I tend to put it on in the background to inspire me whenever i'm doing a repaint.

I'm currently waiting for stuff to dry while putting the detail on my cosplay TIE fighter pilot kit, so it's on again.

I must have seen this film over 100 times over the last 30 or so years and its still tense in parts!

By ANH do you mean Star Wars yes I'm a traditionalist.

I think when it came out I saw it 22 times within the first year. Don't ask how I would remember that number.

Do we count the Special Edition as well, or what about those Blue-Ray edits? You know, the ones where G. Lucas tries to connect them with the prequels. Are they included?

No idea. I saw it when it came out in 1978 at the theatre when I was 8 years old. 50+ 100+? No idea. Same goes for ESB and RotJ.

I can honestly say, with full and accurate knowledge, that I've seen the complete Episode 1, 2 and 3 exactly twice each. Snippets and bits lots, but a single seating... yeah. Meh.

Likwise

I've seen ep1 twice and the other two once each with no desire to see them again or own them on DVD

Somewhere between too many times and not enough, in that order respectively.

I still find it amazing that using tradtional model making, ships on wires etc etc... its *still* more convincing than most CGI made films 30 years later.....

Some of my favorite videos on YouTube is the comparison video of the original 1977 and the Special Edition Battle of Yavin which shows the two movie scenes side by side with annotations on what was changed. To be honest I made it a tradition of watching that video before I go to league night.

Another video I like to watch is by Errant Signal titled "Peak Star Wars" where he talks about his Star Wars experience more from the games as he was born after the original trilogy and how the latest Star Wars games are more like God of War or World of Warcraft with light sabers. He explained a point to what I felt like is why many Star Wars fans such as myself like X-wing so much.

Too many for a supposedly normal human male. Its a bad sign that when my grandad bought the video cassette, it was unwatchable in a year. It had been worn out from over viewing.

Anyone who doesn't know what a video cassette ( VHS ) is needs to go look it up. That's what we had in the 90's, feel lucky for what you have now! **** kids

Edit: I'm 23 and now feel old. Thanks

I seriously have no clue as I have watched that movie so many times as a kid. It has to be in the hundreds, easily!

I can say I break it out at least 4-5 times a year as an adult, the kids like it but it doesn't compare to Sponge Bob in their eyes.

Next year when VII comes out, we will have at least 2 marathons in my house prior to that midnight showing....

Not sure, but definitely double figures.

As an aside, may I take this opportunity to literally BEG Disney to give us an unaltered, unsullied "original theatrical cut" DVD box set.

Please, Disney - put right what once went wrong. You are our only hope.

Some of the tweaks are great, the ones where all they do is add background like the little floating droid when the sandtroopers are checking doors but anything that twists the plot should have been left out.

Fifteen years ago, I figured that I'd probably seen it about 300 times, mostly running in the background like music. By now, I'm sure it's about double that. I recently had ESB on the DVD player for a few days as background while working, so I can probably add 20 "viewings" of that one.

I'm reasonably certain I've only seen the special edition twice, three times tops.

As for the real version, my count has got to be something like 50+...

Some of the tweaks are great, the ones where all they do is add background like the little floating droid when the sandtroopers are checking doors but anything that twists the plot should have been left out.

To be fair, I don't really object that much to many of the tweaks made (even if a lot were entirely unnecessary or just an excuse to introduce a "new director's cut" etc.

However, I really, REALLY wish I could get a copy of the original, unaltered theatrical cut. No tweaks, no amends, no edits. Just the original films, as remembered from my childhood.

Stuff the CGI for CGI's sake.

The other thing i find myself doing as im putting this TIE costume together is freeze framing every time a TIE pilot is on screen to check i've got things right

327 times - or is 328? Who knows

Too many for a supposedly normal human male. Its a bad sign that when my grandad bought the video cassette, it was unwatchable in a year. It had been worn out from over viewing.

Anyone who doesn't know what a video cassette ( VHS ) is needs to go look it up. That's what we had in the 90's, feel lucky for what you have now! **** kids

Edit: I'm 23 and now feel old. Thanks

You think 20 is old wait until 30 and you will still have 50+ year olds telling you, "Listen here Sonny, back in my day...blah...blah...blah.....

Do we count the Special Edition as well, or what about those Blue-Ray edits? You know, the ones where G. Lucas tries to connect them with the prequels. Are they included?

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-well maybe for empire strikes back that one was ok, ROTJ special ed is heresy!

However, I really, REALLY wish I could get a copy of the original, unaltered theatrical cut. No tweaks, no amends, no edits. Just the original films, as remembered from my childhood.

Stuff the CGI for CGI's sake.

+1000 for this, I have the original on bonus DVD from a few years back, i've seen the edited cgi stuff but the feeling I get from watching it uncut is indescribable - space having a blue glow is enough lol

I still find it amazing that using tradtional model making, ships on wires etc etc... its *still* more convincing than most CGI made films 30 years later.....

Thats because you are looking at real objects under real lighting, rather than some (outdated) computer graphics. There's only one movie in wich cgi effects accuratly show what they are suposed to represent and that's the original TRON movie.

Too many for a supposedly normal human male. Its a bad sign that when my grandad bought the video cassette, it was unwatchable in a year. It had been worn out from over viewing.

Anyone who doesn't know what a video cassette ( VHS ) is needs to go look it up. That's what we had in the 90's, feel lucky for what you have now! **** kids

Edit: I'm 23 and now feel old. Thanks

But the best version is the laser disc version, there this one scene in "Return of the Jedi" where if you pause, oh wait that was "Who Framed Rogger Rabbit", never mind then.

You think 20 is old wait until 30 and you will still have 50+ year olds telling you, "Listen here Sonny, back in my day...blah...blah...blah.....

Meh i'm 35 and i'm cool with that, why? because i grew up in the 80's: best toys and cartoons ever!, then i was teen in the 90s, magic the gathering, best videogames and music ever! (if you were into grunge and nu-metal that is) also we perfected the art of sarcasm and now we got the internet to look up all the stuff we missed back then and miss now.

If only these darn kids listening to bieber on their ipod 6's would get of mah lawn.

Not sure, but definitely double figures.

As an aside, may I take this opportunity to literally BEG Disney to give us an unaltered, unsullied "original theatrical cut" DVD box set.

Please, Disney - put right what once went wrong. You are our only hope.

I have a bad feeling about this...

"I've seen Star Wars 500 times!!!!" ~ Tracy Morgan

I used to have a set of books called the art of Star wars. Great books. Had the whole script in them, as well as a lot of other cool stuff. Read them so many times that I used to have the scripts to all 3 movies memorized. Mostly still do.