VLOG – Final Prep For Christmas & Star Wars (No Spoilers!)
December 18, 2015 by warzan
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Ok I’ll try stay spoiler free the best I can. First I totally agree on the Adywan version of Hope. It ‘s nearly perfect. The only scene he deleted and I do miss is with Jabba on Tatooine. You know in the Mos Eislay Hangar before they leave Tatooine. I liked that. Otherwise it is the way a remastered edition should be. Watch it! Secondly I agree with Justin on the watch order. First the original trilogy and then the prequels. Especially for new people. Because you need the knowledge from 4-6 to grasp 1-3. And watching Phantom after 4-6… Read more »
You have an unusual view of the franchise. The most commonly accepted viewing order is actually 4, 5, 2, 3, 6. You can skip 1 altogether as it adds very little to the story and anything critical to the main story is repeated in 2. By all means watch 1 in isolation, but don’t make it part of the order. By watching it this way, the vader reveal is maintained (123 first ruins that reveal) the twins reveal is in a different place but still has weight, and palpatine being the emperor isn’t so obvious as he doesn’t have as… Read more »
I’ve seen that order listed – isn’t it the “how I met (and murdered) your mother” version?
I think it’s called machete order and I don’t like it at all. And I don’t agree that you can skip Phantom. From my point of view it is the episode with the most galactic context. Maybe it’s not that important for the main story line, but it fills so much around just everything (which is not always a good thing, “medichlorians” *hust*). And I actually think Qui-Gon is a good character and I don’t mind Jar-Jar to much. At least not as much as the acting of Hayden Christensen. So still going for the “original”/”earth chronological” order. 4-6, then… Read more »
I think it’s better to watch 4-6 then 1-3 because if you do them sequentially, all of the surprises in the originals are lost because you’ve seen the prequels.
I agree watch 4,5 6 but miss out 1 – 3 and go straight in with 7
Amen, brother. 😀
Only redeeming feature of 1-3 is that it showed lucas had no place being involved in anything, crystal skull just hammered the final nail in the coffin
There is no age to get into Star Wars. I like you @warzan was very young in 1977 when I was blown away with the intro to Star Wars.
Happy birthday to your daughter and don’t wait, take her tonight mate.
I do agree with you and the prequels are very poor over cgi and the acting leaves a lot to be desired. The new force awakens does attempt to go back to the originals, go job JJ Abrams.
Star wars was awesome, that’s all I’m gonna say about it.
I wish there was a 28mm wargame but I might just buy a load of micromachines and do it at 15mm
Uhm, check the front page, Imperial Assault is that. 😉
In all honesty and not trying to sound like I’m following a crowd I have completely deleted 1-3 from the order. They are garbage! Saw the new one today and I felt it was good. Some new characters worked , some didn’t, a little too much attempt at humour which lessened some genuine humour moments but overall I was satisfied and it felt it belonged. A few moments that will stick with me long after watching it. I saw Star Wars when I was 5 so exactly the same age as your little one and I don’t remember feeling scared… Read more »
My god! @chaingun …. like you mate I saw it in 77… It feels so long ago! ……. or I feel so old ….lol …. for me it will always be just star wars, none of this new hope stuff!….
Saw the new movie at 1:10AM here in the states. OMFG! And yes, I agree with Justin on the watch order. The first time I watched SW was when I was 3 years old back in the early 80’s. I have since watched the OT so many times that I have worn out 3 copies of the trilogy on VHS (that’s 9 VHS cassettes), thank you DVD/Blu-ray.
As for the gaming side, I’ve really enjoyed playing Imperial Assault Skirmish rules from FFG. As well as playing the Edge of Empire RPG.
Saw ep 4 in 77 as an 8 year old, fell in love right there.
Saw ep 7 last night, if anything I was more excited for this movie and JJ hasn’t let me down.
Going again Weds with some workmates and I’ll try another sneaky watch in Jan.
I saw Jaws at the age of 6, loved it but scared the crap out of me. I imagine Savannah’s exposure to geek culture from an early age will see her through ep 7 without much of a problem.
I really enjoyed the new Star Wars movie.
four and five, then two and three (one being optional) before finishing with six, moving onto seven
@warzan. My two and half year old daughter the other day declared she’s Darth Vader. She’s watched New Hope, but the Lego star wars cartoons are perfect.
4,5 as that assumes you know nothing about the force, then 1,2,3 as extended flashback then 6.
3D, for those times you want to pay more to enjoy a movie less. Obviously it depends on the five year old, but I saw Star Wars for the first time around that age and didn’t have any issues. As for the order, it’s 4-6 then 1-3 for two reasons. Firstly, if you show me three crap films I’m probably not gonna to make it to the good ones, whilst if you get me into it first I might tolerate the crap ones. Secondly, this is the order they were made and whilst chronologically it may not be the order,… Read more »
Hawaiian shirts… I bet it’s time for a little…. Mele Kalikamaka. 😉
Chaos vs Dark Angels with what looks like two Dreamforge Knight Titans on the board – someone hadn’t been playing the Freeblade app too much have they @warzan ? ;P On the order to watch the Star Wars films in, there’s the machete order. Start with ANH, then ESB, watch AotC and RotS as an extended flashback and then watch RotJ to cap off the story. And actually, not remembering what happened in the OT when you go to see the new one may not necessarily be a bad thing – when I saw it last night at the late… Read more »
I highly recommend checking out the machete order when it comes to watching/introducing Star Wars to people 🙂
http://www.nomachetejuggling.com/2011/11/11/the-star-wars-saga-suggested-viewing-order/
Elvis has left the studio
You’ve been a wonderful audience 😉
The Machete viewing order 4,5,2,3,6 is the best.
