Q&As About 'Star Wars': Do you keep count of how many times you watch the Star Wars movies so you can say you've seen them “X” times?
On Quora, member Thomas Fay asks: Do you keep count of how many times you watch the Star Wars movies so you can say you've seen them “X” times? Not since I bought my first (used) VHS video cassette of Star Wars - Episode IV: A New Hope back in 1984. Before then, when VCRs were still expensive toys that only people with lots of disposable cash could afford, most Star Wars fans of the 1977 Generation only saw the Original Trilogy in theaters - as many times as they could. Star Wars - as the first film was originally titled before its Summer of 1981 re-release - premiered on May 25, 1977, although it didn’t hit theaters in some cities (such as Miami) till early June. 20th Century Fox was not expecting it to be a big summer hit, so it acquiesced to Lucasfilm’s request that it release the movie close to Memorial Day weekend. (Fox believed that its Summer of 1977 would be its adaptation of Sidney Sheldon’s The Other Side of Midnight, and since its board of direct