Your First Theatrical Experience

[CaptainChewbacca]

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?

[Stofsk]

Bambi I think may have been the first film I saw in the cinema as a child

i remember crying ;_;

[LadyTevar]

I can't remember which came first: Bambi or Starwars.

[The Spartan]

The earliest one I remember is the Transformers movie.

Optimus...

[Col. Crackpot]

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.

[Gandalf]

Dad took me to see Tango & Cash when I was like 4.

[Deathstalker]

Saw Star Wars at the naval base in Newport, RI late '80 or early '81

[StarSword]

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.

[Admiral Drason]

I think my first would have been the Ninja Turtles movie.

[phred]

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.

[TimothyC]

The Land Before Time

I was three, and I cried from the moment that the mother died.

[JME2]

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.

[Bedlam]

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.

[Dartzap]

I went and saw Jack and the Beanstalk by the local amdrams when I was about three.....

Whoops, wrong theatre

Honestly dont know what my first film was, probably something involving talking animals, knowing the early 90's

[Zaune]

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.

[Iroscato]

The first one I remember seeing was Rugrats In Paris
I saw (spit)The Phantom Menace twice when I was a wee lad of 5, and I LOVED it. Then of course, as I got older I realised...

[Eternal_Freedom]

Earliest I can remember would probably be Toy Story when I was about 4 or so. fun times.

[tim31]

Pretty sure it was Bambi

N.B. Nugz your dad fuckin' rules.

[Dread Not]

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.

[Temjin]

I seem to remember my sister taking me to see Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II. It might have been 1 though.

Yeah, I seem to remember thinking about how strange a place it was when watching a TNMT movie. The next time I went to the movies was when I was a teenager.

[Tsyroc]

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.

I saw the original King Kong at the Iowa City public library when I was 5.

[Alerik the Fortunate]

I saw Empire Strikes Back as an infant, and it may be my earliest memory of anything, period, if a bit fuzzy.

[Guardsman Bass]

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.

[Faabio]

I vaguely remember seeing Bambi when I was three or so in 1983.

[Singular Intellect]

Jurassic Park in the first movie I recall going to see in the theater.