Originally posted by: Gaffer Tape
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?
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.
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?
I may have misunderstood the point you were trying to make and accept the mistakes I made in the post.I referred to Star Wars as ANH as it is now the most convenient way to distinguish titles since we have six movies.