RoccondilRinon said:
For me, there will be two versions of each film: the OUT and the Revisited films. I'll never watch the SEs again, but I have to say the originals have a special place in my heart — even though the first version I saw was the '97 SE in the cinemas at age 9. My parents insisted that my first experience of seeing SW be in the cinema and didn't let me watch our videotapes of the sequels until I'd seen them at the theatre first. Those were the longest four weeks of my young life. :p

Every word you wrote is 100% true for me as well (except that the first time I saw the films was the 90s VHS sets, just before the "Faces" sets came out ... probably 1993, 1994).