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General => Movies and TV => Topic started by: King Postwhore on February 03, 2022, 09:56:03 AM
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I saw Hef and Dream team talking about seeing War Games in the theaters back in the day and I made me think, what was the oldest movie, at the time you can recall your parents taking you too.
Oddly enough, my dad took me to see Tora, Tora, Tora as a 7 year old. I just remember him loving war movies and this is the oldest movie I can recall going to. What's your recollection of the oldest film you saw in the movies. By old, I mean in the around the time it was released, not a movie from the 40's replaying in the theaters.
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I'm told that my first movie in the theaters was Benji (1974), but I was only 2 and have no memory of it.
The oldest one I remember was Star Wars (1977).
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I'm told that my first movie in the theaters was Benji (1974), but I was only 2 and have no memory of it.
The oldest one I remember was Star Wars (1977).
I saw Star Wars 7 times in the theater. Remember those days Hef? Now a movie comes out on Blu Ray months after the release.
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First movie I ever saw in theater was with my mom. She took me to see Beauty and the Beast.
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I was born in late 1987 and the oldest movie I remember seeing in the theater was
Richie Rich (1994)
followed shortly after by Batman Forever (1995)
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First movie I ever saw in theater was with my mom. She took me to see Beauty and the Beast.
Wife and I went to see it. We're still kids at heart.
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1993 I guess? My family were not movie theater goers, but that is the one and only time I remember being in a theater with my family (I was 4).
We did see a lot of old movies on TV though.
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My father died when I was 7, and I have no recollection of him (or both my parents) ever taking me to a movie (I only have about a half dozen memories of him, and they all relate in some way to baseball). After he died, my mother rarely (if ever) went out for entertainment. Any time I would talk about seeing a movie, the response I would get was that it was a waste of money and that I should "wait until it comes on TV." The first movie I know for sure that I saw in a theater was Star Wars when I was 9. My sister (who was 11 years older than me) and her husband took me to see it at a drive-in. Unfortunately, their daughter, who was about 6-9 months old at the time, cried a lot. Most of my movie going experiences as a kid were courtesy of my best friend's older brother. I often spent Friday nights at his house because that was fast-food night for them, and we'd sometimes go to movies. Once we started getting our driver's licenses, we'd go to drive-ins a lot.
The ONLY movie I for sure remember seeing with my mother in a theater was Back to the Future. I was just shy of my 18th birthday, and my mother was 61. The same sister mentioned above took us. I have no recollection of whether my mother enjoyed it.
I'm told that my first movie in the theaters was Benji (1974), but I was only 2 and have no memory of it.
I'm pretty sure I saw Benji at some point, but I don't recall if it was in a theater or who took me.
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The only movie I have a memory of going to see specifically with my mom or dad was seeing 'Aliens' in the theater with my dad. That was released in 1986 so I'd have been 10.....but I know from being told that we did go see the SW movies but I would have been pretty young then.
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1993 I guess? My family were not movie theater goers, but that is the one and only time I remember being in a theater with my family (I was 4).
We did see a lot of old movies on TV though.
It was around, then, yeah. I think the Mighty Ducks was my second movie and that was in 1994. So that sounds about right.
My family wasn't a movie-going family either. My mom took my sister and I to a few when we were kids. There was a tiny cinema in town that'd get movies in usually just as they were coming out or just came out on VHS. I can't remember ever being in a theater with my mom and dad at the same time. He wasn't a cinema guy at all. He probably hasn't been in 20+ years.
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The only movie I have a memory of going to see specifically with my mom or dad was seeing 'Aliens' in the theater with my dad. That was released in 1986 so I'd have been 10.....but I know from being told that we did go see the SW movies but I would have been pretty young then.
I saw the 1st Alien movie with my dad and watched it through my fingers the whole movie. LOL
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The only movie I have a memory of going to see specifically with my mom or dad was seeing 'Aliens' in the theater with my dad. That was released in 1986 so I'd have been 10.....but I know from being told that we did go see the SW movies but I would have been pretty young then.
I saw the 1st Alien movie with my dad and watched it through my fingers the whole movie. LOL
I remember seeing Independence Day in theaters and nearly shitting my pants in terror when the alien's exosuit ripped open during surgery.
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Not in the theater, but the first time I saw Jaws was on TV while at the beach with my family.
Ruined THAT vacation.
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The only movie I have a memory of going to see specifically with my mom or dad was seeing 'Aliens' in the theater with my dad. That was released in 1986 so I'd have been 10.....but I know from being told that we did go see the SW movies but I would have been pretty young then.
