Star Wars - How to Properly View

[Joe4Cy]

...I bet you could watch many of them together at the same time, and they would hit the same plot points at about the same time over and over again for each film. ...

For sure. There are even writing "guides" or "manuals" available if you want to write a movie script available. Paraphrasing: by Page X of your script, your main character should have A, B, and C. And then big action scene.

Don't get me wrong, I love movies, although not a cine-file. It does get tiring watching approximately the same move over and over. I mean really, what's the difference between Iron Man and Ant Man?

Back to Star Wars: once you make it through 4, 5, 6, and you have Disney+, jump into the Mandelorian.

 

[Sigmapolis]

For sure. There are even writing "guides" or "manuals" available if you want to write a movie script available. Paraphrasing: by Page X of your script, your main character should have A, B, and C. And then big action scene.

Don't get me wrong, I love movies, although not a cine-file. It does get tiring watching approximately the same move over and over. I mean really, what's the difference between Iron Man and Ant Man?

Back to Star Wars: once you make it through 4, 5, 6, and you have Disney+, jump into the Mandelorian.

I read Save the Cat! when I was in college, so yeah, I am familiar.

The bad things about that --

Whenever a script follows the, well, "script," my brain picks up on it pretty early, and the rest of the movie becomes pretty boring. I can see the screenplay writers thinking and checking the boxes as we work the rest of the way through it. That is roughly how I feel about most Marvel films and why some people can rave about them (when they are looking for spectacle and entertainment) while I find most of them pretty forgettable.

The good thing about it --

While knowledge of this has made a lot of "good" films into mediocre ones for me, I think it allows me to truly drink in the great ones more. Those can include the films that follow the formula but are so good and immersive that you forget about it (e.g., Mad Mad: Fury Road) or those who break the mold and can truly surprise you.

 

[HFCS]

First watch
1. Star Wars
2. The Empire Strikes Back
3. Return of the Jedi
4. Revenge of the Sith Prequel Tale
5. Rogue One Prequel Tale
6. The Mandalorian series

Second watch if you're loving Star Wars:
7. The Force Awakens
8. The Last Jedi
9. The Rise of Skywalker
10. Animated Clone Wars and Rebels series
11. Solo

Don't watch
The phantom menace
Attack of the clones

 

[HFCS]

Make sure to get the original versions of 4, 5, 6. Don't bother with the terrible CGI added scenes.

Easier said than done. I'm a laserdisc hobbiest for this reason.

 

[Bader]

 

[Sigmapolis]

Easier said than done. I'm a laserdisc hobbiest for this reason.

 

[Bader]

Easier said than done. I'm a laserdisc hobbiest for this reason.

I burned copies of the "Despecialized" editions the community pieced together onto BluRays. I'm glad I have them, and they're my preferred way of watching the OT, but no normal person is going to jump through all the hoops necessary to watch/own them

 

[NetflixAndClone]

Spoiler: ROTJ spoiler

 

[HFCS]

I burned copies of the "Despecialized" editions the community pieced together onto BluRays. I'm glad I have them, and they're my preferred way of watching the OT, but no normal person is going to jump through all the hoops necessary to watch/own them

Most who think they're getting theatrical cut are just getting a less altered version.

I've seen the despecialized but grown attached to the hulking laserdisc players. At one point I had about 400 other movies on the platform but now just 100 of my favorites. The discs weigh a ton when you move, way heavier than a vinyl record the same size.

 

[JM4CY]

Boy I am just breezing over these posts because I don’t want anything spoiled but I felt there was going to be a wonderful debate today. I can’t even understand (YET) wtf people are even talking about.

 

[kcbob79clone]

Star Wars Holiday Special is one of the best times I have ever had watching anything ever. It is a hilarious round of 1970s pop culture kitsch.

