What is the oldest movie you saw with your parents?

[King Postwhore]

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.

[hefdaddy42]

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).

[King Postwhore]

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. 

[Chino]

First movie I ever saw in theater was with my mom. She took me to see Beauty and the Beast.

[Phoenix87x]

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)

[King Postwhore]

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.

[Lonk]

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.

[pg1067]

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.

[gmillerdrake]

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.

[Chino]

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.

[King Postwhore]

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

[Chino]

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.

[hefdaddy42]

Not in the theater, but the first time I saw Jaws was on TV while at the beach with my family.

Ruined THAT vacation.

[King Postwhore]

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. 

[ZirconBlue]

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. 

[pg1067]

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. 

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.

[lonestar]

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.

[MrBoom_shack-a-lack]

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.

[jingle.boy]

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.   

[Podaar]

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.

[gmillerdrake]

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.     Thank goodness it was raining out and a couple teenagers got bored.....

[Stadler]

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. 

[King Postwhore]

I have a strong memory of the King Kong movie in the 70's as well with the old man.

[crazy climber dude]

True Grit. 1969.

[King Postwhore]

True Grit. 1969.

Excellent movie. Dad and I watched that many times on TV.

[jammindude]

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.

[Cool Chris]

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.     Thank goodness it was raining out and a couple teenagers got bored.....

Had to read this twice to get it.

[krands85]

"A regular guy from America becomes king of England after a royal wipe-out puts him next in line."

Not exactly a classic  But it's the earliest one I remember for some reason. It came out in February 1991, when I was 5.

[jammindude]

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.

[bl5150]

Best guess...............E.T.

[Bolsters]

I vaguely recall seeing The Land Before Time when it came out. That's the earliest one I remember.

[TAC]

I don't remember. Could've been Dumbo or something like that but it also could've been Escape From Witch Mountain.

[LudwigVan]

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.

[El Barto]

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 (my old man had a GT). 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.

[SwedishGoose]

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.