Do you remember the very first film that you ever went to the movie theater and watched. I do. I remember my very first movie theater experience and it was Rocky III. I went with a babysitter who was watching my sister and I. It was an old cinema too, one that is currently being restored in our town.
What/If anything do you remeber about your first theater experience?
Posted by kevdugp73 (Member # 5978) on :
I remember standing in the line up for ET and The Empire Strikes Back, but that's about as far back as I go. I was born in 73' so I'm sure I would have seen some movies before then....but not really sure which ones....ahhhh, the good ol days.....when there was one theatre....and one movie playin' at a time......
Posted by Riptide (Member # 457) on :
My mom took me to Star Wars which would have been about 77? So I would have been arounf 4-5 years old. I really I could remember more of the 70's actually.
Posted by Jessie the Sunflower Goddess (Member # 1877) on :
OMG I did see ET at the movies too, which was before Rocky III but I don't remember it. How in the world can that be??? Weird. I am going to have to search some memories for that one.
Posted by xchazx (Member # 7158) on :
i tried to think about this but i've totally forgotten. it was either:
the cartoon charlotte's web when i was in 2nd grade, this pippy longstocking movie i saw in 2nd grade, which was 77'/78', or star wars or the first muppet movie. don't remember which one was first.
Posted by MotleyRulz (Member # 3598) on :
Raiders of the Lost Ark.......
Posted by 80'sRocked (Member # 6979) on :
I think it was 1982....so it must have been either The Dark Crystal, E.T., or possibly The Toy. I did see all 3 in the theaters.
Posted by ISIS (Member # 1780) on :
One of the first movies I remember seeing was "The Other Side of the Mountain". I remember me and my mom went to see it. That was 1975.
I remember seeing alot of the old Walt Disney movies at the theater when I was a kid...like Lady and the Tramp, 101 Dalmations, Snow White, Cinderella, Bambi, Dumbo, Old Yeller, and The Swiss Family Robinson.
I honestly think the Disney movies should still be played at the movie theaters...
I feel like it doesn't matter how many times you have seen a movie, to go see it in a theater, and the whole fun of making a night out of it, and eating movie theater popcorn...I don't think that stuff ever gets old. I think young kids today, would love to see that stuff.
Walt Disney use to play movies on Sunday nights...like : Charlie the Lonesome Cougar...he was always doing stuff with animals...I know that most kids have never heard of that stuff...it would be great if they would show that kind of stuff...like the original "The Incredible Journey".
Posted by ISIS (Member # 1780) on :
One of the 1st PG movies I ever saw...was "Arthur". that's when I was in the 7th grade...other than Grease- which I had seen twice at the theater...my parents didn't allow us to watch PG stuff. But, then HBO came out, and changed all of that.
Posted by StevenHW (Member # 509) on :
My first movie experience that I can remember was when I was five years old. It was 1964. The movie was Disney's "Mary Poppins".
Posted by Devolution (Member # 1731) on :
Devolution here,
I don't know, I believe it was Popeye. I could be wrong.
We are DEVO
Posted by 80'sRocked (Member # 6979) on :
quote:Originally posted by ISIS: One of the 1st PG movies I ever saw...was "Arthur".
I'm not big on that movie, but I love Arthur's Theme by Christopher Cross. I actually like alot of his music.
Posted by journey (Member # 7316) on :
I don't remember exactly, but it had to have been a Disney movie. I think it was probably The Fox and the Hound in the summer of '81.
Posted by Riptide (Member # 457) on :
The Fox and the Hound I vividly recall seeing that movie around the same time, completely forgot about that one.
Posted by Chris the CandyFanMan (Member # 3197) on :
It was Mac and Me in December 1988, and 20 years later it still ranks as one of the worst theater experiences of my life--but luckily we got to leave early to go to a Christmas party.
Posted by 80'sRocked (Member # 6979) on :
Actually, I think it was Popeye in 1980. Thanks Devo, I forgot that I saw that in the theaters.
Posted by ISIS (Member # 1780) on :
I think Popeye was one of the first movies that I saw advertised on the cover of the first HBO guide we got.
I love Christopher Cross This is the flip side of Ride like the Wind- that is on a 45 record in my juke box...and I play it all the time:
Batteries Not Included
Posted by JAY LEE (Member # 6345) on :
INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM... I was 7 years old, and damn near soiled myself, when Mola Ram ripped the heart out of that guys chest!!
Posted by Gideon (Member # 6941) on :
The first movie I saw in theatres was one of the classic Disney cartoons that they re-released. I think it was The Jungle Book. All I know is that I was terrified, and It was too loud. =P
Posted by 80'sRocked (Member # 6979) on :
quote:Originally posted by ISIS: I love Christopher Cross This is the flip side of Ride like the Wind- that is on a 45 record in my juke box...
Minstrel Gigolo is a very nice song. I have Cross' 2 disk CD - Walking in Avalon and that song is on it. That song also features one of my favorite guitarists of all time, Eric Johnson, doing the solo. Cross also did back-up vocals on a few tunes from Johnson's CD - Venus Isle. This is one:
It was E.T. December 1982 or january 1983...
Posted by Paul Dangerously, you iceholes.... (Member # 1022) on :
With my Parents : Doctor Doolittle (the original with Rex Harrison, not the abomination with Eddie ("I used to be funny, honest") Murphy.
On my own (with siblings): The Spy Who Loved Me - can't beat a bit of Bond on the big screen.
On my own (just me) : 10. The Dudley Moore / Bo Derek enjoyableness that despite my initial hopes turned out to be more funny than erotic (and was therefore an infinately better movie)
Posted by Lloyd_Dobler (Member # 7119) on :
That's a tough one. I'm sitting here trying to remember. My earliest experience was a double-feature, if you can believe it, of Midway and The Search for the Holy Grail.
