Newbie to Star Wars

[sparks_190e]

32 years old and I've never seen Star Wars apart from A New Hope and some of Empire Strikes back, which I enjoyed. I've just got the blurays cheap on Amazon so I'm going to binge.

If I'm correct I should watch the prequel trilogy first, then the first trilogy, then the new trilogy?

[Eric Mc]

Yes.

If nothing else, you will appreciate how special effects have improved over 40 plus years.

[Halb]

sparks_190e said:

32 years old and I've never seen Star Wars apart from A New Hope and some of Empire Strikes back, which I enjoyed. I've just got the blurays cheap on Amazon so I'm going to binge.

If I'm correct I should watch the prequel trilogy first, then the first trilogy, then the new trilogy?

YOu've seen the best stuff. But since you've already go the discs, there is mean to be a sort of different order to watch them in, maybe mentioned in one of the other threads. It's a good way to experience how style has overtaken substance.

[anonymous-user]

i watched them in order of timeline.

Forget the 1st one, not worth it.

Episode II: Attack of the Clones (2002)
Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005)
Solo (2018)
Rogue One (2016)
Episode IV: A New Hope (1977)
Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Episode VI: The Return of the Jedi (1983)
The Mandalorian series
Episode VII: The Force Awakens (2015)
Episode VIII: The Last Jedi (2017)
Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker (2019)

[sjg]

Release order is OK but “Machete order” also makes a lot of sense - you can google it but the article and other discussions give away a lot of plot spoilers that you may prefer to discover fresh.

You’ve made the right start, it goes 4, 5, 2, 3, 6 - getting to the cliffhanger at the end of 5 then giving you a good bit of back story about Anakin before rounding off with Return of the Jedi. It keeps all the twists intact too.

If you’re interested at that point by all means watch 1 to fill in but it’s not key to the story, doesn’t establish any important characters, just doesn’t matter really. Better to put to one side and get to 6 a bit quicker.

Then the rest of the “numbered” episodes (7, 8, 9) and after that Rogue One, Solo, any other Star Wars stuff like Clone Wars etc.

[Flumpo]

sparks_190e said:

32 years old and I've never seen Star Wars apart from A New Hope and some of Empire Strikes back, which I enjoyed. I've just got the blurays cheap on Amazon so I'm going to binge.

If I'm correct I should watch the prequel trilogy first, then the first trilogy, then the new trilogy?

Can you report back with an honest review. They are all on sky and I’m tempted to give them a go.

I’m 34 and haven’t seen any, although I get a bit of a perverse enjoyment when I tell old people I haven’t seen them. It’s like saying you’ve never heard of toothpaste.

I’m also able to get the same reaction from young people when I tell them I have never read or seen any of the Harry Potter stuff.

[Halb]

Flumpo said:

I’m also able to get the same reaction from young people when I tell them I have never read or seen any of the Harry Potter stuff.

How are you on Twilight?

[Hedobot]

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[anonymous-user]

The orginals, surely that should include the holiday special.

[Flumpo]

Halb said:

Flumpo said:

I’m also able to get the same reaction from young people when I tell them I have never read or seen any of the Harry Potter stuff.

How are you on Twilight?

Not seen that either I’m afraid or lord of the rings.

Or gavin and Stacey which seemed to surprise people last week. Although I have now see call the midwife. It was ok 6/10 flumps.

[Cotty]

Flumpo said:

Or gavin and Stacey which seemed to surprise people last week.

Not really a surprise. A lot of people cant stand the fat guy in it, I have not seen much more than clips but it was enough to know it was not for me.

[Cotty]

Flumpo said:

I’m 34 and haven’t seen any, although I get a bit of a perverse enjoyment when I tell old people I haven’t seen them. It’s like saying you’ve never heard of toothpaste.

I’m also able to get the same reaction from young people when I tell them I have never read or seen any of the Harry Potter stuff.

My dad passed away without ever watching a Star Wars film, he was just not in to science fiction films.

I have seen the Harry Potter films but prefer the early films

[Halb]

Cotty said:

Not really a surprise. A lot of people cant stand the fat guy in it, I have not seen much more than clips but it was enough to know it was not for me.

I haven't seen it either,it just bypassed me, but I also do not like the fat guy

[Pesty]

Only 4,5 and 6 exist.

The rest you can ignore

[sparks_190e]

Pesty said:

Only 4,5 and 6 exist.

The rest you can ignore

As a newcomer to the franchise it'll be interesting to see what I think of the later films.

I'm going to watch in chronological order, but as mentioned I'm probably going to skip The Phantom Menace.

[Cotty]

sparks_190e said:

I'm going to watch in chronological order, but as mentioned I'm probably going to skip The Phantom Menace.

You could at least watch the pod racing, that was quite fun.

[sparks_190e]

Cotty said:

sparks_190e said:

I'm going to watch in chronological order, but as mentioned I'm probably going to skip The Phantom Menace.

You could at least watch the pod racing, that was quite fun.

There's a 5 minute tdlr on YouTube I'll just watch that

[Pesty]

sparks_190e said:

Pesty said:

Only 4,5 and 6 exist.

The rest you can ignore

As a newcomer to the franchise it'll be interesting to see what I think of the later films.

I'm going to watch in chronological order, but as mentioned I'm probably going to skip The Phantom Menace.

You can’t skip one. You have to watch the racist space politics all of it.

[ReaperCushions]

Does anyone have a link to a good overview / refresher ready for the final film?

My memory isn't great of the last film, so I wouldn't mind a quick catch up before going to see the new one tonight without having to watch the whole movie.

[Halb]

RLM?
https://youtu.be/L9hwGZFPSmw