Star Wars - how many times have you seen it?

Dunno that I could count. Had these recorded on tape off TV when I was a kid and I seem to remember watching them every day or two. That can't be right though, right?

i've probably seen every scene of this movie at least a dozen times each but i don't think i've sat down and watched the whole thing front to back more than twice, if that. so no idea how to vote, really.

that is an aesthetically pleasing arrangement of poll options

it does get hazy around 16

my roommate said not to "whiney up" this poll.

more than 25 times, easily. but not straight through in probably a decade or more.

i've probably seen every scene of this movie at least a dozen times each but i don't think i've sat down and watched the whole thing front to back more than twice, if that. so no idea how to vote, really.

― some dude, Wednesday, November 9, 2011 9:24 PM (1 minute ago)

this, pretty much -- settled on voting "4"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52QQwlC_u3M

probably 7-8?

ive never seen star wars although i watched the jar jar one in theatres and have obv seen enough parodies/clips/references to basically know it better than movies i have actually physically watched so idk

my roommate has never seen it either!

wtf!

seriously! and he's a guy!

but i don't want to derail this thread into how anomalous my roommate is for not having seen Star Wars.

i dont think its that weird not to have seen it tbh probably more weird if youre into nerd shit tho i guess

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAAo5ePpv9U

what would be the 'single most seen movie' among americans? this would surely be up there, maybe even #1? beyond that jaws, titanic, spielberg stuff?

and I don't mean quantity of times I mean % of americans who have seen the movie

caligula

@iatee i think historically its got to be an older movie, even really big hits now are seen by a lot fewer ppl than pre-tv films although if were talking right this moment its probably still s.thing like 'wizard of oz'

oh yeah wizard of oz has to be up there

also seasonal stuff like "grinch"

that's a good point

yeah wizard of oz is prob a good pick. I wonder what the % for something like that would be, I could believe anywhere from like, 30% to 90%.

gone with the wind?

die hard, it's a wonderful life

I have never seen die hard

casablanca maybe

also seasonal stuff like "grinch"

yeah this is a good bet - something like 'it's a wonderful life'. but i think kids movies are probably p widely seen. really 'star wars' is obv p popular but its disproportionately popular w/ the sort of ppl that help shape culture/opinion, which makes it seem like a more widely seen movie than it really is. id be willing to bet like $5 that more ppl have seen the 'lion king' than 'star wars'

nah old movies like that that aren't widely (esp seasonally) syndicated on basic cable aren't in the discussion

shit i've only seen parts of "gone with the wind"

that was an xp to iatee

yeah this is a good bet - something like 'it's a wonderful life'. but i think kids movies are probably p widely seen. really 'star wars' is obv p popular but its disproportionately popular w/ the sort of ppl that help shape culture/opinion, which makes it seem like a more widely seen movie than it really is. id be willing to bet like $5 that more ppl have seen the 'lion king' than 'star wars'

― and a butt (Lamp), Thursday, November 10, 2011 1:56 AM (4 minutes ago)

hm i dunno, first of all $5 is a lot of money, also feel like a good percentage of the people in the star wars demo when it was released are still alive now, kind of a prevalence vs incidence thing.

fantasia?

ooh

old disney movies are a good one cause kids still watch them and old people watched them when they were kids. snow white, pinocchio would join that.

also feel like a good percentage of the people in the star wars demo when it was released are still alive now, kind of a prevalence vs incidence thing

i think i follow you although to extend the metaphor i think more ppl are exposed to 'the lion king' than 'star wars' so the duration factor is overwhelmed. but its sorta a stupid argument when a movie like 'snow white' has both factors going for it

it's an interesting idea I think, that our children's culture is also our most universal/shared culture. I think there are prob some children's books that that's true for too.

We taped "Return of the Jedi", "Superman II" and "Time Bandits" off the TV broadcast and I watched them each about 25 times between ages 5 and 10. I've seen "Star Wars" + "Empire" six times, so I averaged it to 10.

I reckon about 12 times. Since Lucas started dicking around with it, I'm glad to say, zero times.

ive never seen star wars although i watched the jar jar one in theatres and have obv seen enough parodies/clips/references to basically know it better than movies i have actually physically watched so idk

― and a butt (Lamp), Thursday, November 10, 2011 6:18 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

yeah, this. it permeates the culture i live in, i can't really be arsed to watch it. same with pretty much every disney movie after the little mermaid.

i think my brother even had the films on video! i just didn't like films as a child, and got very good at faking cultural knowledge based on what was commonly known, and then it was embarrassing not to have seen it, and then it was kind of fun to be a person who'd never seen the cultural totem that is star wars, and now i don't really care. it's just some film.

