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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Swoop on February 06, 2010, 05:32:20 PM
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.....for the very first time, what order would you play them the films?
The subject in this case is 6 years old.
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Uh I would start with the first one.
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Isn't the first one really the last one? I have only watched 2 Star Wars movies, so IDK.
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The 1st one is the Fourth one.
:noid
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the first one, from 78. then the next one. Then stop. Keep the Muppets out of Star Wars, they belong in AH :bolt:
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Definitely start with episode 4.
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IV, V, VI,......(lets just stop there shall we.)
:rolleyes:,
Wab
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Aah thats a tough call. Even though I really dont care for the prequels at all, they will probably fill in the plot and any questions that would arise. Let us know which order you do choose though.
You could say "This is how we all had to watch them." and then show them in that order.
As an alternative, you could show him family guys blue harvest. But thats likely not appropriate for that age. :)
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As an alternative, you could show him family guys blue harvest. But thats likely not appropriate for that age. :)
Don't forget Something Something Something Dark Side. :aok
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IV, V, VI,......(lets just stop there shall we.)
:rolleyes:,
Wab
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"As an alternative, you could show him family guys blue harvest. But thats likely not appropriate for that age."
Don't forget 'Something Something Dark Side'. :D "No vacuuming while I'm doing the Hologram thing!"
As for the order, I would say 4, 5, 6 and skip 1-3, they were (personally) just bad and 4-6 explains most everything decently. :)
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He might like Episode 1 because of the kid Anakin and the mutated frog/rabbit thing, but I'd start with Episode 4
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I would show him the Original Trilogy. And I mean the ORIGINAL Trilogy, before George went and mangled it (love that two-disc edition. Although I DO wish they'd have at least used the THX remasters on it....). They're on their own if they want to watch the Prequels. I'm probably going to burn my copies....
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Episode 4, definitely
Otherwise, you lose a lot of the effect of the movie experience. Who was this Obi Wan fellow and where did he come from?.. what were the Jedi like?, .. etc. Learning that through the eyes of Luke was a big part of the attraction.
And, of course, the impact of Darth being 'big daddy'. Still remember when that line hit in the theatre.. Whoa...
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Is it your 6-year-old? If not, then do an experiment for us, and start at 1, and find out the reaction, and report back here. If it IS your 6-year-old, raise him or her right and start with Episode 4, and end it there until they're 13.
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When you get to Return of the Jedi it might be that time to talk about the birds and the bees when he asks about that tingle he's feeling.
(http://clonelegends.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/lmb.jpg)
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When you get to Return of the Jedi it might be that time to talk about the birds and the bees when he asks about that tingle he's feeling.
(http://clonelegends.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/lmb.jpg)
My light-saber just extended.
:x,
Wab
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Put it away before you hurt yourself, or worse, someone else...
I played with mine to long, ended up with a three year old, a growth on my wallet and a mortgage payment.
I guess it wasn't so bad, I did get a beautiful kid out of the deal!
:D
Strip
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Put it away before you hurt yourself, or worse, someone else...
I played with mine to long, ended up with a three year old, a growth on my wallet and a mortgage payment.
I guess it wasn't so bad, I did get a beautiful kid out of the deal!
:D
Strip
I thought you said it was a growth on your wallet, growths aren't very attractive from what I have seen...
I don't believe I've seen the entire first star wars myself :( I went 2,5,6,1,3. lol
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As a devout Star Wars nerd, I can say with certainty, go IV, V, VI, I, II, III
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(http://www.cine-collector.com/catalog/images/padme4.jpg)
Sorry Carrie does not cut it.
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Ahh a question I've pondered many times. I'd go with the original trilogy so he can take it in the same way the rest of the world did. Also a six year old might get a bigger kick from the explosions/eyecandy in the prequels, leaving him without the desire to sit through them old movies.
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Is it your 6-year-old? If not, then do an experiment for us, and start at 1, and find out the reaction, and report back here.
Now that is a good idea.
No he's not mine, nothing to do with me at all other than I know his mother. Good idea boiler, I'll let you know......
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Original trilogy first by all means.
I just wish Lucas hadn't been a lazy SOB and that he'd given us all 9 episodes as they were originally planned.
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I'd just show them the rolling text at the beginning of each movie.
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the first one, from 78. then the next one. Then stop. Keep the Muppets out of Star Wars, they belong in AH :bolt:
Umm 77 and i wasnt even alive and i know this
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The Clone Wars cartoons are a good place to start for a youngen.