I saw the 1st Alien movie with my dad and watched it through my fingers the whole movie. LOL
I remember seeing Independence Day in theaters and nearly shitting my pants in terror when the alien's exosuit ripped open during surgery.
Those scene stick with you. Salem's Lot on TV scared the living crap out of me. I still to this day sleep with blankets wrapped around my neck. Thanks to my dad blowing on my neck pretending to be a vampire in my youth. He scared me. :lol
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The oldest one I remember was Star Wars (1977).
That's the first I can remember, as well, although I know I saw it in theaters again on a later re-release, so not sure how much I actually remember of seeing it the first time.
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1993 I guess? My family were not movie theater goers, but that is the one and only time I remember being in a theater with my family (I was 4).
We did see a lot of old movies on TV though.
It was around, then, yeah. I think the Mighty Ducks was my second movie and that was in 1994. So that sounds about right.
I remember when we found out Anaheim was getting a team, and people were making jokes about calling it the Mighty Ducks. They did a poll in the local paper, and Dukes was the most popular choice (because of John Wayne and his connection to Orange County). When they announced it would actually be Mighty Ducks, we thought it was an elaborate prank.
The only movie I have a memory of going to see specifically with my mom or dad was seeing 'Aliens' in the theater with my dad. That was released in 1986 so I'd have been 10.....but I know from being told that we did go see the SW movies but I would have been pretty young then.
I saw the 1st Alien movie with my dad and watched it through my fingers the whole movie. LOL
I remember seeing Independence Day in theaters and nearly shitting my pants in terror when the alien's exosuit ripped open during surgery.
Those scene stick with you. Salem's Lot on TV scared the living crap out of me. I still to this day sleep with blankets wrapped around my neck. Thanks to my dad blowing on my neck pretending to be a vampire in my youth. He scared me. :lol
The one that freaked me out the most was the ball from Phantasm. I watched that scene about 5 years ago and couldn't believe how unbelievably cheesy it was.
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Ok storytime... It's my 7th birthday back in '76,and my parents were taking me and a couple of my brothers to Marriott Great America (now a six flags I think). We arrive, iys a weekday in early fall mind you, and it was fucking closed for the first week of fall weekend only hours. Yes, just like vacation, wally world was fucking closed. So to save me from a complete fucking meltdown, my parents rush us over to a local theater to see this hip new movie sweeping the nation.. Star Wars... By the end I had forgotten all about wally world.... My mind was completely blown away.
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My first movie at the cinema was Wayne's World 1 or 2. It probably was WW 2 though since I remember seeing Mrs Doubtfire with my class that same year.
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I'm sure it would've been Star Wars, but I don't remember that one. I *do* remember Empire Strikes Back. I also remember Close Encounters of the Third Kind at the driv-in. I did *not* get that movie. :lol
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Mom took me to see The Jungle Book when it came out. I begged her to take me again that same week. I remember singing Bear Necessities in the car on the way home.
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at the driv-in.
The VERY first movie I ever went to was at the drive in. I went there with my dad and came home with my mom. :zydar: Thank goodness it was raining out and a couple teenagers got bored.....
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I'm told that my first movie in the theaters was Benji (1974), but I was only 2 and have no memory of it.
The oldest one I remember was Star Wars (1977).
I saw Star Wars 7 times in the theater. Remember those days Hef? Now a movie comes out on Blu Ray months after the release.
Star Wars. Also the first movie I saw more than once in the theater. I had seen certain things in the theater before - mostly Herbie The Love Bug and things like Davy Crockett.
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I have a strong memory of the King Kong movie in the 70's as well with the old man.
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True Grit. 1969.
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True Grit. 1969.
Excellent movie. Dad and I watched that many times on TV.
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I’m pretty sure nearly everything I saw in the theater before Star Wars was not a new film.
Back in the days before home video, movies would commonly get rereleased to theaters once every few years. I remember my father taking me to see Fantasia as a child (although we left the theater for Night on Bald Mountain which he was worried would give me horrible nightmares…and at the age I was, he was probably right). Most Disney films would take a rotation of being re-released every 6-7 years or so, and I vaguely remember seeing several of those.
But the first NEW film? Ya…probably Star Wars.
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Born in 1976. I have the vaguest of memories of Empire Strikes Back coming out. I had a clipping from a newspaper in a scrapbook, and think we saw it at the drive-in.
