sequence of watching starwars
By mj_jabez
@mj_jabez (59)
Philippines
January 21, 2008 2:27am CST
I have completed to watch the whole saga of starwars. I watched it starting from episode 1 to 6. But I was quite disappointed on the transition from episode three to four...I think it has a really poor transition.Perhaps because episode three is really deep in its lines and the characters seemed to be very complex. And here goes episode four having no much deoth in it.It is just another adventure movie way back in time....SO i have a contention that in watching starwars one must start on epidode four, five , six, before he watches episodes 1,2 and 3...
So how about you? What sequence would you follow in watching starwars so the movie can give you optimum satisfaction?
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4 responses
@aquajules4 (583)
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21 Jan 08
i'm confused with starwars!!!
i loved the old ones the most, i always thought they were 1,2,3 but now i'm told different.
Please can you update me.
the ones from the 80's what number are these??
@Minotaur (105)
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22 Jan 08
If you look at the start of Star Wars, it comes up Episode 4: A New Hope.
He made four first because he basically had to invent modern special effects to do it. One stood no chance of getting made until recently.
I keep meaning to watch them like this, but keep putting it off.
@thrwbckjay67 (2870)
• United States
21 Jan 08
In th spirit of the story and of the sequence in terms of chronological order, you have to watch the movies one through six. Sure, there seems to be a bad transition from 3 to 4, but you have to understand that Episode 4 was released in 1977, more than 25 years before the 3rd episode. You ahd to expect that the tone and the themes would be completely different as we got to the last episodes being made. In the grand scheme of it all, the original script lent itself to the chronological order. If you made it from the 4th to the 6th, then back to the 1st through 3rd, then you take away from the original ideals of the script and Lucas' original idea.
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@mj_jabez (59)
• Philippines
21 Jan 08
You have a point. Sure episode four was released in 1977. But the question is why did lucs, if he has already the whole story of star wars, started making the sage from episode four? I guess the role of the episodes 1, 2 and 3 is to give us explanations why are things the way they are in episodes 4, 5 and 6. Episode 1,2, and 3 is some kind of flashbacks I call them....
Yeah i did watched the saga from 1 to six. just as what you've said.=)
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@darthrj (21)
• United States
21 Jan 08
The saga (1-6) tells the story of the rise and downfall of Darth Vader (or Anakin Skywalker, if you will). Lucas originally chose 4, 5, and 6 as the only 3 movies to be made, as they told the story of Luke. He decided to go back and make 1, 2, and 3 to finish out the entire story of Darth Vader (Anakin). He didn't start with Ep. 1 because he never planned to make it in the first place. It was only supposed to be 4, 5, and 6. But years of hype and crazy fans and the movies basically becoming the biggest movie franchise, well, EVER, sort of changed his mind, I guess. He felt finishing the story (with the prequils) was the right thing to do. I owe the drastic degeneration from 3 to 4 as being simply a time difference. Ep. 3 was made many years later, when technology had finally caught up with the genre. Also, the way movies and made and how they flow has changed in the last 30 years. I stand that they should be watched in chronological order to how they were made. Start with the original trilogy, then go on to the new ones.
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@Grapekoolaid (1)
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3 Feb 08
well you gotta understand that 456 came out first with no intentions on making 123. so they had to like start anew and explain everything incase they never made 123 or poeple would be like wtf. but after you watch the first three and go back to watch the second it does seem different. i seen the first 3 before the second ones but im a real star wars geek so id watch them in order of 1-6. see the kid as a kid then grow up to a young guy, then grow turn evil, then u see his reign as evil.. so u see his rise and flaw throught out the films...very cool
