Star Wars is an old movie

[Hertervillian]

I saw it, enjoyed it, but didn't get the Star Wars virus somehow. Pretty sure I saw the next 2 sequels, took the cure at #3.

Somewhere along the line I gained an appreciation of StarTrek again never infected with the virus, but I do keep up with them better.

 

[GasGuzzler]

I was 8 when Star Wars came out. I remember going to see it. We were on vacation and it was raining, so the whole family went to the movies.

Would have guessed you're younger than me but I guess not...

 

[ProfessorWes]

I can count on the fingers of one hand how many movies I've seen in the theater in the past five years, and I won't need all those fingers.

I think the last time I actually went to the movies rather than wait for them to show up on video or cable, was for John Wick III. Also the second John Wick film. The turbo murder is awesome on the big screen, in full Dolby Surround or whatever the modern equivalent is.

Can't actually recall any other movies but those two, come to think of it.

The modern movie experience in the theater is just awful, and I find fewer and fewer modern actors I actually care to watch (Keanu Reeves being a notable exception, as he seems to be a great human being in addition to being a fine actor.)

 

[GasGuzzler]

My dad watched Raising Arizona standing up in my aunt's living room. So there's that. I haven't seen more than two movies in the theater in 20 years but that's okay too.

 

[XUSNORDIE]

Star Wars was a double bill with Top Secret when I saw it at a drive-in outside Ft. Leonard Wood Mo.

If you are speaking of the first Star Wars you saw it a bit late? Top Secret I saw in the theaters summer of '84 which I think Ghostbusters was also out at same time.

In '77 I was 13.....we stood in line to see Star Wars the night it opened. Church Lane Cinema Cockeysville MD. It was the "Channel Fever" movie on CV64 Constellation. The night before coming home after WESTPAC deployments they played on a loop over and over.

 

[peachhead]

I remember going to see Star Wars with my older brother. I was 10. It was probably the first movie that just made me go, Wow! I was hooked. I saw the first three in theaters several times. Saw the last three in theater also but I was not that impressed.
He also took me to see the Pink Panther movies.
Later he introduced me to Animal House and the Blues Brothers, Josey Wales and Patton.
I don't go to the movies much anymore though, I wait until they come out on Netflix.

 

[Hertervillian]

State of the theater business is a damn shame.

The theater houses are as nice as they could be. Lounge seats, great sound systems, plenty of leg room. Plenty of snack choices, albeit pretty expensive, but was it ever reasonable?

The studios seem hell bent on teaching me some sort of progressive agenda. If not that I've got guts landing in my lap, or as graphic a sex scene as can be shown.

It might well be old age, though I don't think that's it. I just have a hard time believing I'm going to be told a $50 story that's worth $50. Fine, I'm old.

 

[Armybrat]

My kids were big Star Wars fans, but it was just light entertainment with fancy special effects, in my opinion. Nothing particularly new about the story.

I was really entralled by the the classic Humphrey Bogart/Katherine Hepburn film "The African Queen" when it debuted in 1951.
That was quality Hollywood.
We saw it at the outdoor post theater at Fort Brooke in Puerto Rico (see below in the Now & Then photo):

 

[Skeet 028]

Star Wars wasone of the most innovative movies of it' s time...Special effects sure took off afterwards. Was sure a lot more realistic than Ray Harryhausen's special effects. The last movie I saw in a theater was the Star Wars where they killed off Harrison Ford. I must admit I do like Sex...well I used to...but not in movies so much. Always was a waste of time filling in for more important scenes the actors don't know how to do

 

[ArizonaTea123]

What blows me away is pulling up to a pickup truck and there's an old bearded biker-looking dude with a cowboy hat listening to really loud vulgar rap music.

But yes, I was 17 when Star Wars opened in theaters.
Some of you really old bastages probably saw Stanley Kubrics Space Odyssey in 1968.

 

[Yaworski]

Some of you really old bastages probably saw Stanley Kubrics Space Odyssey in 1968.

I didn't see it until a couple years ago when my daughter had to watch it for a class. I thought that it was slow, boring, and dull. I'll take The Day the Earth Stood Still.

 

[Cofaler]

I saw Star Wars in the theater when it came out in '77, and haven't spent a minute's time or an money on any of the sequels.

I remember going to a movie with my mom and sister in '79, don't remember what it was but I got up to use the bathroom and ended up ducking in to watch Apocalypse Now. I thought all movies were the same length and when I came out my face was already on a milk carton and my mom was in the parking lot freaking out. Man, was she pissed.

 

[vito]

I took my two older kids to see the first Star Wars movie, along with a friend and some of his kids. I enjoyed it at the time, but then again, I have been a science fiction fan since I was a kid myself. I also went to see the next two in the series, but that was it. My guess is that if anyone watches the original Star Wars today they would think it is cheesy and dumb.

FWIW, when I returned from Germany after 3 years there, with my family, we arrived in Maryland for my next Army assignment at Aberdeen Proving Grounds. That first weekend home we went to a local movie theater in the mall just to fill in an afternoon (we were staying at a motel waiting for our house to be ready). A movie was playing, in fact had just opened, that none of us knew anything about at all. It was "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and we were all just blown away by this film. That was probably among the most exciting movie experiences of my life in part because I had no idea of what this film was about before seeing it.

 

[Johnnu2]

I'm too cheap to go to the movies; and too cheap to pay for streaming services. I am fortunate to not have good 'taste', so I can watch just about anything and enjoy some parts of it. I love sex scenes, they remind me of days gone by.... I'm a Vet too (we had them back in the day, but you had to go look for them).

J.

 

[Cofaler]

Loved all the 'Raiders' movies but haven't seen the last one. A buddy was at the Galapagos Islands a few years ago and happened to be there at the same time as Harrison Ford. He said everyone on the island was following him around like a puppy. What is wrong with people?

We went to Matt Walsh's 'Am I Racist' awhile back and it was definitely worth the time and money. Other than that, I can't remember the last time we went to a theater. I just don't see spending any money to support Hollywood.

 

[Armybrat]

Some of you really old bastages probably saw Stanley Kubrics Space Odyssey in 1968.

Yeah, I did….and slept through half of it.

 

[Jeepnik]

Like Vito I was stationed in Europe when it came out. Military theaters don't get "new" movies. By the time I got back it had passed from theaters. I didn't see it until it was on VHS.

I have to concur with Vito that, with the exception of the last one, the Indie movies were much better.