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The First Film You Remember Seeing At The Cinema

i think my cousin took me to see Bambi.
i don't remember being upset when the mother got shot, only being fairly bored except for the bits with thumper in it.
 
Walt Disney's 'Fantasia'. The sorceror's apprentice sequence freaked me out big time, ditto when all the dinosaurs died out. The next film I saw was 'Monsieur Hulot's Holiday', which I thought was great.

My Dad used to be a member of the Arts Lab in Birmingham and i used to pore over the programmes, which were illustrated by Hunt Emerson of Knockabout comics fame.
 
fuck you lot have good memories! :eek:

i honestly have no idea. i can't remember ever being taken to the cinema as a kid. i can't remember being taken anywhere except to school tbh.

there were 7 of us kids though, so there were probably too many of us for trips like that.... <shrug> :confused:

and the fact that my stepdad was a miserable psychotic wanker probably had a lot to do with it as well.
 
bristle-krs said:
'e.t. - the extra terrestrial', 1982. i had no conception of what a cinema was, i just remember being in my jimjams, and then being in a big, dark room with my parents and a whole bunch of people i didn't know, watching a story unfold in huge, moving pictures. mindblowing, really.
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That was my first cinematic expierience.

And no-one will ever forget my words "daaaaad,why is Rachel crying" :D
 
Star Wars in 1977, I was five and we had a big family outing with my Uncles and Aunties and older Cousins. Blew me away :cool:
 
It was either 'Dark Star', directed by John Carpenter or Nic Roeg's 'Don't Look Now', when they were premiered on TV in the mid '70s, although I only identified them years later (the Afros and the spacehopper from the former; the accident in the belltower from the latter).

Both impeccably cool films as it happens, but that's largely because they're both powerful, and also frightening, films - and as such perhaps the reason I remember them so vividly. :cool:

Edited to add: yeah, yeah, these were the first films I remember seeing at all rather than at the cinema, should have read thread title properly, etc., etc., doh, hit-myself-over-the-head-with-a-clawhammer... :o
 
Belushi said:
Star Wars in 1977, I was five and we had a big family outing with my Uncles and Aunties and older Cousins. Blew me away :cool:
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That was also the first film I ever saw at the cinema - the Odeon in Coventry, I think it was, when I was also five. :cool:
 
A little bit of imdb-ing suggests it must have been the rescuers - which would have nade me three. Youngest kid, you see - probably a compromise with my sisters who were 7 and 10. I had a comic book of it too, which explains why I can remember it.

I know i went to see empire strikes back when i was 6 and time bandits when i was seven, and i can barely remember anything about either of those.

in those days tho, they used to re release the disney classics every so often - i definately saw both snow white and cinderella at bexleyheath cinema (the old one - where asdas is now)... so i guess it's possible i saw the rescuers much later... :confused:
 
ET - must have been 5 or 6. It was at the drive-in, though, not one of those fancy cinema jobbies. I still remember I wore jeans and very tiny desert boots (who says I'm preoccupied with shoes? Who?) :)

And no, I didn't cry. But I have it on good authority that Kyser cried buckets when he saw ET. :D
 
wrysmile said:
And no, I didn't cry. But I have it on good authority that Kyser cried buckets when he saw ET. :D
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Magneze still cries nowawadays when he watches it! :D

** runs like the wind **
 
butchersapron said:
Star Wars
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Me too.

One of my earliest memories, aged about 3, is my mum reading me the intoduction as it scrolled up the screen 'cos I couldn't read yet. And then my dad pretending he was flying the Millenium Falcon as he drove us home.
 
wrysmile said:
ET - must have been 5 or 6. It was at the drive-in, though, not one of those fancy cinema jobbies. I still remember I wore jeans and very tiny desert boots (who says I'm preoccupied with shoes? Who?) :)

And no, I didn't cry. But I have it on good authority that Kyser cried buckets when he saw ET. :D
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I saw et on pirate when i was 7 - almost completely obscured by poor quality, in the front room of some random fireman colleague of my dad's - and crucially, past my bloody bedtime. :mad:

I remember the discomfort of being in this strange house, and it being late, and wanting to go to bed - (I was that odd breed of child), and not alot else.
 
Lost in the desert. It came out in 1969 but i was only 3 then so i don't think i saw it then. maybe 1970 or 71.

I remember it with a vague sense of being very upset , and having read the IMDB summary, i can see why :(
 
Watership Down. My mum didn't know the story and didn't realise there would be scenes where loads of bunnies died.
Traumatised me, it did :(
 
I've no idea. I do remember queuing in the rain for one of the Herbie movies though.

The cinema in York was right opposite Kentucky Fried Chicken so I remember the fried mouse/rat urban myth was always going about.

In fact I think I went to the theatre a few times before going to the cinema. The Wombles was the first thing I saw there.
 
Minnie_the_Minx said:
Why not try ordering off one of these lot. Much cheaper. You'd need to speak French though :D Oh, and there's a Region 2 one there as well. As I don't speak French I can't tell whether there's subtitles either :o

http://shopping.kelkoo.fr/ctl/do/search?siteSearchQuery=%22La+Planete+Sauvage%22&fromform=true&x=37&y=8
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If you and shoddysolutions didn't notice, i pointed out on page 2 that you can get new PAL copies of it on ebay for either £7.99 as a starting bid or £11.99 on 'Buy It Now' with only £1.90 P&P :p :cool:
 
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