timdiggerm said:

Mr Ghostface said:

Who cares what Lucas thinks? It's not like he got the prequels right in many other respects either, is it? There's no real way around it, the prequels are written as continuations for the audience, regardless of the chronology of the events they're depicting. You can watch Memento in chronological order if you want to, but it wasn't intended that way and doesn't work as well.

While this is true, Memento is a bad example because the movie is edited into the order it's shown in. It takes significant work to both watching it in chronological order.

Star Wars, on the other hand, has six distinct parts which, with absolutely no effort, you can watch in any order. Now, if you have six things, labelled 1 - 6, which do you think you're going to watch first? Probably not 4.

If I'd never heard of Star Wars, then yeah, 1-6. But people have heard of Star Wars, and in 1999 when these movies were made everyone had heard of Star Wars. Movies aren't made so that a generation down the line if someone comes across them they will know the history behind them, they're made for the audience that sees them when they're first released.