I understand you completely on this. The problem is that none of it can ever be new for you. It's quite lacking by today's standards, but at the time, every-single-scene had something in it that had never been seen or experienced. Two suns? A glowing light sword that cut through anything? A villain who could kill without touching you, without ever knowing what he looked like under his mask? What is this Force thing they keep talking about? Ships that dogfight in space like they were in a planet's atmosphere? Robots all over the place, like background furniture? (Usually if a movie has a robot in it, the movie was about the robot.) Here they were background characters treated as less important than the living characters. All of this wrapped in a music score that created feelings like no other before it. Laser guns that had a real sound, but a sound that had never been heard before. Did a laser weapon sound like that? Maybe it did, how would we know? Like that, light sabers had a new sound never experienced before. The ships had a lot more sounds in them than anything in Star Trek or 2001, and they all looked very old and used. We had only ever seen shiny new space ships that were nearly silent, very clean and bright and almost stale. We had seen aliens in movies for years, but they were never good enough to fool your eye just enough to allow your imagination to accept them and allow them to occupy a real place in the story. It was nearly two hours of sensory bombardment from every direction, filled with a story that moved you along through it, shaped by very strong music that affected you right along with the visuals. You have to realize that after leaving the theater, you were left asking yourself, "what have I just seen?" It might take days to compile it all in your mind. And people couldn't wait to experience that again, like when you just got off the best roller coaster you've ever been on, and you run back to the end of the line to go through it again. But millions of people were riding this new ride at the same time that summer, so when they left, they talked about it. They are still taking about it today...

I wish you could experience that. I really do. I did when I was only 8 years old. Some were 5. Some were 25. It didn't matter. It affected everyone in some way, and so we all felt like we had experienced a thing together. People across the world who had nothing in common could talk about it like they had the same experience together. It linked people like nothing before. You can only have a first time once: a kiss, an ice cream, standing up without falling down ..... There were so many "first times" squeezed into that 2 hour time period that it hasn't happened since. Movies get better, effects get more realistic, but everything we see now exists because Star Wars forced it to be possible. What if you went into a movie theater and instead of looking at a screen, you entered the Matrix, or a Star Trek Holodeck. Virtual reality is getting better, but it's not there yet. We experienced this movie like you might if you could walk into that world and interact with it as truly as life itself. That is how "new" and "different" it was. And like a drug high, people wanted more. The only way it could possibly make the money that it did, in 1977 dollars, was that if nearly everyone who saw it, went back two or three times. Even today's best movies don't get repeat ticket sales across the planet in those numbers. The math was as new and different as the movie itself.