I saw the first one the week it came out. I was a college student and found it somewhat juvenile and also disjointed. I may have missed some critical stuff because as the weird lettering “In a galaxy far far away...” was still going by, the film broke. We sat there maybe 5 minutes and then it started again with what I remember as something like mechanical camels in the desert.
I was expecting science fiction and I felt like it was a mixture of a western with some Wizard of Oz overtones. I was not at all impressed.
I never saw another one.
That said, I have a friend who would like to see the 3 trilogies and I said I would watch them with an open mind.
Should they be viewed in the order they were released? Or in the chronological order of the story line?
I hadn’t seen the first one that summer but in the first week of college there were some guys who were excited about it, and one guy said he had seen it 11 times at the theater. 11 times, that was a turn off. I saw the second one first, then the first one. The second had better special effects. The third one was dumb with the teddy bears. It was like a toy commercial. I thought the Star Trek TV shows had better plots.
“Should they be viewed in the order they were released? Or in the chronological order of the story line?”
The later trilogies were a disaster. I don’t think they even flow in chronological order. It seems the stories where changed from the original trilogy. There may be a very thin line of plot continuation, but it seems the characters were even changed.