@finfan Thanks for sharing this nice story with us. I was very young as well, I watched it the first time when I was 5. They gave me a VHS I still have in my collection. Still my favourite episode. What about you? Which one is your favourite?
@andreas1138 I hope that tape is still working because that version is no longer available.
My favorite episode? Well, althought I love all of the original trilogy I have to go with ANH. Not only because of my experience and that it is in a way still the only movie that fired up my imagination. When I said we re-enacted the movie we also made props and costumes. That was early 80s, you could not go online and just buy stuff. You had to make do with what was readily available.
This movie was impossible to make before they actually did it. You can trace so many things in technology back to this movie. I think it inspired a lot of people one way or the other.
@finfan are you going to watch Solo? I really liked it (while I didn't like Rogue One at all, even if it is considered one of the best one). I finally had fun watching a Star Wars movie, like I did 26 years ago when I saw Episode 4 for the first time (I was 5 back then, a similar experience to yours, in VHS, a gift from a friend).
It's not a perfect movie, but I enjoyed it.
@andreas1138 No, I don`t want to. Ever since news broke about the spin-offs I showed little interest. Honestly, as much as I love Star Wars and was exited (at first) about the new movies I think Disneys Marvel approach is going too far. They are trying to squeeze every Dollar out of it and a SW movie each year is just too much. From what I hear Solo isn't doing well at the box office so I gather a lot of people are thinking the same. It might be a good movie after all but there is such a thing as oversaturation.
@finfan I am sorry to hear that, if you have the chance to see the movie in the future, please let me know what you think, I am interested in your opinion :) Have a nice day
@andreas1138 I will try to remember that. Maybe when the BluRay is released I'll give it a shot.
@andreas1138 If you are still interested in my opinion about Solo you can now read it up. But it is not a favorable one.
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The movie that propably had the most impact on my life.
I was little over 10 at the time I saw it first. My dad brought it home on VHS. From the first second my eyes were glued to the screen. Immediately after it was over I rewound the tape and watched it again which up to today, close to 35 later, I haven´t done with any other movie. I recorded it on audio tape so I could listen to it, even wrote down the whole thing on paper (that was well before the internet, folks). We re-ennacted the scenes, I had memorized every line. I cannot recall how many times I`ve seen it since then.
I would give it 11 if possible.