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I'm pretty sure the first movie I saw in a theater was The Rescuers Down Under back in 1990. First I recall watching was Dumbo, off a VHS recorded from The Disney channel back in 1987 when I was three.
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Malloreon posted:holy poo poo this was my first movie in theaters. My father tells me I was traumatized when I saw Blue Big Bird. When you think about the plot it's pretty funny. You grow up watching a friendly big bird on TV and then you go to the theaters and he's abducted by swindlers and locked in a cage. ruddiger posted:My first experience that I have memories of is Bambie when I was real young. I was born in 1980 so it probably was around 85. It was at a local art house theater in Chicago called the Brighton Theater which was sadly torn down back in the 90s.  NoES at age 7 had to be strange. Although I remember someone telling me they saw Alien in the theater at age 4 or 5.
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Earliest memory I have of a cinema was The Hunchback of Notre Dame in 1996. I would have been three years old at the time, and for some reason I remember needing to use the toilet somewhere towards the beginning of the film I think. Don't particularly remember anything else about the film though. Probably wasn't paying attention. I imagine I would've been terrified by Hellfire if I was.
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Apr 11, 2015 22:45
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first movie was some cartoon i cant remember. first movie with real people in it was Casper http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112642/ also i really remember watching the star wars rerelease and having to leave the theater after a while because darth vader was too loving scary for me to handle even though i had watched terminator 2 on vhs at a friends house when i was like 6 . I was 10 years old but i was probably the biggest pussy in the world as a kid Slaapaav fucked around with this message at 23:13 on Apr 11, 2015 |
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Apr 11, 2015 23:10
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Mine was The Lion King when I was about three or so, and I'm pretty sure I remember it. Apparently I got mad that people were laughing at the funny parts and making it hard for me to hear, so I yelled at them to be quiet.
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Apr 11, 2015 23:41
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I don't think I saw an R-rated film in a theater until The Passion of the Christ, now that I think about it. Although, I was able to watch The Blues Brothers and Blazing Saddles when I was as young as 6-7 years old because my mother didn't have a problem with profanity.
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My first movie experience was going to see a re-release of Fantasia at a theater off Harry Hines in Dallas (which still stands, but has been closed since the '80s because it only had one screen, so no one knows what to do with it). My experience was pretty predictable: utterly enthralled by everything until "Night On Bald Mountain", which I spent hiding behind a theater seat or covering my eyes until the dawn at the end. I think I was three or so at the time. I think the first live-action movie had to be The Black Hole, which was paired with Sleeping Beauty at the time of it's release.
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Apr 12, 2015 04:23
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I couldn't even tell you what movie I saw for the first time in theatres unless I talked to my parents. I remember seeing Aladdin at 7 and Jurassic Park at 8 (both at their years of release: Jurassic Park was Christmas Eve 1993 I know for sure) and that's as far back as I can recall right now.
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Apr 12, 2015 04:37
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My uncle took me to see Lion King with an old girlfriend of his way back when I was 3. The THX opening and The Circle Of Life were the loudest things I had ever heard up to that point and terrified me, and I cried enough that his old girlfriend had to take me out to the lobby and play a video game with me. Don't remember much else. I wasn't trusted to see another movie until I was 4 and a half, when my parents took me to Toy Story. The loud noises again gave me a panic attack, but I managed to overcome it. I've been told I was completely enraptured for the entire movie, which was good enough behavior to make movies a regular occurrence for us. Muppet Treasure Island, the Oliver and Company rerelease, Flipper, Hunchback, etc.
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Apr 12, 2015 05:37
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The first film I saw in a cinema was Disney's Snow White. I'd have probably been about 5 or 6 or something, so had no idea how old it was. Soon after, I read a book about how to draw cartoons where the author described his experience of seeing Snow White as a kid, and I got really confused. I think I concluded that he was from the future or something. I was a dumb child. My brother's first film was Blinky Bill, but he doesn't remember it as he spent the entire time hiding under his seat. Koalas are scary.
