STAR WARS Audience Reaction 1977 (AUDIO with VIDEO)
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ต.ค. 2024
- This is NOT my recording. I simply re-edited the original upload so the sound matched the picture. All credit goes to William Forsche and his original upload at:
• Tape Recording of Star...
Original Description:
"This audio was recorded in 1977 when my mother took me to see Star Wars.
(for the second time)
Hearing her laugh (@ :42 & @ 2:54) and cheer with me and the rest of the audience is absolutely priceless to me.
You can also hear me making laser beam sounds at the end of this recording, because "Star Wars" got me all fired up! :)"
It's really fun to see people's first impressions on the first Star Wars. Especially in a time when there was no other movie like Star Wars.
the closet thing was like star trek
Forbidden Planet. Pretty much the first high-budget Science-Fiction movie.
yeah i was talking about the show from the 60's
Forbiden a Planet, by 1977 the highest budget Scifi flick was still Kubrick's Space Odissey - to which SW was compared a lot back then.
Josh Allen Star Wars is different from that movie. Star Wars has much more action and 2001 is more of a mind bending drama
All the cars started honking and flashing their lights, and people were yelling and screaming. I saw it at a drive in when it came out.
Me Too. I got a Star Wars collector's cup with my Soda. It was of the Sand People and the Jawas. I still have it. Best Drive-In Experience that I remember!
My father took my younger brother (then 8) and me (then 13) to the local drive-thru to see it. Unforgettable!
BoOmEr
(I know, you’re probably not a boomer, you were most likely a kid in the 70’s)
Ron Ramen, yeah, I’m a “boomer”; born late 1964. LOL!
Shaq GasEngine Ok, was that an insult? I mean, I said boomer sarcastically, but like, is that a fun fact or an insult?
I WAS 8 YEARS OLD 1977. WHEN THE FALCON SHOWED UP PEOPLE LOST THEIR MINDS. GOOD TIMES.
@my name is DRAKE no one knew who he was before Star Wars. AT ALL. They clapped because of Han Solo saving the day.
@@chicagocarless Thank you. I think the responder is young.
Pathetic idiots.
Franz Haas you know how old i was, negative 1 as in was 1 year before i was born lol
I was 7.
Yes they were good times indeed my friend.
May the force be with you.
Someone needs to create a NEW Star Wars NOSTALGIA forum. Where OT and Prequel lovers can reminisce about their fav scenes, characters, quotes, ECT. Boy do I miss George's influence.
Imagine walking out that night thinking, “hmm I wonder if they’re ever gonna make a sequel” “probably wouldn’t be that good if they did”
And it ended up being one of the best movies of all time. People to this day are still blown away by the “I’m your father” reveal.
They made exactly TWO good sequels.
that's exactly what we did.....I wonder what happens to Darth Vader we said.
I was 14 when this came out...sequels werent a thing then so we didnt really think that.
@@DDDiego many people would still enjoy it if they didn't hear the reveal from morons first.
"If the audience claps when Han arrives with the falcon then it will be a success" cit. Marcia Lucas
The TRUE unsung hero who saved this movie.
I exactly thought about it when I saw it !!! You watched "How Star Wars was saved in edit "?
Since Return of the Jedi (when they divorced) Star Wars has been terrible, she certainly was a major reason in why the first trilogy was a success. It’s sad George pretty much removed her from the credits and she faded into obscurity, she did win an Oscar for her achievements.
@@simonhudson7029 I think it's a combinaison between Kasdam - Marcia - Kurtz - New director
Calmax Film yeah, all the people that weren’t too scared to tell George what they thought, also George wasn’t too big headed then to ignore them.
It must've been something else to see this movie without the prior knowledge that we now have of it. Gives me chills to hear people cheering and clapping in the theatre.
Dean444ful I saw this movie aged 6... Probably my most vivid memory from early childhood. Wonderful.
codswallop321 you are a lucky, lucky man.
codswallop321 ah man, that's so awesome
***** lol I am actually but it hasn't really happened to me that often
Dean444ful Same! chills all up and down!
I remember the audience [at least in the theater I was in] being a lot louder when the death star blew up. The entire theater stood up, cheered, and clapped. It's the only time I've ever seen that kind of response during a movie.
this was probably one of the later screenings of the movie (otherwise the guy who recorded it wouldn't even bother) and i guess by that time at least half of the audience already knew it by heart
I remember the same thing! Superman catching Lois Lane and then the helicopter in the original Superman got a similar response if I remember correctly. I also remember the first brontosaurus sighting in Jurassic Park as well. LOVE seeing stuff in theater! I also remember the audible **GASP** during the Big Reveal in Empire Strikes Back too. Were you there for that opening night too as I was??
intenselan yep. I was at the opening for all 3 of the original Star Wars movies. Everyone gasped at the reveal in empire and clapped at the end of Jedi. The only recent movie where the crowd reacted with that kind of passion was force awakens
Yeah, people don't react as much to movies now. I was at all the opening nights of the LOTR series, and the crowd was amazing for all three. Lots of cosplay was happening at Two Towers and Return of the King. For the TT, I sat in front of an entire row of Gandalfs. heh.
With the Star Wars Prequel series, a lot of kids brought their toy lightsabers and some dressed in full Anakin or Obi Wan costumes. The opening credits/first hit of the theme song to Phantom Menace brought in a huge crowd reaction. Then Jar Jar appeared. heh.
Hrm..I didn't notice that during the Prequels. About the only thing I recall is people clapping when the LucasFilm logo appeared on the screen. What I have noticed is the audience will openly react to movies that are part of "what's hot" pop culture that a majority of the audience are currently into - ie: Deadpool - the entire [FULL[ theater openly reacted to whatever was happening on screen.
In 77, when this movie ended, a ten year old kid's life had changed forever..
Which one
@@mr.popper9759 All of them
@@ryhs0, correct on all counts 🙂🙂
Same here...I was almost 10....but I knew what I wanted out of life because of that film...
Nolan xd
When I saw it people literally got up and cheered when the death star exploded just like at a baseball game. I'll probably never see anything like that again.
I saw it in a drive-in so didn’t get that experience. HOWEVER ... six years later I would very much have that experience when Darth Vader threw the Emperor down the shaft. 😊
Did you not see Captain America weild mjolnir in Endgame?
@@tonyl0ng There was cheering then, yes, but the entire theatre didn't rise to their feet as they did for star wars.
I’m 13, but there were no crowd reactions during the first night of Any of the sequel trilogy (I went to see all three on the first night.) kind of sucks.
@@TomPlotagon watch fan reactions to the latest episode of the mandalorian. That should hold you over until the next movie.
I love how you can hear children giggling when Vader's spinning out of control
His past mistakes haunt him
I'll try spinning that's a good trick!!!!
