I was 28...I was watching TV in 1977 and a 30 second commercial came on. At the end my jaw was on the floor.....it said Star Wars....”what was that?”’I said. No DVRs. No VHS....so I had to wait for another commercial.
Long story short I saw the movie on the second day it came out....saw it four or five more times in the next few weeks.
WOW. I’m still in awe at what a great flick it was.
It is not science fiction. That involves technobabble (another favorite Star Trek had that). The science aspect was an unknown backdrop that you didn’t explore or question. No it was an epic....like Homer, like Tolkien, like Gilgamesh.
I guess I am really hard to impress.
I saw it the first weekend it came out. Read the article on the cover of Time.
I liked it. Saw it two or three more times while on dates.
Years later I watched it with my kids, introducing them to popular culture in the same way I did showing them Bambi and Lion King.
My wife showed them Old Yeller when they were 3 or so. I came home with about half an hour left in the movie. I asked my wife if she was crazy, showing them that movie. She asked why? (She had never seen it.) Just about that moment the screams and cries started in the other room.
I laughed my ass off.