Honestly Phantom Menace becomes a lot more watchable if you track down and watch a fan cut called The Phantom Edit, which gets rid of a lot of the Jar Jar and some of the other worst bits of nonsense.
Prequels first, then original trilogy (chronological order)
Original trilogy first, then prequels (order the films were made)
One of those fancy new orders you see around the internet
Chuck the prequels, just watch the original trilogy
Other?
MIX IT UP, GO FULL RANDOM, #YOLO #SWAG #420 #BLAZEIT #R2D2
Honestly Phantom Menace becomes a lot more watchable if you track down and watch a fan cut called The Phantom Edit, which gets rid of a lot of the Jar Jar and some of the other worst bits of nonsense.
I'm an advocate of always watching/reading/playing the thing in the order that it came out, even if the author says another order is optimal. So IV - V - VI - I - II - III. Same goes for Kingdom Hearts and the Chronicles of Narnia
IV, V, II, III, VI
Just don't even bother with Phantom Menace.
I agree that it's actually the best of them, mostly because the directing and effects are the least awful of them all. But as far as how relevant the movies are to things that happen after them, there's pretty much nothing that happens in it that's important to future movies.
Just end with VI in regardless of the sequence. Dun venture into IX.