For an amusing story, one time our family went to the theater, my parents watched Bull Durham and my sister and I saw something else. Our movie ended first, so somehow our mom brought us in to Bull Durham since it wasn't over yet. They didn't realize toward the end there was some hanky-panky, so quickly had to reassess their plan.
The VERY first movie I ever went to was at the drive in. I went there with my dad and came home with my mom. :zydar: Thank goodness it was raining out and a couple teenagers got bored.....
Had to read this twice to get it.
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(https://i.imgur.com/HrM43Ae.png)
"A regular guy from America becomes king of England after a royal wipe-out puts him next in line."
Not exactly a classic :lol But it's the earliest one I remember for some reason. It came out in February 1991, when I was 5.
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I just checked a couple of dates and it seems that the very first new movie that my parents may have taken me to was actually Disney’s The Rescuers.
Star Wars was released right about the same time, but my parents had never taken me to a PG movie before and I think they waited quite some time to get some feedback from other parents before making the trip to downtown Seattle to see it with me. So I don’t think I actually saw that movie until 1978.
I’m not sure how many people know this, but when Star Wars was released, it was an “exclusive engagement”. There was only one theater in downtown Seattle and I’m pretty sure that was the only one in all of Western Washington that was showing it. My dad needed a pretty good excuse to make a trip from the suburbs to go to downtown Seattle just to see a movie (much less stand in a really long line for one). Empire was the same way. In fact I remember being particularly excited for Return of the Jedi because it was the very first of the films to actually be generally released to all the multiplexes.
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Best guess...............E.T.
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I vaguely recall seeing The Land Before Time when it came out. That's the earliest one I remember.
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I don't remember. Could've been Dumbo or something like that but it also could've been Escape From Witch Mountain.
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The One-Armed Swordsman starring Jimmy Wang Yu. This was in the mid to late 60s, just prior to the big kung fu movie craze of the 70s. I remember ducking my head and averting my eyes during some of the bloodier scenes of violence.
I also remember my parents taking us kids to see Enter The Dragon at a drive-in movie theater.
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Oldest movie memory I have is going to see What's Up Doc (1972) with my folks at the drive in. Went in an Opel station wagon (https://topclassiccarsforsale.com/uploads/photoalbum/1971-opel-kadett-b-caravan-mini-wagon-rare-vintage-classic-car-19-liter-engine-2.jpg) (my old man had a GT (https://silodrome.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Opel-GT-1600x1265.jpg)). Texas Stadium used to have three screens set up in the parking lot for the 358 days a year the Cowboys weren't playing. Pretty clever, actually. I remember being pissed off that Bugs Bunny wasn't in it and falling asleep pretty damned quickly. My best guess would be 73 or 74.
After that I remember going to see Close Encounters (1977) with my mom. There were plenty of other movies around that time, but since the subject mentions the rents, that's as far back as I can recall.
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I rember seeing a few Tarzan movies with Johnny Weizmuller in the theater when I was a kid.
Born in 1968 so those movies were old then as well.
They were made from 1932 to 1948.
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Superman - 1978
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I just checked a couple of dates and it seems that the very first new movie that my parents may have taken me to was actually Disney’s The Rescuers.
Star Wars was released right about the same time, but my parents had never taken me to a PG movie before and I think they waited quite some time to get some feedback from other parents before making the trip to downtown Seattle to see it with me. So I don’t think I actually saw that movie until 1978.
I’m not sure how many people know this, but when Star Wars was released, it was an “exclusive engagement”. There was only one theater in downtown Seattle and I’m pretty sure that was the only one in all of Western Washington that was showing it. My dad needed a pretty good excuse to make a trip from the suburbs to go to downtown Seattle just to see a movie (much less stand in a really long line for one). Empire was the same way. In fact I remember being particularly excited for Return of the Jedi because it was the very first of the films to actually be generally released to all the multiplexes.
Do you remember how it was seeing SW, I seem to think that it wasn't a insta hit and some thought it was ridicoulus, I could be wrong.
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I always thought it was Ghostbusters. My parents took me and a group of friends (aged 8'ish) - I we were sitting at the front of the cinema and at the start of the film you have the the Ghost in the Library scene 'Shhhhhhhhhhhh, Shhhhhhhhhhhhhh, RAAAAAAAAAAR!' we all screamed! I genuinely remember feeling very scared from that point onwards as to what else was to come.
......But it turns out Superman 3 was the first movie I saw in the cinema, as that came out a year before Ghostbuster (which surprised me).
