Someone Superimposed All 6 ‘Star Wars’ Films on Top of Each Other, Of Course

At some point in the years since 1999, I’m sure someone has said that you could throw all the scenes from the Star Wars movies into a blender and it would still make more sense than The Phantom Menace. And if someone hasn’t said it, they’ve at least thought it. Today, we get to find out that it’s actually true. Some enterprising internet soul went and layered each of the six Star Wars movies on top of one another and played them simultaneously as one video. The result is an eye-searing, cacophonous melange of light sabers, side-wipes, and John Williams cues, and it absolutely makes as much, if not more sense than The Phantom Menace.

Some observations:

• Why is the the logo centered differently every time?? Shouldn’t there be some standard placement so the Lucasfilm, 20th Century Fox, and film title logos aren’t all over the place? What kind of industry are we trying to run?
• The first and second trilogies paced their action differently than each other, with the battle of Hoth (Empire Strikes Back) and the escape from Jabba’s palace (Return of the Jedi) happening concurrently, while the pod race (Phantom Menace) and the General Grievous light saber battle (Revenge of the Sith) happened concurrently but later.
• That John Williams score NEVER. LETS. UP.
• Scenes with subtitles really help you pick out certain movies from the crush of imagery. Thanks, Huttese!
• One actually really cool thing happens at the end, where the birth of Darth Vader in Revenge of the Sith takes place at the exact same time as Anakin’s corpse is put to the pyre in Return of the Jedi (and also at the exact same time that Obi-Wan promises tyke Anakin that he will one day become a Jedi). At one point, the flames from the funeral pyre are licking at Vader as he rises, and there are ZERO scenes in the original trilogy that look that cool. So there’s that.

Now let’s everybody take an aspirin and rest our eyes for a few hours.