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Apr 12, 2015 05:52
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Jose Oquendo posted:Bunch of children in here. Empire Strikes Back or E.T. I'm not sure which I saw first in the theater..my memory is a bit hazy but both were a couple weeks after initial release. E.T. was terrifying though. My best theater memory has to be seeing Predator in the theater. I didn't have the slightest idea what it was going to be about and was blown away.
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I have to call my folks and ask because I know I must have been to the theaters before these, but the 2 earliest experiences I can actually remember were seeing Beauty & The Beast at the drive-in on a double-bill with Dick Tracy (which I slept through), and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret Of The Ooze. I remember we brought homemade oatmeal cookies in a brown paper bag to Beauty & The Beast. But my memories of the movie itself are hardly there. My strongest memories of that film are from watching it later on home video. I'm fairly certain I saw The Rescuers Down Under in theaters, but I'd have to check to be sure.
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Apr 12, 2015 09:10
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Jurassic Park was the first movie I remember seeing in the cinema. Being a little kid, it made me crazy about dinosaurs for a while.
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The first one I remember going to was Out of Africa. It was during a family vacation, and my parents took us to a drive in. My siblings and I all fell asleep. Years later, I found out that that was the intent of my parents - they wanted something that would make us go to sleep. First movie I remember staying awake through was a Snow White rerelease in the mid 80s.
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There must have been others, but the earliest one I remember is Jurassic Park, age 9. My parents made me read the book before I could see the movie. The strange thing is I can't really remember any particular emotions or anything. Like I know what I probably felt, or what I'd have expected to feel, and I definitely remember sitting in the theatre and watching the movie (the T-rex attacking the cars stands out in my mind) but I don't actually have a memory of particular emotions like I do with some other movies I've seen in theatres. I'm sitting here searching my brain for a movie I saw in the theatres earlier than Jurassic Park. I know there must have been some, but I cannot think of what they might have been other than maybe a Disney movie or something. I'll ask my parents and see if they remember the first movie they took me to see in the theatres.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jzsKJvWiEI There you go. Definitely the first cinema experience I can remember.
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The first one I can remember in clarity? Jurassic Park. I was at a theatre that served PIZZA and SODA and holy poo poo this is so awesome they bring it to you while you are watching the movie and there is a t-rex, better hide under the table! The first one that I know for sure? ... The Jetsons Movie.
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 Arnold. It made me afraid of our shower stall and gave me nightmares.  "Riotous suspense comedy" my traumatized butt.
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Egbert Souse posted:I don't think I saw an R-rated film in a theater until The Passion of the Christ, now that I think about it. Although, I was able to watch The Blues Brothers and Blazing Saddles when I was as young as 6-7 years old because my mother didn't have a problem with profanity. First PG movie: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles First PG-13 movie: Mission: Impossible First R rated movie: Black Hawk Down First NC-17 movie: TBD CopywrightMMXI posted:The first one I remember going to was Out of Africa. It was during a family vacation, and my parents took us to a drive in. My siblings and I all fell asleep. Years later, I found out that that was the intent of my parents - they wanted something that would make us go to sleep. That might've killed my interest in movies forevermore. Modus Operandi posted:My best theater memory has to be seeing Predator in the theater. I didn't have the slightest idea what it was going to be about and was blown away. My best memory was seeing Home Alone.
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Jose Oquendo posted:Bunch of children in here. Buncha children in here. Double feature of Thunderbolt and Lightfoot and Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry. (1974) at the drive-in. Wink.
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Apr 13, 2015 22:48
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GORDON posted:Buncha children in here.
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Apr 14, 2015 00:04
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What are all these baby boomers doing with forums accounts.
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Jose Oquendo posted:What are all these baby boomers doing with forums accounts.
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The first movie I remember seeing in theaters was Aladdin. I freaked out and had to leave for a couple minutes when they attempted to arrest Jafar and he throws the smoke bomb, not sure what about that set me off when nothing else in the movie did, I don't know I was 4. That theater later became the discount theater after the previous cheap theater was refurbished. Then they closed it down in 2004 or 2005 when another theater replaced it. They knocked down half of it, but then left the rest standing there as an ugly loving eyesore until finally finishing the job last year. My parents were always big on obeying the rating system for the most part, although by the time I was 12 or 13 they were fine with me watching rated R movies without supervision. Then they went and let my brother watch Black Hawk Down when he was 7. Assholes. Casimir Radon fucked around with this message at 01:46 on Apr 14, 2015 |
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My parents took me to see Ghostbusters 2 when I turned three, but the first movie I remember seeing in a theater was Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: The Secret of the Ooze. I left my shoes in the theater after Ninja Turtles, so we had to go back and get them. Exciting anecdote!