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I just checked a couple of dates and it seems that the very first new movie that my parents may have taken me to was actually Disney’s The Rescuers.
Star Wars was released right about the same time, but my parents had never taken me to a PG movie before and I think they waited quite some time to get some feedback from other parents before making the trip to downtown Seattle to see it with me. So I don’t think I actually saw that movie until 1978.
I’m not sure how many people know this, but when Star Wars was released, it was an “exclusive engagement”. There was only one theater in downtown Seattle and I’m pretty sure that was the only one in all of Western Washington that was showing it. My dad needed a pretty good excuse to make a trip from the suburbs to go to downtown Seattle just to see a movie (much less stand in a really long line for one). Empire was the same way. In fact I remember being particularly excited for Return of the Jedi because it was the very first of the films to actually be generally released to all the multiplexes.
Do you remember how it was seeing SW, I seem to think that it wasn't a insta hit and some thought it was ridicoulus, I could be wrong.
It's literally impossible to describe how big this was when it came out. It was at that time the biggest movie of all time, and it just STAYED huge for MONTHS.
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I think the very first movie I saw in theaters was Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3. Next oldest was Spawn and The Lost World with my grandpa. We didn't go to the movies very often in the 90s.
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I just checked a couple of dates and it seems that the very first new movie that my parents may have taken me to was actually Disney’s The Rescuers.
Star Wars was released right about the same time, but my parents had never taken me to a PG movie before and I think they waited quite some time to get some feedback from other parents before making the trip to downtown Seattle to see it with me. So I don’t think I actually saw that movie until 1978.
I’m not sure how many people know this, but when Star Wars was released, it was an “exclusive engagement”. There was only one theater in downtown Seattle and I’m pretty sure that was the only one in all of Western Washington that was showing it. My dad needed a pretty good excuse to make a trip from the suburbs to go to downtown Seattle just to see a movie (much less stand in a really long line for one). Empire was the same way. In fact I remember being particularly excited for Return of the Jedi because it was the very first of the films to actually be generally released to all the multiplexes.
Do you remember how it was seeing SW, I seem to think that it wasn't a insta hit and some thought it was ridicoulus, I could be wrong.
It's literally impossible to describe how big this was when it came out. It was at that time the biggest movie of all time, and it just STAYED huge for MONTHS.
The truth is right between these two. I mean, ya it was definitely a big hit when it came out, but it took awhile before people started noticing that this was a lot bigger than the blockbusters that came before it. And I’m sure the exclusive engagement that kept it on a minimal amount of screens (thus, keeping the lines long, thus raising the “event” of it all) didn’t hurt its cultural impact.
It took about a year before people started to realize that this was a permanent game changer in the movie biz.
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First movie I ever saw in theater was with my mom. She took me to see Beauty and the Beast.
This could very well apply to me as well (although I went with a friend). I don't know if Beauty and the Beast was THE first movie, but definitely one of the first. I would have been around 10 at the time it came out.
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It took about a year before people started to realize that this was a permanent game changer in the movie biz.
It didn't take a year.
It initially opened May 25, 1977 in only 40 theaters (which may be the limited engagement you're talking about) and immediately started breaking records. It opened on a Wednesday, and people were lined up for blocks. Walter Cronkite did a story on it that weekend. Within 3 weeks of release, 20th Century Fox's stock price doubled.
It was in more than 1,000 theaters nationwide by August.
Apparently, around 60 theaters nationwide showed it for over a year straight, and they received special birthday cake posters from Lucasfilm.
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I just checked a couple of dates and it seems that the very first new movie that my parents may have taken me to was actually Disney’s The Rescuers.
Star Wars was released right about the same time, but my parents had never taken me to a PG movie before and I think they waited quite some time to get some feedback from other parents before making the trip to downtown Seattle to see it with me. So I don’t think I actually saw that movie until 1978.
I’m not sure how many people know this, but when Star Wars was released, it was an “exclusive engagement”. There was only one theater in downtown Seattle and I’m pretty sure that was the only one in all of Western Washington that was showing it. My dad needed a pretty good excuse to make a trip from the suburbs to go to downtown Seattle just to see a movie (much less stand in a really long line for one). Empire was the same way. In fact I remember being particularly excited for Return of the Jedi because it was the very first of the films to actually be generally released to all the multiplexes.
Do you remember how it was seeing SW, I seem to think that it wasn't a insta hit and some thought it was ridicoulus, I could be wrong.
