The First Film You Remember Seeing At The Cinema
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May Kasahara
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Raiders of the Lost Ark, although I'm not sure it counts as I seem to remember going into hysterics as soon as the decomposed skeleton pops out, and having to be taken out of the cinema by my mum.
kyser_soze
Hawking's Angry Eyebrow
Iemanja said:I did a similar thing with my son and now he just gives me a knowing look if we see blood on telly/cinema...
The only time the colour red has ever scared me in a film was Fiver's dream in Watership Down, where the fields are stained red.
Then again, that film scared the shit out of me as well as upsetting me, but I'm glad I saw it as a little kid - I never laboured under the illusion that nature is some kind of fluffy thing to wrap up in your arms and hug!
Chester Copperpot
Triple stones
Bed knobs and broom sticks. I remember because I got a bolloxing for throwing up in the back of my mates mums new car on the way home
ruffneck23
front left
The Doctor said:
I think that was my second
Thimble Queen
Called away to another place
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe with Dolph Lungren... 
Altho I must say I prefered him as Flash Gordon
Altho I must say I prefered him as Flash Gordon
hippogriff
Imposter
Swiss Family Robinson, about 1960, at the Odeon, Gants Hill
dirtysanta
Original Casual
Raiders of the lost ark.
Sweaty Betty
Hemo rising!
I think the first film i saw at fkicks was "bambi"....
The first film i saw on my own was "BMX Bandits"
And at the age of seven i was lucky enough to see ET at a drive in cinema in South Africa......
The first film i saw on my own was "BMX Bandits"
And at the age of seven i was lucky enough to see ET at a drive in cinema in South Africa......
I started a thread on the same topic about two years ago, but it has since been deleted.
I saw my first film in the summer of 1980, in an open air cinema on an island. It was called When Time Ran Out... and it was a disaster movie about a volcano exploding on a Pacific island. It was a bad choice of film for a six year old, and it left a big impression on me. I had to wait years for the arrival of the Internet Movie Database to find out what the film was, as I only knew the title in another language ("Pacific Ocean Time Zero").
I saw my first film in the summer of 1980, in an open air cinema on an island. It was called When Time Ran Out... and it was a disaster movie about a volcano exploding on a Pacific island. It was a bad choice of film for a six year old, and it left a big impression on me. I had to wait years for the arrival of the Internet Movie Database to find out what the film was, as I only knew the title in another language ("Pacific Ocean Time Zero").
Shreddy
Truth Through Character
Some of you older Londoners might get a kick out of this: the very first film I ever saw in a movie theatre as a 6yr. old young Canadian pup was "Expresso Bongo". It was 1964; the film was released in 1960 but it was playing second-run at a cheapo rep theatre in Vancouver. My father, an extremely hip cat for the early 60's, couldn't find a babysitter with my mom out of town, so he was forced to drag me along.
A week later, "A Hard Day's Night" was released. My older sisters dragged me along to that (my 2nd film ever). Naturally, the Fab Four had the same effect on me as it did the rest of the world, but to my 6yr old brain IT HAD FUCKING NOTHING ON "EXPRESSO BONGO". I even remember saying to my sisters on the way out of theatre, tears still in their eyes from crying/voices hoarse from seeing the Beatles for the first time: "Fuck John, Paul George and Ringo. I wanna' be Johnny fuckin' Jackson". (They didn't have a clue what I was talking about).
"Expresso Bongo" simply floored me as a kid. It had absolutely nothing to do with Cliff Richard; fuck 'em, he was just eye candy. May as well have been Pat Boone (although Jet Harris was pretty cool). It was Laurence Harvey as "Johnny Jackson" who really did it for me. Jeezuz. Slick, suave, sleazy, great threads...he had the whole package. He was fucking "jazz"; he chewed up the scenery. He and SOHO ITSELF were the real stars. It just fucking facinated me.
It's hard to explain just how much of an effect this film had on me. When I think about it today (or watch it, I have it on tape) I can't stop laughing. It's hilarious. I think it was because, as a 6yr old, it "transported" me to (nightime/neon-lit) Soho in much the same way a "Harry Potter" kid today would be transported to, um...wherever the fuck it is they get transported to. Let's face it, Soho was kickin' it back then. And so was Laurence Harvey. And winner/loser/whatever, I wanted to be just like "Johnny fuckin' Jackson". At 6yrs old! I was obsessed.
In the spring of 1977, at 18, I finally made it to London for the first time. Me and three mates stayed with friends in Tottenham, and the trip was COMPLETELY devoted to punk rock (I think the Pistols were even still together). We did no touristy shite whatsoever; no British Museum, no Tate, no Tower of London...just two solid weeks of massive binge drinking/drugs, sleeping in our own vomit on friends floors, and going to every punk venue/DIY show within a 150 mile radius. Didn't even see Central London...
However, on our very last day before flying home, I ditched all my friends, dropped a huge dose of acid, and spent the night wandering around Soho. Alone. Alone because, in '77, punks were so notoriously snotty, ignorant and stupid, none of my friends (Canucks OR Brits) knew what I was talking about when I mentioned "Expresso Bongo". (Or they thought they were too "punk" - read: pompous - to acknowledge the importance of the film - which is utterly fucking ridiculous, considering a scant two years later, when the TwoTone/ska thing hit, everybody dumped their pink spiked hair, visited their local thrift shops, and started dressing like Laurence Harvey/Johnny Jackson!!!)
