Me too. It’s my favorite of the three new movies. I might even put it ahead of A New Hope and ROTJ. Nothing beats Empire tho.
Okay let’s all just settle down.
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What can I say? Never been the biggest fan of ANH.
The only move I’m comfortable ranking alongside the OT is Rogue One. Ever other movie is at least a couple tiers below IMO.
I enjoy the star wars shows when they’re… good. Early Mando was good. Andor was good. The cartoons were mostly good. Ahsoka was good. I know I’m a broken record in this thread but I really don’t care how and when (in the star wars timeline) you do these shows. Just make them good and I will watch and re-watch them.
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Age? Seeing ANH in its original run was absolutely mind blowing.
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Born 1983. Will be 41 on Aug 22.
There had been nothing remotely like it. I was kind of anti until an older neighborhood kid that could drive basically dragged me to see it at the second run $1 theater.
Ships come in from overhead and it’s “holy shit this is the coolest thing I’ve ever seen”.
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Yeah you’re somewhat older than me, but in full agreement about what it was like seeing it first run. I was 7 and juuuust old enough to pretty much completely get everything that was going on, enjoy the humor, and also realize that there had been nothing remotely like this before.
Don’t remember if I mentioned it ITT, but one of my favorite moments of the past few years was finally convincing my disaffected late-teens son to watch ANH for the first time, which he genuinely knew almost nothing about other than the names of the characters, and even he was shocked at how much he liked it. During the battle of Yavin I basically just watched him instead of the screen, sort of inching up in his seat the whole time, and then pulling a “Leo Dicaprio pointing at the TV” meme pose when the Falcon showed up out of nowhere at the end.
It’s why I can understand prequel lovers even though the movies insanely meh, just because a ton of kids grew up on them (and they did have a certain vibe, even though I thought it was lame) and you just can’t separate it from those childhood memories. That said, I don’t know of any kids who are super fans of eps 7-9, I think they might just be that bad.
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Oh no doubt. I get the significance of ANH and how revolutionary it was for movies. I’m just saying that with all of the movies out now, it’s not my tippy top favorite.
If I had a time machine, I think I’d spend a lot of my ventures going back to view big movies like this on opening day.
Oh man that takes me back. I’m basically the same age as RF. I didn’t get to see ANH in theaters. Growing up I lived in an apartment building with another kid who was a huge star wars fan. He had two copies of the OT on VHS, one he watched, one he kept sealed as a collectible. When we were in 5th grade he went away on Christmas break. Another kid in our building broke into his apartment and took a bunch of his stuff. He eventually got caught, my friend got his stuff back, but his collectible OT had been opened.
He traded that copy to me for some MtG cards. I had never seen them, and had no interest because I thought SW was stupid nerd shit (I’m well aware of the irony of this now given that we were regular MtG players). But I felt bad and agreed to the trade. One random ass day I got bored enough and finally popped it in. Within 10 minutes I found a lifelong obsession. Strange how life works sometimes.
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Born in '69 so I was perfect age for 1st run. Saw it maybe 5 times that summer. Had a friend who was really into it that was in the 20 something viewings. My Mom wouldn’t take us over and over. His mom was happy to drop us at the theater and come back 4 hours later. We’d buy a ticket for our 1st viewing, then sneak into another showing that was part way through.
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I might check out Skeleton Crew simply because they used a version of Peter Schillings “Major Tom” for the trailer. :D