It's literally impossible to describe how big this was when it came out. It was at that time the biggest movie of all time, and it just STAYED huge for MONTHS.
Yeah, this. I mean, for my dad and for me (and my brother) to even know about this movie meant it was huge. And to see it twice in the theater, and to see people dressed up in character... all firsts for me. This was a massive event for the time (I was 10, by the way).
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I just checked a couple of dates and it seems that the very first new movie that my parents may have taken me to was actually Disney’s The Rescuers.
Star Wars was released right about the same time, but my parents had never taken me to a PG movie before and I think they waited quite some time to get some feedback from other parents before making the trip to downtown Seattle to see it with me. So I don’t think I actually saw that movie until 1978.
I’m not sure how many people know this, but when Star Wars was released, it was an “exclusive engagement”. There was only one theater in downtown Seattle and I’m pretty sure that was the only one in all of Western Washington that was showing it. My dad needed a pretty good excuse to make a trip from the suburbs to go to downtown Seattle just to see a movie (much less stand in a really long line for one). Empire was the same way. In fact I remember being particularly excited for Return of the Jedi because it was the very first of the films to actually be generally released to all the multiplexes.
Do you remember how it was seeing SW, I seem to think that it wasn't a insta hit and some thought it was ridicoulus, I could be wrong.
It's literally impossible to describe how big this was when it came out. It was at that time the biggest movie of all time, and it just STAYED huge for MONTHS.
Yeah, this. I mean, for my dad and for me (and my brother) to even know about this movie meant it was huge. And to see it twice in the theater.. and to see people dressed up in character... all firsts for me. This was a massive event for the time (I was 10, by the way).
Same. My best friend and I rode our bikes to school, and at the entrance to the tract where we lived was a gas station that had a convenience store. We would stop and by packs of the trading cards. It was huger than huge.
Also, regarding the part I bolded, I do NOT miss that at all. Reserved seating is the best thing to happen to movies in my lifetime.
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I believe the first movie I saw in a theatre was Bambi, with my dad and sister.
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Pretty sure it was Star Wars.
I also remember seeing Star Trek: The Motion Picture, which I had zero idea of what was going on, and Superman, during which, the scene where the school bus teeters on the bridge, one of my brothers shouted out, “oh no,” and the whole theater gave a chuckle.
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Well the facts don’t lie. I was only 8 or 9 at the time.
But I do remember that the exclusive engagement thing was a pain in the butt. I only saw Star Wars and Empire once in the theater for the sole reason that 1 theater in downtown Seattle was the only place you could see it. The UA 150! There *might* have been one other theater somewhere on the north end? But it’s been too long. I do know that Lucas had certain quality standards that apparently excluded any multiplex theater anywhere near me…but that changed with ROTJ. I remember breathing a sigh of relief that I could finally see it at the theater 10 minutes from my house instead of the 30-45 minute trip downtown (where my family generally didn’t want me venturing alone anyway)
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......But it turns out Superman 3 was the first movie I saw in the cinema, as that came out a year before Ghostbuster (which surprised me).
And for the remainder of his life soupytwist was turned off to Super Hero films...
Superman - 1978
Now that would have been a hell of an introduction to films for a kid. I remember watching when when I was young and I bet it was the first time I saw someone in a film die (not counting everyone on Krypton, I mean someone just falling over and dying of natural causes). That really hit me hard when Mr. Kent died.
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I love talking to my dad about old movies we saw together . It is a connection we both love reminiscing to.
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Drive-ins were pretty popular when I was a kid, in fact I’m pretty sure we never went to an indoor theater all together that I can remember. I recall The Apple Dumpling Gang at a drive-in, that’s the earliest I can remember. Mid seventies I assume.
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Drive-ins were pretty popular when I was a kid, in fact I’m pretty sure we never went to an indoor theater all together that I can remember. I recall The Apple Dumpling Gang at a drive-in, that’s the earliest I can remember. Mid seventies I assume.
Last one I can remember with my parents at the drive-in was Tron & Cannonball Run. What an odd pairing to play together.
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Drive-ins were pretty popular when I was a kid, in fact I’m pretty sure we never went to an indoor theater all together that I can remember. I recall The Apple Dumpling Gang at a drive-in, that’s the earliest I can remember. Mid seventies I assume.
Last one I can remember with my parents at the drive-in was Tron & Cannonball Run. What an odd pairing to play together.
Indeed. Also odd because they were released 13 months apart, but I remember it being fairly common back then to have a new movie paired with one that was several months old.
