Yeah, exactly. The goal is to preserve the reveal of Darth Vader’s real identity. If you just watch them in number order, the prequels spoiler the original trilogy. With the Machete order, you get the Vader reveal in Empire, then a “flashback” that explains how it happened.
Skipping Phantom Menace is just because the guy who came up with the Machete order didn’t like it and felt you got enough context from 2-3. But you can do roughly the same thing without skipping it by just going 4-5-1-2-3-6.
Interesting and actually makes a lot of sense. Though I’m not sure how many would actually benefit from that order outside new, younger Star Wars fans since everyone knows the reveal. Still a cool concept.
Disservice to my favourite one of them, Phantom Menace, but I get it. It’s just not really important in the grant scheme of things. It’s definitely got the coolest final fight imo, outside maybe RotS.
For what it’s worth, the machete order has been a thing for a long while now, but it was only more recently that the prequel trilogy was somewhat “redeemed” when the politicking became a lot more applicable and relatable to those earlier audiences who were likely very bored of it all as teenagers/young adults.
I would say the Phantom Menace is seen as a better movie today than it was back then, even though it’s a slow burn to get started, because it shows the early stages of a collapsing democracy that underlies the events of the following two movies. Everything is weighed down by bureaucracy, there are minor conflicts which escalate into something larger, people turning a blind eye to injustices like slavery, etc.
Yeah, exactly. The goal is to preserve the reveal of Darth Vader’s real identity. If you just watch them in number order, the prequels spoiler the original trilogy. With the Machete order, you get the Vader reveal in Empire, then a “flashback” that explains how it happened.
Skipping Phantom Menace is just because the guy who came up with the Machete order didn’t like it and felt you got enough context from 2-3. But you can do roughly the same thing without skipping it by just going 4-5-1-2-3-6.
Interesting and actually makes a lot of sense. Though I’m not sure how many would actually benefit from that order outside new, younger Star Wars fans since everyone knows the reveal. Still a cool concept.
Disservice to my favourite one of them, Phantom Menace, but I get it. It’s just not really important in the grant scheme of things. It’s definitely got the coolest final fight imo, outside maybe RotS.
For what it’s worth, the machete order has been a thing for a long while now, but it was only more recently that the prequel trilogy was somewhat “redeemed” when the politicking became a lot more applicable and relatable to those earlier audiences who were likely very bored of it all as teenagers/young adults.
I would say the Phantom Menace is seen as a better movie today than it was back then, even though it’s a slow burn to get started, because it shows the early stages of a collapsing democracy that underlies the events of the following two movies. Everything is weighed down by bureaucracy, there are minor conflicts which escalate into something larger, people turning a blind eye to injustices like slavery, etc.