When you were introduced to Star Wars for the first time — Page 2

TV’s Frink said:

HansiG said:

in 2005

This thread is not going to make me feel very young…

Me either. I seem to be the oldest one so far.

My mother took me to see it in 1977. She’d read the book and then seen the movie once and thought I might light it. I ended up seeing it 10 times over the next 3 years. Then I saw on HBO a couple of times at a friend’s house. Then we moved and a new friend had it on tape (from HBO). The OT was one of the first things I got when we finally got a VCR in 1987. The 1985 version of A New Hope is my go to version because I watched it so often (way more than 20 times).

When I played some Star Wars video games at my neighbor’s house at around age 6.

David Zaragoza said:

Colson, about Episode III, I kind of disagree with you. While it certainly doesn’t reach the levels of the OT, it certainly far outclasses the other two prequels in terms of storytelling, pivotal moments, and even pacing. It is also better than your average typical science fiction film these days.

As for the GOUT, I enjoy the set, but I don’t love it. It is outclassed by the De-Ed, the Silver Screen Edition, and from what I can tell, the Legacy Edition. I still have it, and though the discs are scratched up, they play without error. I also bought the Blu-Ray, with Darth Vader as the cover of the Complete Saga, but that was before I knew about DESPECIALIZED.

Just because the turd I took today was better than the turd I took yesterday doesn’t make it any less of a turd.

I saw a clip of the trench run on the BBC science and technology show Tomorrow’s World early in 1977. It was about the motion control cameras used in this weird unheard of up and coming science fiction film. There was a man in a suit of gold armour and a monkey and an airplane traveling down a metal canyon. I was hooked.

I saw Star Wars in a cinema in 1979. I was 7.

Around 92/93. I was about 5 years old, and my mom let me get Return of the Jedi from the library. I’ve been hooked ever since.

Impossible for me to say since my parents never really properly “introduced” me to Star Wars. I was born in the 90s and had seen it many times since I was less than a year old. It’s just always sort of been there in my life from before I could even comprehend what it was.
I kind of wish my dad had made a conscious effort to not let me see it until I was five for so, so that I could actually have a “first Star Wars experience” that I remember.

I don’t remember exactly when it was, probably the late 90’s. My parents had a VHS of Return Of The Jedi, the unaltered version. I think one of my earliest memory of Star Wars is watching this VHS with my family, I vaguely remember the scene on Dagobah, I must have been about 4 or 5 years old.
But I became a fan a few years later, between Episode I and II (so this was around 2000-2001), after watching my brother’s VHS tape of Ep. I, and then getting the 1997 SE of Star Wars and Empire on my birthday.

When I was 7 and I got A new hope for Christmas.

Here in the UK, Star Wars did not arrive until Christmas 1977. It went on general release in January 1978.
Before the film arrived here, many pictures and scenes from the film were appearing in magazines and on the television. I was collecting pictures even before the film came here.

I saw Star Wars sometime early 1978 aged 12 at Guildford Odeon in Surrey. I went back many times as the film was being re-released every school holiday.

Wolfman said:

Here in the UK, Star Wars did not arrive until Christmas 1977. It went on general release in January 1978.
Before the film arrived here, many pictures and scenes from the film were appearing in magazines and on the television. I was collecting pictures even before the film came here.

I saw Star Wars sometime early 1978 aged 12 at Guildford Odeon in Surrey. I went back many times as the film was being re-released every school holiday.

So you’re saying you were a fan before the movie was even released (at least in your country). That’s awesome.

My first memory of anything Star Wars related was watching my dad play an arcade game where you have to fly a snowspeeder around and take out AT-ATs. I also recall there being a speederbike level. This was when I was around 4 or 5. I watched the 6 currently released movies on DVD around a year later, so the only Star Wars movies that I’ve seen in the actual theatre are TFA and Rogue One.

I’m 20 so the prequels were coming out when I was a kid. My dad wouldn’t take me to Revenge of the Sith which came out when I was 9, because it’s pretty violent. In retrospect I’m glad that he didn’t because I don’t think the scene of Anakin killing children or getting horribly burned would’ve sat well with me. I used to catch the prequels on TV and I know I’d seen Episode I, II and IV at some point because my parents own the VHS tapes and when I finally watched these movies a lot of the scenes seemed familiar. I definitely didn’t know the plot though.

The big problem is when I caught the prequels on TV, it made me think that Star Wars was some boring science fiction series and that it wouldn’t be very good. I thought the movies looked really fake and boring. I’m glad to have finally seen the OT.

My first real Star Wars experience was The Force Awakens. My friend took me to the midnight release and I really loved the movie. I went and watched the OT and PT pretty out of order but always struggled to get through the PT films. I’ve actually never seen AOTC all the way through and I’m glad to live that way.

I’m going to say '96. I know my folks rented the OOT tapes to show me before I saw the SE, but given my age at the time it couldn’t have been more than a year before (I turned 7 in September 1996). The SE in the theater is the first SW experience I really remember. Spent the next few years obsessively checking those big “Essential Guides” out of the library and drawing ships and characters out of them, then reading whatever EU stuff I could find when I was a little older. Also played a lot of Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight in those days. Then came the PT, which I would consider the end of the beginning of my relationship with the franchise.

SwissArmyTin said:

Never found out about the prequels until Ep.III’s trailer hit…I have no clue how I stayed that ridiculously sheltered, but thank god I was.

You don’t know how much I envy you right now.

In 2005, my dad bought the special edition box set and I saw it for the first time.