@@stephenthedude4383 kept him alive!!!
master skywalker, there are too many of them, what are we going to do?
@davari9032 "I'm a person, and my name is Anakin!"
1:45
I remember seeing this the first time. Drove home and immediately phoned some friends and told them they had to go see this. In today's age of special effects, it's hard to imagine the impact this movie had. Total game changer.
K Kampy This is my first ever time watching this scene and even I think it has charm, I can’t imagine what it must’ve been like watching it back then when it was new and visually stunning.
John Cunningham, it already did, many times actually, there's jaws, jurassic park then independence day, titanic, return of the king and of course, the box office reigning king: avatar.
every single one of these movies had and incredible effect on the movie industry, some may be smaller, but every single one of those were game changers, as much as SW was at its time.
I kind of had that experience with The Matrix, when I was a kid. A friend called me up, told me nothing about it, but said I absolutely had to see it as soon as possible.
the marvel cinematic universe happened a few years ago, now if you wanna talk only about TOMORROW, thats a diferent story, we have no way to know what's going to be the next big think, but it WILL HAPPEN, just like those examples, because thats how the industry works. almost eveyr decade has at least one ground breaking movie, predictions are its going to be a video game movie, it could be an anime movie.
but saying it wont ever happen again, when history has shown it to happen all the time, is naive.
Marcos Danilo. And all of the above were destroyed or are about to be destroyed (star wars included) by the cash grabbing, sequel/remake machine that is now hollywood
Can we just take a moment to appreciate the fact start wars art style still holds up great 43 years later
That's because Star Wars was one of the first movies that invented that art style
It's not Cyberpunk, yet not steampunk, it's somewhere in between, it's very industrial.
Yeah, the “used future” aesthetic which is superb and makes everything look well used. The aesthetic was used to great effect in Alien, alongside the horror of a unimaginable beast from another planet the audience was placed inside a dirty, cold, industrial space freighter which made the horror scarier.
@@andrewburgemeister6684 your in the nose
Disney ruined it
I love the applause when Solo shows up. :)
TheClumsyJedi me to!
Meanwhile, in 2018, people didn't even show up to see a Han Solo movie. They cheered because Harrison Ford was young and hot back then. Time is a bitch.
@@G1Bryce IMO the Solo Movie failure kinda falls onto Disney, even if most people didn't wanted to see it because it's kinda pointless Dinsey made a pretty bad timing to release this movie, if it was more spaced out between the other releases I believe it would have gotten much more attention, I also found the advertisiment to be pretty bad, I only discovered these movie had been released when it was too late, but maybe this was only in my country so I can't say for sure.
TheClumsyJedi me too
@@Khan-bq8qc Definitely. They should have waited till Christmas 2018. It would have given Ron Howard time to reshoot and edit
"1 in a million", from the guy that doesn't like the odds to be told.
Odds for thee, not for me.
Julio Camacho Very true.
Well, he only stated the odds _after_ the deed was done. No harm no foul.
3720 to 1.
Guess he done came around, eh.
Before "the explosion ring." Before it was called "A New Hope" and simply "Star Wars."
Yeah, just Star Wars, although, wasn't A New Hope at the beginning of the crawling text? It's hard to remember now. It obviously wasn't episode 4 though!
I still go through the labor of saying ""Star Wars", "Empire" and "Jedi"" rather than "original trilogy".
@@Melayahm01 "A New Hope", like the preceding "Episode IV" subtitle was added for the 1981 re-release. In 1977 all it said was "Star Wars" followed by the story summary that we know today.
@@idontknow164 I mean, it's still THE original trilogy. The original first films that came out.
@@roguescorner9042 ah but I say this to you my interesting friend. If there were only 3 movies wouldn't we be calling it "The Star Wars Trilogy"? That's how it was before prequels and sequels
When the movie opened in Japan, the audience was silent at the end of the picture. According to the country's culture, that was a sign of respect. They knew it was an incredible film.
Now that IS an interesting fact. So they legitimately gave the movie its own moment of silence? Talk about respect.
Or maybe the just didn't care yknow
Da Boos
For the majority of history, theater and musical performances were quite rowdy. This was because they were social events. Often times, when reading the letters of play directors and conductors, they mention when people clapped and shouted because they were proud of it. Of course, in a movie, the actors aren’t physically there, but if you treat the cinema like a social event (which most people do) then clapping and sharing your reaction can add to the film experience. Of course, being annoying and making frequent comments can take away and I won’t argue that, but people clap during movies for good reason.
And in the uk, they are just silent for the heck of it.
I would love to be in a cinema with a shouting crowd, can’t do it here because everybody will just stare.
@@BobOrton7829 This reportedly happened at endgame
nice, this is history
Gerryko Malaysia Media Events & Food well it did take place a long time ago in a galaxy far far away
now this is history racing!
This is truly history i would be born almost 33 years later
Nice I was your 2,000th like
you could make a religion out of this
Awesome little slice of history.
Rest In Peace, Princess Leia
+sellbullion That's some serious edge you got there
sellbullion What a sad lonely life you must lead
So glad I watched this
Who hurt you?
Its amazing that star wars got that reaction back then because of the characters and moments in the film. Star wars gets that reaction now because its star wars.
nobody clapped at my theater for ep 8 tough lol, mostly just random laughs at supposed funny moments from women and kids mostly.
When I went to see the premiere of TFA, every single fucker in the cinema clapped and clapped, I remember they did so most in the scenes where the Millenium Falcon, and Han Solo appear respectively.
Ill say the one cool thing that everyone gasped about in the new star wars [SPOILERS]..... is when the rebel ship jumped through the new orders fleet. That was epic. But ya, it really only gets that respect thanks to the classic greats.
*ITS THE MILLENIUM FALCON!! OH MY GOD ITS THE MILLENIUM FALCOOOON!*
No one cares what you think.
You can definitely confirm that this is the 1977 version. The Death Star didn’t have the ring come out when it blew up
From what I understand, the movie was remastered over the course of time. There were so many background characters that suddenly disappeared in the film.
This is likely edited in by the uploader. After all, they said it was the audio. Having a stable video camera of this quality in 1977 would be unheard of for the average movie goer.
yup
This actually isnt a real recording the tie fighter at 0:15 doesn’t make that sound in the original movie
@@brianwest8119 yes. In the late 90s they rereleased them all in the theaters. We thought it was cool to see them all again in the theater but little did we know these changes were permanent..that is unless you get the despecialized version. Which is as close to the original movies as you can get.
1977 A year when starfighters needed a lot of tweaking to work right.
and a year when star pilots had to wear flight suits.
It sounds like darth vader is tweaking his controls the entire clip with that constant squeaking.
