This documentary and its follow-up, How to Watch Star Wars, Part Two, has to be one of the best documentaries I have ever seen.
Check out Part One below of How to Watch Star Wars, Part One: The Prequels Are Better Movies Than You Deserve:
7 Sept 2019
Well here it is, the Star Wars video essay I’ve been working on all year!
It’s twenty years of stray observations about the films and especially the prequels which should be interesting to people, and a rebuttal to Red Letter Media and all those other terrible YouTube reviews, hopefully combined into an interesting essay.
Being me, it talks a lot about Bob Dylan and Kubrick and all those other guys I’m always on about, and I could have cut it down or cut it up into separate videos, but in the end I didn’t want to. It all ties together, and I think it’s interesting.
For all the people over the years who ask why I like the Star Wars prequels so much and I’ve said it’s a complicated subject that takes a long time to get into, well, it looks like 2 hours and 20 minutes is about how long it takes to get into, and here’s your answer!