Are you Elvish?
Saw Star Wars when it came out in theaters in the summer of 1977 . . . My uncle took me when I was five (almost six) years old . . . @gazky – I could not agree more. Watching order? Simple. 4, 5, and 6. You are DONE. Use the “machete” to chop 1, 2, 3 into confetti and throw them in the trash. Not only are they horrible and add nothing to the series, but through their sloppy writing, wooden acting, shameless product placement, easy-way-out CG effects, 2D characters, and cynical marketing gimmicks . . . actually reach… Read more »
IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX wouldn’t really be a machete order, just the sensible one 😉 Or for new viewers you could try starting with VII and then jump back to IV, V, VI to explain who the mythical heroes Han, Luke and Leia are and what is the big deal with the burnt helmet Kylo Ren has on his nightstand. Although that sets a precedent to make them want to go back to the PT to explain Vader’s fall to the Dark Side :/ Also, Yoda might not be a hypocrite over his Wars not Make One Great… Read more »
“IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX wouldn’t really be a machete order, just the sensible one.” Here’s hoping you’re right, @lordofuzkulak – I haven’t seen the new movie yet (came out just today in the US, and I’m still at work, it’s only 15:46 here). From what I’ve heard and seen in the comments above, seems as if we might at last be saved from the “Dark Side” of the prequels. An interesting take on the Yoda question . . . “All that at my disposal I had, and still my ass I had kicked!” 🙁 Actually I was just… Read more »
@oriskany dont appoligise that film was even worse than 1, 2, 3 and Crystal Skull, at least that was the tipping point in the public’s mind that he has had more misses than hits, i mean even howard the duck is better than those 5!
It almost annoys me that lucasarts made so many of my favourite PC games, day of the tentacle, sam and max hit the road, indy & the fate of atlantis, and the divine monkey islands 1,2 and 3
Never heard of Red Tails, and from the sound of it that’s a good thing 0.0 VII is far better than the prequels, but like I said above and on other sites it’s best if you purge your mind of the OT as much as you can otherwise you’ll spend half the time thinking “this bit’s like X from RotJ, that bit is like Y from ANH, that character is like Z from ESB” etc. but don’t purge too much otherwise you won’t benefit from the joy of seeing things like the Falcon for the first time again. Overall, It… Read more »
RED TAILS!!! WHO SAID RED TAILS!!! *frothing at the mouth* Why they had to stamp all over the awesomeness that is “The Tuskeege Airmen” I will never know….
IMHO the problem wasn’t that they used CGI in the bad movies.
The real problem was that the actors didn’t have the skill and the director to make it work.
Sin City was probably 100% green screen / fake and it was a good movie (I enjoyed it at least).
But the SW 1-3 series ?
The acting and plot were so bloody awful that the effects became the focus and thus any flaws where more visible.
The dialog was awful, every other actor being good didnt help, but the thing that killed it dead for me was the cynical hand of bean counters forcing merchandise friendly characters centre stage to the detriment of what the only interesting part of the prequels was about the birth of vader. the whole literal empire building plot might be been ok in a fan targeted game, kind of side mission fodder but for the basis of a plot it was rubbish. At least it showed in no uncertain terms that lucas was a total hack, and didnt have the vision… Read more »
Introduced my daughter to starwars when she was 6 weeks old, only thing that seemed to settle her colic was starwars, later i discovered Jurassic park and battle star galactica (especially cylon noises) settled her.
@warzan happy birthday to your little’un cant wait till mine is old enough to take probably be for ep IX but still could be worse 😀
Is it me or is @lloyd looking a bit like Andy Cairns from therapy? circa infernal love…
battle star galactica the first film I got to see by my self & the start of star wars with the battle between the blockade runner and the star destroyer with the vibrations of the ship noises & lasers got me completely hooked on any sci-fi film ever since.
Amen, brother @zorg . Like I said, I was five in that theater, probably my first movie besides Disney animations, etc. That star destroyer roars overhead . . . As a five-year old who’d seen nothing more immense than Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood . . . Yeah. That was it. 😀 😀
yup theirs something about a cinema when the whole place is shaking just brings everything to life on the screen.
The Order I like is 4, 5, 2, 3, 6. Treat the prequels as a flashback
I was five when my dad took me on my first ever trip to the Cinema it was
1980 and we watched a double bill of Star Wars (before it was known as a
new hope) followed by the Empire strikes back and I have been a fan ever
Since, looking forward to seeing the force awakens tomorrow night with my
Seven year old son and 11 year old daughter
I was five when my dad took me on my first ever trip to the Cinema it was 1980 and we watched a double bill of Star Wars (before it was known as a new hope) followed by the Empire strikes back and I have been a fan ever Since, looking forward to seeing the force awakens tomorrow night with my seven year old son and 11 year old daughter.