Right? The way Vader fiddles with the knobs and controls, you'd think he's looking for that one sweet radio station.
I've seen tweakers fly starships with the best of em
Dreadlord Sinister : it's the sound of the tape cassette recorder's own wheels squeaking.
The fact that this exists is amazing, this is literally historic. This audio recording to people reacting to what might be the most significant film in modern history, and they're seeing it when it was nothing but a brand new film. Not to add a pun into the comments but this literally belongs in a museum.
Just hope Disney doesn't try to scrub it from the internet
Really it does. Don't we have a Star Wars Museum yet? This needs to go into the archives.
@@cherylhulting1301 Lucas did try but the local ruling class didn't want it
Well....important in the science fiction genre!!
@@RoyalKnightVIII Umm... for what possible reason would they do that?
I was there,my brother and my Father R.I.P... he took us at least 15 times.. we had the shirts with iron ons,all the toys that christmas.. still have them too.. I was proud to be a part of this phenom.. and still glad to be a part of it today..
Mike Nappo can i ask, why do people insist on having so many fulstops at the end of a setence?
i was 8 years old... the Colony Theatre downtown Winnipeg, Canada ..i
paid 1.80 cents ( the bus was 10 cents getting there ) ...from the first
scenes...small space ship, being chased by a bigger space ship...i
still smell the pop corn..feel the sticky floor..my huge bucket of
'coke', ' watching the " ole' red curtain " open...it was like a space
version of Robin Hood...the audience was clapping and cheering for the
rebels winning!!...the next few weeks, the word was out, the lines for
this " NEW movie " went around the block and further... i'll trade 1.5
years of my life for that 1.5 hours back ~(^..)
Mike Nappo that's awesome!
anotherkat4u cool memory
Mike Nappo so cool bro.
The reaction to Han’s “ya-hoo” gives me chills. One of the greatest videos on TH-cam. Wish I was alive then to see this.
its YE-HEWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! , NOT YA HOO!!!
I legit start to tear up.
It’s such a great moment since Han was sort of an anti-hero who didn’t want to get involved so obviously left before the battle began, but ultimately had a change of heart and found the courage to do what it is right and help the Rebel Alliance.
Star Wars was influenced a bit of course by The Wizard of Oz, and it’s theorised that Chewbacca and to an extension Han stood in for the Cowardly Lion who of course struggles to find the courage to do what’s right, it’s a great arc in both those films when they find they had courage all along.
I was 7 years old and every adult in side the theater were very elated.
OMG, it was WONDERFUL!!!! I was on the edge of my seat!!!!! ❤️❤️❤️
Chewbacca: "What the hell are you all clapping at I didn't get my damn medal."
This galaxy was built on racism and wookie slavery!
Wookies despise medals and trophies.
Furr balls don't deserve any medals.
They should've pinned a rosette on him, like a prize stallion.
mugensamurai , funny because it is true.
I saw Star Wars in 1977. There was a standing ovation at the end of the movie.
Amazing. That's pure hype.
@@patriciopss1491 it was one of my fondest childhood memories.....
@@marblesthecat3861 i was looking People reactions and man this is awesome to hear it. I've lived that hype when the precuels came out. Great memories.
I've clapped at the end of a movie but never stood up. Never seen people do a standing ovation.
That’s so lucky! I wish I was around for that.
Just imagine. You're on your way to see a movie; the trailers look dumb and has nothing interesting.
'A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away' pops up and your like 'yep I want to go home n....'
STAR
WARS
Everyone freaks out
2 hours later...
Everyone's muscles are swore after tensing them for too long in the film. You walk out thinking that was the best movie ever!!!
I personally can't even begin to imagine what this was like in 1977 in theatres. The only sad thing is that we will never have a feeling like this ever again!
Callum Murphy watch out for the next five years
Word got out very quickly...I had a professor that was around 20 when SW was released in 1977, and he went with his entire group of friends to see it again the same night. They also started waiting in lines for tickets to see it again and again (7 times over a couple of weeks if I remember correctly). I wish I could have been part of that phenomenon -- and seeing Led Zeppelin in the 70s before Bonham died...
My Dad tells me that he and his high school buddies went to it on opening night and saw it every single night that week. 7 times in a row. You don't do that for just any old movie.
Callum Murphy I was 14 when this came out. Me and my friends must have seen it 6 or 7 times. Amazing !
My father told me that when he went to go see it, his uncle took him out to a theater hours away for it, and when he told him the title he just thought "Star Wars? That sounds lame." He was about 11 or 12 at this point. He said that when he left the theater it was like no other movie he'd ever seen.
About 18 years later, he buys the VHS trilogy and sits me down. Star Wars? That sounds lame...
I heard critics didnt think star wars would do well in theatres because the movie Smokey and the Bandit came out at the same time...you believe that?
I think that's less about the quality of Star Wars more to the credit Smokey and the Bandit. I mean, that movie is a riot and a hell of a lot of fun.
@@jacobmonks3722 not taking anything away from smokey, gotta love Burt Reynolds and who didnt want a trans am after watching that movie. Star Wars has just reached hights that no other movie has in pulp culture and to think that peoole thought it wasnt going to be good enough. Just goes to show that you can never tell the future and that all ideas should be considered and given a chance.
Wtf is Smokey and the bandit? Just proves which movie was more memorable
Just before it came out I read about Mark Hammel and I think Ben Bova at a SF convention talking about Mark staring in a major movie that might never be shown. Everyone in the industry knew SF was just B movies about tentacle monsters, with no market. Of course afterwards the same people were making bad knockoffs.
To be fair, Smokey was a blast! I saw both, as did many others. After all, I was the target audience for both😁
My first exposure to Star Wars was Lego Star Wars: The Original Trilogy so when my dad first showed me Star Wars on the cassette I was naming all of the characters like "REBEL FRIEND" and such
Matthew Greer same, i watched return of the Jedi and i was scared of jabba
Matthew Greer hahahaha thats so funny😂 I remember that character, that game was some good times
Matthew Greer OMFG SAME
Matthew Greer thats almost exactly how i was introduced to star wars and I have been obsessed with it for 9 to 10 years
Matthew Greer same
Now THAT"S a Star Wars film.
magiciansway This was my childhood. This is what I want. Not the George Lucas revisions, the original. It’s like this is a part of me.
I was a little kid when I saw this within a few days of its original release, and I recall two interesting theater reactions. One when Yoda said “Do or do not. There is no try.” (A very vocal, yeah! from some in the audience and a couple of high-fives). The other (cheers!) when Luke turned off his targeting computer.
