which SW have you seen at cinema


Too young for SW and ESB in fact can vaguely remember wanting to go with older siblings who were going to see ESB but wouldn't take me (despite it being a 'U') as just too young.. can even recall the poster outside the cinema outside when they going in (the 'Gone with Wind' style poster)... but was taken to see Superman II which must've been a few months later which mustve been my first cinema trip (actually almost a year later as SII wasn't released in UK until April'81)

so anyway I was finally taken to see ROTJ in 83 - roughly knew who the characters were etc. At that point in addition to Superman II had seen Star Trek II, Dark Crystal, ET and maybe a couple of others at cinema (i remember i saw a Spiderman movie at the cinema which i later found out was 2-3episodes put together and released as a movie). i was a huge Superman fan

anyway before ROTJ started they showed trailers and one was for Superman III which i had no idea was coming so all i could think about for the duration of the muppets & care bears in space/laser sword&sorcery space movie was Superman III - asking when it was coming out etc. At one point i asked to go to the toilet and while i was weeing i was talking about how good Superman III looked and how i couldn't wait to see it. Then as we were leaving i ask the cinema manager when Superman was out and he took us to this area that had the Superman III coming soon posters, Christopher Reeve standee, lobby cards etc that i hadn't seen when going in and i stared at it for ages trying to figure out if i could steal it all lol

so yeah i didn't have much time for Jedi or SW in general unlike everyone in school who was raving about it. (I didn't even know HFord was Indiana Jones back then or what Indiana Jones was until the following year.) Couple years later i saw SW on tv but wasn't all that impressed. (didnt really get why it was so popular. Much preferred StarTrek movies) Few years later finally rented Empire (as they never showed it on tv like SW77) & rewatched the other 2 and could understand what all the fuss was about.. ( think if I had been taken to see Empire in 1980 probably would've been a Star Wars kid not much Superman/Star Trek)

funny how years later it was the opposite for me –they showed the trailer for the new Superman (BvS) before TFA but I was just like meh who cares, I gotta see SW7!

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All. They were amazing on the huge screen before the multiplexes took over.

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All of them.

Star Wars was an event when it opened in 1977.

Lines around the block ... saw it twice the first weekend.

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All, but no more.

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All on opening day...but that will have to change!

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ROTJ onwards as well, although I saw SW and ESB in '97 for the Special Edition re-releases.

I saw ROTJ twice in '83. Once was in a theatre that had a balcony. I remember being impressed that Darth Vader turned into a "good guy" at the end....

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oh yeh saw ANH:SE in 97 (no bother with ESB but should have really though as then would've seen all SW at the cinema)

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The orginal trilogy, then the special editions of orginal trilogy and Phantom Menace. Not seen any at Cinema since.

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Everything from ROTJ onwards as well. I don’t remember much about Jedi in the theaters though. I wasn’t quite three yet.

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Too young for the first three, took a pass on Menace cause obvious turkey was obvious, went to see Clones and hated it so much I didn't bother with Sith. Got dragged to see TFA cause it was the family activity over the holiday. So i've never had a positive Star Wars experience at the theater.

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Empire ,Jedi, special editions, prequels, tfa , ro, tlj, and that's the last time I'll watch a star wars movie at the cinema, I despise tlj and the smug Rian Johnson

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