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Ok, so as you probably know if we are Facebook's friends, my son Simon has turned into a complete Star Wars fan.
Each month, we buy the Lego Star Wars magazine. We have encyclopedias that we read as bedtime stories. He can spend 10 minutes just watching the covers of my Star Wars DVDs. He has plastic lightsabers. He has seen all the Lego Chronicles of Yoda cartoons, some Clone Wars and knows the story of the 7 movies because we play the games on the PlayStation.
He talks, dreams, brwathes, lives Star Wars.

Now the next natural step would to watch the movies. But he is just five and a half and get sacred quite easily. There is sometimes some rather graphic stuff like burned bodies or scary monsters.
However, on Nightly, a guy was describing how he watches the movies with his 4 year old daughter and she enjoys it a lot.

So what would you say? Do I expose him to the brilliance that is the original trilogy or still too young?

No. Is the short answer. Never too young.

Do the DVD's come with blue/green screen extra's? A friend used to let his daughter (she was about 4, 5 at the time) watch the Avengers movie and then show her the green screen extra's. She'd understand that it was all fake and wasn't scared because of that.

My dad let me watch die Hard at 7...
I feel as if that is a lot worse, and my nephew has seen Star Wars and he is the same age,

Thanks!

I like the special effects/making of idea to, I will need to remember that for my kids.

It depends. If you feel Simon will get scared, you might want to wait another year or so until he can handle a few of the more gruesome bits. Don't try or force it. Most of the movie is bright lights and cool fights but sometimes the one or two scary images tend to get burned into your brain when you're younger and block out the rest of the movie.

Just show him A new hope. There's not a lot of scary stuff in that one, is there?

It's tough trying to remember how you yourself would react to something as a kid.

I remember this one trippy roast turkey scene in a young Sherlock film I watched as a kid. When the turkey came alive and was angry that put me off roast chicken and turkey for some time.

I just remember my first memory of watching A new hope. I was young, probably between 4 and 6. It was awesome and great. Especially since I'd seen bits of Carpenters The Thing just before it, which was scary as fuck.

So maybe that's the way to go. First show him Saw, then Star Wars.

I didn't see Star Wars until I was 16 and I watched the series out of order. I saw Return of the Jedi first, then SW, then I gave up and then a year later I watched the trilogy in the correct order.