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Post by patrick on May 28, 2023 15:57:21 GMT
No idea. The earliest one I remember was The Little Mermaid.
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Post by cubby on May 28, 2023 16:23:54 GMT
It was either Last Tango in Paris or The Little Mermaid.
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Post by rawshark on May 28, 2023 16:31:52 GMT
Jungle Book. It would have been in about 1983 so it was a re-release. Funny to think how before the proliferation of home video that would happen quite often. I think i saw a rerelease of Snow White in the late 80s, but it's so vague I think it could be a false memory. Nope not a false memory. Nana shark took me to see Snow White around that time and snored through the whole thing. |
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Post by rawshark on May 28, 2023 16:37:13 GMT
This has just cracked open another memory egg where Nana Shark took me to see what was basically the pilot episode of Gummy Bears but it was in the cinema for some reason. I mostly remember that she snuck me a chocolate eclair to eat during the film. Good bird, Nana Shark.
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Post by Gruf on May 28, 2023 16:46:21 GMT
Uh, so long ago
Dim memories of Disney's Escape from Witch Mountain probably. Banger
The one that left the biggest impression, OG Star Wars. Even in a Cinema on a military base, with 100's of other fellow pre teen Army brats running up and down the aisles, screaming, chucking popcorn, it still held my jaw agape, it looked like nothing I had ever seen before, transformative.
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Post by jono62 on May 28, 2023 17:03:06 GMT
It was either Last Tango in Paris or The Little Mermaid. Both involve butter. |
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Post by LFace on May 28, 2023 17:03:30 GMT
The oldest cinema memory I have is my dad taking me and my brother and there was choice of ET or Mary Poppins. I was about 4 or 5 as ET had just come out.
My older brother was very annoyed at my choice. I won't embarrass myself by naming it but I'm sure you can guess.
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Post by Bongo Heracles on May 28, 2023 17:47:58 GMT
Our closest cinema was The Regal in Chesterfield (I think it was actually crystal peaks but my gran wouldn’t go there for some reason) and it was a proper grand, old, ice creams at the half time interval cinema.
Other than the football, it was the biggest place (and certainly the nicest) place this bumpkin ever went and probably why I fell in love with films. It just a magical experience. The first movie I saw there was either Peter Pan or ET (almost certainly not when it came out, they showed movies randomly).
Obviously, it got converted into a Zanzibar in the nineties, same as the one in derby. Weep for what we have lost.
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Post by simple on May 28, 2023 17:52:12 GMT
I think it was either a screening of Disney’s Robin Hood or something like Freddie as F.R.O.7 but my first big cinema memory is going with two car loads of friends to see Jurassic Park and one kid getting bullied for months after crying at the bit with Samuel L Jackson’s arm
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Post by EMarkM on May 28, 2023 18:21:27 GMT
It’s taken me all day to figure this out, but probably “Spider-Man Strikes Back”, 1978-ish.
My next cinema memory is Superman II.
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Post by Syrette on May 28, 2023 18:33:30 GMT
Jurassic Park is the first one I can recall. Not a bad start.
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Post by LockeTribal on May 28, 2023 18:49:35 GMT
I think it was Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 in a small local-ish cinema. Would have been around 4 or 5. Don't really remember it though.
One that stood out was The Mask, would have been 8 when that was in the cinema. Think an older cousin took me with his son when he was over visiting.
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Post by dfunked on May 28, 2023 18:54:12 GMT
A friend of my brother told me that the tagline for TMNT2 was "Secret of the Uzi" and I believed him. Most disappointing opening credits ever!
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Post by starchildhypocrethes on May 28, 2023 19:06:52 GMT
Ghostbusters at a cinema in Southampton when when we were visiting my grandparents.
Every film has been downhill from there.
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Post by Lizard on May 28, 2023 19:17:57 GMT
Maybe the Rescuers? I definitely went before Home Alone a few times.
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Post by Dougs on May 28, 2023 19:48:09 GMT
After Watership Down, I have very clear memories of ET, a terrifying Disney film called Watcher in the Woods and then Ghostbusters. Love the cinema. Just wish it wasn't so expensive these days.
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Post by Vortex on May 28, 2023 20:10:17 GMT
I remember ET and trying very hard not to cry when he was all grey & dying.
Kids films (like watership down) really put you through the wringer then.
Plus that librarian in ghostbusters!
