I always say that watching everything by release date is the best. There's a lot of cameos, references and other nice stuff that grow with time. My answer is 4-5-6-1-2-3-CloneWarsSeries.
Star Trek was before my time. Sorry I'm not an old geezer :D Which is actually odd since you aren't that old :D
I'm confused. Wasn't Star Wars before Star Trek? Maybe the original series of Star Trek came first, but they kind of anyway - Enterprise is the one that came afterwards and that started in '84 or such, I believe? I thought the Star Wars movies were like... late 70's and mid-80's?
"Star wars" is a jewel from 1977, the second isn't a bad follow up (in fact it is one of the best follow up ever made to a commercial movie)
and the third was made by richard donner (hmmm coughlethalweapon's1through5cough, very much less than it could have been obviously) because georges lucas was too busy/tired from the whole ordeal (not to mention he was taking revenge on the huge amount of people who (before the success) had said he was a freak/dumbass/retarded kid/etc..) this by building an industrial "empire", that remains one of the most established to this day...
At the end of "empire strikes back", he then went on to do a little thing called indiana jones (;^p not half bad either, and i know it says s spielberg on the dvd.. but look more closely...)
Star trek tv serie came before star wars in the mid sixties, but at the time never made it big like the first distributed star wars did ... the tv show was considered weird by adults
(when you watch it now.. uuhhh.. derp di derp..no comment, the ideas were there, but the visuals had a bad habit of getting you laughing at the tv set in the middle of a crisis (much like yoda hopping in sw2))
and the scope of it was generally dumbed down (yes for kid consumption, nothing has changed in 60 years on tv))
The first star trek movies came out from the success of star wars (so called 4) (first star trek movie in 1979), they weren't half bad for their time, but the lore was already "installed" from the tv serie (not to mention stars had a say in what went on in it.. and that's hardly a good thing usually...) and they felt only as a great reboot of a half done serie to sci fi geeks (like me for one).
In all seriousness, star trek is well researched (the telocomunicator is an iphone (picture this in 1965), only thing missing is the teleportation) but ultimately flawed.. we aspire to the nature of the fiction t entails .. but know it is not happening... we just can't get along on our own planet ;)
Whereas star wars is more or less the bible with no care taken to go in depth into the tech shite and what we will become.. it is a simple fable..
..a "matinee cereal" (serial lol = g lucas' favorite way of saying " i could have done 2001 too, they just wouldn't let me" .. which is sort of true (see "thx 1138" his first short movie with r duval = awe some seriousness = made a flop when shown to the producers to get star wars going) ... it is sort of cool for a kid's movie.. i'm just sad that his "geek" status (wanting to use models to picture space combat in an operatic way) and his resentment (turned control freak) didn't land him a great writer that would have magnified/amplified/blown up, so it would have amounted to more than : ".. no.. i am your father!" ... "noooooooooooooo"
It is true that lucas has declared that he wrote all of it before hand (lol at that.. the so called 3 4 and 5 (uhh not 5) were completely done within the confines of what could be done at the time.. and they panned out pretty good (well the 3rd is sort of not .. but who cares).. while in the so called 1 2 and 3 .. he could do exactly what he wanted, ... [dramatic huge ass long pause, hear the flies on the pig...] and we all know what came out : dou dou, with a little light saber to seal the deal... (disappointing to say the least .. no? But lets admit that he was an old fart when he wrote them proper and that makes more sense .. no? Btw, did you know the sick fuck "bought" the term "light saber" .. and even sued a surgeon company that wanted to call its medical laser like that???!!!!lllololololoooooolllll)))
i love star wars (star trek is not that bad but it has tj hooker (w shatner) trying to match up to leonard nimoy= lol)
but it is just not on par with:
boring "2001"
or awesome
"tron"
"the man that fell to earth" (awesome and with david bowie as the alien)
"the thirteenth floor"
"dark city"
"gattaca"
"avalon"
"Primer"
.. snif.. sob.. not at all, but you know "star wars is for kids" ;)
I kind of messed up my previous post (Star Trek Enterprise is actually the latest one, I meant Star Trek: The Next Generation, which is ABOUT a Starship called Enterprise - it's the one with Picard), but as a little response to this;
In all seriousness, star trek is well researched (the telocomunicator is an iphone (picture this in 1965), only thing missing is the teleportation) but ultimately flawed.. we aspire to the nature of the fiction t entails .. but know it is not happening... we just can't get along on our own planet ;)
Are you serious? Back when we were all apes, we lived in tribes murdering eachother. We stepped over into a roman empire with slaves, into little kingdoms, into continuously growing countries, into the 'fort Europe' and 'United States of America' that we have today. Pure globalization is the logical next step. I really believe a Star Trek-esque world can be our future, especially if we ever find entirely different races to quarrel with rather than amongst ourselves.