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The Clone Wars cartoons are a good place to start for a youngen.
NO! NO! NO! Don't ever let him watch those! They go against cannon in so bloody many ways I cannot even look at the ads for them without wanting to PUKE!
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the first one, from 78. then the next one. Then stop. Keep the Muppets out of Star Wars, they belong in AH :bolt:
But but but, if you are removing the Muppets, then what about all that storyline in Episodes V and VI that we have to skip! What would The Empire Strikes Back be without Yoda?
NO! NO! NO! Don't ever let him watch those! They go against cannon in so bloody many ways I cannot even look at the ads for them without wanting to PUKE!
This.
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Save the kid the nightmares. Explain to him/her that episodes 1-3 do not exist, the cartoons do not exist, the only Star Wars ever made were episodes 4, 5 and 6.
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Save the kid the nightmares. Explain to him/her that episodes 1-3 do not exist, the cartoons do not exist, the only Star Wars ever made were episodes 4, 5 and 6.
The asterik I'd put next to that is: Heir to the Empire, Dark Force Rising, The Last Command, Specter of the Past and Vision of the Future.
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The asterik I'd put next to that is: Heir to the Empire, Dark Force Rising, The Last Command, Specter of the Past and Vision of the Future.
But in this, we are talking about books.
Get the kid into Star Wars books! I have read dozens and DOZENS of Star Wars novels since I first discovered them in middle school. Filled an entire book case! In fact, I would say I have more Star Wars books than military, school, text, and casual reading books combined! They will definitely get the kid hooked on reading!
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But in this, we are talking about books.
Get the kid into Star Wars books! I have read dozens and DOZENS of Star Wars novels since I first discovered them in middle school. Filled an entire book case! In fact, I would say I have more Star Wars books than military, school, text, and casual reading books combined! They will definitely get the kid hooked on reading!
NO! The ONLY ones worth opening are Zahns from the Bantam run. I'll add the X-wing novels as well, but the rest are absolute garbage. And Kevin J. Anderson is the devil.
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It's a 6 year old...start with Episode One - The Phantom Menace...all the new CGI and different characters will get the kids attention better than starting with the original trilogy and you won't confuse the kid.
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NO! The ONLY ones worth opening are Zahns from the Bantam run. I'll add the X-wing novels as well, but the rest are absolute garbage. And Kevin J. Anderson is the devil.
LOL, hey, I liked the Anderson novels. It's amazing tho how this universe keeps growing. Chewies dead, Jacen going to the dark side, His sister is a bug...weird. But either way, I heard they were going to start pushing the novels out into a TV series. Can anyone confirm that?
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LOL, hey, I liked the Anderson novels. It's amazing tho how this universe keeps growing. Chewies dead, Jacen going to the dark side, His sister is a bug...weird. But either way, I heard they were going to start pushing the novels out into a TV series. Can anyone confirm that?
I haven't read anything after NJO. I wish I hadn't even read THAT far. Awful.
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NO! The ONLY ones worth opening are Zahns from the Bantam run. I'll add the X-wing novels as well, but the rest are absolute garbage. And Kevin J. Anderson is the devil.
Oh, mine are limited to the time period between ANH and BEFORE the New Jedi Order and the Yuuzhan Vong. I stopped there, as it just gets weird. The Zahn ones are my favorite, though there are some other authors with some great additions.
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Uh I would start with the first one.
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the third one is the newest one. Or Episode 3 if you want to call it right lol.
<S>
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Oh, mine are limited to the time period between ANH and BEFORE the New Jedi Order and the Yuuzhan Vong. I stopped there, as it just gets weird. The Zahn ones are my favorite, though there are some other authors with some great additions.
Truce at Bakura was ok, and I did love the X-wing novels (I, Jedi was good, too). I also liked Truce at Bakura and Shadows of the Empire.
Courtship of Princess Leia was just WEIRD.
Kevin J. Anderson can just plain suck it. Daala is one of the WORST villains EVER. She wasn't evil, she just was just PMSing REALLY bad. The only thing he did right was starting the write-out of Callista (see below).
The "Callista Trilogy" wasn't worth the time (and the abbreviation for Planet of Twilight was quite appropriate. I think the writer was on it at the time).
If it didn't have "Star Wars" in the name I wouldn't have thought Black Fleet Crisis were even Star Wars novels at all. NOTHING felt right, particularly the way he handled the military organization.
Corellian Trilogy was ok, but not great.
