New Best Way to Watch or to Introduce Someone to Star Wars

[DaveC]

Don't know if anyone is interested this but when I have kids I have now found the order I am going to show them Star Wars in.

Below is a series of articles by Drew McQueeny, one of my favourite online film critics who has just finished showing it to his kids, Toshi and Allen. Each if the articles brought a tear to my eye and are well worth a read.

Throughout the articles he makes a great case for watching them in this order:

IV, V, I, II, III, VI


A New Hope

The Empire Strikes Back

THe Phantom Menace

Attack of the Clones

Revenge of the Sith

Return of the Jedi

Here's a link to the previous and continuing adventures of the kids

 

[chris.ph]

try the clone war cartoons first matey

 

[SpideyGirl]

try the clone war cartoons first matey

Though that order is not bad in terms of story.

 

[chris.ph]

its the right timeline spidey and it will get the kids interested without all the special effects

 

[DaveC]

try the clone war cartoons first matey

I have the two cartoons from 2004/5 and say the film from 2008 but not seen the series yet, will pounce when I see them cheap.

The kids in the articles had only seen a few bits of the series which cool.

 

[SpideyGirl]

Oh I thought you were joking Chris! My lad got into the films but he's not fussed on the cartoons

 

[chris.ph]

 

[chuffed]

NO!! start with IV then work in release order... only way to watch them I reckon, we did that with my boy... actually thinking about it we had to cause he was about 4 when he watched them first time and only phantom menace had been released at the cinema by that time!

 

[Bouncy Castle]

It's child cruelty to impose Star Wars on a minor!

[runs]

 

[Sjoerd3000]

I don't like Star Wars

 

[DaveC]

That's fine.


Anyway, I'm sticking with the new order, makes you really, really want Emperor to die at the end

 

[pip]

But they only made three star wars films

 

[raisindot]

But they only made three star wars films

Oh Jeez. You had to go all political on us. Godwin's Law will be comin' about any time now.

 

[ShadowNinjaCat]

But they only made three star wars films

I've only ever seen I II and III First Indiana Jones now Star Wars,I never watch the right ones apparently.

 

[stripy_tie]

I don't like Star Wars

Neither do i really, it's not that i hate it, it's just that i don't really care / find it all that interesting.

Also, if i get my way they won't be setting eyes on a television screen until they're at least 8 years old, hopefully a couple years later than that. TV rots and cripples imagination. Just heaps and heaps and heap of books and running around outside and riding bikes for quite a while.

They'll definitely know the names of every tree species and be able to identify it by it's leaves. You see kids that can identify every brand name by it's logo but if you pointed at an oak tree and asked what it was they'd give you a blank look.

 

[Willem]

Just read all those articles, and they literally had me teary eyed along with the kids and dad. Well written, powerful stuff. Then again I'm a sucker for emotional kid stuff.
My girl's only three and I look forward to sharing all kinds of movies with her, but I won't force Star Wars on her I love that she loves the Lion King and such, it's great watching old familiar movies through her eyes.

 

[meerkat]

Simples!

4,5,6 and then 1,2,3, to show them how you do not make prequals!

Bitter? Moi?

 

[DaveC]

Just read all those articles, and they literally had me teary eyed along with the kids and dad. Well written, powerful stuff. Then again I'm a sucker for emotional kid stuff.
My girl's only three and I look forward to sharing all kinds of movies with her, but I won't force Star Wars on her I love that she loves the Lion King and such, it's great watching old familiar movies through her eyes.

They really are great aren't they! They are long reads but well worth it.

 

[TwoShotTino]

I've not read the articles yet but I would always introduce them to anybody adult or child in the order they was made.

I do think that there is something to be said for watching them after in episode order. I'm not a big fan of the prequels as I don't think they have the same feel of Star Wars and more just a way to line Mr. Lucas' pockets a bit more (like he needs to do that)

I also think that Revenge of the Sith does finally goes some way to being a SW film and I think the scene where Palpatine explains the power of preventing death is great.