PT Share Your Episode II: Attack of the Clones Memories

I remember watching it as a kid, pausing the Battle of Geonosis at every opportunity to better see all the Jedi in the background.
It was overwhelming, but also so epic at the same time.

Sadly, I was to young to see it in Theaters when it first came out.

 

I was a kid when we saw it in theater, the most memorable part was when Yoda pulled out his lightsaber. It was the biggest crowd reaction I’ve ever seen in a theater, howling, yelling, bedlam. The build up and anticipation was not as high as TPM though, but we loved it.

 

First Star Wars film I ever saw in theaters. I wasn't even 3 when TPM came out in May 1999, so I would've been too young for that.
We had a lot of the toys and I got it on DVD in 2003. We'd rented it on VHS about once before we got the DVD.

 

I was 4 years old when the film came out (turning 5 in August), yet I remember quite a bit. The 3D Dortitos ad and the Go-Gurt lightsaber commercials specifically


Also my brother and I got our first electronic lightsabers around this time and both of us got Anakin’s saber. This was the first SW film I saw in theaters (and the only one until 2015). I did make it to the theater for ROTS in 2005, but ran out (was 7 years old and PG-13 was still too intense at times)

 

I was already old when it came out—well, older than you lot, anyway . I saw AOTC with a date (I think we only dated for a few months), we both loved it. I remember it was a full house but we nevertheless got great seats.
My strongest memory is the crowd reaction during the Yoda/Dooku fight. People were applauding, cheering, and whooping.

 

I was to young to see it in theaters and if I did I don’t remember it.

but I remember my first time watching the whole saga . Back in probably around 2006. I rented all 6 at once from Blockbuster and watched them in release order. I loved every single one of them. My favorite part of AOTC as a kid was the arena my favorite part now is probably the dual between Dooku and Yoda.

It’s been far to long since I have watched any of them. Now I really wanna watch AOTC.

Also the Kamino theme is one of the best themes in starwars

 

Saw Attack of the Clones in the famous Ziegfield theatre in nyc many times in 2002, great memories and great experience with the fans especially when Yoda fought Dooku the place went crazy and the energy was amazing ,20 years later Clones is still my favorite star wars movie.

 

I first saw bits of it it on the TV at a Star Wars themed birthday party when I was 8- then saw it in full for the first time a few months later on VHS- good memories all around.

 

The last Star Wars movie i saw in theatre, I dvd'd the rest.

 

I saw it three times in the theaters and loved it. Great new characters, locations, music, plot twists, etc. And yes, everyone was abuzz about the Yoda lightsaber fight. I was in my mid-20s.

My friend, who I saw it with on opening day, got the video game which was fun. "We've got battle droids knocking on the door!"

I got some memorabilia, but no toys. However, I will never forget seeing the Anakin vs. Tuskens Lego set for kids in the stores and cracking up with my friends.

 

I was 13 when it came out and I saw it opening day. Around this time I was on a Star Wars high, playing the video games, watching the previous movies, drawing characters…you name it. I liked it at the time, grew to believe the negativity but now I’m back to enjoying myself. Amazing, atmospheric locations with Kamino and Geonosis, solid action and developing intrigue with Palpatine and Dooku. It’s definitely not the worst film in the saga.

 

I lived in Guangdong, China, when AOTC came out. First thing I noticed (no, I didn't do any countdowns or awaited it eagerly) that a new SW was out were posters in the clothing chain store "Bossini", which also sold SW - both Clones and OT motifs - t-shirts and caps. The whole family got some, and I still have a t-shirt or two that is still good enough to wear today. They had this huge poster of Anakin and Padmé, the one where she holds a blaster and he the blue lightsaber, on one wall of the store.
It wasn't screened in my city at first, so I caught it when I went to Guangzhou with my family. But that wasn't until July. Just checked my journal - we watched it July 21, 2002. As I wrote in another thread, I was pleasantly surprised. I had zero prior info about the movie, so no expectations. We re-watched AOTC when it came to my city a few days later.
I hadn't even touched my bootleg DVD I had gotten a few weeks earlier, got a legitimate copy in Hong Kong in November though. Original DVDs are/were simply not available in mainland China.
AOTC resurrected my interest in SW, which had become more or less non-existent after TPM. So I did have some expectations, watched the trailer and did some reading when ROTS came out. I also watched that one first in China. Again I was pretty impressed.

 

AOTC spawned the first hilarious viral SW video for me. Spoiler tags as there is some language:

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This film was one of the reasons I cancelled my Empire magazine subscription.

 

I just KNEW it. Every single thread about AOTC would eventually degenerate into a hate fest. Well done!

 

AotC memories are good; one friend who saw it really early somehow mentioned it had the coolest alien design ever, which turned out to be the Kaminoans so that had me intrigued. Went and saw it on the day after release with a buddy and enjoyed it quite a lot. I do remember the audience reaction and mine too when Master Yoda came out to duel Lord Tryanus at the end. That was pretty awesome and funny as everyone started laughing too at some point.

My memories of AotC are fond ones. I saw it at least three times in theaters and bought a VHS tape right away and watched it loads of times.
Bought the DVD as soon as it was released.

It has some of my favorite SW stuff to this day, including the Clawdite Zam Wesell who I even somewhat based my RPG character on in the True Sith Empire. And I think Kamino is a really interesting world and has a terrific design.

I thought Hayden did a good job and had some impactful scenes, especially on Tatooine, although all of my friends argued with me about this as they pretty much thought he sucked, even to this day lol.
I still think he did a good job, but it's not worth arguing with your friends IRL about it I've learned.

It's also cool that JW used electric guitar in the score during the Coruscant chase. Not often you hear that instrument in SW.

I've always been and always will be a fan of AotC. I love it. Happy anniversary awesome movie!

 

The trailers. The trailers were great.

 

Wow, these are really neat. Never seen 'em on the tellie at the time or online before. I'm often the last to know; better late than never!

 

Classic poster, presents the story so elegantly