@@dinohuntr851 Yes! I saw this as a 16 year old and I vividly remember the agonizing wait for it's release, slightly fearful that it wouldn't live up to my expectations then thrilled that it did. To a 16 year old boy it spoke directly to the hero's journey and spoke to something larger than just a movie.
@@hlcepeda Absolutely! "A New Hope" was a well made movie with rich archetypal themes, a plot that enthralled, strong male AND female characters (characters that you cared about...) and wisdom.
@@magiciansway ANH pushed all the right buttons!
“Written and directed by George Lucas”
John Chris how it should be
Back when Star Wars was gold, now it’s a cash grab.
@@rumpio5505 star wars 9 is great
George Lucas sold his empire to the dark side.
I still like Star Wars...but this last trilogy was a hot mess
@@elias2383 I have tried to immerse myself into these, but there are these clanging... discrepancies that make it difficult. The overall story elements weren't weak; their presentation and organization were abysmal.
In the 70’s an Iranian family who left Iran at the time of the revolution moved in next door to me in London. In 1978 I was 7 and I got to know the 2 children in the family well. One Friday night there was a knock at the door and the family asked if I would like to go to the cinema with them, We went along to a cinema in Ealing, West London and the film turned out to be Star Wars, and my 7 year old mind was truly blown. I will be forever grateful for their invite and remember the evening fondly. They soon after moved to the U.S. and we lost touch. Hope they are all happy and well wherever they are now.
Thanks for sharing such a warm and fuzzy anecdote.
Do audiences react like this to anything anymore? I live in a country with the coldest audience in the world, and at the end of Rogue One I just wanted to cheer and applaud the hell out of it.
Paul J. Morton Gotta go to LA and not to sound racist or anything visit the black theatres, actually Quentin Tarantino always screens his movies in LA at black theatres cause they react to his movies the best.
Some do for sure... The Force Awakens had a very energetic audience where I was. SO did Rogue One!
From Portugal here. At the end of Rogue One I was pumping with energy and I started aplauding and laughing. My face was hurting with smiling. Some other guy aplauded like 3 claps and that was it. Fucking boring audience. I could do all the laughing by myself but come on who doesn't like to feel that community sense in the cinema right?
Paul J. Morton When I saw Contact, the audience applauded at the end.
I remember when I saw Independence Day in 1996. The audience was wild, they cheered, clapped and screamed. Also similar happened with movies like Godzilla and Guardians Of the Galaxy (both from 2014).
Did I correctly hear a woman calling Peter Cushing/Grand Moff Tarkin a "monster" after he gives the "fire when ready" order? Even if I heard it incorrectly I thought that was awesome -- I remember feeling (when I was a kid) that Cushing/Tarkin was much scarier than Vader. Cushing was just awesome in this role (and in all of his films -- I love his turns in Hammer horror films despite the overall cheesiness -- he lent class to every production).
aleister crowley
Sounded more like "we lost her" as in Leia
Matthew Greer she said "We lost R2."
aleister crowley When i saw Gladiator, I loathed the villain
Excellent acting there too
So as Christopher Lee, to his early Golden Age films. That's why Lucas hired him for Dooku...
(fun fact: in Portuguese, saying Dooku out loud is the same as "from the ass")
i wonder if that's why we have the kids' word "dooky" for poop
I wish there was a version of this with the audience reaction to 'No I am your father'
+Storm Arrow There is. And it is dead silent. At the time, people thought it was a lie by Vader to trick Luke into joining him.
+atidiaX what about return of the jedi with landos "yeehaaa!"
actually Dave Prowse had spilled the beans back in 1979 but it was long before the internet so i guess only a tiny percentage of the audiences knew
Just watched one on youtube, a reaction video of children & adults- whom had never seen/heard of Star Wars, reacting to this scene. Fun stuff.
yarpen26 I can't see this as being true as David prowse's lines were "No Obi Wan killed you're father" Including George Lucas, mark Hamil and James Earl Jones, only 7 people knew the truth until it was first aired in cinemas
I had the middle seat of the second row from the front after waiting 5 hours in two lines to get in, knowing NOTHING about the movie, since it had no trailers of any real kind and this was the first weekend that it was being shown. I thought my seat was going to be bad due to the loud sounds, but it was the absolute BEST POSSIBLE seat in the entire theater. Those spaceships coming in at the beginning literally "blew me away"... Best movie beginning EVER!!
Cool to hear it from someone who experienced it live I envy you on so many levels
@@nikolaimaharaj2319 The craziest part was that I was not going to go to a movie that weekend since my wife just had our first baby. However, she was with her mother at her mother's apartment and told me TO GO AWAY UNTIL LATE THAT NIGHT SINCE I WAS "GETTING ON THEIR NERVES". So I left and when I got in the car I remembered the STAR WARS movie and decided that I had nothing else to do, so I might as well watch it. Boy, getting thrown out by my wife was one of the luckiest things I ever had happen to me. My whole life has a lot of such crazy things, many not so good, but this was...
How didn’t this movie did not have any trailer or teasers that’s really impossible to go see this film back then and not see any promotion.
@@edercortes1960 because it wasn't a big deal at first, all this would've really be seen as is some ordinary space movie
Nikolai Maharaj ...no I hear you trust me I’m just saying if I was growing up in the 70s and heard of this movie I would be really mad at Seiskel and ebert for it
This is a gift. Thank you for sharing this with those of us who weren't even born yet back then!!
I bet these people in 77 were like “man I hope they make another one that’d be cool”
😅😅😅 We loved it in 1977 and were jazzed as hell about the sequel.
Little did anyone realize that there was a 12 year old boy in the audience by the name of Mikey. Mesmerized by the massive explosion of the Death Star, little Mikey decided to become a film maker himself, dreaming of filling his films with explosions of his own. We now know him as Michael Bay.
There was another little boy in the audience by the name of Steve. Mesmerized by the thousand faces of Threepio, little Steve decided to become a talented actor, dreaming of filling his films with deep emotion. He decided to become a man of a thousand faces . We now know him as Steven Seagal.
Segal became a lawman, taking down crime with a SUV packed with old men, and his Akkido.
Not Steven Speilburg?
Steven Spielberg was already good friends with George Lucas when Star Wars came out
Unseen Minecraft do you mean Steavan Speilbirg?
I saw it opening night in 1977 when I was just 10 years old. The audience reaction was just like this, and now, at the age of 53, I'm a Star Wars addict for life.
I WANT THE REACTION TO VADER SAYING I AM YOUR FATHER TO LUKE IN 1980!!!!!!!
Nobody clapped during or after The Rise of Skywalker in my theater. I could hear a pin drop. Lol!
When we left the theater peoples faces were solemn and their eyes looked at the floor
saw a kid walk out looking like the Arthur clenched fist meme
Lots of clapping for Rise of Skywalker each time I saw it.
