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Glasgowchivas

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Are we expecting JJ to keep the scene transitions that Lucas loved or will he keep 7 more traditional?

We've already seen that he's added his lens flare in and he's got that crash zoom into the fleeing Falcon which Lucas would never have sanctioned.

Just wondering how far down the aping route he'll go.

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Darren

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Watching that just made me realise how few times I've seen Revenge of the Sith. There were shots in there that I just didn't recognise. I think I saw it once at the pictures, once on DVD, and never again since. Which just goes to show how poor it is given I must have watched all of the original trilogy dozens of times.

My boys want to watch "all the Star Wars films" before going to see the new one, so the next question is, what do we count as "all the films"?

1. Just the originals

2. Originals + II & III in machete order

3. Everything in episode order

4. Originals, then all three prequels, then originals again (to cleanse the palate and lead up to VII)

I don't really want to do option 3 as I think they'll get bored before we even reach the originals if we go that way. But I'm torn between the other three options.

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TehStu

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The thing is, which order did you watch them as a kid? I can't even remember. All I recall, for sure, is that RotJ was the first film I saw at a cinema, and they were all repeated on TV, usually at Christmas. I'm not sure you're going to be able to foster a scenario of not revealing the Vader/Luke thing without keeping them away from Star Wars entirely until a certain age, which is just crap. It's a 35 year old twist, may just need to accept it as such.

Anyway, kids being kids, mine like all the shiny of the prequels, and of course don't give a monkeys about acting or plot. I suspect their star wars are going to be 7-9, and any twists therein.

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Darren

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I was 8 when Star Wars came out so I watched them in the order God* intended.

My boys are 12 and I suspect they'll be like yours. They'll think the prequels are brilliant, the originals a bit slow with ropy effects, and then absolutely love the new ones. I could live with that.

*as opposed to George Lucas

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Original trilogy first for sure. It works far better on its own than it does with the prequels dragging things down and they'll spoil the originals if you watch them first. The fact that the machete order came into being at all shows just how misjudged the prequels are in their intended form.

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TehStu

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I really don't understand that. The machete order came into being because people are precious about a 30 year old spoiler. If you were that "hardcore", you'd have the conviction to skip the prequels.

As I alluded to, show them in any bloody order to kids, none of them will be "their" star wars, and certainly not the originals. My eldest, 13, can't watch them without moaning about the effects. It's all lost on them.

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wev

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I discovered yesterday that Micro Machines have been revived specifically for Star Wars. I bought two foil packs yesterday and got a blue X-Wing and a Tie Fighter. Looking on Instagram I think you can get Lukes Landspeeder, ROTJ Speederbikes, the strawberry split speederbike from TFA, an A Wing, 2 other X-Wings(one black and orange the other with red markings) and another Tie

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Yeah thanks for bringing that to my attention wev. More shit I'm going to buy and draw looks of disdain and mild pity, mixed with an element of disappointment from my better half.

But sod her, I'll have Micro Machines. And cookies. I'll buy cookies too.

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Jg15

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I'm in the same boat with my daughter as to which films to show her first. I'm an OT boy but didn't mind the Prequels that much (there, I said it) so I'm thinking of rolling with prequels then OT.

There is a whole generation of Star Wars fans that grew up watching the Prequels first and consider them their part of the saga and, as Stu has already said, these new films will be the saga our kids and this generation call their own. Us 30 something's still have the OT to look back on fondly.

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What I did find is that after seeing the Clone Wars cartoon series in its entirely, the prequels actually make a curious sort of sense - in that I kind of look at them as extended episodes of that. It's certainly not 'traditional' Star Wars, but - despite the stories being pretty nonsensical, there's enough fun stuff in them to just about make watching them an okay thing.

Sorry....I feel dirty, but there we are.

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Nick R

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Are we expecting JJ to keep the scene transitions that Lucas loved or will he keep 7 more traditional?

We've already seen that he's added his lens flare in and he's got that crash zoom into the fleeing Falcon which Lucas would never have sanctioned.

Just wondering how far down the aping route he'll go.

Well, except for that (pre-Firefly/BSG) shaky, misaligned crash zoom near the end of AOTC, which sticks out like a sore thumb during the clone battle. I think Lucas sanctioned that one.

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Are we expecting JJ to keep the scene transitions that Lucas loved or will he keep 7 more traditional?

We've already seen that he's added his lens flare in and he's got that crash zoom into the fleeing Falcon which Lucas would never have sanctioned.

Just wondering how far down the aping route he'll go.

You can't leave out wipe transitions, it's Star Wars!

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