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View Poll Results: Which version of Star Wars Blu-ray will you be purchasing (or not)? | |||
The Complete Star Wars Saga |
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1,335 | 72.48% |
The Prequel Box Set |
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20 | 1.09% |
The Original Trilogy Box Set |
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110 | 5.97% |
Not Purchasing Star Wars Blu-ray |
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377 | 20.47% |
Voters: 1842. You may not vote on this poll |
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Mar 2016
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Blu-ray Grand Duke
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Oct 2016
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But it creates many more suprises. Talk to kids who didn't grow up on the OT and have watched them in order. The surprise of Palpatine becoming The Emperor and Anakin becoming Darth Vader work great when watched order. And the redemption of Vader at the end of Episode VI is much much much more powerful.
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Blu-ray Samurai
May 2013
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Heres my order.
Proper order: 1, 2, 3, 4 (SE), 5 (SE), 6 (SE), Preferred order: 4 (OT), 5 (OT), 6 (OT), 1, 2, 3 To put it bluntly theres no 'correct' way to watch these. Why? Everyone has been introduced to these films at different times. Those who got into SW in the last 15-20 years will likely go in the 'story' order and may like the PT best because they were the newest and likely saw them in the theatres. Fans who back farther than that (like myself though only by a few years) will likely like the first trilogy best. My interest in SW started around the time of the SEs so I do have a soft spot for those versions. That being said I do prefer the original cuts since they were the first versions I owned. Im not against Lucas having his vision or fans wanting to view the films a certain way but not allowing the originals to not coexist with the current versions is a rewriting of history which I dont agree with. I like the Prequels. Maybe not as much as the first trilogy but I dont hate Lucas for making them. I look at it as being able to know what preceded the originals for better or worse. That also being said I do prefer practical FX and do thing the overuse of CGI gets old after a while. I just saw the trailer for the new Mummy film a few days ago and me and my family were all saying how much CGI is going on at once. Sorry but for me all movies look the same these days. Last edited by crissrudd4554; 12-11-2016 at 03:07 PM. |
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#59845 |
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To me, the special editions are an exercise in indulgence on the part of Lucas. One could attempt to argue that it helps the original trilogy to mesh with the prequels, but if that was Lucas' mission, he strayed from it a lot. So many of the changes are seemingly just there to be different, not even to enhance the story.
The restored Biggs scene works. The Jabba scene just slows things down and hurts our perception of him. Some of the effects updates work IMO, like the enhanced space fight at the end. Mos Eisley gets a little too much added. I enjoyed seeing the changes at first because I'd seen the original cuts so many times by then, but they shouldn't have completely replaced the original cuts with the special editions. I guess from a marketing perspective it could be confusing to have different cuts floating around out there. TNT has been airing the movies a bunch lately, since they're showing off that they have exclusive television rights to the films right now. It would be weird if they aired different cuts of the films. It would confuse the newer generation of fans, and they would have had to call one version by a different name, so people could tell which version is airing. Like call the originals the legacy editions, or simply call out the special edition versions. As much as I disagree with Lucas for pretty much burying the original cuts, I've come to accept the special editions, even after they've been changed twice more since '97. They're still Star Wars to me, and it's my favorite franchise by far. I'm happy that newer generations enjoy the special editions, and Lucas didn't just make them for himself. I mean, he pretty much did, but he must have done something right (or not enough wrong) if those who didn't grow up with the original cuts are still thrilled and moved by the special editions. As for the viewing order, I'm partial to the original release order of 4, 5, 6, 1, 2, 3. But then again it's a nice idea to end on a high note with Jedi's finale, instead of ending it with build up for episode 4. Chronological makes logical sense. Episode 1 isn't a great start IMO, but it is technically the earliest part of the story, until we get prequels/spinoffs that predate episode 1. |
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#59846 | |
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Mar 2012
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Whatever one's preferred order is, the "meant" order is 4.5.6.1.2.3 |
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Mar 2016
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"The Darth Vader reveal", so what is Episode III to someone new? Gee so Anakin turning into Darth Vader is just so terrible because it is a powerful story ark that has come from dispair instead of an unearned Darth Vader just looks cool vision? Instead of being an audience reveal it is a Luke reveal that maybe shoulld have always been to begin with? But hey, lets have new viewers end with the down ending of Ep. III instead of the powerful send off to VI that show hope and wrap up and Anakin in a state of grace after being saved by his son??? For me, a large portion of the CGI is seamless. Most people don't know what all was changed because of concentrating on the few bad ones. To each his own, but I am not in the camp that any order is ok, and neither is the creator. Making movies to make money is not the same as only wanting them told one way. Quote:
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#59848 |
Blu-ray Knight
Jul 2015
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#59850 | |
Blu-ray Ninja
Jul 2009
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Release order is a perfectly valid way to watch them, but Lucas designed the films to be watched in Episode order once he finished the prequel trilogy. When he made the prequels and modified the original trilogy with prequel elements (starting with the DVD release) he retroactively turned the originals into sequels. The lynchpin of this was transforming the ghost of Anakin into Hayden at the end of Return of the Jedi. Seeing Hayden at the end does not work at all from a story or thematic perspective without the context of the prequel trilogy. Just the fact that he modified the films like that at all should show you Lucas' mindset-- he wasn't careful in making the prequels feel like back stories for the originals, he just did what he wanted and then altered the originals to fit the prequels accordingly, instead of the other way around. He even went as far as to avoid showing the starlines when ships go into hyperspace, because he wanted to maintain that "reveal" in Episode IV (apparently the Darth Vader being Luke's father moment was less important). Anyway, all of this to me is why I think of Star Wars as either the UOT by itself on it's own or the "Lucas Saga" as I call it comprising all 6 films (we're not taking the new films into account with this) with the originals being the modified versions on DVD or Blu-Ray and being watched in the context of the Prequel trilogy. |
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Thanks given by: | crissrudd4554 (12-11-2016) |
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Oct 2016
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Are you meant to Read The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings before the Silmarilion? Or read Game of Thrones before Dunk & Egg? Many people love the chronology of it. I watch Captain America 1 before Iron Man 1. I watch The Hobbit trilogy before The Lord of the Rings. At some point when all of the movies are out I will watch the Fantastic Beast movies before I watch the Harry Potter movies. You act as if watching the Star Wars movies in order ruins it. It doesn't. It just readjusts the important and shocking moments. For me personally I prefer it in order. |
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Blu-ray Samurai
Jun 2016
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This isn't anything new. The Dark Empire Trilogy also kind of "ignored" the ending of Episode 6, but nobody complained.
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Blu-ray Samurai
Jun 2016
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Then he gives us-not one but three prequel 'masterpieces' to further enrich the STAR WARS universe. The prequel trilogy was IMO nothing more than a big six hour toy commercial. In the end Lucas did more damage than good. Last edited by Bobbyjoe766; 12-11-2016 at 08:25 PM. |
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Blu-ray Samurai
Jun 2016
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Blu-ray Grand Duke
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