This could equally be in the 'claim to fame' thread...
I watched the first Star Wars with Peter Jackson. We had to run from the cinema to the train station to make our train home*. We were 13 and so possibly the perfect age for Star Wars - it was huge and exciting, like nothing we'd ever seen before. You ought remember, back then, it was a monumental production - innovative and ground breaking in it's effects and production technology.
*Wellington to Paekakariki if you're interested in the details. He got off at Muri (now closed, one of the two stations that served Pukerua Bay back then) and I stayed on to get the bus from Paekak to Raumati. Some things, you don't need to know. It ruins the magic...