@@Dudemon-1 I smell bullshit.
@@Dudemon-1 they were clapping because the pain finally ended
My grandpa sez people saw this like 10 times in a row back in the day....he told me Star Wars '77 was in movie theatres for 2 years!!!! Thats fu$#in mental!!! What kinda fu%$wad would pay 15 bucks for a movie thats been out for 2 years!!!
RideMyTruck Well it was the time before home video, so
My grandpa told me Empire '80 was in movie theatres for 3 years!!!! Thats just fu$#in batsh$# insane!!! Old folks had NO FU%$IN LIVES!!!!
+RideMyTruck more like no phone....
Grandpa sez you had to physically WALK OVER to a friends house to talk to them....WTF DUDES? Thats fu%$in dumbass MENTAL!!!
Alright, now you can stop fucking commenting.
I was still in my dads sack when the movie came out
SAPPY did you like it
Ok boomer
JamesTheFox Bruh that seems kinda gay if you like it
SAPPY same, buddy.
Mrsilenciobackgammon my dad was like 4 so I don’t think I was in his yet
0:01
This was definitely from 1977 because that's Harry Shearer's voice saying "Rebel base thirty seconds and closing". That was from the original 1977 theatrical mix, in all other audio mixes the voice is dubbed over by another voice actor.
Harmy's Despec has that version.
“The End. Ta-da!”....little did they know just how NOT the end it would turn out to be over the decades.
Kevin Sigman it’s was great for decades, then Disney happened and it all went to shite
@@justaguy9156 did you just seriously forget the prequels exist? 😂😂😂
AliceDiableaux did you just seriously forget how they weren’t the ending of the story rather than an explanation what lead up to the OT? Also they were great movies with awesome world building even better than the OT in my opinion.
Trapped In A Bagel hahahahahahahA
Prequels had some really terrible dialogues and some good characters totally wasted, but it was really good in everything else, way better than what we got in this new trilogy.
Wha...why are my eyes so wet..
Treebeard whoever left this damn bowl of cut onions in here is gonna die
fluffytoaster427 I left the unions.
Damn the European Union!
Treebeard fucking crying too. WTF! Thanks George Lucas
DeadDodo An accumulation of dust.
It’s cool hearing Gen X ers reminiscing. A generation unfortunately overlooked but reminding us of a great era in difficult times. You guys rock. 😊
WarpedWeft I hate how they vote, though.
Furry Fox so true
@WarpedWeft Thank you for correctly calling us Gen Xers. I'm really tired of hearing the very inaccurate, "Ok boomer" comments. I'm 100% Gen X.
@@starwarsrebel2006 To the boomer comment just reply I'm an X-Man!
@@jameshalleluyah8133 Awesome! Lol
Oh, bless you. You used the original Death Star explosion and everything. :)
well its the 1977 theatrical version and the audio from the theater
Han. Shot. First. :)
You mean only Han shot, of course. :)
Yes, I damn well do. :)
Also black n white R2 in the beginning
The sequence of Luke firing the torpedoes and finally inhaling is one of my favorite moments in movie history. It gets me every time.
Uh, exhaling isn't he?
Gets you how? Turned on?
David Andersson I read an old copy of the book. The book explained that Luke gave himself over to the force when he fired the torpedoes, and he force-guided them into the shaft. His heavy exhaling here is his return from out of an almost trance-like state.
Nate Jones hehe shaft
Mike Mc The avatar really helps with that joke.
1:38 -
Anyone else get super emotional?
(': ✨🌟❤👍😎
I was in a theater that opening weekend with my Mother and a Friend of hera...she said it was the first time I kept my mouth shut through a movie...before it was said and done, we saw it in every type of theatre and drive-in we had...and now, I have to watch the special editions and pretend...damn it...
WOW, I didn't expect that flood of emotion!
stinky pinkeee I still have an original copy on vhs thank god, but no longer have a VCR to watch it with... so there’s that catch.
Idid i had tears in my eyes , great times.
Cried like a fucking baby for 10 mins... What the fuck's wrong with me!? Maybe because they literally just killed it (and my love for it), hearing it at it's birth when it still made people happy made me sad????
Command: "Luke what's wrong, you've switched off your targeting computer"
Luke: "Nothing"
Command: "Ok well why tho?"
Phack Em haha! You see them look at each other like “this dude is trippin!”
I'm gonna.......use the force??? Or something....
@@maxg1836 I'm pretty sure those two guys were looking at each other like "well, we're dead"
It's all right.
Every time I watch that movie I am surprised that Han saves him at the end.
I have no similar experience with any other movie I can think of.
The Eagles are coming!
Just give me the original version on Blu-ray. No revisions, the original.
Trent Neff they are on ebay
do a browser search for Harmy Despecialized.
@@ArtamStudio You can get it.
I still have the THX Remastered trilogy on VHS in the flat box.
It was so weird watching this
I knew the ring around the Death Star explosion wouldn't be there but my god the TIE fighter explosions look so bad 😂 Ive just seen the remastered version so many times
Back when movies had to earn an applause. Now people just lose their minds whenever they see a cheap cameo.
That's why none of these new movies will make history.
Jonathan Huhn You people are so dense
Community Watch "You people"? What are you, an alien...Ok, E.T., phone home because WE find you boring...
Jonathan Huhn Sad, but true...
I dunno. I think when Thor showed up in Wakanda in Infinity War it was a well earned cheer.
Star Wars wasn't a movie. Star Wars was The Movies.
This movie, is Star Wars
At a time when nobody had VCRs, the Only way to watch it.
I swear this movie was in the theater almost until Empire released.
I mean, heck, my dad (who “doesn’t do sci-fi”) took my mom to see it, and they loved it. These are two people who are unbelievably picky filmgoers.
NO OWEN FOOD, STAR WARS IS THE MOVIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yeah but what if Luke would have missed the shot after turning off his computer?....can you imagine the outrage of the remaining rebels?...lol
Congrats, you missed the plot :D
Had Disney produced this episode he would have missed and leia would shoot a blaster from the planet and hit the exhaust port.
They wouldn't have been outraged for long. They would all be dead in a few seconds.
@@ashg9023 lol
@Alfonso Flores lol...yeah theyd be like we paid a lot of freaken republic credits for this high tech computer equipment and you didnt use it??? and now were dead ...WTF Luke??!!!
My favorite memory is the reaction of the crowd in Empire Strikes Back when R2D2 fixes the hyperdrive and the Falcon goes into hyperspeed. You could feel it in your bones.
I remember thinking, "Darth Vader escapes? I guess they're going to try to milk a sequel out of it..."
Now here we are, with the best saga of movies ever
@Jean Sanchez Moose wassa issa saings?
