What's your preferred way to watch Episodes I, II, and III?

Question pretty much says it all. I remember that some efforts were started a while ago to cut and recombine all three movies into a watchable whole, but  never paid much attention to them. Now, however, I'm kind of in the mood to watch them sometime, so I was wondering if any of those efforts eventually bore fruit as enjoyable movies to watch. Which of those edits would you recommend me and why?

I like to laugh while watching.

:-)

Clarification, however, it's "Attack of the Ridiculousness."

In 1975.

That way I can look forward to the better episodes that haven't come out yet.

Simply: Not at all.

Stoned out of reality. On mute. With my eyes poked out.

Tyrphanax said:

Akwat Kbrana said:

1. The Ridiculous Menace

2. Attack of the Ridiculousness

3. Revenge of the Ridiculousness (forthcoming)

 

This is really the best answer. Watched TRM earlier today and ALLOL'd.

I love you guys. <3

The rest of you with answers like "not at all" or "tv turned off" should really give #1 and #2 a try.

My preferred version is to watch them drunk.

Very very stoned and must be a fanedit.  Doesn't have to be a radical edit, just as long as most of anakins bad moments are trimmed I'm ok.  Because let's face it, Luke could be whiny too.  The difference? Better acting.  But I don't mind Hayden as long as the worst of his dialogue is removed.  Oh, and did I mention stoned? 

Anchorhead said:

I'll let you guys know if it ever happens.

Darn it man, you're making me sad.

I always thought Lucas should have done just one 3+hour prequel movie, instead of a whole trilogy.   I know that he would make more money with a trilogy, but I think a singular prequel movie would have done much better with public overall.

We didn't need a trilogy because I think the 3 movie idea poses so many problems.  The main point of the Prequels was to show how Anakin turned to Darth Vader, and by having 3 movies and essentially waiting 6 years to see how he turned in Episode III, you have a build up of expectations which are ridiculous.  Then you get so much filler time in the Prequels because Lucas had to tell his story in 3 movies, so you get alot of stuff that people really don't care about. 

Lucas could have told the story of Anakin becoming Darth Vader in 1 movie (the same way Coppola showed Vito Corleone coming to power in Godfather II).  Lucas could have told the story during the backdrop of the Clone Wars as the Emperor is ascending to power, and all the red meat could have been in just this one movie. 

The whole Episode IV thing since the early eighties sort of makes a trilogy an all or nothing proposal.

Bingowings said:

The whole Episode IV thing since the early eighties sort of makes a trilogy an all or nothing proposal.

Lucas has changed the movies so many times, he could have did away with the episode numbers altogether in the late 90's.

If you remember, even the 1997 VHS Boxes on the sleeve did not contain the Episode #'s, as they were just Star Wars, Empire, and Jedi.  Lucas didn't start putting episode numbers on the sleeves of home video until the Episode I DVD came out.  In fact, I remember leading up to the opening of Episode I, he actually called it Episode I for the first time, as he never did that in the 80's.  They didn't advertise Return of the Jedi as Episode VI, they advertised it as Return of the Jedi.  Or Revenge of the Jedi in 1982.  ;-)

Heck, Lucas made Luke and Leia siblings after they smooched, he could have easily deleted the episode numbers from the movies and just released one prequel movie and he would have been fine. 

I think once he added the episode numbers to take them away again would have created such a stink he wouldn't have lived it down.