Easterhay said:

moviefreakedmind said:

Easterhay said:

I was five when I saw Star Wars in 1977 (although it's been called A New Hope since 1980 so I think we can get over that now)

No one referred to it as a New Hope in 1980. Every single commercial, VHS tape, laserdisc, and betamax up until I believe the early 2000's referred to the movie as Star Wars, and all the interviews referred to it as Star Wars as well. Look at that documentary tape called from STAR WARS to Jedi. A New Hope was included in the crawl but the movie was not retitled by any means because no one called it A New Hope (and the credits on the back of the VHS tape boxes said the title was STAR WARS)

What did it say in the opening crawl of the film? I notice you've missed that out completely. Quite tellingly missed it out.

I didn't miss that. I mentioned it in my comment. You're denying facts if you pretend that the movie instantly ceased to be called Star Wars in 1981. Every single re-release up until after the Phantom Menace referred to the film as Star Wars. Most of the boxes (except for the faces one) don't even have the words "A New Hope" on the box. And even the faces box referred to the title as Star Wars, but they just had a small subtitle underneath it, and not even on the front of the tape box, just on the spine.