Jean Sanchez not really, he could’ve made a sequel anytime but he waited for the technology to tell the prequel stories, he did milk it though won’t lie
No you didn’t
Doubtful you thought that, because neither blockbusters, nor sequels and franchises were common place back then. In fact, Jaws and Star Wars invented the blockbuster.
This audio is an historical document and should be preserved. Sent chills down my back.
That was one of the great things about Star Wars, the clapping and cheering. Most of the movies back in the day were not fun. Don't get me wrong, they were great films, The God Father, Taxi Driver, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest etc... but they were dark stories and not much to cheer about. Star Wars brought back the fun...cheering for the heroes, boo's and hisses for the villains...great memories!
Thank you Star Wars!
thanks for posting Homer
Like when you heard "Smile you son of a..." And Chief Brody blowed him up good. He blowed him up real good. I cheered and applauded.
I remember seeing Return of the Jedi in theatres as a boy. Everyone cheered like this when Vader picked up the Emperor and threw him down the shaft and exploded. Then the station exploded. But according to Jar Jar Abrams, he survived just fine.
It was but a flesh wound!
I was under the impression that his servants cloned him.
@@Sindraug25 If his mind survived the destruction of his body, how did his mind get into a clone body? Why did the clone look so old? Why was he so ridiculously overpowered?
@@Sindraug25 When was he cloned? Why would a clone carry the mind/memories of its donor? Why was the clone in TROS so old?
@@SuperTonyony I don't have any of those answered. I only said that's the impression I had.
"The force will be with you...until Disney buys this franchise".
Disney made possibly the greatest fictional hero in the history of American cinema into a bitter, defeated old man who resigns himself to sitting around waiting to die.
@@Natsumithegreat worst is that he abandoned his sister to fight the 'new empire' alone.
@@Natsumithegreat Disney destroyed Star Wars so that they could remake it as they wish. They've driven off the legacy fan base with the sequel trilogy. Now they can do whatever they want. That's probably what they intended to do from the beginning. Star Wars is E1->E6, and whatever else took place during Lucas' ownership. The rest is "Frozen In Space"...
@@gdkopinionator4356 The Disney Trilogy isn't cannon. It's a malicious abomination and an absolute defilement of ACTUAL Star Wars which united people through the power of myth, music, sympathetic characters and great storytelling instead of dividing people through woke identity politics.
@@Vaelsung1 I generally agree. I tend to be left-of-center, but the woke twitter mob is a disgrace to civil discourse. That being said, I saw more of the typical Disney appeal to infantilism than appeals to the twitter mob.
I wish the "Magic Of Myth" exhibit was still around. It toured the world between the Special Editions and the Prequels. For those who didn't read Campbell, it was a learning experience in how humans react to narratives. Lucas was as serious a student of Campbell, as he was of Kurosawa. It will be sometime before we see the like of George Lucas create a durable piece of culture again.
Just wow. Back when there was no Star Wars "FRANCHISE" and people worshipping the brand. This was just people reacting to an amazing movie. It was so pure and untainted by corporate greed.
Even in Return of Jedi, George Lucas already realized he could earn more money with toys and merchandise than the actual movie, the Ewoks were created to sell plushies.
lol, so overly dramatic.
Deathshuck the legends universe wasn’t really greed. Thanks to the books that really started it -the rogue squadron series- the original expanded universe was all about making the Star Wars universe bigger and bigger
oh you're wrong there, the franchise hype around this movie at the time, especially shortly after it, was HUGE. Every kid wanted star wars toys and clothes that christmas.
@Aaron Bryant: Actually, he's right. The "Franchise" around this movie was nothing, at the time. The board at 20th Century wanted to shut down production of Star Wars during filming, a couple of times. You don't do that if you have expectations of "Franchising". Lucas was able to get the rights to merchandising because 20th Century had low expectations of the film, and figured they'd lose money on merchandise, but George wanted to sell the movie. It wawn't until AFTER the Star Wars movies became such a monster hit that franchising became thought of.
This movie was so great because the people involved in making it had their passions. George loved what he was doing. The actors, for thw most part, thought this was just going to be some silly kids movie, but did their best job of acting because that's their passion. Same for the special effects, and on, and on. 20th Century Fox thought only about money, but put very little into this movie (comparably).
I still remember going to see Star Wars when I was 5 years old. I still remember everyone yelling and cheering I have never saw another movie where the crowd reacted like that it was a new beginning in movie special effects. To a 5 year old boy it had a big impact on my life over the last 40 years. Shoot we still had a Black and White TV at that time. My Mom bought me a lot of Star Wars toys I even had 10 Stormtroopers. I don't know how she did it we were so poor she had to make my clothes. I came home from school one day to an AT-AT sitting on the table it was the one Star Wars toy I wanted more than anything and somehow she got it.
Frank you sick fuck
God Bless Moms. They make things happen, no matter what.
I remember it being really loud in the theater on opening weekend 1977 too! What a phenomenon this movie was!
Can we hear the BIG REVEAL?!?!?! In empire?!?!?!
You'd be pretty disappointed. Most reactions to that in 1980 were gasps, whispers, and a few people yelling out in shock.
That's exactly what i'm looking to hear.
CybermanFordStrikesBack
how is that disapointing?
+Handsome Jack. It's disappointing compared to many other reactions of movies, where there were cheering, yelling, laughing, clapping, and maybe even singing.
Shock. Gasp. No way! He's lying. - that was my reaction in 1980.
Man, when the Falcon showed up and everyone was all "woooo".
I ACTUALLY felt that.
I still tear up when it happens. Han’s redemption arc from running away from problems to being the hero.
I wish I was alive in 1977
Ben Thomas Why though? I don't think people appreciate how lucky we are to be living now.
Deathshuck I think we're going to have twice this reaction this christmas
Deathshuck Yes, I love the time when people spend their time in theaters on their stupid phones. :)
Ben Thomas Saw it about 10 times in the theater in 1977.
Deathshuck Computers and The Internet have made life easier. I remember how when writing a paper for school example, I had to use a typewriter, set the margins, if I wanted to change something type the whole paper over, etc.
I’m telling you who didn’t see it upon release, at the time there was nothing like it. The pure exhilaration after seeing it, nothing like it at all!!
Robert J Kral ok
When movies on the big screen were actually on a *BIG* screen.
Jow Bloe yeah funny you say that. The big screen I saw it on became 2 screens / 2 theaters instead of one about a decade later.
@@rjkral The one I saw it in is now a parking lot....
