What's the first movie you saw in a movie theater?

[skygazer]

Mine was Sleeping Beauty. I'm old, huh? :P

[yvr girl]

1. Bambi

It was a treat for being good at the dentist.

[InternalDialogue]

2. Disney's "One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing"

My parents only took us to Disney films -- that's the first one I remember.

[billyskank]

72. OMG I remember that

We went to see that as well.

[ghostsofgiants]

3. Honey, I Shrunk The Kids!

I was 4, I think.

[InternalDialogue]

5. So, kind of frightening, then?

Rick Moranis as bogeyman?

[ghostsofgiants]

11. I loved it, haha.

[Oeditpus Rex]

4. Either 'The Shaggy Dog' or '101 Dalmatians'

All I remember is I was like 5 and it was at the Skyview Drive-In.

[Montauk6]

6. Wow, FIRST??? Gee, no idea..

But chances are it was ca. 1968-69 and it was the Jolly Roger drive-in in Taylor, MI.

[skygazer]

9. I remember mine because it traumatized me

When that evil witch turned into a dragon and hollered about all the demons of HELL!!! or whatever she says. It's probably on YouTube come to think of it....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lkj0nfseXUQ

Powers of hell, that was it...

[tigereye]

7. I think it was Destroy All Monsters, but I'm not sure

[Forkboy]

21. Now there's a great one!

:)

[tigereye]

42. funny how that film has stuck in my head all these years!

great pic! (that and the Godzilla film with the Mothra Sisters - godzilla vs mothra,) I think. Kind of sad that there aren't fun, cheesy, but sometimes thoughtful films like that anymore.


I should look around to see if I can find that film somewhere.

[Forkboy]

49. It's available on DVD, but it's just the dubbed version.

And it's actually a more recent dubbing than when it was first released in '69. Toho used to make their own "international" dub, and that's the one they use here. The version we grew up with was an American dub by the American International Pictures company.

My copy came with a CD of the Soundtrack, which is spiffy. :)

http://www.amazon.com/Destroy-All-Monsters-Akira-Kubo/dp/B00003IXDZ

[tigereye]

82. after I saw this post - we went and looked for Mothra and Godzilla

and sat there watching it for about a half-hour. We got totally sucked in. :rofl:


It still makes me laugh that those films were the ones we watched as kids IN my Catholic School when there was a movie day. :thumbsup:


MY husband says it may have something to do with the Shinto/natural spirits subtext. ;)

[KitchenWitch]

8. Not sure.

My son's was Free Willy and my daughter's was Finding Nemo.

[triguy46]

10. Bambi. In the theater in Fairway, Kansas on first release.

[Broken_Hero]

12. ET nt

[VenusRising]

13. ET for me, too.

[Broken_Hero]

15. I screamed/cried like a little baby when Elliot and ET ran into

each other in the back yard/cornfield.

[VenusRising]

44. I remember that part!

I was hiding in my chair. :rofl:

[SallyMander]

31. Me too!

:hi:

[Schema Thing]

14. First one I remember is Larry of Arabia

[libnnc]

16. Pipi Longstockings

:puke:

I slept through most of it.

[libnnc]

17. dupe

[mcctatas]

18. My freaking father took me to see The Shining when I was really

little. My mom let him live anyway;)

[boilerbabe]

51. Saw that one on two hits of acid...great movie!! n/t

[mcctatas]

57. Not when you're like 5!

:rofl:

[Lil Missy]

19. First one I recall is "Billy Jack"

[Forkboy]

20. Either Disney's Robin Hood, or Serpico.

Seriously, I have odd parents. :)

I saw Serpico at the Drive In, and I distinctly remember my mother telling me to turn my head during the bathtub scene. :rofl:

[Paladin]

22. "Moby Dick," The 1956 Version

I was quite small (five or so), but I remember the scenes of the bloody, harpooned whales, and Orson Welles as the pastor in the prow-shaped alter, giving that unforgettable sermon on the eve of the whalers shipping out.

Any of the rest of you old-timers starting to remember things from your childhood with absolute clarity, for the first time in decades? I'm starting to recall things from when I was three years old---but I can't remember what I had for supper two nights ago. My late father told me that this would happen....:)

[AbbeyRoad]

23. Sleeping Beauty 1979 re-release

It's kinda freaky that we have the same first movie.

[graywarrior]

24. Same here. Sleeping Beauty.

I wanted to be her.

[BrotherBuzz]

25. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

A year later, I rode the submarine at Disneyland. Now I find I'm an old fart because they shut down the ride and remodeled it for the blockbuster movie, 'Finding Nemo'.

