


We moved on to Attack of the Clones, and then the first half of Sith. (Thank the Lord he didn’t care at all for Jar Jar.) Who was this strange kid who loved The Phantom Menace so much?! He wanted to see the scene where Anakin met Padme over and over again. So, a few months later, we started again, this time with The Phantom Menace … and he was totally enraptured. A New Hope) when he was around 4, and, aside from a couple of scenes, he was bored.

Even though I enjoy the prequels (well, two of them), I wanted him to experience the films the way I did. Lauren Leibowitz ( Vulture copy editor): “1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, because chronology!!”īilge Ebiri ( Vulture film critic): “With my son, my plan had always been to show him the films in the order in which they were made.
