Your age, location, and how blown away after seeing Original SW in the Theater in 1977

I first saw "A NEW HOPE" in 1977. I didn't like it. It was do to the fact that the movie was so completely different from anything I had previously seen and I found it intimidating. It took me nearly a decade to finally appreciate it, although it's not my favorite film in the franchise.

 

I was 5 when I saw the Original in 1977. I loved the movie at the time but I honestly don't have many memories of it even today. I didn't see it again for another 6 years when it came to HBO in 1983.

I remember being real nervous wondering if I really did love the movie before it premiered on HBO. Within 5 minutes of the movie it all clicked again from 1977 and I was a fan for life. I probably watched it on HBO hundreds of times in 1983 as it was on almost every day.

 

The only OT film I saw in the theater during its original run (I saw all the Special Editions of course) was RotJ. It was only the second movie I saw in the theater after E.T. I have no clue where I was or all that much about it because I was only 3. My only real memory is being in the theater as the credits were rolling and crying because I wanted to watch it again but we had to leave. My introduction to ANH was about 6 months later, early '84, when it had its American network television premiere. Which was somewhat an event in itself. I remember it was the buzz of the whole neighborhood that Star Wars was going to come on TV and my family purchased our first VCR that day for the event. I still remember pulling out of the driveway in the station wagon and my mom explaining what a VCR was and how we were going to get one to record Star Wars. Of course that was the official story, she wanted it so she could record General Hospital. She was more interested in Luke and Laura than Luke and Leia. That's what eventually led to me getting my first actual commercially released trilogy set (I had the ANH tape we recorded, ESB recorded by a neighbor off Cinemax and an actual commercial VHS of RotJ), my mom recorded over TESB with General Hospital. She probably would have gotten less backlash if she'd run over the family dog, so I got a fancy new VHS widescreen box set complete with From Star Wars To Jedi.

 

I didn't see A new hope in theater but I saw ESB.

 

Did you dooku your drawers when Vader said he was Luke's father?

 

Nope. I remember his skull in his "office". That scared me at the moment

I didn't see it the first day so you know, I got spoiled at school, I knew it when I saw the movie.

And at that moment in Europe, the movies weren't released in the same day as the US as it is now.

 

I was eight. I saw the trailer on TV, the docking bay 94 scene with Han fighting off the Stormtroopers blew me away, that weekend after dinner I begged my mom to go see it. She took me, my sister and my childhood friend to the drive in theatre. We had a great time. I was surprised that mom loved it so much considering she always watches soap operas. A few years later, I begged her to see Star Trek the motion picture; she hated it so much, she told me next time you want to see a Star Warsy film ask your father. But that was Star Trek... Certainly when TESB was released, I ran in the kitchen and asked her to take me, she asked, is that a Star Warsy film? I said yes... Ask your father! Asking dad was like asking Darth Vader to take me to the circus, and sure enough it was the worst movie experience of my life. Back then you could watch a movie multiple times after paying for admission, so we walk in when Han is being put into carbonite, and my dad says remember this scene because thats when were leaving. I fall asleep after the credits cuz I don't know whats going on and he wakes me up at the carbonate scene and says lets go....hahaha never again That made me a Star Wars fan for life.

 

Yeah, but there also wasn't any internet for American to post spoilers on so it probably wasn't that bad. Unless news and TV shows made it a point to spoil things. I've been pretty successful in my Star Wars spoilers blackouts for the PT and recent films. But I did once have the twist of KOTOR spoiled for me because some moron on GameFAQs decided to post it as the title of a thread, and I was only minutes away from getting to that part of the game. If I'd played for a few more minutes before saving/quitting or just hadn't decided to see what the internet was saying about the new game I wouldn't have been spoiled.

 

I wasnt born before 1977... so damn. But i did see the OT in theater back in 1997 - SE. I prefer the O-OT which i grew up on but im only partial to some of the changes...not all but some.

 

I got spoiled at school as well. Someone in my fifth grade class told everyone that Darth Vader is Luke's dad. We were all amazed. I couldn't wait for the weekend to see it!

 

I'm 30 @LadyMusashi is the oldest in this trio, apologize your ladyship. If your referring to the site in general there is a member who is 101 yrs, no recent activity since signing up.

 

i was 1 when a new hope came out can't remember what age i was the first time i watched it but i loved it and never looked back

 

I was somewhere between existence, -16 years old, and wasn't blown away until 1997