"Where were you in 1977" Topic

"Scary. I was in line to Star Wars. At that time I was 29. Had a one year son. Now I got a 19 yrs Grandson. Where did the time go. Also I never thought it was going to take this long to have the complete Star Wars series finished."

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Armand

15 years old. Waiting in line for the first showing in Denver,Co at the Cooper Theater. I meet 3 life long friends in that line and end up seeing the movie over 50 times that summer.

In the army stationed at Fort Hood. I made my future wife and mother go see Star Wars while we were sight seeing in San Antonio. Maybe 23.

In the U.S. Air Force stationed at Yongsan Army Garrison, Seoul, Korea. I think I saw it at the Base theater.

Saw Empire Strikes back first

I know that theater, 377CSG! I saw "The Terminator" and "Conan the Barbarian" there a few years later.

But Star Wars 1977. I was 24, in graduate school--Manhattan, Kansas--and heard about Star Wars even before it was out. I was connected to SF fandom in those years. But I was a little later seeing it. People kept telling me how great the special effects were, which I regarded as a bad sign. (When they talk about plot, character or dialogue--those movies get priority.) It was better than I expected, of course.

I saw it 3 times over several weeks. I was a junior in college. There were 2 points where I caught myself thinking "this is really good." The droid bin in the Jawa sand crawler was the first. At that point I really didnt care where the movie went. I was prepared to follow one, or a dozen, separate movies following each of the droid's fates.

The second was the beginning of the battle of Yavin. I've seen the movie 20 times at home, and I still get a chill at "Lock x foils in attack position."

Oh, and to be precise, the saga hasn't been completed. Not to my mind at least. It's been finished, yes. But until someone goes back and fixes EVERYTHING wrong with it from, and after, "a certain point of view," it ain't completed.
Not by 11 parsecs.

Senior year in high school, looking at two more months to graduation due to delay because of Blizzard of '77 earlier in the year, two months into a relationship with a girlfriend who has been my wife since 1980. We saw it at least 10 times over the summer and a bunch more when it came on cable.

Deployed on the USS Blandy DD943 to the Med. Did not see the movie until years later.

In med school, saw it with a bunch of my classmates

I was in 5th grade when my friend's mom took us to see it. After the movie I was pondering about the force.

I was 16; saw it down in Fresno, Ca. The first time, we had just taken my dad to the hospital with a heart attack, and needed to get away, so my brothers and I went to the movies.

I was hooked when the star destroyer passed overhead, and then again when Darth Vader first appeared through the smoke.

I was 15 too, living in Northern VA. Heard about the movie on the radio, and it sounded intriguing, so went with a few friends as well.

Drove into D.C. to see it on the big screen, since it was showing in such a limited release back in the day.

Sat very near the front of the theater since so many others wanted to see it.

The movie was awesome. Everyone was awed by the immensity of the Star Destroyer in the opening scene, as well as a lot of other stuff in the film. I too loved the scene of the X-Wings and Y-Wings flying out to confront the Death Star, as they cruised pass the immense Yavin.

I was 22 years old, in my last year of college. I had actually read the book BEFORE the movie came out. A classmate of mine had bought the book and noted that it was soon to be released as a movie. After reading the book, I had no hesitation in seeing the film ASAP!

Working at the movie theater, saw the movie so much I could recite Greeto's part from memory.

My mom passed the day before I was going to drive to Panama City Fl to watch it. Saw it a week or so later. Great distraction and enjoyable. Probably saw it over 100 times but movies weren't very expensive then

I was 7 and the playground kids kept fighting over who got to be "Chewie". I saw it soon after.

I was 12. Went to see it on opening night. The only movie I ever saw with just me and my father. Only two screens in town and it still wasn't sold out. A week later…..WOW. Was an interesting junior high. The only thing talked about.

I was in Pasadena, Texas, working at my first career job after leaving graduate school. Close Encounters of the Third Kind also premiered that summer. At the time, I liked it better.

A fellow teacher and i took it in after a workshop in Houston. We saw it at the Galleria theater and had the fringe benefit of seeing the former actress Debra Paget waiting to pick up her son at the same theater. She was still gorgeous.

Good Memories boys!… (smile)

Thanks!.

Amicalement
Armand

12 yrs old in the front row.

We'd get to watch one movie when I would visit her in the summer for a couple of weeks and I really wanted to see this one. My grandmother saved a Star Wars Wonderbread card for me and I was really disappointed that the Stormtroopers weren't the good guys.

9 years old and it was the greatest movie I had ever seen. Now many years later there are other movies which I rate higher, but I have never exceeded the joy I felt upon exiting a movie theater like I did after seeing Star Wars in 1977.

17. We had gone to the Command Post in SD where I picked up Traveller, then to Fountain Valley Cinema

Chinese theater in Hollywood. We didn't go there as a special event; I grew up in Los Angeles and we always went to one of the many theaters on Hollywood Blvd to see movies. Loved it so much that the next year I rode my bike to the Wiltern theater by myself (8 years old) to see it yet again. That showing had Korean subtitles but I didn't care.

25 living and working in Knoxville TN. Like others I saw it many times that year. Tried to go see it at a theater in NYC while visiting that summer, but there was the longest line I've ever seen for a movie.

Exactly USAFpilot! I was 8 and just wow! Eyes as big as dinner plates.

15 – I skivved off school one afternoon to go and see it in Guildford (Surrey) – no queues that I can remember, but it was a long time ago…

26 in Seattle, WA. No movie has ever exceeded the wonder and awe I felt from that opening scene. The scrawl with tease of Episode IV, the freighter zooming down, followed by the amazing Star Destroyer. And, of course, Darth Vader, appearing out of the smoke!!

A senior at Penn State. I think I saw it about 15 times while it was in the theaters there.

In graduate school at the University of Georgia, getting a PhD in military history. About to embark on a lifetime of sci-fi wargaming.

Just finishing 8th grade/junior high. Told my parents for my birthday party I wanted to see it.

10 years old and seeing it with my grandma!

I was at College, and whilst in London attending a Catering show, we went to the Dominion theatre, and saw 'Star Wars' in Sensurround--when that Star Destroyer passed overhead the whole Cinema shook!

Amazing experience!

I was a company commander and saw the film at the AAFES movie theater in Germany.