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Proper order for someone who's never seen the movies to watch them.
2011-01-17, 7:28 PM #41
Originally posted by sugarless:
4,5,6,1,2,3 - no question.

And since it will break my heart if my future children like the newer ones better, I won't show them until they're old enough to hate them (since the newer ones are without a doubt more targeted to younger kids)


Ewoks :ninja:
ORJ / My Level: ORJ Temple Tournament I
2011-01-17, 7:34 PM #42
Originally posted by JM:
I vote for 4,5. And then stopping.


Ditto, but they need to incorporate the speeder bike chase scene into 4 and 5 somehow.
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2011-01-17, 7:43 PM #43
Originally posted by ORJ_JoS:
Ewoks :ninja:


I'm not saying there isn't anything in the OT for kids, and I'm not saying that there's nothing adult in the prequels, I'm just saying younger kids are more likely to enjoy the new ones, and I don't want that to happen :P
Fincham: Where are you going?
Me: I have no idea
Fincham: I meant where are you sitting. This wasn't an existential question.
2011-01-19, 4:57 PM #44
Another vote for 4, 5, 1, 2, 3, 6

And not knowing about Leia until RotJ is a non-issue. You find out straight after the opening when Luke returns to Dagobah, and nothing in the Jabba sequence is really affected by it.

On the other hand, the "it's twins" thing in Ep 3 does then become a reveal, because you're only expecting Luke, not Leia as well.

(And there is another hint that Leia is Force sensitive - in ESB when they're hiding in the asteroind belt and go outside to investigate the Mynnoccs, Leia says "I have a bad feeling about this" which (apart from possibly one occasion by I think C3PO) is only said by Jedi throughout the entire set of films.)
2011-01-19, 5:04 PM #45
Are you kidding me, Han Solo says it.
2011-01-19, 5:13 PM #46
Lando says it, too.
2011-01-19, 5:20 PM #47
Whoops, okay, maybe not then :). Still, a lot of Jedi say it.
2011-01-19, 6:56 PM #48
The "I've got a bad feeling about this" lines were so dumb in the last 2 films (episode 2 and 3). Like gee, you really have a bad feeling about 3 vicious monsters being marched into an arena while you're chained up, Anakin?

Or gosh, you really have a "bad feeling" about the hangar door closing while you're narrowly flying past it to get onto a ship.

All the other bad feeling lines occurred before there was anything obviously dangerous about to happen... bleh.
"Guns don't kill people, I kill people."
2011-01-19, 7:12 PM #49
You have no idea what you are saying, Lucas is the best writer around
2011-01-19, 10:58 PM #50
He's a decent writer, but he's certainly not above criticism.
You can't judge a book by it's file size
2011-01-20, 7:13 AM #51
Episode 4 was okay because no studio would accept it while it was full of Lucas' plagiarism, and the final script was edited heavily by his wife. It was directed by Lucas, but not in any meaningful way... Lucas tried to micromanage the production, but his only stage directions were "faster" and "more intense."
Episode 5 was directed by Irvin Kershner and written by people with talent: Leigh Brackett and Lawrence Kasdan.
Episode 6 was directed by Richard Marquand and written by Lawrence Kasdan and Lucas. If I recall, Lucas' writing input mostly concerned the addition of Ewoks.

1-3? All Lucas. 100% creative control. Writing and directing.

Lucas is a horrible writer and an even worse director.
2011-01-20, 8:20 AM #52
Originally posted by Jon`C:
Lucas is a horrible writer and an even worse director.


Lucas didn't even really write the novelization of A New Hope. It was actually ghost written by Alan Dean Foster (who also wrote Splinter of the Mind's Eye). They just slapped Lucas' name on it.

Interestingly enough, Splinter of the Mind's Eye was intended to be the movie sequel to A New Hope if ANH did only moderately well, and if I recall correctly, it was written before ANH was even released. The movie would have been produced if ANH did well enough to warrant a sequel, but not well enough to warrant a big budget sequel. Hence, no Han Solo in SotME, because he was becoming famous enough to warrant a bigger pay check than Mark Hammil or Carrie Fisher.

Obviously, ANH did incredibly well, and we got Empire Strikes Back instead (thank god!). Although sometimes I am curious, and wonder what a movie adaptation of SotME would have been like.
2011-01-22, 6:50 AM #53
Show them the first three. You know, the real first 3.

Not that japanda flippy ninja bullcrap they slapped up onto silver.
2011-01-22, 7:21 AM #54
YOU GUYS KNOW WHAT?

**** GEORGE LUCAS

This calls for a secret covert operation to Lucas Ranch
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