[LeftyMom]

26. ET.

I'm told I screamed bloody murder and had to be carried out of the theater when the decontamination suited people show up and ET looks dead. I was barely a toddler at the time though.

[bikebloke]

27. Probably something I don't remember.

The earliest movies that come to mind are Pepé and In Search of the Castaways.

[fizzgig]

28. my parents took me to see e.t.

but i was only a year old, so i don't remember it. the first one i remember is gremlins...i have no idea why my dad took me to see it and it scared the crap out of me

[Mutley]

29. Return of the Jedi

:D

[Lydia Leftcoast]

30. Snow White and the Seven Dwarves

I'm told that I was terrified of the witch.

[pokerfan]

32. The Jungle Book

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKSJJZ9fqFc">The Bare Necessities (3:59)

[applegrove]

33. Herbie the LoveBug or Bedknobs & Broomsticks or Sound of Music or

Dumbo. I'm not sure.

[Graybeard]

34. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

I was 5 or 6 and I guess my Mom thought it was a harmless Danny Kaye movie. Well Boris Karloff was in it and he scared the crap out of me. I hid under the seat.

[InkAddict]

35. It was probably a Disney flick, maybe Cinderella...

but I got all kinds of movie memories -

I remember I lost my little garnet birthstone ring in the show when we went to see "Swiss Family Robinson." Boy, were my folks tic'd...Dad made a special trip to see if they had swept it up but it was gone, gone, gone. They told me I could not wear a ring again until I learned to keep it on my finger and stop playing with it, and they meant it. Didn't have another ring until I was a pre-teen.

I went downtown all by myself, by bus and train, for the first time to see "Lawrence of Arabia." Anxiety was running high that day...did I want to see it bad enough to go it alone? Would I get on the right bus and get off at all the right stops. Very scary

One night some co-ed friends and I went to a show without telling the folks. When I got up to go to the refreshment area, there they were three rows behind us - think that was "The Great Race." Punishment was meted out promptly - I had to visit the minister of my friend's church and explain why we were out with boys without telling our parents.

Walked out of a show, on a date, for the first and only time, "Barbarella."

I've seen "Funeral in Berlin" three times now and still can't figure it out nor do I ever plan on watching it again. Dark, boring, confusion.

As a kid, I mainly went to the drive-in to see the PG movies my folks picked. I do remember seeing "Sink the Bismark" and probably some John Wayne stuff. They still had cartoons and double-features. The speaker always fell off the window at least once, and the mosquitos would try to eat you alive. A few years later, the bug truck would go by and spray toxic fog all around after the warning to roll up the windows and sweat for 15 minutes. It was always a challenge to find a good spot as we rolled up over the elevated rows. I was never, ever allowed to play on the swings, etc. set up front until the shows came on. We took pillows and blankets and our own popcorn and treats in a cooler. Then we got to listen to Dad cuss about the traffic on the way out.

[lastliberalintexas]

36. Fantasia

I would guess that most of us saw a Disney movie before anything else. And Fantasia is still one of my favorite movies- thankfully my child likes it too. :)

[Release The Hounds]

37. Superman

[Just-plain-Kathy]

38. The first one I could remember is, "Yours, Mine, and Ours"

[carlyhippy]

39. Disney's The Jungle Book cartoon

first drive-in movie I can recall was "the good, the bad and the ugly"

[Inspired]

40. The Sound of Music

[tismyself]

41. Hound of the Baskervilles

Still love it too.

[enigmatic]

43. The Jungle Book

I think I was 4...

[laylah]

45. Lady and the Tramp nt

[vixengrl]

46. The first Star Wars movie.

I think I was too young to have been very impressed. (I'd like to recall having a crush on Han Solo, but I think that's revisionism on my part.) I remember a little better when I saw "Grease." I begged to get and then probably played and sang along with the soundtack album (on my record player! that I formerly played Sesame Street albums on! `70`s!) like every day for months. I performed "You're The One That I Want" standing on a rocking chair. I had moves!

(Full and unnecessary disclosure: I did the same thing with the "Xanadu" soundtrack. And "Cher's Greatest Hits." And a few of those K-Tel compilations. "Dream Weaver! I believe you can get me through the niiii-hiiighhht!" Product of an era, I'm afraid.)

[grannylib]

47. "Help" when I was living in England in 1965; I was six. I'd been to

drive-ins in the States before that, but not an indoor theater. I think it was in Leicester.