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First was Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in 1990. I was 6. If I think hard enough, i can remember every movie I've seen in theaters: In rough chronological order: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - 1990 Shipwrecked (some Danish movie about a kid that gets shipwrecked on an island) - 1991 The NeverEnding Story 2: The Next Chapter - 1991 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: Secret of the Ooze - 1991 101 Dalmations theatrical re-release for the 30th anniversary - 1991 The Addams Family - 1991 A League of Their Own - 1992 3 Ninjas - 1992 Home Alone 2: Lost in New York - 1992 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3 - 1993 Jurassic Park - 1993 Born to Be Wild (some forgettable comedy about a guy that has to take a gorilla across the country) - 1995 Batman Forever - 1995 Congo - 1995 Mortal Kombat - 1995 Ace Venture: When Nature Calls - 1995 Jumanji - 1995 Toy Story - 1995 Twister - 1996 Independence Day - 1996 Space Jam - 1996 Beavis & Butt-Head Do America - 1996 Star Wars Episode 4: A New Hope special edition theatrical release - 1997 Liar Liar - 1997 Jurassic Park 2: The Lost World - 1997 Men in Black - 1997 Spawn - 1997 Mortal Kombat Annihilation - 1997 Sphere - 1998 Lost in Space - 1998 The Truman Show - 1998 Godzilla - 1998 BASEketball - 1998 The Waterboy - 1998 Enemy of the State - 1998 The Matrix - 1999 The Mummy - 1999 Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace - 1999 The Blair Witch Project - 1999 End of Days - 1999 Mission to Mars - 2000 Scary Movie - 2000 The 6th Day - 2000 Little Nicky - 2000 How the Grinch Stole Christmas - 2000 Jurassic Park 3 - 2001 Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within - 2001 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - 2001 The Time Machine - 2002 Spider-Man - 2002 Star Wars Episode 2: Attack of the Clones - 2002 Murder by Numbers - 2002 Panic Room - 2002 Men in Black 2 - 2002 Mr. Deeds - 2002 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers - 2002 X-Men 2 - 2003 The Matrix Reloaded - 2003 Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines - 2003 The Matrix Revolutions - 2003 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King - 2003 Spider-Man 2 - 2004 I, Robot - 2004 Meet the Fockers - 2004 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - 2005 Star Wars Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith - 2005 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - 2005 King Kong - 2005 The Fountain - 2006 Spider-Man 3 - 2007 Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End - 2007 Transformers - 2007 The Simpsons Movie - 2007 Beowulf - 2007 I Am Legend - 2007 Iron Man - 2008 Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull - 2008 Avatar - 2010 (I waited a while to see it, so this was in January 2010 or so) The Avengers - 2012 Prometheus - 2012 The Amazing Spider-Man - 2012 Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter - 2012 The Dark Knight Rises - 2012 The Master - 2012 Looper - 2012 Cloud Atlas - 2012 The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey - 2012 Django Unchained - 2012 Iron Man 3 - 2013 Man of Steel - 2013 This Is The End - 2013 Pacific Rim - 2013 The World's End - 2013 Thor: The Dark World - 2013 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug - 2013 Captain America: The Winter Soldier - 2014 Godzilla - 2014 Guardians of the Galaxy - 2014 The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies - 2014 That's it. I haven't been out to the theater in 2015 yet. Hoping to remedy that soon in a couple of weeks when Age of Ultron comes out! XD
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egon_beeblebrox posted:My parents took me to see Ghostbusters 2 when I turned three, but the first movie I remember seeing in a theater was Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: The Secret of the Ooze.
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Apr 14, 2015 07:41
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It was Men in Black. I saw Will Smith.