Les ugh! Yeah as I said the great theater I saw it at split into 2 screens, but right now it’s completely gutted and is now just part of a shopping center. It was once one of Australia’s most grand and prestigious of theaters. My downtown at he time had many movie theaters to choose from by simply walking around (at least 5 different complexes within walking distances Eve when they became multi screen facilities). ALL of them are now gone.
wow, this is amazing. Priceless.
extraleague01 you can even here the squeaking sound of the cassette roters turning !
It made me a little emotional that someone was able to capture this piece of history for us to enjoy today.
It's so great that the new movies bring this feeling back for fans new and old
The Bacons Are them?
The Bacons
Really now
AHAHAHAHAH
no
It's so great that the new movies bring this feeling back to grateful people who knows how to enjoy a product without bitching for everything.
Alvaro Stöckle Yep... I like this
It's great to hear not only the audience reaction but also to see the original Death Star explosion, before George decided to mess with it.
The video isn't from 1977, only the audio is; it's just synced to the video. The video is probably from the Despecialized fan cut / the laserdisc release.
Symphonic Metal Citadel Video is probably from the 2006 GOUT DVD.
The ripoff from Star Trek with the blast ring. I hate it.
William M Blast ring wasn’t created by Star Trek...
I was 8 when I saw this in the theatre, I was blown away by it.
We are close to the same age. I remember not knowing what it was and going to the movies with my older cousins and being completely unprepared for the awesomeness.
+Jim Walker I envy you haha
I was 8 years old too. I don't think any kids today can *ever* feel what we felt back then with introduction of this movie. Nothing like it had ever been done. I'd say a close second would be "Jurassic Park" with is dinosaurs. Either way, the new generations have "Starwars" to thank for the movies they get (and take for granted) today.
Jim Walker damn, you are one lucky son of a bitch, I wish I saw this movie as a kid, sadly I saw Phantom menace as my first Star wars experience
I was 7, It captured my imagination like nothing before or since.
Hell, that was tame compared from my experience back in the day. In short, I allowed my best friend to talk me into going to the theater to watch this movie back in 1977. He had already seen it a few times. So we go inside & sat in the front row. By the end of the movie after the Death Star was blown to space dust, as God as my witness, what I saw, well its hard to explain but I'll try. After the Death Star was blown away, the theater felt like a earthquake had hit it. I mean that place was ROCKING!!! I'm talking grown up's in suites & ties & people of ALL ages were literally STANDING ON THE CHAIRS just a hooping it up & cheering like you would never believe. Not even when I saw Jaws & they blew the shark into fish food was there a reaction like this. I thought Jaws was the shit, but after my first hand experience of watching Star Wars on the big screen back in 1977, I take it all back. Star Wars was & IS the shit. Never before & never after, even to this day, have I ever seen such a crowd reaction like I did back in 1977. I looked at my friend that night as the cheering was going on & I remember saying to him, This could be big. And all these years later, look at just how big Star Wars became. I'll never forget that moment in time. In short, it was PURE MAGIC!!! And on a side note, I have all the Star Wars movies on dvd as the first one in 1977 too this day is my all time favorite movie. Nothing will ever top it IMO. But still, for that one night back in time, I can honestly say, I not only saw something special, but I saw PURE MAGIC. And what a feeling & what a night that was..........
Glad someone liked it .
I will now forever see the faces of Galen and Jyn Erso smiling on the sight of the explosion. Rogue One made this a better movie.
Rename no.5 what a time to be alive!
Devon Harris I will always remember the Starkiller base collapsing while some xwings and the millenium falcon flee from it. Star wars episode 7 made this worse.
Devon Harris As I personally liked Rogue one.
Rogue One didn't make it significantly better but I was really nice to see a genuine explanation why there was a small fault in the Death Star. It also made the Rebels seen more capable of doing something because they feel useless in the originals. The Stormtroopers massacre them in every scene. Ewoks and the main characters are the only ones that seem to be able to put up a fight.
I know! I hope they make a movie about the frog-thing that Jabba eats' family so rotj is better.
Please tell me there's one for the Empire Strikes Back
Super Rabbit love to hear the reaction to the big reveal
The Bacons and to know what the actual line was! (Mandela effect - don't worry, I'm not a believer in that necessarily)
Super Rabbit What's funny is that your comment reminded me that me and my sister snuck in a battery operated tape recorder back in 1980 and recorded the Empire Strikes Back. I think it took two cassettes. I ought to try to find it and see what the audience sounds like!
Super Rabbit Did the poster I wonder just have some kind of tape recorder that did this? very interesting to hear the sound software the theater and the people in such awe!
mercuryman67 yes please! Your video would get so much views!
This is great, you can even hear the tape squeaking in the background
Nilin Lusankya yes ! You can here it !It's funny that people think this is fake because the video quality is so good. He simply synced up his audio recording with this video clip he got off the net or somewhere else.
Springs back a flood of emotions for me. I was 10 and saw it with my dad at the theater. I miss him as much as I miss the original trilogy. I remember my dad saying there's going to be another one when he noticed Vader Got Away :-) if he only knew!!! But I'm sure he does somehow :-)
See how it's done? The pacing and editing and acting. The character development for Leia, Han and Luke. The comradery of the three: Leia hooking them up with her political ties and the rebellion; the rogue Han turning a new leaf and saving the kid multiple times; Luke's heroic journey leading him to believe in himself and the force to turn the tide. This is Star Wars!
IT IS, AND THATS EXACTLY WHAT GEORGE DID FOR 123 N IRVAN KERSHNER HELPED 5 AND RICHARD MARQUAND HELPED 6 AND JJ DID FOR 7 AND RIAN DID FOR 8 AND GARETH DID FOR ROGUE-1 AND RON HOWARD DID FOR SOLO SWS AND DAVE FELONI DID WITH THE CLONE WARS THEATRICAL RELEASED MOVIE AND DAVE ACOMBA DIDTO THE FOURTEEN MINUTE SHORT ANIMATED MOVIE INSIDE THE HOLIDAY SPECIAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THESE ARE STAR WARS TOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My uncle saw this back in summer of 1977. He Remember the moment when the opening crawl started. He said that every people in the theater started screaming and clapping. Similar to TFA Experience. My Uncle was 13 When he saw Star Wars. I was 13 when I saw TFA. Weird isn't it.
why was people clapping if they didn't even know what they were about to see?
Now here I found the evidence of time travel.
i was 8 years old... the Colony Theatre downtown Winnipeg, Canada ..i
paid 1.80 cents ( the bus was 10 cents getting there ) ...from the first
scenes...small space ship, being chased by a bigger space ship...i
still smell the pop corn..feel the sticky floor..my huge bucket of
'coke', ' watching the " ole' red curtain " open...it was like a space
version of Robin Hood...the audience was clapping and cheering for the
rebels winning!!...the next few weeks, the word was out, the lines for
this " NEW movie " went around the block and further... i'll trade 1.5
years of my life for that 1.5 hours back ~(^..)
