Like you, i saw the original in the theater, on it’s release date.
It was one of the old style big screen theaters.
Santa Barbara Ca.
Was there for the earliest showing and stayed all day watching over and over.
Had to fetch my girlfriend from work at about 6 pm.
We returned to the theater and i made her sit through 2 more showings.
I loved it, was what i saw coming in our wonderful country’s future. She hated it, called me crazy. We broke up shortly thereafter.
Tomorrow i will be going to the theater for the first time since that day more than 25 years ago.
Make that 35 years.