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Star Wars viewing order
Link: http://www.kottke.org/07/09/star-wars-viewing-order
Kottke -- y'know, there's a permanent link in the right hand bar, but I like highlighting specific posts of his -- poses this question:
Let's say you're a new father and a movie fan. When your child is of an appropriate age to start watching movies, in which order will you show him/her the six Star Wars movies?
This is an conundrum that has to be solved quickly; Ritchie and Dena only have another six years to figure out the answer before Axel makes the decision himself...
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That’s pretty likely here, too. Unless George removes stupid teen Anakin from the ghost assemblage at the end of Episode VI, I don’t think we are actually going to own any of them, and the newer I through III, I will make no bones about it - they are flashy garbage. So he can watch them, but I’ll be in the background rehearsing a way to MST3K the damned things
They didn’t have to be so stupid, either. Less Jar-Jar and some more of Padme’s people actually suffering… and maybe a few less racial stereotypes (ooo, we al evil Japanese ambassadal)… or that stupid-arse force field door craptastic setup just to kill Qui-Gon in Episode I would have saved it. Okay, so just a small coat of paint wouldn’t be quite enough :)
For the other two, just erase Hayden and, I don’t know, insert Jake from Two and a Half Men in a few years, or a digitized Urkel, with better lines… or maybe no lines.
I think Georgie just forgot what character motivation was all about.
For my part, I’m still the of the opinion that the sequence they were created in is the one to follow. The original is still my favourite and I don’t have a problem with the special edition futzing around with it.
I don’t have a problem even with most of the futzing done in the special edition, but perhaps you can tell me: when the spirits show up at the end of Return of the Jedi, did they replace Sebastian Shaw with Hayden Christensen?
I had heard that’s what they did, and even though I have no problem with young Jabba showing up and digital stormtroopers riding digital giant lizards, cutting and pasting in that damned twerp for a tawdry tie-in with the prequels in the final scene of the trilogy really, really would rub me the wrong way.
Or perhaps you have a version of Star Wars from before they did this?
Ah, here we go. Here’s the image from the 2004 DVD Release… words escape me:
I said I didn’t have a problem with the futzing with the first one; I said nothing about “Return” :) Yeah, I think that the change removing Shaw was utterly unnecessary.
