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Either way it sounds a little dodgy... ^_~

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I was 6 or 7, saw Star Wars in what must have been a Canon cinema in the UK. Year of release so it must've been 1977/78 (forget how long it used to take for prints to get to the UK back then). It was like nothing I had ever seen before, it was amazing. Both my brother and I wet our beds that night!

I remember then seeing Empire and when the title crawl came up with "Episode V" there was a collective "huh?!" from the audience because A New Hope didn't exist in the public psyche, the first film was called Star Wars and that was it.

 

I also remember seeing the double-bill (which we arrived 5 or 6 minutes late for) and I was really disappointed that each film had been shortened to about 90 minutes or less.

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SKot said:

Just out of curiosity: did you happen to catch "Au temps de la guerre des etoiles" when it aired 2-3 years later?

(for those wondering, it's the French Star Wars Holiday Special!)

--SKot

 

 

Yeah, at least part of it, on a (very) small black & white TV set !  And it was completly by chance if I remember well. I had no idea that such a thing had been made.

Dare I say that I enjoyed it ?!  It was bad but at least it was some Star Wars ! Those were the time, before the internet, there was no way to have your daily dose of Star Wars...

Cool... I enjoyed it as well, but then again it was actually the first Star Wars film I'd been able to see.  I do recall being a bit disappointed the main characters only had cameos.

Don't suppose you remember the exact year you saw it, do you?  My sources told me late 1979 or early 1980...

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HotRod said:

Was your teacher male or female? ;)

 

Female in a very serious way.

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My first exposure to Star Wars was that I got the Return of the Jedi comic book album as a birthday gift from a classmate at my birthday party in '83 when I was eight years old.

The first time I saw Star Wars (ANH) was on television not much later. My dad taped the event (on VHS :b ). I and my brother played that tape often. I especially loved the X-wings.

The Star Wars hype was much stronger at that time than it has ever been before or since - and even more so for a kid. We also collected action figures, swapped them, and played with them a lot. I also often played that I was Luke - as a jedi knight with a lightsaber, as I had read about him in ROTJ.

I did not see The Empire Strikes Back until the early 90's when I was a teenager, again on television. It was first by then that I realized why the "Jedi training school" that I had played with my friends as a kid had involved so much climbing in trees. :^D

ROTJ is the one that has had made the most impression on me, but I rank ESB as being the best Star Wars movie.

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San Francisco. May 1977. I was 7. Stood in line for what seemed like forever to a little kid. I have memory burn not from the Star Destroyer passing overhead, but from the first closeup of Vader on the Tantive IV. Everyone in the theater was cheering loudly for him. I thought to myself "This might be something I'll like." I was hooked. And then, GL went insane and the rest is history...

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being younger than even ROTJ, i saw the movies first on VHS because my older brother had them. i remember from the second grade thinking there were six movies at the time because we borrowed the original original trilogy from the library and owned the 1997 remastered version with new special effects. the earliest i can remember watching SW was when i was in kindergarten, so about age 5, and around 14-15 years ago.

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Elyria Ohio Monday Febuary 3rd 1997 the 1st time I 1st saw star wars in a theater in 1997 for the speical edition. But ( this is going to sound stupid.) I was still afaid of Darth Vader and ran in and out of the theater a lot of people that where their that night thought I was crazy but later my dad told me don't be afaid he's just a man inside a mask. But it was a fun experince to see star wars on the big screen for me and my dad.

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ken's story reminded me of how impressed I was when I saw the SE in theaters.  I kept looking at the sides of the screen, noticing hundreds of new things they must have added!  Only later did I realize that they didn't add that much, they were always there I just never saw them on my fullscreen VHS!

Now that I think about it, since I don't own the GOUT, I've never seen the OOT in widescreen...

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I didn't have the luxury of learning Darth Vader is Luke Skywalker's father in the theater. I was born too late obviously. Going to school in the '90s and '00s, all the time I would here people say "Luke I am your father" so I knew Darth Vader was Luke's father long before I even knew the movies.

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Summer '77 at Glenwood Theatre in Overland Park, KS.  IIRC they didn't yet have a 70mm print on opening day, but got one later in the summer (before I went).

First saw ESB at the Midland in downtown Kansas City for a press-screening the night before general release.  Won tickets from WHB AM for answering the trivia question What did Vader refer to as a 'technological terror'?

Graduated high school in '83 and wasn't all that interested in ROTJ.  Maybe I thought I was supposed to have outgrown it by then.  I did eventually see it, but don't recall where.  It was some suburban cineplex with none of the atmosphere or ambience of the other two theaters.

 

Returned to Glenwood for ANH'97 not too long before they razed it.

 

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