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In theaters, I remember (not premieres)
- Fantasia (1940)
- The great dictator (1940)
- Lady and the tramp (1955)
- One hundred and one dalmatians (1961)
- The AristoCats (1970)
On TV we watched a myriad of old movies from silent era to golden age of pirate movies and westerns, classic horror, sci fi, B movies... We LOVE films. Of all kind.
Except musicals. We hate those ones.
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Without checking the release dates, I also have recollection of seeing The Rescuers, and Superman. Don't know if it would've been in an "indoor theater" (remember, that's how they were referred to?) or the Drive-In.
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Star Wars for me too, my dad took me to see it at a drive-in.
This was 1978, the film took so long to make it to german theaters, and I was 8 years old. Blew me away back then.
My dad wasn't big on going to the cinema, but he took me to see the next two Star Wars movies too when they were released in Germany.
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likely 1 of following:
Star Wars (1977)
Superman 2 (1981)
The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Return of the Jedi (1983)
I'm certain I saw Jedi in the theater..Empire likely although I think both Star Wars and Empire stayed in theaters for quite awhile..like a couple of years perhaps, so i may have seen both after their initial box-office run per I was born in '76, and was too young to remember if/when i did go.
I do know I did see them all with my parents per my folks gave my brother and I Star Wars action figures and toys for Channukah at least 2 different years, per we had seen the movies.
I also remember seeing Superman 2 in the theater per my brother cried in the theater when Superman loses his powers.
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I also remember seeing Superman 2 in the theater per my brother cried in the theater when Superman loses his powers.
I didn't cry but that did totally creep me out. I loved that movie but would always shield my eyes at that part.
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If we're talking in the theater I have vague memories of being taken to see Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001). The movie has a decent cult following so I've been meaning to re-visit it sometime.
Now if we're talking in general one of my earliest movie watching experiences was my Mom popping in the VHS of Frankenstein (1931)
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The Land Before Time
We had to leave the theater because Sharptooth scared me.
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The first one I remember (the name at least...) was "The Love Bug" 1968
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I just checked a couple of dates and it seems that the very first new movie that my parents may have taken me to was actually Disney’s The Rescuers.
Star Wars was released right about the same time, but my parents had never taken me to a PG movie before and I think they waited quite some time to get some feedback from other parents before making the trip to downtown Seattle to see it with me. So I don’t think I actually saw that movie until 1978.
I’m not sure how many people know this, but when Star Wars was released, it was an “exclusive engagement”. There was only one theater in downtown Seattle and I’m pretty sure that was the only one in all of Western Washington that was showing it. My dad needed a pretty good excuse to make a trip from the suburbs to go to downtown Seattle just to see a movie (much less stand in a really long line for one). Empire was the same way. In fact I remember being particularly excited for Return of the Jedi because it was the very first of the films to actually be generally released to all the multiplexes.
Do you remember how it was seeing SW, I seem to think that it wasn't a insta hit and some thought it was ridicoulus, I could be wrong.
It's literally impossible to describe how big this was when it came out. It was at that time the biggest movie of all time, and it just STAYED huge for MONTHS.
If I remember right (been awhile since I heard the story) my mom's youngest sister went to see it like 27 times or something :o.
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I just checked a couple of dates and it seems that the very first new movie that my parents may have taken me to was actually Disney’s The Rescuers.
Star Wars was released right about the same time, but my parents had never taken me to a PG movie before and I think they waited quite some time to get some feedback from other parents before making the trip to downtown Seattle to see it with me. So I don’t think I actually saw that movie until 1978.
I’m not sure how many people know this, but when Star Wars was released, it was an “exclusive engagement”. There was only one theater in downtown Seattle and I’m pretty sure that was the only one in all of Western Washington that was showing it. My dad needed a pretty good excuse to make a trip from the suburbs to go to downtown Seattle just to see a movie (much less stand in a really long line for one). Empire was the same way. In fact I remember being particularly excited for Return of the Jedi because it was the very first of the films to actually be generally released to all the multiplexes.
Do you remember how it was seeing SW, I seem to think that it wasn't a insta hit and some thought it was ridicoulus, I could be wrong.
It's literally impossible to describe how big this was when it came out. It was at that time the biggest movie of all time, and it just STAYED huge for MONTHS.
If I remember right (been awhile since I heard the story) my mom's youngest sister went to see it like 27 times or something :o.
Yeah, lots of similar stories with a lot of people.