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Films at the cinema you saw as a kid....time to show your age!

Too many to list as as a kid I was a member of the 'Saturday Morning Picture Club' at the Rio in Dalston which had films for a quid a go. We went virtually every saturday. It was mostly older films, but they had some real treasures there, like the 5000 hands of Dr T
 
But if we're talking things which were big releases at the time then Superman IV, Ghostbusters, Back to the Future, the Black Cauldron, Willow, Return to Oz
 
Force 10 from Navarone.

Some Disney thing about Robin Hood, with all the roles played by anthropomorphic cartoon animals (Robin was a fox).

Watership Down.

Saw Empire before Star Wars.

Gandhi.

Popeye (one you never see in Altman retrospectives).

Green Ice, which my Da didn't want to see to the end, so we left.

Footloose.

The Breakfast Club (which in hindsight was utterly appalling).
 
The first three films I saw at the cinema, in order:

Tales of Beatrix Potter (aged 5)
ET (aged 9)
Police Academy Three (aged 13)
 
I saw ET on my 6th birthday and cried very loudly through most of it :rolleyes:

Don't remember seeing anything else as a child. Maybe I've forgotten or maybe i just never went to the cinema.
 
Robin Hood (the Disney animated one), Sinbad & the Eye of the Tiger, Star Wars, Lord of the Rings (the animated version from about 1979 that everybody slags off but was really OK), The China Syndrome, Sunburn, The Wall, Grease - used to see loads of stuff until our local cinema closed down in 1982 (damn you VHS!!!)
 
I remember going to see "Fame" and lots of parents dragging their kids out because it was a lot swearier than the TV series - also "Saturday Night Fever" - the "A-Certificate" version which was rather short.
 
The first film I remember was The sound of music.My youngest brother asked our mum to turn the volume down as the noise was keeping him awake:).
 
Evel Knievel (1971) - 1st I remember, fuck knows how as I wasn't born till '72. Must have been a double bill or matinee filler.
Star Wars (1977)
 
The earliest films I remember seeing a the pictures were:

Fantasia
Dougal and the Blue Cat (anyone else remember this?)
The Three Muskateers
Mary Poppins
 
Earliest ones I remember were Grease, Superman and Star Trek. Must be getting old because a former schoolmate is going to play Bones McCoy in the new Star Trek...'kin oath.
 
The Amazing Mr Blunden.

The dinosaur one with a german submarine.

The Disney Robin Hood.

A double bill with some sword and sorcery thing called 'Raven' and a Sci Fi Film with an evil robot and kirk douglas fighting someone in the buff. I think.

The Spy who loved me.

Star Wars.
 
We lived overseas when I first started watching films, and the only ones available were screened in the Officers Wardroom every couple of months. It depended on what the Navy thought was suitable for "family viewing".
Mostly it was Disney films, so I had a good grounding in the "classics". :D

When we came home the local cinema had a Saturday morning film club, and so that was mostly Children's Film Foundation stuff.

One of the first films we went to see "as an outing" would have been Star Wars when I was about 11yrs old.
(And I've had a bit of a crush on Han Solo every since :D)
 
Never Ending Story, Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Saw Never Ending Story at primary school - forget if it was on video or the visiting cinima that set up a portable screen in the hall - I know they showed us Danny the Champian Of The World, and a Heman & Shera cartoon (& I was disapointed that it wasn't the liveaction Heman film there'd been all the fuss about on tv:o:D)

saw Who Framed Roger Rabbit first in the cinima (my mum fell asleep in it:D) then on video in school.

others that I remember: various Disney reissues including Bambi,
remember one or two films having Wuzzles cartoons at the begining,
All Dogs Go To Heaven, Three Men And A Little Lady, Hunny I shrunk The Kids - all when I was about 8/9.
Madame Doubtfire when I was 12 - burst into tears in Macdonalds afterwards at what I thought was the unfairness of the ending because he got to see his kids in the end. (due to being from a split-up family - not living with my mum and only seeing my dad a few times a year)
 
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