Where did you first watch Star Wars ?

Sarevok · Post by **Sarevok** » 2005-01-21 08:59am

I watched it on cable TV in 2001 then as soon as the DVDs became available in my country I bought them.

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2005-01-21 09:12am

1977...Beacon Mall. I was a wee lad then.

Chardok · Post by **Chardok** » 2005-01-21 09:18am

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!!!!

brianeyci · Post by **brianeyci** » 2005-01-21 09:52am

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

Mange · Post by **Mange** » 2005-01-21 09:56am

I first saw Star Wars when it was aired on Swedish television in 1983.

Tsyroc · Post by **Tsyroc** » 2005-01-21 10:08am

Downtown Iowa City in 1977.

Original Warsie Baby!

wautd · Post by **wautd** » 2005-01-21 10:23am

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

Chmee · Post by **Chmee** » 2005-01-21 10:36am

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.

Dead_Ghost · Post by **Dead_Ghost** » 2005-01-21 11:43am

1987. At home. TV... Yeah, I was around 5 years old back then...

Post by **LadyTevar** » 2005-01-21 12:03pm

In the movie theater in my hometown, 1977. There was a Three Stodges short that played before the movie started.

PainRack · Post by **PainRack** » 2005-01-21 12:12pm

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.

Slartibartfast · Post by **Slartibartfast** » 2005-01-21 12:15pm

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

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.

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi · Post by **Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi** » 2005-01-21 01:06pm

When the Special Edition videos came out in 1997, because I was born four years after Return of the Jedi came out.

Isolder74 · Post by **Isolder74** » 2005-01-21 01:13pm

Murray Utah Cinplex Grand, 1977.

Was part of my birthday party, I was 3

Wicked Pilot · Post by **Wicked Pilot** » 2005-01-21 01:16pm

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.

YT300000 · Post by **YT300000** » 2005-01-21 01:19pm

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.

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2005-01-21 01:37pm

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.

Shadow WarChief · Post by **Shadow WarChief** » 2005-01-21 04:32pm

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.

Techno_Union · Post by **Techno_Union** » 2005-01-21 05:03pm

Mid 90s at home. Don't really remember my first impression of the movies.

Xenophobe3691 · Post by **Xenophobe3691** » 2005-01-21 05:50pm

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...

Since then I've learned my lesson...

Admiral Bravo · Post by **Admiral Bravo** » 2005-01-21 06:13pm

Sometime in the nineties when I was probably around 8 or 9.

PackMule · Post by **PackMule** » 2005-01-21 06:17pm

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".

Comosicus · Post by **Comosicus** » 2005-01-21 06:25pm

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.

Petrosjko · Post by **Petrosjko** » 2005-01-21 06:57pm

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.

paladin · Post by **paladin** » 2005-01-21 07:08pm

movie theatre back in 1977.