Well, if you missed the plot there were several opportunities to see it again. 
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As I recall, the Imperial was heavily rebuilt, and a lot of the original decorations restored. The next time I was at the Seville rep theater, I looked around carefully, and under the grime, it had been similar back in its day.
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OMFG GEORGE LUCAS WTFFFFF LOL
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I saw it at Hicksville too - so funny, small world.
I was 14, so me and my friends were able to go to the movies without parents, so I saw it 7 times that summer.
It’s always been so annoying that they have tried to change the films name from “Star Wars” to “New Hopewhateverthefuck”. The name is/was Star Wars. We were all fucking there and saw it. Never mind the endless monkeying with the movie - for crying out loud just leave it alone.
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You say that like it’s a bad thing! 
Actually tbh, I’m not sure I’ve ever seen the full Flash Gordon movie (color, above) – is that Timothy Dalton? How have I not seen this? lol
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and Brian Blessed! - good god man, just stream it.
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I’ll do it this week if not tonight. When someone brought up Quest for Fire recently I watched it essentially immediately, and in no way regretted it. 
Re: FG, I mean, I even know its memes at this point!
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I was 10 or so when it came out and it completely blew me away as a kid.
But then a couple of years later… Yoda… was a goddamned Muppet. I was the exact age to be perfectly targeted by Star Wars, but I was also the age where we grew up with Sesame Street. Completely blew suspension of disbelief for me. It just went downhill from there for me, except for a few good computer games, the whole franchise has been a pretty big disappointing merchandising pitch. It’s really terrible and lazy world building. I don’t even bother watching the new movies.
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I saw FG in 5th grade when I made the honor roll* (probably for the last time, at least for a while). Some older kids in the theater heckled it; in hindsight I can’t completely blame 'em but it really annoyed me at the time.
*Unofficial, and based on my parents’ criteria – IIRC, all As and Bs, no Cs (nor worse).
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It was just recently remastered, so it’s a great time to see it.
Yes that’s Timothy Dalton, Max von Sydow, BRIAN BLESSED!!!, Peter Wyngarde and Tevye from Fiddler on the Roof
Queen did the soundtrack.
You
Must
See
It.
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Was a senior in high school living in Arkansas at the time. The nearest theater was forty miles away and I drove over there three times, and each return trip back to the house, I drove my '71 Pinto like I was piloting the Millennium Falcon. I discovered weed about a year earlier, so I’m sure that helped me reach hyperspace.
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I was 9 years old. I had to get glasses. For a friends birthday party we all went to see Star Wars. I forgot my new glasses. So I saw Star Wars in 1977 but my memory is blurry.
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That’s funny because when I say Yoda for the first time in the movies I thought “OMG that’s a Muppet?!” But I’m a few years younger than you so maybe I still was able to accept it. The Ewoks, on the other hand, ruined it all for me.
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Century 21 was where I saw it as well. In the Air Force at the time and had come home on leave from England.
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When I went to see Raiders of the Lost Art I had just gotten glasses and in an effort to not be the dork in the group I decided not to wear them and squinted through the whole blurry thing.
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speaking of 10-year-old me, timothy dalton in Flash Gordon definitely was one of my early sexual awakening type crushes. i was only 10, and i didn’t know WHY he was my favorite character in the movie (along with Brian Blessed, heh), but a few years later i started to put it all together.
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I went to see Raiders in a strange summer. My dad was doing his summer Army reserve duty in Virginia. He and a friend, rather than stay on a base with our families rented a campsite.
When we didn’t feel like roughing it at night we saw whatever was playing at the movie theater a few miles away. Remember seeing Raiders and Victory (The WWII soccer movie with Sylvester Stallone, Pele and Michael Caine)
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I rewatched the original '36 Flash Gordon serial a few days ago; while it is objectively inferior to the 1980 movie it is still surprisingly watchable.
In 1977 I was at an age where I was mainly watching pretentious art house rubbish, and so I didn’t appreciate it as much as I might have had I been either older or younger. The theater (in West Philly, with a raucus crowd) was fun though.
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I was ten when it came out. I was fascinated by that dog-looking creature (Chewy) in the commercial that was flying a spaceship. My cousin Lisa saw it on opening day and told me about a scene where they play chess with little 3D monsters as game pieces. I was hooked. My little brother and I saw it a couple days later but got to the theater late. We arrived at the scene where Jawas were gathering droids and yelling “Ootini!”.
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