Originally posted by: bigbaddaddyvader
Now let's not be pedantic.This thread is about the saga,six movies,and the preferrable order.In THAT context Star Wars is ANH.As a matter of fact if we are talking about watching the original trilogy,IV-VI,in any order it is still ANH as it was changed o this pre-ESB thus making Star Wars ANH in every sense other than as a stand-alone.
Now let's not be pedantic.This thread is about the saga,six movies,and the preferrable order.In THAT context Star Wars is ANH.As a matter of fact if we are talking about watching the original trilogy,IV-VI,in any order it is still ANH as it was changed o this pre-ESB thus making Star Wars ANH in every sense other than as a stand-alone.
It's not being pedantic. It's being logical. If I watch the Back to the Future trilogy (or saga if I wish to call it that), I'm going to watch Back to the Future before I watch Back to the Future Part II. If I watch the prequels, I'm going to watch The Phantom Menace before Attack of the Clones. If I watch Star Trek series, I'll watch Star Trek before I watch Enterprise. Title or no, the first movie comes first. The end. I have plenty of other reasons (which I have stated numerous times over the past two years) over why Star Wars (or A New Hope if you insist) should come first, so I didn't feel like restating it. Instead, I wanted to go a new route and take the cleanest bit of logic I could as a reason for watching the films in released order instead of "saga" order. Sorry if my rationale doesn't please you, but, at the end of the day, I really don't care.
And in terms of history, Star Wars, even after A New Hope was added to the title, was still referred to as Star Wars in every home video release until the 2000 VHS boxset (including the 1997 Special Edition boxset), so, no, your own logic doesn't hold water in terms of Star Wars being A New Hope in every context except as a standalone movie.
EDIT: One other innaccurate point. It was released with "A New Hope" added to it in 1981, after Empire Strikes Back, not before it. Of course, now I'm just picking hairs, but then again, that's pretty much what you were doing to my post to begin with, right?