Posted by Lloyd_Dobler (Member # 7119) on :
No, It was Young Frankenstein. Sorry.
Posted by Booger (Member # 4569) on :
Weird Science is the earliest film I remember seeing in theaters...although it was probably not my first film to see, it is the first one that I remember seeing at the theater.
The film was playing at a cinema that years later became a discount theater.
The theater had two screens and seating capacity was 410.
The last movie I attended there was Charlie and the Chocolate Factory which I took my daughter to.
Unfortunately the theater closed about a year ago and has since been torn down. I had many nice film memories there and it was sad to see it go.
Posted by TKO (Member # 1471) on :
The very first movie I saw I a theater was Disney’s Peter Pan. On my own the first one was either An Officer and a Gentleman or E.T. I don’t remember exactly. It depends on which came out first.
Posted by Kathy Evans (Member # 6576) on :
I was born in 1968; the very first movie I "remember" seeing in the theater was "The Rescuers" (1976). My mother also took me to see a double-feature, "Escape from Witch Mountain/Return to Witch Mountain" around the same time. The next one I remember seeing in the theater was "Star Wars" (1977).
Posted by HeadRusch (Member # 3755) on :
I remember seeing THE BOATNIKS (an obscure live-action Disney film) at the Hartford Drive-In in Newington, CT in my pajamas with my parents. Thats got to be my first movie memory...drive-in anyhow...and it must have been around 74 or 75 when those Disney movies were in re-runs at places like Drive-In's and stuff. I am pretty sure it was playing with one of the Herbie The Love Bug movies. I also remember those Witch Mountain movies, and falling in love with that girl
The first movie that I can recall I ever went to see completely alone was, of all things, CONAN the Barbarian..and I loved it. I also have no idea how I got in the theatre, since I'm pretty sure that was an R movie
I remember taking my future wife to see The Lost Boys on one of our first dates.
Since then the movie experience has largely gone downhill for me. Not only are the movies I actually enjoy so few and far between these days, but the theatre experience has changed so badly that I almost can't relate. The endless pitches, the cell phones, the loud patrons and badly behaving kids, kids flipping open LED-laden phones 20 times an hour to text.....I've given up.
Home Projector, 110" screen...DVD, HDDVD and BD....I'm golden. Plus you get used to DVD/HDDVD/BD quality and go to the theatre and all you see are scratched and dirty prints, poppy sound, lousy focus...its embarassing.
Posted by EleanorJune (Member # 7024) on :
The first movie I ever saw in a theater was Driving Miss Daisey. I remember it well because my sister and daddy went to a different movie while my mom and I saw that. She also took me to get my ears pierced afterwards because we had some time to kill befor my sis and dad were done.
Posted by major (Member # 7478) on :
Does a drive - in count?
I saw my first movie, Orca, at the drive - in. In an actual theatre, my first was Star Wars.
Ah, the memories *sighs*
Posted by Aruba4me (Member # 6258) on :
[QUOTE]Originally posted by ISIS: [QB] One of the first movies I remember seeing was "The Other Side of the Mountain". I remember me and my mom went to see it. That was 1975.
I remember seeing alot of the old Walt Disney movies at the theater when I was a kid...like Lady and the Tramp, 101 Dalmations, Snow White, Cinderella, Bambi, Dumbo, Old Yeller, and The Swiss Family Robinson.
I honestly think the Disney movies should still be played at the movie theaters...
Posted by Aruba4me (Member # 6258) on :
Oops, forgot to comment on Isis' quote above! Isis, remember "The Apple Dumpling Gang"? I remember waiting in line for that one! How about all of those Disney movies that starred a young Kurt Russell? Ooh and "Bedknobs and Broomsticks"? Those Disney movies were great fun!
The first movie I ever saw was "Sleeping Beauty" in the theater that they run out of in the original Blob movie (the Colonial) and I was 4yrs. old.
Posted by xchazx (Member # 7158) on :
quote:Originally posted by major: Does a drive - in count?
I saw my first movie, Orca, at the drive - in. In an actual theatre, my first was Star Wars.
Ah, the memories *sighs*
i also saw orca at a drive in. i think i was 7 or 8 at the time. i remember a lot about that night too. it's funny some of the things you remember.
Posted by Tim Cappello (Member # 3594) on :
Beauty & the Beast
yea, it's not that cool...but I was only born in 1985! Which makes perfect sense of why I am totally committed to living the 80's lifestyle right now!
Posted by Mr. Jack Burton (Member # 4673) on :
Harry and the Hendersons!!! Oh man, I loved it..
Haven't seen it in years but remember my cousin bringing me to it when I was about 6.
Posted by jdocster (Member # 5752) on :
quote:Originally posted by Mr. Jack Burton: Harry and the Hendersons!!! Oh man, I loved it..
Haven't seen it in years but remember my cousin bringing me to it when I was about 6.
Jack,
It's out on DVD now. Yes it's still just as good!
Posted by Mr. Jack Burton (Member # 4673) on :
Excellent!! I will get it for sure. Probably have to go on the net though, no sign of it in my local shop here in little ol' Ireland!!
Posted by Willow (Member # 4953) on :
The first movie I can remember seeing was "The Rescuers". I was about 6 and my parents took us to the drive-in movies. In the family van no less. *chuckles* I remember they would make me wear my pajamas so I could be put straight to bed once we got home.
Posted by 80's_wild_child (Member # 7503) on :
ET without a doubt even had my poster from McDonalds with me.
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