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Post by quadfather on May 29, 2023 14:07:56 GMT
Empire strikes back for me too. Dad took me to see it
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Post by clemfandango on May 29, 2023 14:54:44 GMT
I remember being taken to see the fox and the hound too. I’ve never watched it since….
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Post by zephro on May 29, 2023 15:25:07 GMT
I also don't understand why The Little Mermaid was so many of you guys first cinema experience. *shrug* Was just THE Disney movie when I was 4 or 5. What else are you going to take a kid that age to? |
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Post by Bill in the rain on May 29, 2023 15:28:00 GMT
The Crying Game apparently.
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Post by Bill in the rain on May 29, 2023 15:30:26 GMT
I'm now thinking that The Fox and the Hound has a good shot of being one of the first ones I saw, but I can't remember clearly enough.
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Post by barchetta on May 29, 2023 15:31:13 GMT
Bedknobs and Broomsticks, probably some Christmas re-release around 1976.
Quite the leap from that to Star Wars a bit later.
Cinema was a rare Christmas/Birthday treat back then.
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Post by Fake_Blood on May 29, 2023 15:50:57 GMT
One of the supermans in the mid 80s, the one where he rewinds time by spinning the earth in the opposite direction, which even as a kid I thought was total BS.
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Post by rawshark on May 29, 2023 16:16:59 GMT
If I’m not mistaken, The Little Mermaid marked a return to form for Disney after a few box office failures. Before then, films like The Black Cauldron and Oliver & Co. had bombed, and the Don Bluth films like An American Tail and Land Before Time had started to eat into their market share.
After TLM Disney had a decent run that lasted until titles like Treasure Planet and Brother Bear, before Home on the Range finally drove the nail into their 2D animation coffin. (Albeit briefly resurrected for the brilliant Princess and the Frog).
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Post by Zuluhero on May 29, 2023 17:01:59 GMT
One of the supermans in the mid 80s, the one where he rewinds time by spinning the earth in the opposite direction, which even as a kid I thought was total BS. It's the first one and that was 78 😅 |
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Post by Fake_Blood on May 29, 2023 17:38:13 GMT
One of the supermans in the mid 80s, the one where he rewinds time by spinning the earth in the opposite direction, which even as a kid I thought was total BS. It's the first one and that was 78 😅 Ffs, see the problem with early memories is I’m not sure if they are real of just stuff people told me and I just pieced it together afterwards. I definitely remember thinking “that’s not how time works” , but I very much wasn’t alive in 78. |
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Post by Whizzo on May 29, 2023 17:47:35 GMT
As has been mentioned already, rereleases were very common back in the seventies and eighties so something big like Superman coming back to the cinema wasn't unusual.
Possibly one of my favourites one the Star Wars trilogy in one day, the intermission between the films were probably the most profitable part of the screenings for the cinemas.
I do slightly miss not being able to buy some ice cream without leaving the screen when a film was running.
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Post by kal on May 29, 2023 17:49:48 GMT
Go to an Everyman and order ice cream on the app delivered to your seat.
/posh
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Post by barchetta on May 29, 2023 18:29:12 GMT
Back in my Art school days, Friday afternoons were our 'new release of the week' er.. study time. The Cecil/Classic in Hull was our usual.
Whatever was on, three or four of us would find ourselves in annoften empty screening - first showing of the day was often deserted. So much so that the ice-cream usher would come to our seats - that felt quite swish.
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Post by Saul1138 on May 29, 2023 18:38:18 GMT
I was at Coventry uni when the Star Wars Special Editions came out the night before, everyone was in the pub chatting about what time their screening was. They were taken aback when I said I was going to the nine fifteen showing. They knew I was obsessed with Star Wars, and assumed I was going in the evening. But I meant in the morning.
I was studying Art at the time, also.
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Post by Deleted on May 29, 2023 18:55:14 GMT
Go to an Everyman and order ice cream on the app delivered to your seat. /posh Are Everyman's any good? Just had one open up locally. Has to be better than the terrible Odeon, with screens not much bigger than my home TV. |
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Post by technoish on May 29, 2023 19:12:07 GMT
I remember rescuers down under and Little Mermaid. I also remember Jurassic Park but that must have been later.
