Star Wars for the next generation

The proper order is as follows:

The Empire Strikes Back
The Wrath of Khan
Stargate

dragonstout wrote: Thumbs up to this. A lot of movies made me feel very uneasy as a kid, and you know what? Those are the ones I have the strongest, most fond memories of now, and rewatched a ton (man, Return to Oz...). Kids like scary, deep down. At least, I did, maybe some kids don't.

The Gate did this for me.

dragonstout wrote:

Ancient_of_MuMu wrote: Don't hold back the prequels if you don't like them, because they are part of the story

"Part of the story" is not a good reason to encourage anyone to read or watch anything. Should we always watch every awful sequel to a movie because they're all "part of the story"? If a friend wants to read my Morrison Doom Patrol comics, I'm not going to go out and make sure he reads all the Kupperberg and Rachel Pollack issues because they're "part of the story". Watch good movies, don't watch shitty movies.

But sure, I wouldn't "hold them back", I just see no need to encourage watching them.

I think I focused on the wrong thing there, because you are right as there are a lot of terrible sequels/prequels. The point I have been thinking about this is that they may very well enjoy the prequels in spite of their parents not liking them, and why should this pleasure be denied to them. They may hate them when they grow up, but most little kids love the prequels.

Khaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaannnnnn

Space Ghost wrote:

dragonstout wrote: Thumbs up to this. A lot of movies made me feel very uneasy as a kid, and you know what? Those are the ones I have the strongest, most fond memories of now, and rewatched a ton (man, Return to Oz...). Kids like scary, deep down. At least, I did, maybe some kids don't.

The Gate did this for me.

TOTALLY. Seen the trailer to the new Joe Dante movie? Totally looks like a throwback to The Gate style kids horror movie.

I was not alive for the release of any of the original films. They weren't exactly on TV, either. Somewhere around the time I was in 6th grade, I suddenly had a burning desire to finally watch them. I got the original trilogy for Christmas that year on VHS. This was before the Special Edition ever came out, so I was able to enjoy them unaltered.

What did it mean to me? I think I love Star Wars just about as much, if not more than most of the people who were alive to see it in the theater. I ate it up and rewatched it just as hard as anyone who was there, only I did it from the comfort of my own home, sometimes with a large collection of Star Wars toys my brother and I amassed in a short period of time. I was at the age where I could still buy or ask for action figures and actually play with them (I still buy them occasionally now, but they serve as decorations), and the Power of the Force line was going back then. That was my last hurrah for playing with toys, but it was a hell of a hurrah.

So yeah...little to no difference for me.

Lucas fucked up the movies with the new effects. The originals were all models, lighting, and true special effects, and they screwed the whole look of the film up when they went back and added in the shite like Jabba, some of the very unfunny "comedy" like that singer in A New Hope, and most especially the 2 dimensional "blast wave" of the death star exploding.

I have the originals, and they will remain original.

And there was me thinking that the answer to "Star Was for the Next Generation" was going to be Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings.

How about trying them out with the Clone Wars CGI cartoon? Way better than the prequel movies.

panzerattack wrote: And there was me thinking that the answer to "Star Was for the Next Generation" was going to be Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings.

How about trying them out with the Clone Wars CGI cartoon? Way better than the prequel movies.

Along those lines, I don't think there is any doubt that the Harry Potter films will be to those growing up during their run what Star Wars is to people of my generation.

Machete Order is the way.

IV, V, II, III, VI. Ignore The Phantom Menace completely. Kids still get to be shocked at the Big Reveal at the end of Empire, then get some backstory before the finale.

I have IV-V-VI discs burned from the second Laserdisc release (pre-THX). The THX releases were the first (slight) video edits.