On Seeing Star Wars as an Eight Year Old Kid in 1977

Today is a huge day for anyone that’s, A) a Star Wars fan and, B) about the same age as me (anywhere between 40-50 years old).

After a false start with the prequels between 1999 and 2005, Star Wars returns with the global release of The Force Awakens.

Fuck yeah!!! (sorry mum)

So why’s today such a big day? After all, it’s just the seventh movie in a line of great to good to bad movies, right, depending on who you speak to?

Well, if you’re asking that, you probably didn...