Probably too young. Lots of other things to do besides watch Star Wars. Wait until he is 6 or 7 then you can watch the whole series together.

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It’ll scar him life because he’s a little pussy.

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He's one year old? How obsessed with Star Wars can he be? And how much of the movie do you figure he's capable of paying attention to and grasping?

Not much sense in it now, imo.

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I missed the word six. He’s six.

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Screwed up my typing. He’s six.

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If he’s aware of the Noah’s Ark story, he’s aware of the legend of God committing genocide against nearly the entire planet. That’s far more terrifying than Star Wars. My son started watching them when he was 5, with no fear or issues. Your son will likely be fine.

Desensitize him to violence now, wile he's young.

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Ah. That makes more sense.

I was six when I saw it, along with all of my friends. Nobody was traumatized. I think it's fine.

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Agreed. Better than fine. Must see.

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Yes! Watch it with him. He'l love it. Probably won't notice the charred remains. He will quickly want to follow with 5 & 6. In #5 we skipped over very little of anything - can't remember right now. In #6 we skipped the rankor part for quite a while but they loved it when the sand creature ate someone then belched - so we didn't skip over Jaba's demise. Explaining a couple of dead Ewoks at the end was the toughest because they're so damn cute.

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This is the 3rd in this set right ? If so I took my son when he was 6 to the first of these. He told me later he was a little scared at times but just closed his eyes. I think it was Kylo Ren (sp) that scared him.
Have tickets for him, me and two of his buddies for next Saturday night at movie tavern for his birthday. He loves Star Wars.

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My boys started watching the series at 6. They have watched 4 episodes with no visible scarring.

Maybe he can answer the question of who shot first?

My youngest is four, will be five in a few weeks. He's seen all the films, will be seeing the next one soon. But then, I'm a terrible parent.

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Turn in your geek card. A New Hope is episode IV, ie the first of the original trilogy.

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If you let him watch episodes 1-3, you're a horrible parent, and someone should call social services.

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Ahh ... with that in mind I say go for it! Personally I would start at the beginning, which for me is the old school OG movie with a young Luke Skywalker on the moisture farm, but that is where I started when I was about 9.

drn92

If you dont let him watch it, i will call cps on you for neglect!

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No one was nerding out about the movie so
I was trying to play it cool.

I think I’m a lifetime geek card carrier. Or at least I have a half geek tattoo from back in my D&D days.

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Pretty sure I was 7 when we first saw the original in the theaters, and then had the original trilogy (now IV-VI) on VHS to start watching w/ my boy back when he was 4 or 5. He's 20 now and hasn't shot up any schools or shopping malls yet, so I think we did OK on the traumatic violence front.

 Too young IMO.

This has been a great thread as I have a 6 year old son, but have to agree with the above poster, isn't it just a bit young? I mean have you guys been weening you sons since birth on Star Wars? My kid still is into angry birds, lego batman, and almost exclusively cartoon movies. I have made a conscious effort to keep as much violence away from him, but impossible even in the cartoon world. He sometimes gets scared when there are really scary bad guys in the cartoons.

But I guess a lot of Star Wars is cartoonish with all the inhuman characters, is it really time??

Bitch, please. I saw it in a theater when it came out. I was 6.

And back then that kind of special effect was unprecedented.

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Same here.. I was 6 in 1977.

I have asked the sorriest bunch of misfits (who all watched Star Wars as kids) if I should let my son watch Star Wars...

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Trust your instinct Monty. I am in no rush for my son to grow up and see these things. The last Star Wars was rated PG13 - no way my 6 yr old needs to see that.
"Suum cuique"

I am not a sorry misfit and I gave you a good response. He can wait to see it later.

I can’t decide if it’s funny or sad that you don’t know that you are a sorry misfit.

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If he doesn't fit in with the rest of us sorry misfits, does that make him even more of a sorry misfit, or less?

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"People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world."

I don't think they even know about that godawful series. At least I hope they don't. Talk about ruining childhood.

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Bought the box set for my 5yo last Christmas.

