogre]

Originally Posted by marc237

4-6 and then stop.

I was thinking the same.

 

[Tokyo Slim]

Originally Posted by The Grapist

Alternatively, you can just watch 5 three times.
I agree... Ep. V (The Empire Strikes Back) Is the only Star Wars movie worth a **** and a half. Why? The first movie is introductory in nature, the second is great and a build-up to the final battle, which was a total letdown. Ewoks are bogus, the battle with the emperor was crap, and the goody two shoes redemption ending was horribly written. As far as I'm concerned ep.6 needs to be re-written and remade, and Ep, 1-3 never existed.

 

[Manton]

May as well watch 4-6, but Slim is right: 5 is the only truly good one. 4 is still fun for sentimental value, for those of us who saw it in the theater six times in 1977, then waited until (IIRC) 1983 for it to come out on tape.

 

[imageWIS]

Originally Posted by Manton

May as well watch 4-6, but Slim is right: 5 is the only truly good one. 4 is still fun for sentimental value, for those of us who saw it in the theater six times in 1977, then waited until (IIRC) 1983 for it to come out on tape.

Tape? Is that like a DVD?

Jon.