How did you get into Star Wars?

I saw TFA and knew it to be true

 

i saw this:

interestingly, it says it aired in September of '77, which means i didn't see Star Wars during that summer like i thought.
must have seen it in the Fall. i was six, so my memory is a little fuzzy apparently.
i just know it was this documentary that we first saw anything of Star Wars and afterwards we begged so hard to see it.
even seeing this now, i recall wistfully falling in love with Darth Vader at first sight. : D

C3PO's final line, by the way: he knew. he always knew. hahahaha

 

I'm not gonna to lie, I used to hate Star Wars as a kid. I don't even know why, I'd never seen any of it! Especially with TCW, where it was pretty popular with other kids in my grade. By chance, I saw a commercial for SW Rebels: Spark of Rebellion in 2014. I thought it looked dumb back then, but I happened to watch it... and I was kinda hooked. I actually started watching the show a little bit and was liking it more and more. I also used to be a fan of the Disney Infinity video game series and when I saw they were adding Star Wars to the third installment, it further motivated me to watch the movies. Sometime in the fall, I watched the OT for the first time with my cousins and I LOVED it. By the time TFA came out, I managed to watch the PT as well and thought they were good as well. Heck, I actually really liked TPM the first time I saw it and I didn't get all the hate for it. I was also surprised at how... tragic RotS is and how many emotions went through me throughout the film. Saw TFA, loved it and also got into collecting the Lego sets. (Even though my thoughts in the movie drastically waned and then were rekindled since then.)

By last fall, I got all of the films on DVD, started slowly delving into TCW TV show, and picked up my first Star Wars books and comic. Now, I still love all the movies (well 7/9 of 'em, but still like elements of the two I disliked), have read way more books, have started delving into Legends, gotten into the comics, have seen all of TCW and SW Rebels, and collected many of the recent Lego sets and minifigures. Now, while I don't like Rebels as much anymore, I still appreciate it for how it introduced me to Star Wars. (Better late than never, I suppose.)

 

you have done well! and welcome to the wonders of this amazing fandom!
your next assignment, should you chose to accept it: find Harmy's despecialized editions of the OT. : D

 

I get you. I knew all the movies before tfa of course. Even quoted yoda. But the movies were just silly to me. And i thought them shallow. My first memory of SW is watching RotJ with my best friend. It must have been in the mid 80ties cuz my memories are fuzzy. But i do remember i started to see him a bit differently then just a buddy. So it must have been the time of first crushes, lol. The moment our hands touched accidentally, followed by blushes had the forest speeders chasing scene in the background

Post TFA i rewtched all the movies through new eyes. Yeah the story is still silly at times. But the charachter dynamics and relationships are so much more beneath their shallow appearances. It is a fantasy adventure movie, but the state of the matter in that world cocorrelate so much with our real world, the seen and the unseen. It's true. All of it. The Jedi, the Sith...
I find the Mortis trilogy to be one of the best things about it. The understanding of the mystical Force presented there resonated with me. So much I tattooed Ashla and Bogan on my shoulder.

 

As a child, I would watch Westerns, Sci-Fi flicks, Pirate films, Sinbad; Sci-Fi shows like Space 1999 and Star Trek, so when I saw the ANH trailer for the first time I instinctively knew I had to see this film. My mom took me and a friend to the local drive-in theatre to see it and I've been a fan ever since.

 

Feels like I was kind of born into it because Star Wars was around me pre-memory. My brothers had the toys, comics and other stuff before I ever saw one of the movies, I probably did too. I saw RotJ in the theater when I was 3, then ANH on TV the following year. My family got our first VCR so we could record it.

 

I posted up somewheres here a version or 2 (maybe it my profile page), so here goes another...
Saw in late summer 1977, I was 10.
(VERY fuzzy to me Now)
What's funny is that what Really stuck is watch some CBS Fall Saturday Morning Preview show, Darth Vader made a brief apperance. Didn't catch his name. Went all through school the next day asking they few friends I had and drawing pics to get my point across "Who is This??? What's his name"
By Empire I was All The Way In.
My family didn't get a VCR, I got us one after I graduated HS and with my 1st paycheck I got us 1. And what do ya think we're my 1st 3 tapes purchased?