Had intention of showing them to him in Machete order (look it up if you don't know).

So far (1 year later) we's made it half way though one movie, before getting bored.

I don't get the Star Wars obsession though. 1970's technical/special FX aside, they're pretty crap from most perspectives. Acting, directing whenever Lucas was near it, constant plot holes/inconsistencies. The laws of physics. Ewoks. Fucking Ewoks, for fucksake. OH&S? Where were you!? The incessant reworking and adding crappy CGI. I could go on...

What a New Hope? Go right for Return of the Jedi when Pricess Leia is wearing the gold bikini in Jabba’s Palace.

Kidding aside, it’s fine. I watched all of the Star Wars movies with my kids as well as Indiana Jones at that age.

I saw it in the theater when I was 4. Perfectly fine. Its enough to get the kids to understand the concept of good and evil, death of loved ones, why we go to war, etc. etc. without being traumatizing.


Now, watching Alien when I was 6? What the hell was my mom thinking?!

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Our, then five year old, and I went through episodes 4, 5, 6 when Mrs S was on a business trip. I just made a deal with him that when I said to turn his head he did. It helps that I'm a SW nerd and know the movies by heart.

Now 6 he really wants to watch the clone wars animated show..not sure where I stand on those just yet in terms of a kid his age.

He has also seen The Force Awakens while we were on a Disney cruise (don't do one of those btw) with the same turn your head criteria..especially when papa solo gets it..dont need Jr getting those ideas in his head just yet.

When making your decision, think of all the people who are recommending the kid to watch Star Wars because they watched it as a kid. Then consider how well they turned out...

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My 6yr old has seen it, he was 5 when he did.

I was six when A New Hope hit theaters, I clearly remember standing in line at the Wilma Theater in Couer D'Alene to watch it. I turned our alright.

I say you let your son watch episodes 4-6, but never, EVER, let him watch 1-3.

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I've been reading about watching in Machete order and I like it.

Throw out episode I. It's terrible and doesn't add anything to the story.

Watch IV, V, II, III, VI

The guy who made this up explains why it works here http://www.nomachetejuggling.com/...ested-viewing-order/

I like how he sums up the entire post...

Shortly after first writing this post, I discovered my college-aged brother-in-law's girlfriend had never seen any Star Wars films and wanted to watch them all over winter break. Armed with the new Blu-rays, we all went about watching them, and I showed them in Machete Order. It honestly works even better than I originally anticipated - it's almost as if this is somehow the intented order. There's a great pattern here, taking the viewer on a series of emotional ups and downs. IV ends with a victory that seems to have some sinister undertones, then V is dark and unresolved with a cliffhanger, II ends with victory with sinister undertones, then III is dark and unresolved with a cliffhanger again. It works incredibly well, and when III ended everyone demanded we immediately watch VI to see how everything gets tied up.

The thing she had the most trouble with was when Leia and Luke are talking in ROTJ, and she talks about how she remembers her mother, her "real mother" (so Leia clearly knows she's adopted). With a few movies between III and VI, one might forget about this line, but watching VI right after III made her stop and ask "wait, what? How does she remember her mother?" There's no way around this point of confusion, watching Episode I or watching them in another order doesn't really help.

I asked her if she found Jar-Jar annoying and she asked "who's Jar Jar?" - Mission accomplished.

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Yeah, my dad took me to see Alien when I was about 9. It was a space movie, and I liked space stuff, so sounds like a great idea, right?

I spent the whole movie under the seat.

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Missa thinkin dis is genius



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That was me during Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom. I was 8. Temple of Doom is practically a horror flick, nothing like the first movie at all.

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I would say it depends on the boy. My boy isn't fazed by "scary things" and images like that (part of his specialness). So we watched Star Wars in the summer together (he was 6) and he loved it. His sister on the other hand will likely be in her teens before I show her SW.
just be prepared for the ENDLESS questions about all the stuff he doesn't understand about the story.

I always have to remind people, we didn't have the kind of marketing back then that they have now. They probably literally saw the movie poster shrunk down and black and white in the news paper and based their decision off of that.