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Post by technoish on May 29, 2023 19:15:38 GMT
If I’m not mistaken, The Little Mermaid marked a return to form for Disney after a few box office failures. Before then, films like The Black Cauldron and Oliver & Co. had bombed, and the Don Bluth films like An American Tail and Land Before Time had started to eat into their market share. After TLM Disney had a decent run that lasted until titles like Treasure Planet and Brother Bear, before Home on the Range finally drove the nail into their 2D animation coffin. (Albeit briefly resurrected for the brilliant Princess and the Frog). Ooh I definitely saw Oliver and Co in cinema, luvved the music for that (I had the cassette tape). So that must have been my first then. My kids like Oliver also. We watched it with room service at a hotel and it was a really special moment. Haven't shown them Little Mermaid thought the witch might be too scary. |
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Post by kal on May 29, 2023 19:27:48 GMT
Go to an Everyman and order ice cream on the app delivered to your seat. /posh Are Everyman's any good? Just had one open up locally. Has to be better than the terrible Odeon, with screens not much bigger than my home TV. If you’re unashamedly middle class like me it’s glorious. Sofas, cocktails, amazing sound system, no kids and no plebs. It’s expensive though. |
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Post by rawshark on May 29, 2023 20:35:36 GMT
Yeah I enjoyed Oliver & Co at the time too. It’s quite unique for a Disney film in that it’s very, very 1980s. Very few feature animations date themselves like that.
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Post by skalpadda on May 29, 2023 21:34:21 GMT
I think it was Mio min Mio (Mio in the Land Faraway), a Soviet/Swedish/Norwegian/British co-production based on a book by Astrid Lindgren. It's a complete mess with a legendarily bad Swedish dub. Even as a 6-year old I could tell that it wasn't very good. It does feature a 13-year old Christian Bale though, Christopher Lee as the bad guy, and a song written by Björn & Benny from ABBA. |
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Post by elstoof on May 29, 2023 21:58:18 GMT
God knows. Roger Rabbit maybe, Honey I Shrunk the Kids. Something like that most likely. Home Alone perhaps. First film I specifically remember is Nightmare Before Christmas as a birthday treat with my best friend in primary school
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Post by Bill in the rain on May 30, 2023 1:03:06 GMT
I wish they'd do more re-releases these days. Though we do seem to be getting a lot of 4k rd-releases which is nice.
Then again maybe I'm weird as the last two films I saw at the cinema were Top Gun and The Dark Crystal.
There were a bunch of classic films re-released during Covid, like Empire Strikes Back, but I didn't go and watch them because... Covid.
I'd love for them to re-show more recent stuff like Infinity War / Endgame or Rogue One, or Mission Impossible 1 etc..
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Post by kingbambino on May 30, 2023 6:18:26 GMT
Willow with my dad when I was 6 in 1988. Strangely the next time my dad went to the cinema was in 2018 with my son when he was 6 to see The Grinch.
Other early ones I remember were roger rabbit, honey I shrunk the kids , little mermaid and moonwalker
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Post by Vandelay on May 30, 2023 7:10:06 GMT
I wish they'd do more re-releases these days. Though we do seem to be getting a lot of 4k rd-releases which is nice. Then again maybe I'm weird as the last two films I saw at the cinema were Top Gun and The Dark Crystal. There were a bunch of classic films re-released during Covid, like Empire Strikes Back, but I didn't go and watch them because... Covid. I'd love for them to re-show more recent stuff like Infinity War / Endgame or Rogue One, or Mission Impossible 1 etc.. Some of my favourite cinema experiences have been seeing old films. 2001, The Shining, The Exorcist, Jaws, Alien, Lord of The Rings trilogy. Great on the small screen, but transformative when watched in the cinema. Judging by the audience sizes I saw them with though, I don't think many share those feelings (Return of the King I was actually the only one in the screening). |
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Post by geefe on May 30, 2023 7:21:45 GMT
I saw a 40th anniversary of Jaws and it was...not a packed house. I would say there is no desire for it at all, really.
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Post by Bill in the rain on May 30, 2023 7:37:27 GMT
Two Towers and Return of the King weren't packed, but Top Gun was.
Different cinemas and days though, so a bit hard to compare.
They had a lot less showings than a new release would have though.
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Post by gamingdave on May 30, 2023 9:45:29 GMT
First trip was to the local cinema to see For Your Eyes Only, with my Gran who bought me a box of Fruit Gums. They were a lot harder and gooier back than (Fruit Gums, not grannies), and it was also the day I lost my first tooth.
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Post by Saul1138 on May 30, 2023 9:54:42 GMT
I think my early trips to the cinema introduced me to mint Munchies. They are still something I try to hunt down, though they’ve been rebranded as After Eights.
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Post by kal on May 30, 2023 10:04:08 GMT
First trip was to the local cinema to see For Your Eyes Only, with my Gran who bought me a box of Fruit Gums. They were a lot harder and gooier back than (Fruit Gums, not grannies), and it was also the day I lost my first tooth. My grandpa used to take me to the cinema and always insisted on me getting a box of Fruit Gums instead of my preferred Pastillls, because they last longer (mostly because they’re nowhere near as nice). Those cinema boxes were special though. I loved how the gums/pastilles themselves were fruit shaped in the boxes as opposed to the lozenges you got in the tube. Totally unnecessary but I appreciated the attention to detail. |
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2023 10:06:42 GMT
I nearly died eating a fruit gum once. Got tired of chewing it so decided to swallow it, got lodged in my throat and took me a while to choke it up.
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