What is recommended way to watch the Star Wars series? (lemmy.zip)

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This is my first time watching any Star Wars content. From what I understand and remember I should be watching it in chronological order and I should only watch I-VI since from what I heard that those are the only ones that are actually worth a watch.

Main question

For the original trilogy I've decided to watch the 4K77, 4k80, and 4k83 v1.0 no DNR but I want to know what is the the definitive way to watch the prequels so I wanted to ask which Blu-ray release or fan edit or any release should I look for?

Sorry if I'm asking the wrong community, but I saw a post before in a Star Wars community and it doesn't look like there was much discussion on it.

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[-] zaphodb2002@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago

Star Wars
Empire Strikes Back
Maybe Rogue One

The rest are not so good.

[-] Casuallynoted@pawb.social 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The only Star Wars I’ve ever seen is the holiday special, can’t say I’d recommend it. :0 I guess to some degree that’s one way to experience the franchise though!

[-] bad_news@lemmy.billiam.net 3 points 3 days ago

Only watch OG trilogy pre-90's edits and leave the rest to your imagination

[-] dumblederp@aussie.zone 2 points 2 days ago

Try to find the original versions of the first three movies without the added CG that messes with the story a little.

[-] Akuma@pawb.social 1 points 2 days ago

Could you explain how they mess with the story? Didn't know about that.

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[-] catloaf@lemm.ee 2 points 3 days ago

I don't know if anyone has done special versions of the prequels, so I'd just watch them as-is. George Lucas hasn't re-released a fucked-up version of those (yet, anyway).

In my own opinion, these are the exact versions of the original series I recommend:
05-Star.Wars.4K77.2160p.UHD.no-DNR.35mm.x265-v1.0.mkv
The.Empire.Strikes.Back.1980.D+80.v2.1.UHD.2160p-oohteedee.mkv
03-Return.of.the.Jedi.4K83.35mm.minimalNR.v1.6.UHD.2160p.mkv

Or the 1080p versions if 2k is too much for you. I didn't make notes about why I preferred each one when choosing them a few years ago, so if there are any newer edits you might evaluate them yourself. And apparently Radarr overwrote my selections at one point because none of my file sizes match the table...

[-] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 days ago

For the prequels, you want the Anti-cheese Fan-edits.

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[-] Kabutor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/uQCgrP5jelY

[-] aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Don’t bother with the sequels. Tfa was okay, but it’s shit by og standards.

[-] floo@retrolemmy.com 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I have a master playlist on my Plex server with every Star Wars show and film in timeline order, including episodes in between episodes and seasons in between seasons (mostly for the Tales of the X series and for Rebels/Andor). It took me ages to set up, but it’s based on an article I saw somewhere. If I can find it,I’ll edit this post and link it here. But, as I recall, googling “Star Wars timeline order” should get you a pretty good and authoritative set of lists. Some differ, but they all tend to explain their decisions.

I also did this for all of the Star Trek series and films. That’s a lot longer. The Star Wars one is ~8 days. The Trek one is 33 days.

[-] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 days ago

I've watched/have the Anti-cheese Edits of the Prequels I-III, and the De-Specialized Edits of Episodes IV-VI, and truly enjoyed both.

I don't recall seeing 4k versions of either of these available yet, nor am I aware of suitable source re-leases that could be used to make such. Best of luck to you.

[-] Comexs@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 days ago

The goal of Project #4K77 is simply to create a version of the 1977 Pre-Special Edition version of Star Wars, that will look good on a 4K Television or monitor. Most of the source material is 35mm film scanned at 4K, processed at 4K and rendered at 4K. When no 4K footage is available, an upscale from either the SSE or the Official Blu-ray will be used.

Source

This is basically the same thing for each individual release.

[-] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 days ago

You added a "y" at the begging of the url which screws-up the link, but thanks. My own search had only turned up stale forum garbage. Figured I was out-of-date.