Your First Theatrical Experience
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Your First Theatrical Experience
There's something about going to the movies, especially when you're young. Its a big building, its full of people, and there's a magical feeling when the picture first hits the screen. I'm not 100% on the first movie I saw in the movie theater, but after talking with my brother I think it was some sort of 'Disney Classics' special occasion where we saw 'Song of the South' and 'The Fox and the Hound'. Other early childhood movies I remember in the theater were 'Oliver and Company' and 'The Little Mermaid', the latter which I clearly remember seeing with my grandpa.
So what is your early cinema memories? What was your first film?
So what is your early cinema memories? What was your first film?
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Bambi I think may have been the first film I saw in the cinema as a child
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I can't remember which came first: Bambi or Starwars.
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The earliest one I remember is the Transformers movie.
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My father dragged me (and my mother) at the ripe old age of ONE to Star Wars in 1977. (the first time i remember seeing star wars was on my father's friend's Betamax player in 1980.) I'm told i slept through the whole thing. It was a dark theater and i was a one year old. The first movie i actually remember seeing was The Muppets Movie in late 1979.
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Dad took me to see Tango & Cash when I was like 4.
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Saw Star Wars at the naval base in Newport, RI late '80 or early '81
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They didn't have a movie theater in Manassas when I lived there, so I didn't get to see a movie in the theater for quite a while. First one I did see was George of the Jungle, I think.
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I think my first would have been the Ninja Turtles movie.
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The first movie I was taken to was Star Wars, when I was about 10 months old. First I remember was probably Fox and the Hound, or some other disney movie.
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The first theatrical film I ever saw was The Little Mermaid.
According to my mother, I ran up and down the aisles trying to sing along to "Under the Sea".
Needless to say, it kicked off a lifelong interest in animation and musicals for me.
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My earliest was either the Empire Strikes Back or E.T. going by release dates probably the first but it might have been a later release as that would make me about 3.
In those days there was a intermission in the middle of the film to get icecream at my cinema and I can remember the curtains in front of the screen closing on Yoda pronoucing that 'No, There was another' I was so excited.
However, I found E.T. completely terrifying when hes folloing the trail of sweets and you can just see parts of him I ran screaming from the cinema and refused to come back again. I finally saw the film again about a decade later trying to appear as a tough teen while crying like a baby at how sad it was.
In those days there was a intermission in the middle of the film to get icecream at my cinema and I can remember the curtains in front of the screen closing on Yoda pronoucing that 'No, There was another' I was so excited.
However, I found E.T. completely terrifying when hes folloing the trail of sweets and you can just see parts of him I ran screaming from the cinema and refused to come back again. I finally saw the film again about a decade later trying to appear as a tough teen while crying like a baby at how sad it was.
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I went and saw Jack and the Beanstalk by the local amdrams when I was about three.....
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Honestly dont know what my first film was, probably something involving talking animals, knowing the early 90's
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Hook, I think. Don't remember much about it now, though on watching the film a few years later it seems I was both too young and too excited at going to the cinema for the first time to appreciate just how bad it was.
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The first one I remember seeing was Rugrats In Paris
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Earliest I can remember would probably be Toy Story when I was about 4 or so. fun times.
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Pretty sure it was Bambi
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Yeesh, really have to think about this. I believe it was Aladdin, though that's probably about all I could tell you. I don't remember any of my impressions of seeing a movie on the big screen for the first time, or hearing the booming surround sound. If I hadn't seen the movie many subsequent times at home, I imagine I wouldn't have remembered much about the plot either.
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I seem to remember my sister taking me to see Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II. It might have been 1 though.
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Star Wars (original release) was the first movie I saw without any adult supervision. I went with some kids in my grandparent's neighborhood via city bus to "down town" Iowa City. It was the first time I rode the city bus without any adults as well. I had recently turned 8.
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I saw Empire Strikes Back as an infant, and it may be my earliest memory of anything, period, if a bit fuzzy.
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I think my first theatrical movie was Aladdin, since I would have only been three years old when Little Mermaid came out. I also remember seeing the Super Mario Bros movie a million times with my little brother and dad at the dollar theater, but that presumably came later (it came out in 1993 to Aladdin's 1992). On the other hand, I remember being noisy in a screening of Aladdin, getting taken out by my dad, and then asking him if we could see Super Mario Bros.
My first movie for adults was Jurassic Park, which I saw when I was seven. I saw the latter half of it at a dollar theater that went out of business 9 years ago with my dad. I remember my parents were really worried that it would scare me and give me nightmares, but I loved it. I was a dinosaur fan as a kid.
My first movie for adults was Jurassic Park, which I saw when I was seven. I saw the latter half of it at a dollar theater that went out of business 9 years ago with my dad. I remember my parents were really worried that it would scare me and give me nightmares, but I loved it. I was a dinosaur fan as a kid.
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I vaguely remember seeing Bambi when I was three or so in 1983.
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Jurassic Park in the first movie I recall going to see in the theater.
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