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i've never seen any of the star wars movies....

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Yeti

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May 17, 2005
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They should've skipped the retarded race scene - which was about 20 minutes long IIRC - and spent the time on more light saber battles.
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u re just jealous ur reaction time is not fast enough and u don t have the balls to hook up a kayak to a couple of rolls royce jet engines with just two ropes and then rip through the grand canyon while skipping sniper shots.
 

BMXman

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Sep 8, 2001
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1 wasn't that bad...although the removal of Jar Jar would have made the movie a lot better. 2 was good for development and 3 tied it all together nicely. I would see them exactly in order....you would also get a better understanding of what is going on as well....D
 

ALEXIS_DH

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Jan 30, 2003
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so, the agreement seems to be
4-5-6

then 1-2-3.

alright. tomorrow monday, i'll dedicate my afternoon to watch a classic.
no distractions, blasting speakers, closed drapes, lights off.

any previous read anyone recommends?
so i dont get lost in the story, miss details or something???
 

LordOpie

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Oct 17, 2002
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Alexis, do you know about Luke Skywalker? Do you know about his famly?

If not, then watch 4-6, then 1-3.
 

ALEXIS_DH

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Jan 30, 2003
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Alexis, do you know about Luke Skywalker? Do you know about his famly?

If not, then watch 4-6, then 1-3.
almost nothing.
at least one of stars wars comes up on tv like every week on cable or on-air tv. i always tried not to see, read or learn anything from them. i wanted to watch it with time, calmly.
i didnt watch movies when i was a kid, sitting 2-3 hours in front of a tv was waaaay beyond my attention span. plus my english wasnt good enough when i was 10-12 to watch a whole movie and pick up everything. (translations, specially with witty classics like woody allen, usually suck donkey balls).

so when i was a kid i figured out, i'll watch the classics later.
for example, i saw the godfather for the first time just last year at age 23. same thing with the graduate, annie hall, casablanca, citizen kane and many other classics i watched for the first time in the last 12 months.

but, the only thing i could not shield myself from is the "luke am your father".
besides that, i dont know anything else about him, other than he is a kid who races in one of the new star wars.
 

Jeremy R

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Nov 15, 2001
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1 wasn't that bad...although the removal of Jar Jar would have made the movie a lot better. 2 was good for development and 3 tied it all together nicely. I would see them exactly in order....you would also get a better understanding of what is going on as well....D
I agree. All those movies were about the same. Bad acting but great entertainment.
People seem to forget that they watched 4,5,6 through the eyes of a child, and they watched 1,2,3, through the eyes of some dude with old wrinkled balls, jaded after years of being stuck in a office cubicle.
They blame Lucas for their lives.;)
 

ALEXIS_DH

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My wife is a teacher and recently had a student who did just that. Foreign student, adult, had never seen Star Wars. He watched them 1 2 3 4 5 6 order and was dissapointed. He said that givin the chance, next time he'd watch them in 4 5 6 1 2 3 order.
true that.

i watched star wars for the first time 7 years ago in ep # order (and became a big sw nerd ever since, btw)... and it was underwhelming.

makes a whole lot more sense to watch 4,5,6 first.

yoda looks like a ridiculous prop in the original trilogy.

will watch it again, starting with 4,5,6.... as enough time has passed that I dont remember much of the details.
 

ALEXIS_DH

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Jan 30, 2003
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So, I watched in episode order, over 10 years ago.

Takes from watching the prequels before the original trilogy.

- I never thought of Darth Vader as "the" bad guy. He mostly came up to me as grown up emo hung up on his childhood limitations. Almost a secondary character in my book.
- Darth Maul. This is *the* badass of the series. Never saw an action villain of his caliber again in all of star wars. Most menacing bad guy.
- Palpatine. I would consider Star Wars to be about him. Cunning, greatly acted, awesome lines and delivery.
- Count Dooku and Obi Wan. If only I could be as cool at age 70+.
- Yoda´s scenes in Empire Strikes back are the stuff religions are made from/start.
- Luke? Almost secondary character in the overall arc. Obi Wan and Palpatine become far more substantial.

Star Wars change a lot, if you alter the watching order.
 

MikeD

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Oct 26, 2001
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Really? I thought darth maul was all visuals, no real menace even as a silent-killer type. Kind of a disappointment, but at least he wasn't as much of one as the force-bacteria. Vader had personality and his own severe charm.

Edit: And he was no doubt ruined for you by being introduced as kid Aniken. Ugh, I hate those movies so much.
 

jonKranked

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Nov 10, 2005
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Really? I thought darth maul was all visuals, no real menace even as a silent-killer type. Kind of a disappointment, but at least he wasn't as much of one as the force-bacteria. Vader had personality and his own severe charm.

Edit: And he was no doubt ruined for you by being introduced as kid Aniken. Ugh, I hate those movies so much.
in the movies, Maul was almost irrelevant. i didn't come to appreciate him more until the cartoon series.