New Rebellion was pretty bad.
Crystal Star was just AWFUL. WORST BOOK I'VE EVER READ.
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.....for the very first time, what order would you play them the films?
The subject in this case is 6 years old.
IV, V, VI.
I, II and III don't exist.
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Yeah, they had III on the tube down here on Sunday (Revenge of the Sith? Return of the Sith?)
Gawd, what an unrelentingly crap-tacular, steaming piloe of garbage.
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Truce at Bakura was ok, and I did love the X-wing novels (I, Jedi was good, too). I also liked Truce at Bakura and Shadows of the Empire.
Courtship of Princess Leia was just WEIRD.
Kevin J. Anderson can just plain suck it. Daala is one of the WORST villains EVER. She wasn't evil, she just was just PMSing REALLY bad. The only thing he did right was starting the write-out of Callista (see below).
The "Callista Trilogy" wasn't worth the time (and the abbreviation for Planet of Twilight was quite appropriate. I think the writer was on it at the time).
If it didn't have "Star Wars" in the name I wouldn't have thought Black Fleet Crisis were even Star Wars novels at all. NOTHING felt right, particularly the way he handled the military organization.
Corellian Trilogy was ok, but not great.
New Rebellion was pretty bad.
Crystal Star was just AWFUL. WORST BOOK I'VE EVER READ.
Black Fleet, I thought, was rather interesting. It could have been done better, but the subject matter particularly intruiged me. I have never been even remotely interested in the Jedi story lines. I prefer the fleet deals. Have you read the Han Solo trilogy? Or the Tales books?
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The problem with Black Fleet Crisis is that he completely disregarded the fact that MacDowell ignored material established by ALL sources prior to his trilogy and did his own thing with no real explanation on why the entire fleet was suddenly organized along COMPLETELY different lines. Fleets and starfighter squadrons in Star Wars are organized under completely different rules from any navy we're familiar with, and these rules were established LONG before MacDowell started his trilogy.
I've read a couple of the "Tales" books, but nothing that was written prior to Zahn's first trilogy.
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Show 'em Episode IV first.
Darth being a smartarse !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0rN-KG0zNw (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0rN-KG0zNw)
:rock
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This ought to be good:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aoc3roT81nU&fmt=22
:lol,
Wab
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Start him off with A New Hope, hopefully the original version this way you won't have to explain that Han Solo really did shoot first.
ack-ack
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Han Solo really did shoot first.
ack-ack
QFT
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.....for the very first time, what order would you play them the films?
The subject in this case is 6 years old.
Episode I, and take notes. My friend and I are looking forward to the day we get to sit with his 3-yo nephew through them. We figure that he'll actually enjoy the first three about as equally as the last three. To us, the last three are "as good as you can get" while the more recent first three episodes "fall short but are half-decent contributions". We actually rate the animated Clone Wars sagas being played on TV right now higher than the first three episodes... too bad it's very youth-tuned though, would of loved to of seen it as a HBO TV series.
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LOL, hey, I liked the Anderson novels. It's amazing tho how this universe keeps growing. Chewies dead, Jacen going to the dark side, His sister is a bug...weird. But either way, I heard they were going to start pushing the novels out into a TV series. Can anyone confirm that?
I can imagine that, he was always too agressive to be a Jedi. The dark side, eat him up it did. In his sparring with Anakin, he was always choppy, angry, and agressive. He was too concerned with mastering the weapon part of being a Jedi Knight, just like his grandpa.
Old Destrillion+Chewie+Dovin Basal=Best comedic character OWNED by "13 trillion tons of danger"(Han Solo).
So the bugs can use the force too? Wait wait wait, it said in Vector Prime that the Bugs couldn't use the force, that they were completely unable to register with it, even animals and plants could be sensed by a Jedi (got that from research). Too weird, I've gotta read the book that has that part in it.
-Penguin
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Tales of The Bounty Hunters was pretty good...
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Episode I
May I remind you, by starting with the first three, you are cutting the legs out from under the biggest plot twist of the century...
"Luke... I am your father!"
"That's not true! THATS IMPOSSIBLE!"
(Yeah, i could probably quote that movie verbatim.)
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May I remind you, by starting with the first three, you are cutting the legs out from under the biggest plot twist of the century...
"Luke... I am your father!"
"That's not true! THATS IMPOSSIBLE!"
(Yeah, i could probably quote that movie verbatim.)
Too bad you just used the legendary MISquote. ;)
Vader: Obi-Wan never told you what happened to your father.
