Skipped the last day of my high school senior year to catch the opening day at the Uptown Theater in DC.
30 years later and it is still the best day of my life.
I had just finished fourth grade, with really good grades, so my Dad took me to watch it on Opening Night...I have been hooked ever since.
I snuck into a drive-in theatre with my brother. It was the only time we got caught.
I saw it before it became popular. I was 16.
I thought it was good. However, the friend that I saw it with went absolutely ga-ga over it. He still talks about that first time.
Yep, that’s just how it was.
I was born in 1975, so I was too young to get in on the first movie release. I did go see ESB when it came out (1980) and loved it. I’m not sure if I’d seen ANH at all yet, but at some time in the early 1980s they re-released it to theaters and I got my mom to take me. I was expecting ESB (i.e., Hoth, AT-ATs, asteroids, etc.) and was actually quite disappointed with the original. I appreciate it now, of course, but ESB is still the best in the series.
At least 10 for me.
My brother broke his leg that winter and a friend gave him the novelization - we were so raring to go when the movie came out. We drove up to Paramus (where the writer saw it), one of only two theaters in the state that had it. The movie went far beyond our expectations.
Now, it seems so hokey - we’ve been spoiled by all the special effects that Lucas pioneered. There’s so much dumb stuff mixed with marvels in the later movies that you could wish Lucas had never been let near his own films.
Mrs VS
My favorite story is when we took our kids to see TESB in 1980.
Our daughter was 7. After Yoda had been on screen for a few minutes, at a point where nothing was being said on screen, our daughter pipes up in her little girl voice that carries thru the theatre and says...
“Daddy, why does Yoda sound just like Fozzie Bear?”
The laughter went on for several minutes.