All I have to say is "Wookie family", the god awful Wookie family

 

[Sigmapolis]

All I have to say is "Wookie family", the god awful Wookie family

Whenever somebody pulls the "I wish they would have stuck to the original plan with The Return of the Jedi and had the wookies/Kashyyyk instead of the ewoks/Endor," I always counter, "So you wanted to have Chewie's family in ROTJ instead? You think that Lumpy and Itchy got screwed and should have been on the big screen?"

 

[HFCS]

Boy I am just breezing over these posts because I don’t want anything spoiled but I felt there was going to be a wonderful debate today. I can’t even understand (YET) wtf people are even talking about.

Can't go wrong with just watching the original trilogy first. The first two are universally loved and even the few who may not like Return of the Jedi will admit it'll be your kid's favorite.

I actually think RotJ is the darkest and most adult in many ways but others prefer to fixate on teddy bears.

If you watch the original trilogy and love it Rogue One and The Mandalorian are perfect love letters to the original trilogy.

 

[Sigmapolis]

Can't go wrong with just watching the original trilogy first. The first two are universally loved and even the few who may not like Return of the Jedi will admit it'll be your kid's favorite.

I actually think RotJ is the darkest and most adult in many ways but others prefer to fixate on teddy bears.

If you watch the original trilogy and love it Rogue One and The Mandalorian are perfect love letters to the original trilogy.

This podcast clip has a very articulate defense of ROTJ and the teddy bears --

 

[Frak]

To date I have 5 Agrees and 4 Disagrees on this.

Let's discuss the franchise more here. How can it be so revered with:
- Jar Jar
- 1978 Holiday Special which was awful and should have been our first clue where the franchise was headed
- Ewoks
- Director's Cuts of 4,5,6 which moved things around
- Solo
- Renaming a movie, are you serious?

Seriously only 4 and 5 are worth watching again.

It’s revered because of the Original trilogy, not the prequels or holiday special or sequels or directors cuts. Those other things are only popular or even worth watching because of people’s affinity for 4,5,6.

Why do people still love those movies? They were so ground breaking back in the day. They introduced a world that no one dreamed could be shown in a movie theatre. Character development was off the charts good. So was the score. Effects were beyond what anyone had ever seen. Just the imagination that those movies spurred in a whole generation of kids...unreal.

Watch the behind the scenes stuff from the mandalorian on Disney plus. That’s an incredibly diverse group of directors who are there because of the impact those movies had on them.

 

[SCNCY]

Spoiler: ROTJ spoiler

Funny you say this. Theres a game called Battlefront 2 where they added content to the game called Ewok Hunt (I think). The premise of the match is for the Ewok to kill the storm troopers in the dark. As Strom troopers die, they spawn as ewoks. The storm troopers need to survive long enough in the night for a shuttle to come and pick them up.

I don't have the game myself, but I have watched YouTube videos of it.

 

[NetflixAndClone]

Funny you say this. Theres a game called Battlefront 2 where they added content to the game called Ewok Hunt (I think). The premise of the match is for the Ewok to kill the storm troopers in the dark. As Strom troopers die, they spawn as ewoks. The storm troopers need to survive long enough in the night for a shuttle to come and pick them up.

I don't have the game myself, but I have watched YouTube videos of it.

I have the game, yeah I love that game mode. The map is pitch black for stormtroopers but you get a flashlight. The flashlights has juice for about 30 secs until you need to charge it. Ewoks get spears and night vision.

gets pretty wild when all the stormtroopers are rushing to the shuttle and everyone is dropping like flies to little 3 feet tall teddy bears.

 

[JM4CY]

Finished 4,5,6 Finally. Little JM wanted a light saber and a skyWalker figure for Xmas so I think he liked it. I enjoyed it thoroughly. I’m kinda bummed every says the rest of them suck. Watching rogue one now.

 

[Rabbuk]

It's kind of crazy how 60% of the series is unwatchable garbage... But the other 40 is great.

 

[MeowingCows]

I just happened to watch 9 today... think I've finally caught up on all of the feature films.