What is funny is that the crawl is lifted from older sci-fi serial films of the 1930s (specifically 1930s Flash Gordon films -- Lucas talks about how much he loved that feature as a kid watching those films).
L33 Pictures My dad was 9 when he first saw star wars. I was 14 when I saw the force awakens
I remember the first time I saw this movie, unfortunately we arrived late in the showing when Han and Luke are arguing whether or not to rescue the Princess in the Death Star control room. The reaction heard in the audio are just like when I saw it except there was not just applause when the Death Star blew up, Everyone erupted in a thunderous cheer! with people standing and pumping their fists in the air. I had never had that experience in the cinema before. That's when I noticed I witnessed something very special. I was like 'WOWWW!' THIS IS AWESOME!! From that very moment I was hooked for life. We stayed for a second showing so we could see the film in its entirety. This was back when you only paid once and weren't ushered out once the movie ended. Such a great time to be alive and I feel very blessed to have experienced it from the very beginning back in 1977.
Did you see the phantom menace when it came in 1999 in theatres?
I was there in 1977 and we were never able to stay for a second showing. we had to pay for all tickets. where did you live?
Ahh! I'm actually tearing up here; I remember doing exactly this kind of thing for Star Wars and Empire, taking my honking-huge Panasonic "portable" tape recorder into the theatre (which, back then, no one cared about at all) and recording the movie just so I could listen to it later! Ah the days before VHS and DVD and Streaming! Now I feel really old.
This video actually brought tears to my eyes.
+Zach Mayer me too, but i dunno why. i am not even a star wars fan
TFA had a similar reaction to the opening credits and ending scene. Also they applauded when the falcon appeared in the junk yard.
Yes, but they did so out of nostalgia.
yeah, but nobody applauded at the end of the film XDD
They did where I was
In my theater they applauded at the end too
the difference is that in 1977 they applauded because the movie was awesome. in force awakens they applauded cause of nostalgia reasons...
This is something Disney can never duplicate no matter what crap trilogies they put out.
Yep, that steaming pile of corporate garbage will not be remembered. The OG trilogy and the prequels are superb though!
I think it fully depends on who they out in charge. That's the difference between the new trilogy and The Mandalorian.
@@josharntt The mandalorian is an insult to the old cannon. The sound quality is horrible and they got the design of several aliens wrong. Mandalorian is just another sign of how little Disney cares about star wars.
@@christianriddler5063 Wait what?You are probably the first guy I have seen on the Internet calling The Mandalorian to be bad
@@thespiritofjonathanjoestar6805 That's because it is bad on it's own. Compared to the rest of Disney star wars however it is a pure masterpiece. But compared to Lucas star wars it is inferior in almost every single way.
Little did they know the absolute cinematic history that they had just witnessed
Holy crap...I actually teared up watching this...
Same
For real.
The bittersweet taste of nostalgia for the past and disgust for the present.
I full out cried LOL this is awesome!!!
Imagine if Luke trusted the force but still failed the shot for not using the computer, it would be so cringe hahaha
In the newest movies that's what would happen
Solaxe S Finn would do a stunt like that.
There was a comic book that used the idea. Infinities: A New Hope
People were able to get excited and emotionally involved with these types of movies back then. That doesn't happen anymore and it makes me sad that I wasn't able to experience this movie during that time. People are just too reserved to express emotion nowadays.
princess That's awesome. Not to say it doesn't happen EVER, but movies like Star Wars, Superman 1978, and Alien got just about EVERYONE who saw them at the time to go bananas with awe, excitement, and terror. It still happens for die-hard fans, but not the casual viewer like it did back then.
maybe people are tired of all the remakes and reboots
People are also tired and bored of all PC stuff which is imposed on them in TFA or Rogue One. The producer told openly that she does not care about "male fans of SW". That is why we are not able to feel it again like in 1977.
I think people are just afraid of expressing their excitement in a quiet theater.
iSh0tYou99 that's what I think too.
I remember seeing this in late summer 1977 as a teenager---this definitely brings back memories.
This WAS the movie you had to see in the summer of 1977 if you were 10 years old ! It blew me and my friends away ! We went back to see it 7 times more. 😊
Happy 40th Anniversary, Star Wars! 👏 May The Force be with you... Always! 😉
yeah, but now the new films actually suck
Sadfox Es You suck.
loomman529 Hey man, it's just an opinion. RELAX
Sadfox Es The Last Jedi was the best Star Wars movie since Empire.
Sadfox Es an incorrect opinion
Before it was episode 4 and just “Star wars”
The first film still is and will always be titled "Star Wars".
If you say Star Wars now nobody will think you mean Episode IV and instead think you mean the franchise. I always see it listed as "Star Wars Episode IV", sometimes with "A New Hope"
Alex Flockhart crazy to think it was just Star Wars, Empire, Return without episode titles.
@@Calypso694 once you make more than 3, especially out of sequence, you kind of have to go by number for the general public. Yes, fans know. But to sell a blockbuster franchise they make it more simplified.
@Jay McDanieL I don't think the plot was complex enough in JAWS 2 to 5 to need an indication of sequence. How many of those even showed in theaters?
Correct me if I'm wrong (due to various versions of the Star Wars films), didn't the first theatrical release say Episode IV in the opening crawl?
- THE ORIGINALS
ARE
THE
SPECIAL EDITIONS -
the "Special Edition" was being part of the audience that saw this when it first came out. What an awesome afternoon that was for me!
"If the audience doesn't cheer when Han Solo comes in at the last second in the Millennium Falcon to help Luke when he's being chased by Darth Vader, the picture doesn't work." - Marcia Lucas
I remember the reaction at school, everyone was talking about it and the toys were the things everyone wanted.
Yup, and you had to order the toys via mail order slips.
@@Centauri012 right! We all wanted Merch and there wasn’t any yet!
All that merchandise and the rights that the studio wrote off and gave to Lucas would define ‘77 and the decades to come!!
I'd love to hear audience react to when Darth Vader reveals himself to be Luke's father in ESB.
@Projekt:Kobra Norman's mother is really just a mummified corpse in the cellar. It was Norman all along who was killing those women.
I had just turned 18 when this movie came out. Let me tell you there had never been anything like this before. We were all so shocked. This is what great SF is like. This raised the bar for all movies that followed.
Alien which came out two years later in ‘79 and used space as an element of horror and fear rather than wonder was immediately greenlit by Fox once Star Wars was raking in big bucks, they even brought over the production designers from Star Wars to do the designs for Alien with the sets and special effects.
Not to mention about 5 years on we’d have Blade Runner with Harrison Ford and with great visual effects and design!