 

i love these stories!!! i have vague memories of playing sandpeople vs. stormtroopers on the blacktop and i paid a kid my crayon money (in those days, 25¢) for his Death Star commander action figure. my mother made me give it back ~ hahahaha : D

 

Yup, Love 'Em too. I remember there were a couple kids lived across the way (my handle IS how I was as a kid... and kinda am still), they had the Han Solo Blaster and the Stormtrooper blaster rifle and for a lil' while we'd go and have Rebel & Imperial blaster battles. With like 5 of us an' only 2 blasters an' we'd all havta take turns between blasters & thumb-n-index finger "blasters".

 

I was 6 in the summer of '77, and my mom took me to see it in August. I was hooked from the start. Back then films stayed in the cinema far longer, and I must have seen it another 5 times at least, probably more. I lost count how many. Heck, the cinema I saw the first three in doesn't even exist anymore.

 

Neither does the one I saw all 3 in.

 

Seeing RotJ isn't my first memory but one of the earliest. Three of my four earliest memories are all seeing movies. The first is E.T. The only thing I remember is that it scared the crap out of me and my mom trying to calm me down. The beginning with the shadowy government types and E.T. before they revealed him was a little too much for me. Particularly his nasty hands. After that I remember two movies that came out in '83, RotJ and A Christmas Story. The non-movie memory was from a trip to the Grand Canyon. Don't remember the canyon just some dinky little tourist trap one of my brothers insisted we stop at in Arizona called Flinstone's Bedrock City.

I think a lot of those old theaters didn't survive. Unless they're really old and preserved for historical reasons. There were 9 theaters we would go to in and around our town and only one still exists though it's been turned into a movie grill place. The rest didn't survive the 00's. Between digital conversion and the change to giant megaplexes with larger theaters and recliners the smaller theaters just folded up and the bigger companies seemingly decided to just rebuild. The nostalgic part of me misses the old buildings but I don't miss the tiny theaters with really uncomfortable seats. Which I'm assuming all needed to be improved once internet piracy surfaced and home theater technology really improved.

 

My very first memory with Star Wars was with the prequels LOL. My cousin would watch TPM on repeat and play the N64 podracing game but the movie really never caught really my attention. Went to the movie theater to watch ROTS any given Friday, I had a nice time but didn't leave the screening room as enthusiastic as I did later with the OT and TFA

 

put simply.... everyone around me and older than me were going on and on about Star Wars.

I was 3 when ANH was released. obviously i didn't go and see it, but my parents did try and take me to see Superman the following year as they couldn't get a baby sitter. well it back fired on them as i remember crying my eyes out when they put baby Kal-El on the rocket ship near the beginning and they had to take me out of the theater

I guess that put my dad off taking me to ESB in 1980, but even at 6yrs old i was busting to see it. I had to settle for seeing it on VHS some time later.

By 1983 when i went to see ROTJ multiple times with my friends... i was a massive fan and owned a large collection of action figures (nope i don't still have them.. they got chucked away when we moved house in the mid 80's - don't go there.. i'll cry)

I don't recall much of my life pre 5yrs old.. but i do remember the Star Wars buzz that seemed to be going around.

 

That pod racing game was the shiznittlebam snip-snap sack. My friends and I got so into it that two of them wouldn't talk to each other for a week after a particularly heated night of racing.

 

Not sure, can't remember if I saw TESB first but... my earliest certain memory is my Nan (God rest her soul) buying me a Millenium Falcon and 7 figures for my Christmas present in '81 I believe, maybe '80. I was an only child (at that point) and those toys were a new thing and I was lost in imaginary, fantasy, Star Wars worlds from that moment on. Hooked. Never looked back.

And then, when RotJ came out, the same Nan took me to a triple screening of SW, TESB and RotJ. Good times.