Star Wars was based on the hero's journey which supposedly shows up in a lot of myths and specific trials appear throughout all these hero myths. I forget the old guy's name but he put out a book stating throughout the whole world all myths follow a pattern even though people weren't able to talk to each other. I think the book was called the hero with a hundred faces or something like that. Basically George based star wars off what he said was the hero's journey. If you think about it with Legend of Zelda it's pretty much the same as well.
I'm in the middle of TNG season 2 on Netflix right now. I used to watch Star Trek with my Mom when I was younger but back then Data was never this funny.
"Can you please continue the petty bickering, I find it fascinating."
pre·quel
[pree-kwuhl]
-noun
a literary, dramatic, or filmic work that prefigures a later work, as by portraying the same characters at a younger age.
World English Dictionary
prequel (ˈpriːkwəl)
-n
a film or book about an earlier stage of a story or a character's life, released because the later part of it has already been successful
Encyclopedia
prequel
a literary or dramatic work whose story precedes that of an earlier-written work. For example, Lillian Hellman's play Another Part of the Forest (1946) portrays the earlier lives of the characters she first wrote about in The Little Foxes (1939).
se·quel
[see-kwuhl]
-noun
1. a literary work, movie, etc., that is complete in itself but continues the narrative of a preceding work.
2. an event or circumstance following something; subsequent course of affairs.
3. a result, consequence, or inference.
World English Dictionary
sequel (ˈsiːkwəl)
-n
1.anything that follows from something else; development
2.a consequence or result
3.a novel, play, etc, that continues a previously related story
[C15: from Late Latin sequēla, from Latin sequī to follow]
I'm with Reaper872 that it's not a prequel no matter what dictionary definition you bring on. IMO Lucas just thought that with the technology he had back then it would be easier to shoot those 3 last parts
Hey hello hi, I'm pretty sure it's in chronological order.
What kind of obese ass would knowingly endure 418 minutes of Jar Jar Binks and other profanities only to kick the bucket seconds before the binary sunset scene? :P
Alright. The issue isnt whether 1/2/3 are prequels, it is what order they should be watched in. Prequels almost always should be watched after the original series because they rely on knowledge gained in the original series and are designed to invoke emotions in people who have seen the original series. Not to mention the whole Darth Vader-Luke thing and Leah-Luke thing would be ruined...
Heres an example, seeing Yoda do backflips while kicking ass with a lightsaber? Not so awesome if you havent seen him old and frail in the original series.
@Mozared: Go
Star Trek was before my time. Sorry I'm not an old geezer :D Which is actually odd since you aren't that old :D
That's the one with that O'connel guy and the goa'uld, right?
I always say that watching everything by release date is the best. There's a lot of cameos, references and other nice stuff that grow with time. My answer is 4-5-6-1-2-3-CloneWarsSeries.
I'm confused. Wasn't Star Wars before Star Trek? Maybe the original series of Star Trek came first, but they kind of anyway - Enterprise is the one that came afterwards and that started in '84 or such, I believe? I thought the Star Wars movies were like... late 70's and mid-80's?
"Star wars" is a jewel from 1977, the second isn't a bad follow up (in fact it is one of the best follow up ever made to a commercial movie)
and the third was made by richard donner (hmmm coughlethalweapon's1through5cough, very much less than it could have been obviously) because georges lucas was too busy/tired from the whole ordeal (not to mention he was taking revenge on the huge amount of people who (before the success) had said he was a freak/dumbass/retarded kid/etc..) this by building an industrial "empire", that remains one of the most established to this day...
At the end of "empire strikes back", he then went on to do a little thing called indiana jones (;^p not half bad either, and i know it says s spielberg on the dvd.. but look more closely...)
Star trek tv serie came before star wars in the mid sixties, but at the time never made it big like the first distributed star wars did ... the tv show was considered weird by adults
(when you watch it now.. uuhhh.. derp di derp..no comment, the ideas were there, but the visuals had a bad habit of getting you laughing at the tv set in the middle of a crisis (much like yoda hopping in sw2))
and the scope of it was generally dumbed down (yes for kid consumption, nothing has changed in 60 years on tv))
The first star trek movies came out from the success of star wars (so called 4) (first star trek movie in 1979), they weren't half bad for their time, but the lore was already "installed" from the tv serie (not to mention stars had a say in what went on in it.. and that's hardly a good thing usually...) and they felt only as a great reboot of a half done serie to sci fi geeks (like me for one).
In all seriousness, star trek is well researched (the telocomunicator is an iphone (picture this in 1965), only thing missing is the teleportation) but ultimately flawed.. we aspire to the nature of the fiction t entails .. but know it is not happening... we just can't get along on our own planet ;)
Whereas star wars is more or less the bible with no care taken to go in depth into the tech shite and what we will become.. it is a simple fable..