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We had TV and commercials. There would have been an Alien ad. Now, what was actually shown in those 30 seconds is a different story.

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Star Wars Rebel cartoons are available and should be age appropriate.

The whole ad campaign was "In space, no one can hear you scream". If that doesn't tip you off....

I'll add that while I don't think the movies were too scary for my son what I would be mindful of is the trailers before the movie starts. At both Force Awakens and Rogue One some of the trailers were not suitable for 6 and 7

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Your worst risk is from letting them watching Episodes 1-3 and having them turn into whinny little bitches like Anakin...#sandiscoarse

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Or thinking the Star Wars movies are only shot entirely in front of a green screen, with an over generous amount of CGI.

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My lads were that young and younger watching the movies on DVD. However, DH thought it would be a good idea to take them to the theater when they were 5 and 7 to The Force Awakens. And DH had seen the movie first. Super bad idea. #1, it was way too loud for them #2, the open scene of genocide terrified them and #3, my eldest literally lost his shit when Han Solo died.

They're now 7 and 9 and really want to see The Last Jedi in the theater. I think we'll give it another chance and see what happens.

That must have been messy.

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not if he lost it. that means he couldn't find it.

This shit that he lost, was it his own shit or just some shit that he found and brought home?

generally, the best way to find something that you lost is to retrace your steps. But sometimes I'll lose something (usually not my shit though) when it slides in between the sofa cushions. Make sure you check there.

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Well it would have been messy, somewhere...

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maybe it fell out of his pocket on the way home?

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No, he lost his shit when Han Solo died. It must be under the seat. I don't think he looked all that hard to find his shit.

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Maybe it just got up and walked away..

If you haven't scared him for life already, the movie won't be much of a big deal.

I'm 34. Pretty sure I was 6 or close to when I saw it. Sparked an interest in space and sci-fi geek stuff that lasted most of my childhood.

Now, the first Jurassic Park scared the ever loving shit out of me. I think I was in grade 4. That first scene with the raptor pen...

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x2. I loved Indiana Jones, but I had nightmares from Temple of Doom. I think it was mainly the oversized bugs thing then the whole blood drinking brain washing.

My son started watching them after I took him to Force Awakens. IMO they are a bit tamer then the movies but there's still some violence in there.

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Agreed..I threw it on last night and decided it's OK for him. We also started Star Wars Rebels which, so far, is surprisingly good!

There is also the older Clone Wars series which I watched years back. I believe it was by Genndy Tarkowsky (spelling is probably off but it's the guy who did Samurai Jack) which is worth checking out. Interesting format with 3-4 minute episodes (but a ton of episodes). Probably shown during commercials originally on Adult Swim or something like that.

God dam I'm a nerd.

I agree, and have taken a weekend to watch in Machete Order, but now I wonder whether to include Rogue One or not

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He was addicted to both of those for awhile. If I had to pick one I liked clone wars a little better.

My son just last night announced at dinner he knows more about Star Wars then I do. I was going to capitulate but my wife threw out, "I don't about that yet, your dad is a pretty big nerd".

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Just replying to last post. Started watching with the boy. We got through A New Hope in 3 viewings. Boy has the attention span of a gnat.

He walked away from Empire during a space battle scene to play LEGO. Two viewings of Empire so far and they have just left Hoth. This is going to take a while.

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Look on the bright side, look how many times are you getting to re-watch the greatest movies from our youth!

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Well we’re mostly caught up. We watched ‘A force Awakens’ at his schools movie night last night.

We didn’t watch any of the prequel because frankly they suck and I didn’t want to watch them again.

His favourite thus far....

Same as mine....

Return of the Jedi.

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Yep, me too. 6 in '77. A lot of it went over my head but i was left with a general feeling of "that was awesome". I showed it to my daughters (well, forced them to watch it) when they were about 9 or 10 and they were bored for a while but got into it and eventually agreed that it was a good film.

Of course - this refers to the original Star Wars movie and not the pretend crap. Except ..Empire.. that was great too.

I 6 was as well. I think I let my son watch it around that age as well.