[greenbriar]

48. one of the chuck norris movies...don't even remember which one missing in action???

we were not allowed to go tot eh show ...mom was a fundy nut and said "bad things happen in dark places" ect...bla bla


so I went on a date... also a no-no and went to the show. Didn't really enjoy it as I was terrified she would show up and drag me out...did I mention I was 18 but still living at home and a SR in HS

[boilerbabe]

50. I think Mary Poppins in like 1963? Now who's old?? n/t

[blonndee]

52. The Empire Strikes Back.

I was dumbfounded! It was an experience I'll never forget.

[DarkTirade]

53. First one I REMEMBER was Back to the Future at a drive-in.

However I'm sure I saw movies before then. I just remember the drive-in because A) that was the first 'grown-up' movie I'd ever seen and B) That was the first time I'd ever been to a drive-in theater.

[Jamastiene]

63. I miss our drive-in theater. Wish those would make a comeback.

I saw Godzilla and King Kong at the one we used to have in town here. You haven't lived until you've seen Godzilla and King Kong at a drive-in. :wow:

[susanna]

54. Grease. n/t

[Zero Division]

55. The first movie I can remember was Ghostbusters.

I was 5 years old.

[RevolutionaryActs]

56. I honestly dont know; the first movie I remember seeing is Beauty and the Beast.

So I'm going with that. :P

[Lucian]

58. I think it was "Mrs. Doubtfire".

I went to the drive-in for years before that.

[britpopper]

59. Star Wars...1977

I was four and stood in line for what seemed like six hours at the old four-plex theatre that is now a homeless shelter...

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

60. It was either It Came From Outer Space or Invaders From Mars

They both came out in 1953 and I'm not sure which one I saw first. It Came From Outer Space was in 3-D and everyone in the theater had 3-D glasses. I was about 4 years old and my mother always took me to see scary (scary for that time) movies. Invaders From Mars was the movie where a mother and father visit the site of a UFO crash and come back completely changed, with strange looking cysts on the backs of their necks. It kept me looking at the backs of my parents' necks for days.

[Jamastiene]

61. Star Wars n/t

[deadparrot]

62. Beauty and the Beast. nt

[RFKHumphreyObama]

64. I can't remember

I can remember seeing a few movies such as "Batteries Not Included", "The Last Emperor" and "Dead Poets Society" in the cinema when I was very young but I can't remember what the first movie I ever saw was

[ashling]

65. Darby O'Gill and the Little People

[PittPoliSci]

66. The Bear.

I know, WTF?

[coyotespaw]

67. The first I can remember is The Muppet Movie...

here's to the lovers, the dreamers and me


:toast:

[whistler162]

68. That I remember either

Mary Poppins or Goldfinger/Dr. No(at the drive-in).

[CreekDog]

69. Bambi I think

:cry:

[RushIsRot]

70. It was SO long ago that I have fuzzy memories, What I can recall

is that it starred Bing Crosby. Might've been Goin' My Way with Barry Fitzgerald. I CAN remember walking out of the theater and past the screen and wondering where ALL those people I had been seeing had gone.

I also remember Bambi from a little later in that time frame. I found Bambi quite disturbing or traumatic. It was classic Disney, but it did not feed my soul once Bambi's mother or perhaps whole family had been eliminated by hunters...

DRAT!

[billyskank]

71. Star Wars, probably

But I don't remember it. And even then it wasn't on its first run. I was only born in 1976.

[MrSlayer]

73. Either "Herbie Rides Again" or "The Apple Dumpling Gang",

I'm really not sure which. Definitely Disney though.

[BlueIris]

74. The first one I remember seeing in the theater is "Ghostbusters."

And what a memory it is.

[FloridaJudy]

75. "Creature from the Black Lagoon"

It was on a double bill with "Gog". My grandfather took me: fortunately, you didn't need to speak English to follow the plots, since Papa Deda's was pretty limited. The first was a guy in a rubber suit terrorizing a blonde, and the second featured a bunch of robots killing people. They were pretty cool, to a seven-year-old.

My grandfather must have been a blooming saint.

[MountainLaurel]

76. Star Wars

I was 5, and my uncle took us while he was visiting from CA.

[underpants]

77. "Animal House" with my brother mother and step-father. I was 11

My step-father stills refers to "that Animal House mentality"

[Burma Jones]

78. Drive In?, I have no idea - Inside, the first I remember is Mary Poppins

[TZ]

79. "The Little Prince"

I used to have the record too.I remember most of the songs from it....

[bridgit]

80. The Blob, 1st was actually Bambi but was an animation of course...

[Whoa_Nelly]

81. Sleeping Beauty 1959

After spending a day in Disneyland.