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Captain Kelsten

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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.

That can't be true of all kids. I first saw them in the 90's, and I don't remember ever thinking that the effects looked bad, and certainly not jarring enough to take me out of the experience. I thought the special edition CGI effects were awesome at when they came around mind, and it's those that look dated now rather than most of the original stuff.

Anyway, the spoilers may be old but that doesn't necessarily mean that all kids know them. Why spoil them needlessly?

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Darren

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My boys have now reconsidered and want to watch the originals, then all three prequels, then the originals again. This way they get the best of both worlds. Furthermore they want to time it so that we watch Jedi (the second time) the night before going to see the new one, so it all hangs together as one massive seven-part story.

They already know the general story and all the spoilers from the Lego games, but they get the relationships, motivations etc. mixed up as you would expect from kids watching a cartoon silent movie version instead of the real thing.

I must admit I'm looking forward to watching them all this way myself. It's the first time I've ever tried watching the prequels back to back. Although I suspect it may end up being the last time I ever watch any of the prequels.

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Agonising over the best order in which to show your kids the Star Wars films sounds like a lot of effort. I'd just let them watch them in any order, and just take the risk that they might enjoy Star Wars the wrong way.

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Rev

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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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EDIT: http://www.thetoyshop.com/brands/star-wars/star-wars-micro-machines

I am buying them all. (There's a very, very mild spoiler (at least something I'd not seen) in one set.)

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Darren

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Agonising over the best order in which to show your kids the Star Wars films sounds like a lot of effort. I'd just let them watch them in any order, and just take the risk that they might enjoy Star Wars the wrong way.

I should point out that my kids are massive nerds and have been doing most of the agonising themselves.

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makkuwata

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The number one reason not to watch the films in episode order is that The Phantom Menace is one of the worst films ever made.

It is, but we can all agree it's by far the best of the prequels right? Imagine what could have been if we had Qui-Gon and Maul through 2 and 3, and Lucas took some of the criticism on board and asked for help.

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makkuwata

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Wrong. AOTC and ROTS are utter garbage the entire way through. Neeson dragged TPM kicking and screaming to hundreds of 5 star reviews from critics who weren't prepared for the fact that the movie might be bad. If you started with either of the others...people would have noticed.

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Delargey

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Nah, whizzo you are wrong.

Darth Mual was a great villian. The double lightsaber was cool and not pokey.

The pod race was good fun.

Qui Gon was a decent mentor type.

Anikin was terrible but a child actor, so at least he had an excuse.

Duel of the Fates was beautiful.

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I think the main problem with the Phantom Menace is Lucas's insistence on forcing completely unfunny slapstick comedy into it. Comedy battledroids, comedy Jamaican alien, comedy kid-accidentally-blowing-up-shield-generator.

He's like Lt. Hauk from Good Morning Vietnam, but without someone to simply tell him, "George, you're just not funny."

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It's odd that AOTC is by far the worst when the Clone Wars have been the most popular source for spin offs (at least to my not-really-that-bothered-or-been-paying-much-attention basic understanding of those animated series).

There are some worthwhile moments in Revenge of the Sith but it's completely undone as a film by the Anakin/Vader character development being so poorly scripted/acted.

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I was most disspointed with Sith becuase I foolishly kept telling myself that it would be the one to make everything right, that would be when he goes bad.

Instead we got 40mins of pointless jumping around, only for Anikin to be defeated by a hill.

Oh, and him kiling "younglings".

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makkuwata

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I wouldn't even have had a problem with the "I have the high ground" explanation if he didn't contradict himself. Having the high ground is a pretty good thing in a battle, I guess. But the guy pointing it out was the same guy who did a little flip over the trilogies best villain and sliced him in half.

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It's odd that AOTC is by far the worst when the Clone Wars have been the most popular source for spin offs (at least to my not-really-that-bothered-or-been-paying-much-attention basic understanding of those animated series).

There are some worthwhile moments in Revenge of the Sith but it's completely undone as a film by the Anakin/Vader character development being so poorly scripted/acted.

The Clone Wars was the only bit that was really mentioned in the original trilogy, it's got lightsabers and troopers and spaceships. It's literally impossible to get it wrong, even if the stories aren't perfect.

I wouldn't even have had a problem with the "I have the high ground" explanation if he didn't contradict himself. Having the high ground is a pretty good thing in a battle, I guess. But the guy pointing it out was the same guy who did a little flip over the trilogies best villain and sliced him in half.

Therefore he knew to cut anyone who jumped over him in half...

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