How old were you? 8 yo
What year? 1977
What movie theater (if you can remember)? The Hollywood Theater - saw all three Star Wars movies here
What city? La Crosse, WI
Any other interesting info surrounding your first "experience?"All of my neighborhood friends had seen Star Wars on opening weekend. It took me two weeks of pleading with my parents to go see the movie. So during that two week stretch where all the kids in my neighborhood had seen the movie, and we all gathered together to play outside, naturally, they all wanted to play Star Wars. One kid was Luke Skywalker, another was Darth Vader, someone else was Han Solo, Chewbacca, Stormtrooper, Tusken Raider, even C3PO. Everyone was a cool characters. Me? They made me R2D2. I had no idea what I was, much less what I was supposed to do. It was so sad.
But once I finally got to the theater to see it with my family and my best hoodie buddy, from the first loud chord of the Main Theme, followed by panning down to some strange brown and orange planet, to seeing the spaceship crawl and battle between the Tantive IV and the Star Destroyer - oh boy. My eyes were HUGE!!! I just drank it all in. Darth Vader was the COOLEST! ... I ended up seeing it three times. Not bad for an 8 year old with two parents who weren't Sci-Fi fans.