I have a friend who has never seen Star Wars and he wants to watch it.
I am unsure which order I should suggest. Should he watch the old or new Trilogy first? Or some kind of mixed order? I am looking for a well-reasoned answer, not one-liners.
Answer
The Machete Order seems to be a great idea. It is a variation of the method @Nobby suggested, but it leaves out Episode I completely.
So the order is: IV, V, II, III, VI
The article is long but worth reading, it makes a lot of great points.
A little extract on why Episode I is unnecessary:
Episode I is a failure on every possible level. (...) Luckily, George
Lucas has done everyone a favor by making the content of Episode I
completely irrelevant to the rest of the series. Seriously, think
about it for a minute. Name as many things as you can that happen in
Episode I and actually help flesh out the story in any subsequent
episode. (...) Every character established in Episode I is either
killed or removed before it ends (Darth Maul, Qui-Gon, Chancellor
Valorum), unimportant (Nute Gunray, Watto), or established better in a
later episode (Mace Windu, Darth Sidious).
(already added it as a comment, but I think it deserves its own answer)
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