..a "matinee cereal" (serial lol = g lucas' favorite way of saying " i could have done 2001 too, they just wouldn't let me" .. which is sort of true (see "thx 1138" his first short movie with r duval = awe some seriousness = made a flop when shown to the producers to get star wars going) ... it is sort of cool for a kid's movie.. i'm just sad that his "geek" status (wanting to use models to picture space combat in an operatic way) and his resentment (turned control freak) didn't land him a great writer that would have magnified/amplified/blown up, so it would have amounted to more than : ".. no.. i am your father!" ... "noooooooooooooo"
It is true that lucas has declared that he wrote all of it before hand (lol at that.. the so called 3 4 and 5 (uhh not 5) were completely done within the confines of what could be done at the time.. and they panned out pretty good (well the 3rd is sort of not .. but who cares).. while in the so called 1 2 and 3 .. he could do exactly what he wanted, ... [dramatic huge ass long pause, hear the flies on the pig...] and we all know what came out : dou dou, with a little light saber to seal the deal... (disappointing to say the least .. no? But lets admit that he was an old fart when he wrote them proper and that makes more sense .. no? Btw, did you know the sick fuck "bought" the term "light saber" .. and even sued a surgeon company that wanted to call its medical laser like that???!!!!lllololololoooooolllll)))
i love star wars (star trek is not that bad but it has tj hooker (w shatner) trying to match up to leonard nimoy= lol)
but it is just not on par with:
boring "2001"
or awesome
"tron"
"the man that fell to earth" (awesome and with david bowie as the alien)
"the thirteenth floor"
"dark city"
"gattaca"
"avalon"
"Primer"
.. snif.. sob.. not at all, but you know "star wars is for kids" ;)
I kind of messed up my previous post (Star Trek Enterprise is actually the latest one, I meant Star Trek: The Next Generation, which is ABOUT a Starship called Enterprise - it's the one with Picard), but as a little response to this;
Are you serious? Back when we were all apes, we lived in tribes murdering eachother. We stepped over into a roman empire with slaves, into little kingdoms, into continuously growing countries, into the 'fort Europe' and 'United States of America' that we have today. Pure globalization is the logical next step. I really believe a Star Trek-esque world can be our future, especially if we ever find entirely different races to quarrel with rather than amongst ourselves.
Star Wars was based on the hero's journey which supposedly shows up in a lot of myths and specific trials appear throughout all these hero myths. I forget the old guy's name but he put out a book stating throughout the whole world all myths follow a pattern even though people weren't able to talk to each other. I think the book was called the hero with a hundred faces or something like that. Basically George based star wars off what he said was the hero's journey. If you think about it with Legend of Zelda it's pretty much the same as well.
Quote from houndofbaskerville:
or awesome
"tron"
----
Hey my Character name is TRON. :)
on SEA.
And also. i have Trekkie's, Warsies and Nerds in my family.
In fact a am a Trekkie. SO DONT DOWN THE TREK!!!
@Draconis3216: Go
I'm in the middle of TNG season 2 on Netflix right now. I used to watch Star Trek with my Mom when I was younger but back then Data was never this funny.
"Can you please continue the petty bickering, I find it fascinating."
I recently had a movie night where we watched them in alphabetical order. It was interesting to say the least.
So, the order we watched them in was 4 2 6 3 5 1.
pre·quel [pree-kwuhl] -noun a literary, dramatic, or filmic work that prefigures a later work, as by portraying the same characters at a younger age.
World English Dictionary prequel (ˈpriːkwəl) -n a film or book about an earlier stage of a story or a character's life, released because the later part of it has already been successful
Encyclopedia prequel a literary or dramatic work whose story precedes that of an earlier-written work. For example, Lillian Hellman's play Another Part of the Forest (1946) portrays the earlier lives of the characters she first wrote about in The Little Foxes (1939).
se·quel [see-kwuhl] -noun 1. a literary work, movie, etc., that is complete in itself but continues the narrative of a preceding work. 2. an event or circumstance following something; subsequent course of affairs. 3. a result, consequence, or inference.
World English Dictionary sequel (ˈsiːkwəl) -n 1.anything that follows from something else; development 2.a consequence or result 3.a novel, play, etc, that continues a previously related story [C15: from Late Latin sequēla, from Latin sequī to follow]
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I'm with Reaper872 that it's not a prequel no matter what dictionary definition you bring on. IMO Lucas just thought that with the technology he had back then it would be easier to shoot those 3 last parts
Hey hello hi, I'm pretty sure it's in chronological order.
What kind of obese ass would knowingly endure 418 minutes of Jar Jar Binks and other profanities only to kick the bucket seconds before the binary sunset scene? :P
Alright. The issue isnt whether 1/2/3 are prequels, it is what order they should be watched in. Prequels almost always should be watched after the original series because they rely on knowledge gained in the original series and are designed to invoke emotions in people who have seen the original series. Not to mention the whole Darth Vader-Luke thing and Leah-Luke thing would be ruined...
Heres an example, seeing Yoda do backflips while kicking ass with a lightsaber? Not so awesome if you havent seen him old and frail in the original series.
Oh, I think I remember that episode. Is that when Doctor Who tells the goa'uld to go fuck themselves?