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Blue Star posted:If I think hard enough, i can remember every movie I've seen in theaters: I think I could do that too but it'd take hours and hours.
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Picklepuss posted:Fist bump from another veteran of the early '70s. We saw Arnold at the drive-in too. Granted, those were the two flicks I remember... I was told I was conceived at that same drive-in during the movie Easy Rider.
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Apr 14, 2015 23:47
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Remember that MST3K episode "Santa Claus", where Santa battles the devil? Saw that in a cinema. Pretty sure it was one of those children matinee things, and I was really young, but I still remember that film vividly.
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Star Trek VI. I remember this only because the assassins murdering all the klingons in zero gravity freaked the hell out of me. The first movie I remember actually going to is either Cliffhanger or Jurassic Park, but it's hard to say since they probably showed these within a couple of months of each. I saw all these in the same seedy last run theater that sold tickets and popcorn and that was it, they would show these sickly looking advertisements for local restaurants before the movie, and in order to leave you had to exit the theater into a poorly lit alley and hope you didn't get stabbed. Years later when I saw Grindhouse in theaters I started laughing like a loon when the movie started up and the very first thing you saw was an absolutely terrible photo of a plate of nachos.
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You youngins. I was a big fan of the Disney animated Robin Hood (1973) - but I don't have any memories of seeing it as a little kid (I would have been 4) so I can't really count it. What I do remember is two films from 1974: Benji and Herby Rides Again.
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The first one I can remember was Jurassic Park, I was born in early 88 so that would have made me almost 6 at the time? Me, my dad, and my older sister went but we couldn't find seats so we had to sit against the back wall. It still owned.
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I've been trying to place what would have been my first movie. I asked my mom, but she probably didn't remember what she took me to an hour after we left the cinema. The earliest clear recollection of seeing a movie in a theater and remembering it's content, oddly enough, was theater hopping into the Woody Allen segment of New York Stories. I know my mom took me to something else first and we left to catch that segment because she didn't care about the other parts of the anthology, but I cannot remember the first film. Looking at Box Office Mojo for that time in the theaters, the only thing it seems like it could be is The Rescuers, but I have no memory of having ever seen it. I can't remember if I saw them on video or in theaters, but I did see Who Framed Roger Rabbit, An American Tail and The Super Mario Motion Picture early. My mom said she thinks she took me to The Transformers movie , but she also said the same about Popeye and that came out 3 years before my birth, so it's hard to know. Definitely my favorite early memory of seeing a movie in the theater was Jurassic Park which I saw with my friends for my 10th birthday. Batman & Robin was the first time I came out of a movie theater knowing what I just saw was total garbage. I still had a lot of fun mocking the terrible ice puns.
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Fantasia, and I was way, way too young to appreciate it.
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I have a very vague memory of Jabba on the big screen but I could have just made that up. We *tried* to go see The Dark Crystal but I LOST MY poo poo when the skeksis showed up so I didn't see the whole thing until it was out on video. The first movie I remember seeing all the way through was a reissue of 101 Dalmatians.
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I'm sure I went to other movies before this, but I distinctly remember seeing Ghostbusters 2 in the theater. Pretty sure I saw Batman and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade in theaters that year too. First R rated movie in the cinema was Robocop 2 at age 6. I was already a fan of the original, too. Yeah, my parents didn't give a poo poo what I saw.
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Zogo posted:
I watched it a million times as a child. Not long ago, I pulled the soundtrack out of the old box of family records and have it with me. I haven't had the guts to listen to it again.  The movie theater where I saw this is long gone and no one has ever been able to remember the name of it. I have no memory of seeing this in the theater, but just know I did.
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Star Wars for me. I was around four years old. My parents wanted to see a movie on their own so they sent the rest of us (my brother, six years older than me, and my sister) off to see something else, and that was where we went. Darth Vader scared me pantsless. Han Solo was the coolest guy ever. Funny thing about the other movie - I always remembered it as Kramer v. Kramer, which is probably wrong; last year my brother said he thought it was The Deer Hunter and my dad doesn't remember. Presumably Meryl Streep was in it.
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