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Author Topic: First film you saw at the cinema? Sally Ann Burgess Expert Film Handler Posts: 120 From: Queenstown, New Zealand Registered: Apr 2008 posted 09-12-2008 11:10 PM                     I hope this is in the right forum...I was just remembering my first ever cinema movie that I can remember seeing-Abba the Movie in 1977, I was 4. Does anyone else remember their first EVER cinema movie?  |  IP: Logged Matt Fields Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 545 From: Ohio, United States Registered: Jun 2005 posted 09-12-2008 11:24 PM                     E.T.  |  IP: Logged Justin Hamaker Film God Posts: 2253 From: Lakeport, CA USA Registered: Jan 2004 posted 09-13-2008 12:23 AM                        For me it was Star Wars in 1977. I came out about 3 months after I turned 4. I don't actually remember the experience of watching the movie, but I have a faint recollection of standing in line more than a block from the theatre.  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 09-13-2008 12:51 AM                       Four yrs. of age seems to be the magic number. Geeze, I remember the first time I went to a drive-in, but I don't remember the bill. It wasn't my first movie, either, but it was my first drive-in and I was enthralled. We subsequently went to a lot of drive-ins. I DO, however, remember seeing the following at drive-ins, when I was 4 (in 1966): Munster Go Home The Navy vs. The Night Monsters Fantastic Voyage Three on a Couch  |  IP: Logged Charles Greenlee Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 801 From: Savannah, Ga, U.S. Registered: Jun 2006 posted 09-13-2008 12:54 AM                        Star Wars: The Return on the Jedi, original release. Sadly, I don't remember it. I was probably one of those annoying brats that wouldn't sit still and quiet. First one I remember cleary was Back to the Future. I also saw E.T. in the theatres, but I'm thinking it was a re-release.  |  IP: Logged Jaime Tuzzio Film Handler Posts: 50 From: Salem, OR, USA Registered: Apr 2008 posted 09-13-2008 01:30 AM                 I was dragged kicking and screaming by my sisters to one of the many re-releases of Pinocchio while my parents went to see Ghostbusters. I still hate Pinocchio and still love Ghostbusters (which I didn't get to see until it hit the video rental stores). Next up was the re-release of E.T. (which I've also never liked). My first positive movie theatre experience was Back to the Future.  |  IP: Logged Charles Greenlee Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 801 From: Savannah, Ga, U.S. Registered: Jun 2006 posted 09-13-2008 01:37 AM                        Damn right. High five!. LoL I still want a Delorean. I have a hot wheels sized Delorean time machine.  |  IP: Logged Stephen Furley Film God Posts: 3059 From: Coulsdon, Croydon, England Registered: May 2002 posted 09-13-2008 02:38 AM                     Disney's 'Sword in the Stone', 1963. Managed to get taken up to the box after the show, and first ran a film projector that day. I remember being really impressed by the mercury rectifiers.  |  IP: Logged Anslem Rayburn Master Film Handler Posts: 476 From: Yuma, AZ, USA Registered: May 2002 posted 09-13-2008 02:44 AM                     In what probably explains much about me, the first films I can recall (though not vividly) are Psycho II Star Trek III C.H.U.D. I was about 5 or 6 during this period. I remember throwing an entire bucket of popcorn in the air in terror during Psycho II. I always thought it was Star Trek II, but it was a double feature with C.H.U.D. so it must have been III as they were released the same year. I don't remember anything about Star Trek, but have very clear memories of some scenes from C.H.U.D., even though I "watched" most of the movie with my eyes covered. Psycho II was at the Plaza 5 theater in Yuma, and the double feature was at a drive-in here (maybe the Crest) located on 32nd Street. Sadly, the drive-in location is now home to car lots, and has been for years. Thankfully, the Plaza 5 is closed. It was a converted store that was never taken care of, and was a really bad place to see a movie. I still miss it in that nostalgic sort of way, but it was so rundown and unloved by the end that it was sad to see it open in it's condition.  |  IP: Logged Mark Ogden Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 943 From: Little Falls, N.J. Registered: Jun 99 posted 09-13-2008 02:45 AM                     It would have been a reissue of Song Of The South, about 1956 or so, long before the P.C. police got to it. How I'd love to see a nice Blu-ray of this. Guess I'm stuck with my crappy bootleg!  |  IP: Logged Alan Plester Expert Film Handler Posts: 209 From: great yarmouth england Registered: Apr 2001 posted 09-13-2008 02:56 AM                     Waalt disney`s Bambi  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 09-13-2008 03:21 AM                     1955 - "Lady and the Tramp" .. in glorious CinemaScope! I was 4 .. sitting above the main floor in my home town's 900 seat theatre balcony with my parents catching a SAT matinee showing of this classic Disney. Funny though, at that age, that I can still distinctly remember how wide that picture was and knew nothing of this widescreen process since used to seeing square images on our new "Monkey Wards" Airline TV set. -Monte  |  IP: Logged Shane Cooper Expert Film Handler Posts: 232 From: Little Rock, Arkansas Registered: Jun 2004 posted 09-13-2008 04:37 AM                     E.T. for me as well. Began my life long obsession with movies!  |  IP: Logged Don Furr Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 509 From: Sun City, Ca USA Registered: Nov 2002 posted 09-13-2008 06:43 AM                     20,000 Leagues Under The Sea....1954. I was 7.  |  IP: Logged David Zylstra Master Film Handler Posts: 432 From: Novi, MI, USA Registered: Mar 2007 posted 09-13-2008 07:08 AM                     Bambi . . . . . to continue the common theme I'm pretty sure I was 4 . . . .  |  IP: Logged

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