Anyway, completely wrecked on acid and without even a Tube map, not only did I manage to find Soho, but I found where the 2i's used to be, all the "hot spots" on Denmark St from the film...I think I even found the building where Johnny lived. Sure, Soho had changed, but as I was already "seeing neon", I may as well have been on the set in 1960. It was lysergically fucking brilliant. I WAS HOME!!! (I also found a couple of dive bars, bought rounds for seriously dodgy people, got the shit kicked outa' me, then got REALLY lost...it was perfect...)
My apologies for blathering on about this, but THAT was the first film I ever saw in a theatre, and that was the effect it had on me. Thank god my first film wasn't "The Sound Of Music".
A week later, "A Hard Day's Night" was released. My older sisters dragged me along to that (my 2nd film ever). Naturally, the Fab Four had the same effect on me as it did the rest of the world, but to my 6yr old brain IT HAD FUCKING NOTHING ON "EXPRESSO BONGO". I even remember saying to my sisters on the way out of theatre, tears still in their eyes from crying/voices hoarse from seeing the Beatles for the first time: "Fuck John, Paul George and Ringo. I wanna' be Johnny fuckin' Jackson". (They didn't have a clue what I was talking about).
"Expresso Bongo" simply floored me as a kid. It had absolutely nothing to do with Cliff Richard; fuck 'em, he was just eye candy. May as well have been Pat Boone (although Jet Harris was pretty cool). It was Laurence Harvey as "Johnny Jackson" who really did it for me. Jeezuz. Slick, suave, sleazy, great threads...he had the whole package. He was fucking "jazz"; he chewed up the scenery. He and SOHO ITSELF were the real stars. It just fucking facinated me.
It's hard to explain just how much of an effect this film had on me. When I think about it today (or watch it, I have it on tape) I can't stop laughing. It's hilarious. I think it was because, as a 6yr old, it "transported" me to (nightime/neon-lit) Soho in much the same way a "Harry Potter" kid today would be transported to, um...wherever the fuck it is they get transported to. Let's face it, Soho was kickin' it back then. And so was Laurence Harvey. And winner/loser/whatever, I wanted to be just like "Johnny fuckin' Jackson". At 6yrs old! I was obsessed.
In the spring of 1977, at 18, I finally made it to London for the first time. Me and three mates stayed with friends in Tottenham, and the trip was COMPLETELY devoted to punk rock (I think the Pistols were even still together). We did no touristy shite whatsoever; no British Museum, no Tate, no Tower of London...just two solid weeks of massive binge drinking/drugs, sleeping in our own vomit on friends floors, and going to every punk venue/DIY show within a 150 mile radius. Didn't even see Central London...
However, on our very last day before flying home, I ditched all my friends, dropped a huge dose of acid, and spent the night wandering around Soho. Alone. Alone because, in '77, punks were so notoriously snotty, ignorant and stupid, none of my friends (Canucks OR Brits) knew what I was talking about when I mentioned "Expresso Bongo". (Or they thought they were too "punk" - read: pompous - to acknowledge the importance of the film - which is utterly fucking ridiculous, considering a scant two years later, when the TwoTone/ska thing hit, everybody dumped their pink spiked hair, visited their local thrift shops, and started dressing like Laurence Harvey/Johnny Jackson!!!)
Anyway, completely wrecked on acid and without even a Tube map, not only did I manage to find Soho, but I found where the 2i's used to be, all the "hot spots" on Denmark St from the film...I think I even found the building where Johnny lived. Sure, Soho had changed, but as I was already "seeing neon", I may as well have been on the set in 1960. It was lysergically fucking brilliant. I WAS HOME!!! (I also found a couple of dive bars, bought rounds for seriously dodgy people, got the shit kicked outa' me, then got REALLY lost...it was perfect...)
My apologies for blathering on about this, but THAT was the first film I ever saw in a theatre, and that was the effect it had on me. Thank god my first film wasn't "The Sound Of Music".
kyser_soze
Hawking's Angry Eyebrow
xxxnishababyxxx said:Altho I must say I prefered him as Flash Gordon
I thought that was Sam J Jones!!?!?
When has Lundgren been in a Flash Gordon film?
Miss Potter
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Dad's Army
lighterthief
Well-Known Member
Would that I could have visited the Kilburn State when it was still a cinema. Amazing building. And to see Star Wars as wellpeppery said:
Anyhoo, I think mine was Bambi at the Dundee Odeon, although Condorman and the Black Hole all made a big impression on me.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
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I think mine was Star Wars too. I didn't see that much as a kid at the cinema.
Battlestar Galactica two,
the Dark Crystal,
The London Conection
Condor man
The black hole
The aristorcats
And the other star warses
And that was pretty much it for me until Bill and Teds Bogus Journey.
Battlestar Galactica two,
the Dark Crystal,
The London Conection
Condor man
The black hole
The aristorcats
And the other star warses
And that was pretty much it for me until Bill and Teds Bogus Journey.
ChrisFilter
Like a boss.
Bambi, in Leicester.
moonsi til
worked it out now!
Grease...well it was the 1st film i went to see but when the lights went out I cried so much I was taken home..
Shreddy said:
That's good. You saw the Real London!
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