Luke: He told me enough! He told me YOU killed him!
Vader: No. *I* am your father.
Luke: Noooo! That's not true! That's IMPOSSIBLE!
Vader: Search your feelings, you KNOW it to be true!
Luke: NOOOOOO!
Anyone who says Hamil can't act needs to be sat down and forced to watch that scene over and over.
Although IMO the best out of ALL the lightsaber duels was Return of the Jedi's. You could just FEEL the way Luke and Vader were not just dueling with their weapons, but with their WILLS as each tried to turn the other: Luke to redeem his father, Vader to draw his son to the Dark Side. There was an emotional stake in that battle that the prequels never even came close to matching
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Too bad you just used the legendary MISquote. ;)
Vader: Obi-Wan never told you what happened to your father.
Luke: He told me enough! He told me YOU killed him!
Vader: No. *I* am your father.
Luke: Noooo! That's not true! That's IMPOSSIBLE!
Vader: Search your feelings, you KNOW it to be true!
Luke: NOOOOOO!
Anyone who says Hamil can't act needs to be sat down and forced to watch that scene over and over.
Although IMO the best out of ALL the lightsaber duels was Return of the Jedi's. You could just FEEL the way Luke and Vader were not just dueling with their weapons, but with their WILLS as each tried to turn the other: Luke to redeem his father, Vader to draw his son to the Dark Side. There was an emotional stake in that battle that the prequels never even came close to matching
Sax, that was changed in the Digital Remastered Collector's Edition Box Set :)
And yes, Hamil is a GREAT actor. When he can go from a movie like Star Wars to Jay and Silent Bob, and be just as serious in both.
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Nope. Vader NEVER said, "Luke, I am your father" on any version. Lucas didn't change any dialog in the Original Trilogy with the THX Remastered version. This didn't occur until the Special Edition was released in theaters, and it was only a few throwaway lines, none of the major dialog (well, not until Lucas meddled with the conversation between Vader and the Emperor in the ESB DVD).
If I were to make an "ultimate edition" Original Trilogy, I'd start with the pre-Special Edition THX remaster, add the two restored scenes from the ANH DVD (Han encounters Jabba outside the Falcon and Luke talking with Biggs and Red Leader just before taking off from Yavin) and leave everything else as it was in the original.
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I would have all movies playing on TVs in front of them simultaneously.
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Nope. Vader NEVER said, "Luke, I am your father" on any version. Lucas didn't change any dialog in the Original Trilogy with the THX Remastered version. This didn't occur until the Special Edition was released in theaters, and it was only a few throwaway lines, none of the major dialog (well, not until Lucas meddled with the conversation between Vader and the Emperor in the ESB DVD).
If I were to make an "ultimate edition" Original Trilogy, I'd start with the pre-Special Edition THX remaster, add the two restored scenes from the ANH DVD (Han encounters Jabba outside the Falcon and Luke talking with Biggs and Red Leader just before taking off from Yavin) and leave everything else as it was in the original.
You liked the speech with Jabba? I thought that was some of the wort CG I have ever seen.
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It was MUCH better done in the DVD version of ANH (thus why I specified the ANH DVD).
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Too bad you just used the legendary MISquote. ;)
Vader: Obi-Wan never told you what happened to your father.
Luke: He told me enough! He told me YOU killed him!
Vader: No. *I* am your father.
Luke: Noooo! That's not true! That's IMPOSSIBLE!
Vader: Search your feelings, you KNOW it to be true![
Luke: NOOOOOO!
Anyone who says Hamil can't act needs to be sat down and forced to watch that scene over and over.
Although IMO the best out of ALL the lightsaber duels was Return of the Jedi's. You could just FEEL the way Luke and Vader were not just dueling with their weapons, but with their WILLS as each tried to turn the other: Luke to redeem his father, Vader to draw his son to the Dark Side. There was an emotional stake in that battle that the prequels never even came close to matching
I always thought Vader said "Search your feelings, you know it be true." - kinda old timey outter space english. ;) He is very slow and deliberate with his lines and nowhere else do his words run so close together (if you are correct). I played the clip back several times and it is inconclusive whether he says to or not.
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It was MUCH better done in the DVD version of ANH (thus why I specified the ANH DVD).
I've got DVDs and VHS. Neither are even decent IMHO in regards to that one scene.
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As a devout Star Wars nerd, I can say with certainty, go IV, V, VI, I, II, III
Same... except maybe the devout nerd part.