Our kids have been brought up to be too soft by modern cinema. 😀
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Post by crashV👀d👀 on May 28, 2023 20:51:21 GMT
Picture the scene back in 1987 when the glorious epic Masters of the Universe graced the screen and a 10 year old me was taken for the first time ever to see ... a re-release of Snow White on the other screen (only 2 screens in Cannon cinema Rotherham back then).
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Post by Trowel 🏴 on May 28, 2023 21:00:50 GMT
Karate Kid.
My timeline is muddled by our local having had only one screen and changing films only every fortnight at best, so while I know I saw ET it must have been a few years after release.
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Post by Dougs on May 28, 2023 21:23:11 GMT
Fair. Pretty sure I saw Empire at the cinema but don't think it was on release.
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Post by BeetrootBertie on May 28, 2023 21:26:31 GMT
I don't know for sure, but ET is the first I remember. I cried, and this fact still comes up in family conversation every now and again.
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Post by Deleted on May 28, 2023 22:26:12 GMT
The Neverending Story iirc. I still cry at the Artax scene.
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Post by britesparc on May 28, 2023 22:27:48 GMT
I've got two daughters and I often think their first-ever films have a weird synchronicity to them. My eldest, depending on how you want to categorise "going to the cinema", technically saw Frozen, but in a "Sing-a-long-a-Frozen" production at a theatre, with actors coming on stage at various points and the film sort of broken up and really just focusing on the songs; and then later Minions (a proper film in a proper cinema). My youngest saw Despicable Me 3, but in a "cinema" (cough, small room with a big TV and a DVD player) on a ferry; she fell asleep. But then she saw Frozen - actual Frozen - in the cinema when it was re-released with an Olaf short film attached.
So despite there being three years between them both of their "first films" were either something to do with Minions or something to do with Frozen.
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Post by geefe on May 28, 2023 22:34:58 GMT
Think that says more about the state of modern films tbh.
You look at the top 10 from early 90s compared to now and it's very different.
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Post by muddyfunster on May 29, 2023 0:00:20 GMT
Maybe the Rescuers? I definitely went before Home Alone a few times. The Rescuers Down Under was mine. |
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Post by drhcnip on May 29, 2023 1:42:54 GMT
the black hole in 1979 aged 6 - still enjoy watching it to this day
fucked off i was just too young for star wars the first time round but saw it in 1980 as well as empire
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Post by Bill in the rain on May 29, 2023 1:48:56 GMT
Homeward Bound? Loved that film! I would have said so, but that's like 10 years too late. There's another one from the 1960s, but that's before I was born. The fact things got re-releases, and seemed to get shown as warm ups before main features makes it very confusing in my memory. |
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Post by Nanocrystal on May 29, 2023 2:27:14 GMT
No idea. The earliest one I remember was The Little Mermaid. Same! |
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Post by Phattso on May 29, 2023 2:39:25 GMT
Mine was almost certainly the early 80s in a cinema near the base in Germany where my folks were stationed, aged five or six, and showing a triple bill of British Children’s Film Foundation fare. Pretty sure I saw all the Digby The Biggest Dog in the World movies that way.  The blurb for that is a little window into the times: “Digby consumes a bowl of a liquid growth formula that was developed for space travel. Soon, he becomes a sheepdog of gigantic size. Eventually, he's the size of an ocean liner and the army wants to bomb him.” Loved it. My formative cinema experiences however were the other end of that decade. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, and Keaton’s first Batman. I distinctly remember leaving the cinema (pretty sure it was Skegness on a family holiday) and immediately going back in to both. |
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Post by Bill in the rain on May 29, 2023 3:02:23 GMT
I definitely remember Batman as I think it was the first 'blockbuster' movie experience that I ever had. As in, the queue actually stretched around the block, and as such it felt like a big event.
I was in a small city in the south west, so there weren't usually enough people to make that kind of line, or we didn't usually go on opening night when I was a kid.
I remember coming out of Back to the Future 2 clearly, because I'd never experienced a movie that just ended like that before (maybe kinda how my kids just felt with Infinity War) and I knew I'd have to wait like a year to find out what happened.
I also remember getting to watch Highlander 2 as my first cinematic 15 movie, which felt like a big deal as my parents stuck to the age ratings. I was going down with a fever when I watched it and the whole thing became like a weird dark fever dream that was both awesome and disturbing.
A few months later I got to watch Terminator 2, which was actually an awesome movie, which kinda blew me away.
Bram Stoker's Dracula was the first 18 movie me and my mates snuck into. Not sure it was a great movie... but Dracula's Brides sure made an impression.
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