I probably have seen it, and probably more than once, but I can't remember actually sitting down and watching it all the way through

Honestly no idea how many times I've sat down and seen it start to end, it might not even be that many, but it has suffused to the very core of my being.

Didn't see Empire till the mid 90s though.

At least 25 times.

watched it once to humor a friend in college. remember it being 'ok'. have zero interest is seeing the other 5 or w/e

25-35 times easily, but when I sit down and think about it maybe not much more than that.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

I saw this three times at the cinema when I was about 4 or 5 years old (when it came out). I don't think I've ever seen any other film more than once at the cinema.

(Actually, yes I have - I saw The Empire Strikes Back twice)

I saw this 25+ times before age 10 due to having a pirate copy on VHS/BETA. I have not watched it again since aged 16, if I were to wager... probably earlier?

I was practically raised on the original trilogy. As an army brat living off-post in rural West Germany, there wasn't much in the way of American kid-friendly stuff to watch on tv, so my parents would put on the Star Wars movies for us.

I mean that wasn't the ONLY thing we watched of course

I'd bet the results have a lot of correlation ilx's age demographics

I think most people my age have seen it but I can't imagine any of my friends having seen it 25+ times, even the geeky ones

I didn't vote but prob around 5?

lb, where were you stationed? I lived in Biebesheim for three years when my dad was stationed at Cambrai-Fritsch Kaserne in Darmstadt.

itt lol @ youngs

I've seen each of the original trilogy more than ten times, in various forms (only once in the original theatrical cuts).

prequel trilogy, I have seen the first two once, and ep 3 I saw twice (once in theatre, once on DVD).

thing is, while I consider myself a fan of Star Wars and love the flicks, I see the behavior of fanboys and it makes me want to turn and run. I remember once leaving the upstairs common room of my dorm because two groups of roughly 6-7 people each started getting in a heated (and I mean words were had) debate about the Clone Wars, and I was afraid an actual *fight* was going to break out over it.

Honest to goodness, my earliest memory. Saw it in LA in probably 78 when I was 3 or so, cried when Darth Vader made his first appearance, made my dad take me out. He took me to the next showing and it was cool. Probably seen it a billion times since then, but when I saw the reissues or whatever 15 years ago or whenever I thought you know what? This sucks and I never want to see any of these but "Empire" ever again, and I haven't. Maybe some day. I've got two girls, though, so who knows?

My wife, on the other hand, has seen none of them. She doesn't even know the characters or what a wookie is or whatever. That takes some doing.

lb, where were you stationed? I lived in Biebesheim for three years when my dad was stationed at Cambrai-Fritsch Kaserne in Darmstadt.

― i couldn't adjust the food knobs (Phil D.), Friday, November 11, 2011 2:10 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

My dad was stationed at Peden Barracks near Wertheim from 1985-88, during which I was 3-5 years old. We lived in a very tiny town nearby called Houndheim (I think that's what it was called).

results are insane, i saw this movie three times.

how many times would you, whiney g, say is "a lot" of times to have seen Star Wars?

any more than five and im p much thinking

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shocking revelations from Lamp itt

voted 25+ but it could be in the 16-25 range. hard to be exact.
like, i was not keeping track.
and i was a huge nerd as a kid.

as a kid

but those were my fave movies for real and i watched them over and over and over.

voted 7

i had it on VHS as a kid, i watched this and an 8-minute video on bubbles, cut me some slack

Once.

there was this kiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiid who...

I mean, I probably watched Clerks and Billy Madison like a dozen times each in high school, so I don't really have a lot of room to judge.

STOP LOOKING AT ME, HAN

really wonder what Freudian subconscious mechanism was working in Lucas's brain when he came up with the name "Han Solo"

hahah

Saw it at least twice during its original theatrical run at this theater:
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ZOgIbdI0b2s/R1IktGbWTqI/AAAAAAAAATo/7wCJbBf1k9c/s1600-R/EdensTheatre.JPG

70mm, fucking massive (especially to a 5-year-old).

Yeah, see, for us old(er) folks, keep in mind we first saw it in the '70s. And every time a new one came out, I want to say they released the old ones again. They don't re-release films anymore, but they sure used to. I mean, I saw Raiders several times in the theatre, and I know ET was in and out of theatres a few times. So by the time Star Wars was on home video I'd seen it several times already.

I saw it once, when I was a kid. I think the only one of the original trilogy that I ever saw again was Empire Strikes Back, because someone wanted to watch it in college, and there was beer.