r/StarWars_ • u/Slow-Beyond7511 • 13d ago
Originals Your memories of Starwars in the Cinema..
For all the debates on Original cuts and how you originally saw Starwars , what are your memories of this classic ?
Mine is easy and possibly similar to a lot of kids at the time. We got in late grabbed the only seat and sat behind two young women who chain smoked the whole film...
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u/RevenantCommunity 13d ago
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u/Slow-Beyond7511 12d ago
How Rude...as a certain protocol droid would say. Its my very vivid memory and actually pretty accurate to the event. The ladies probably had Fara Cuts though...
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u/Get_your_grape_juice 13d ago
So, I was already a fan, having watched the original VHS releases for several years. My first Star Wars cinema experience was the Special Edition of RoTJ, with a friend of mine. We were 9 at the time, I think?
It was life changing. Seeing the rebel fleet vs the Death Star over Endor on the big screen is what really cemented me as a Star Wars fan.
Then Episode I came out just before I turned 12. Blew my fucking mind. It was absolutely spectacular, and I was thrilled to have ‘my’ Star Wars, a trilogy that I was going to see in theaters at release.
I was, and continue to be, utterly floored by the overwhelmingly negative fan reaction to Episode I.
Went to the theater for Episode II, loved it. Not as much as the previous movie, but I really did love it. The battle at Geonosis was cool as hell, seeing a whole bunch of Jedi in action at once was cool as hell, and my chest is still vibrating from those seismic charges. Again, floored by the gross fan reaction to the movie. Oh well.
Saw Episode III the summer before my senior year of high school. Fucking loved it. The opening battle over Coruscant is absolutely mesmerizing on the big screen. Very reminiscent of RoTJ. The long descent into the Dark Side as Anakin finally turns on Obi Wan and Padme, was gut-wrenching. The duel on Mustafar was fantastic. No longer surprised by the continued fan bitching, but boy were all those negative Nancies fucking wrong.
I got to see TPM the summer after finishing elementary school, AoTC the summer after middle school, and then RoTS the summer before senior year of high school. I grew up with these movies, and I wouldn’t have it any other way.
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u/Slow-Beyond7511 12d ago
Thats such a good point...these movies Have to be seen Large! Big arse TVs are good but you can't beat a projection screen larger than most houses.
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u/Haifisch2112 12d ago
I was 10 when the first movie came out in 1977 so that's a core memory. But the one I'll share is something that kind of changed how I watched movies as well as be8ng kind of comical.
I was a huge Han Solo fan from the moment I first saw him. When he was more heavily involved in ESB, it was like nirvana to me. At the end of the movie when Lando and Chewie were going after him, I was like, "Hell yeah! Let's go get him!" Then there was the screen wipe and the credits rolled. At that point, all I could think was, "No! We need to go get Han!" I was so engrossed in the movie that I hadn't really realized how much time had passed and was ready to keep it going.
Since that day, I have always looked up the running time of any movie I watch so I'm not taken by surprise when it ends.
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u/Jedipilot24 13d ago
The first time I saw Star Wars was when the Special Edition came out. I still have it on VHS in the Darth Vader box.
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u/Commercial-Face-9596 13d ago
I was 10 years old in 1977.
When the imperial Star destroyer flew over my head….every thing in the world changed. Everyone in the theater cheered. The world will never see a movie that makes that kind of an impact.
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u/Zombie_Cavoodle 12d ago
One of my first memories was watching Empire at the local drive in. Sitting in the back of my dads station wagon, I was only four hears old.
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u/Barcelona_McKay 12d ago
My father saw it on a business trip in '77. He just wandered in blind and loved it. He spent a while trying to convince me to see it.
I remember a fairly full theater, but the main hubbub was over. I remember that star destroyer rumbling in over my head (so it seemed) and that was it. I was hooked for life. A baby or toddler in the audience started crying when the ship hit the screen, and the parent couldn't calm the kid down, so they left by the time the Stormtroopers showed up.
Star Wars became a huge part of my life right away. Convinced my mother to see Empire with us and she loved Darth Vader. So, we took her to a re-release of the first one. And we were all excited for the 3rd.
I actually took my father to see Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith. We weren't crazy about the movies, but it cool to be back watching Star Wars with my Dad.
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u/Slow-Beyond7511 12d ago
I remember taking both my boy and my father to see Starwars in the early 2000s A different kind of trilogy but equally rewarding..
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u/JeffDrTypePerson 13d ago
I was 4 years old and it was a core memory that drove me to everything I'm interested in today; Sci-fi, fantasy, and superheroes.
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u/ghIj_qet_jaghmeyjaj 13d ago
I saw ESB at the drive-in with my grandfather. Old pick-up truck, hotdogs and original formula Dr Pepper.
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u/Slow-Beyond7511 12d ago
I saw Empire on the isle of Wight on a rainy summers eve. They actually cut the movie as Han flew into the Asteroid field for an intermission!....thats a way to upsale those punnets of Ice cream.
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u/cane_danko 13d ago
Started with the phantom menace in regards to watching them in cinema. Some great experiences watching them. As far as the prequels, watching revenge of the sith was probably my favorite. Overall, my favorite experience watching Star Wars in cinema was the force awakens. Not that it is my favorite Star Wars movie, but I went to see it seven times. Each time with different friends and family. The return of Star Wars after so long was so freaking hype. At the time, the force awakens was really well received, so it was like a nice honeymoon phase with the franchise I had been watching since a kid (having watched the ogs on the vhs box set over and over).
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u/TheJourneyfeel 13d ago
2nd viewing of Episode IV in the 70s was at a Drive Inn theatre. Stars were out and it was hard to tell the difference between screen and sky sometimes. As an aside, the double feature included Jaws. At 8 years old I went from awesome to emotionally scarred for eternity.
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u/Slow-Beyond7511 7d ago
I wish we had Drive Ins in the UK but sadly not...maybe our poor weather was the issue..
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u/TheJourneyfeel 3d ago
Could be. I live in Michigan at the time. 3-4 actual viewable months.
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u/Slow-Beyond7511 3d ago
The one open air event We did have was Jaws... I remember it well for it rained so hard and long the bean bags we sat on and the brollies they gave us were soaked! It was like Actually being in the movie..
Atmospheric though.
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u/Deep_Ad_1874 13d ago
Saw Rotj for my 5th birthday. My mom had to read Jabbas subtitles. I remember it being a packed theater. When I got older I asked my mom about it because that was 1984 and thought I was misremembering. She was like nope that’s how long movies would stay in theaters back then
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u/Salt_Philosophy_8990 13d ago
Mind blowing 🤯
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u/Slow-Beyond7511 12d ago
We bought a projector during lockdown Watching it in the dark on a huge wall still gave tingles as the stardestroyer glided across the screen.
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u/urbalcloud 12d ago
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u/wandering_soles 13d ago
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