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Where did you first watch Star Wars ?

Posted: 2005-01-21 08:59am
by Sarevok
I watched it on cable TV in 2001 then as soon as the DVDs became available in my country I bought them.

Posted: 2005-01-21 09:12am
by Ghost Rider
1977...Beacon Mall. I was a wee lad then.

Posted: 2005-01-21 09:18am
by Chardok
198.....1?

Yeah, 81, had to be. I was in Tennessee, I was about 4. and I watched it every single time it came on HBO. I would bring out my toy X-wing, too. Neeeeeeeeaw! Pew! Pew! Bouucccccccch!!!!

Posted: 2005-01-21 09:52am
by brianeyci
On television. I must have seen it the first time when I was 14, I'm 20 now so... 1998. Probably saw parts of it in snippets before then, SW OT is before my time.

Brian

Posted: 2005-01-21 09:56am
by Mange
I first saw Star Wars when it was aired on Swedish television in 1983.

Posted: 2005-01-21 10:08am
by Tsyroc
Downtown Iowa City in 1977.



Original Warsie Baby! :D

Posted: 2005-01-21 10:23am
by wautd
TV... 1986? Saw the intro of ANH and it was the coolest thing i have ever seen. And I had to go to bed right after Darth Vader chocked the rebel captain (I was like 6 years old). I still remember how mad i was, cried like a baby.

A few years later, again on tv and this time the whole trilogy

Posted: 2005-01-21 10:36am
by Chmee
At the late, great UA-150 cinema, under the dome, the week of release ... some friends and I had heard about it and road-tripped the two hours from our home town to check it out. We sat through 2 shows.

Posted: 2005-01-21 11:43am
by Dead_Ghost
1987. At home. TV... Yeah, I was around 5 years old back then...

Posted: 2005-01-21 12:03pm
by LadyTevar
In the movie theater in my hometown, 1977. There was a Three Stodges short that played before the movie started.

Posted: 2005-01-21 12:12pm
by PainRack
The first time I saw SW and knew it was SW? 1996. The very first? It would be ROTJ and IIRC 1995. I won't forget that viewing because the video quality was bad enough that the channel carried a disclaimer, there was quiet some static and extremely bad lighting.

It would take the beauty of ANH for me to become a true SW fan.

Posted: 2005-01-21 12:15pm
by Slartibartfast
Rental. 1980-something. ANH.
The first one I saw in the movie theather was ROTJ. I got invited by some dad's friend to his own private cinema for a pre-screening, I was quite young. (so chances are I saw it before anyone in this board 8)
Didn't watch ESB till much later, on TV I think when they showed the whole trilogy. Late 80's-Early 90's I think, can't remember.

Posted: 2005-01-21 01:06pm
by Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi
When the Special Edition videos came out in 1997, because I was born four years after Return of the Jedi came out.

Posted: 2005-01-21 01:13pm
by Isolder74
Murray Utah Cinplex Grand, 1977.

Was part of my birthday party, I was 3

Posted: 2005-01-21 01:16pm
by Wicked Pilot
I saw The Empire Strikes Back first on TV sometime in the mid 80s. I watched in utter awe until the lightsabre duel when it became just too scary to watch.

Posted: 2005-01-21 01:19pm
by YT300000
One amazing summer night on my neighbour's lawn, watching it on a projector...

I don't think I'll ever forget that day as long as I live.

Posted: 2005-01-21 01:37pm
by Rogue 9
I can't name the year, but I know where I was. We vacation with a bunch of Dad's friends from college. We were at the beach that year.

Posted: 2005-01-21 04:32pm
by Shadow WarChief
Some time in the 1990's before 1997. The oldest I could have been was 11. I watched the non-SE on VHS, and then saw the SE when they eventually came out.

Posted: 2005-01-21 05:03pm
by Techno_Union
Mid 90s at home. Don't really remember my first impression of the movies.

Posted: 2005-01-21 05:50pm
by Xenophobe3691
Early Nineties. First part I saw was when Luke was lifting those rocks. I wondered what was going on, and my mom explained that he was looking for Yoda, this little dog-like thing. So I asked my mom if the rocks were Yoda...
:oops:
Since then I've learned my lesson...

Posted: 2005-01-21 06:13pm
by Admiral Bravo
Sometime in the nineties when I was probably around 8 or 9.

Posted: 2005-01-21 06:17pm
by PackMule
1989, I was four years old. My father called me into the lounge room and stuck on a VHS copy of ANH. "Son, welcome to Star Wars".

Posted: 2005-01-21 06:25pm
by Comosicus
Mid 90's for me too. I was a a holiday camp on the seaside and there was a VHS player at the cantina. That's where I first saw TESB.

Posted: 2005-01-21 06:57pm
by Petrosjko
Winwood Mall theatre, '77.

Darth Vader scared the everliving shit out of me, wee lad that I was.

But I was enraptured. From my earliest memories, science fiction was always my favorite genre. Of course, given that my parents were both science fiction fans and had an extensive library of science fiction books, it was something of a logical taste. One of the first 'grown-up' books my mother read to me was Heinlein's 'Red Planet', for example.

Posted: 2005-01-21 07:08pm
by paladin
movie theatre back in 1977.