Watching Star Wars in the Machete order - Page 3

On January 16 2013 01:47 Diabulus wrote:
Oo how can you say Episode 1 is a bad movie? Anything made by George Lucas, even a porno, would be 10 stars/ 10 from me -.-

On January 16 2013 03:48 Demonhunter04 wrote:


Haha you make his death sound even more lame than it was. He didn't just trip and fall into a shaft and die, he was bisected with a saber thrust he could've seen coming for several seconds.

On January 16 2013 03:58 meadbert wrote:
I totally agree with this post, although I do not advocate skipping episode 1.

451236 is the correct order.

On January 16 2013 02:26 Misacampo wrote:
people hate jarjar binks? I liked him

On January 16 2013 04:15 Animzor wrote:


It's cool to hate him and EP1.

On January 16 2013 01:54 Thallis wrote:
Why would you ever subject yourself to the horror that was Episode 2? The best way to watch star wars is 4, 5, 6. There's no point to watching the prequels unless you want a plot that makes no sense at all, no defined main characters, shallow and emotionless romance, incredibly implausible chases, and worst of all, the destruction of Yoda and the Force.

Also Attack of the Clones is much, much worse than Phantom Menace.

On January 16 2013 04:02 Mortal wrote:


can you give an actual purpose to watching ep1? there's nothing added to the series other than an abysmal and annoying frog thing and some races. I'd like to skip ep2 as well but there's actually some shit that goes on there.

On January 16 2013 04:02 Mortal wrote:


can you give an actual purpose to watching ep1? there's nothing added to the series other than an abysmal and annoying frog thing and some races. I'd like to skip ep2 as well but there's actually some shit that goes on there.

imo there's no way you can recommend ep4 and turn around and lambaste ep1. in ep4 you are thrown into the storyline with zero understanding of any of the backplot. the "force" is never really explained aside from "its there" and "jedi use it". darth vader is barely characterized in the movie aside from being the bad guy with immense unexplained power. the entire movie is basically 2.5 acts, a short introduction of luke, the main storyling of rescuing leila, and then destroying the deathstar. nothing is ever truly explained. ep4 is just as garbage as ep1 if you want to define it on the grand scale of the star wars story. ep4 can be a good movie if you like explosions and lasers and all that jazz people in the 70s loved.

On January 16 2013 04:37 Warlock40 wrote:
It would have been a lot easier if George Lucas had only been smart enough to edit Episode III a little better.

These are the only changes that needed to be made:

- Palpatine never refers to Anakin as Darth Vader, instead just calling him Anakin
- after Anakin loses to Obi-Wan on the lava planet, the viewer is left to conclude that he dies of his wounds there
- at the end of the movie, we are introduced to Darth Vader for the first time as a new character; Palpatine addresses him as his new apprentice

These changes wouldn't affect the viewing for most people, but for future generations who wish to watch the episodes in order, this would preserve the plot twist of Darth Vader = Luke's father.

On January 16 2013 04:41 Warlock40 wrote:
That's how pretty much all "first" entries that introduce a larger universe are. By "first" I don't mean chronologically within the series but "first" as in the first one created by the author. Look at The Hobbit, for example. The ring is never really explained other than that it grants invisibility; all we know about Sauron (we don't even know his name) is that he's some shadowy necromancer type. Episode IV really works by itself as a stand-alone, and it worked pretty well as a jumping-off point for decades before the prequel trilogy was made.

On January 16 2013 04:02 Mortal wrote:


can you give an actual purpose to watching ep1? there's nothing added to the series other than an abysmal and annoying frog thing and some races. I'd like to skip ep2 as well but there's actually some shit that goes on there.