laughing lioness Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 The Aristocats or Bedknobs and Broomsticks. My Gram (just celebrated her 95th!) took my sisters and I to every.single.Disney movie that ever came out. I still remember sitting in the theater and the scene from the Aristocats with the crazy flashing psychodelic colors. When I was in high school and college I'd go visit her in Chi-town and we'd go to movies all week-end long. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swellmomma Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 The first time my folks ever took me to the theatre it was to see the Fox & the Hound. I remember eating red licorice for the first time that night too. They left my sister and brother with a sitter. I remember it so much BECAUSE they left the others with a sitter and made it about ME. Something that very very rarely happened growing up. We went to the drive in lots as a family when I was a kid but that first time sticks out so much. You know I really wish they still had drive ins. I would take the kids all the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeacefulChaos Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 The first movie I saw in the theater... Beethoven's 2nd. I think... I was like 10 or so, I'm guessing. My grandparents weren't big on the movie theaters when I was young :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slartibartfast Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 It was a Benji movie. I am told I ran amok Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JennyD Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 Breaking Away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myfunnybunch Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 Bambi! The only other movies we saw before I was a teen were Where the Red Fern Grows (walked out of the theater, then started *bawling* when we got to the car) and Star Wars, the very first one. Cat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julie Smith Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 The first time my folks ever took me to the theatre it was to see the Fox & the Hound. I remember eating red licorice for the first time that night too. They left my sister and brother with a sitter. I remember it so much BECAUSE they left the others with a sitter and made it about ME. Something that very very rarely happened growing up. We went to the drive in lots as a family when I was a kid but that first time sticks out so much. You know I really wish they still had drive ins. I would take the kids all the time. Three times a year are local park has a movie night at the park. The movie is played on a giant inflatable screen. We missed the first one, but yesterday my kids say, "Gnomeo and Juliet". Next movie playing is, "Rio". The price of admission is a donation to the food bank. The movies are put on by the local movie theater and various other local businesses that set up vendors. We did take the kids to see a movie at a real theater. But I think when they are grown they will remember these ones more fondly. Loading up the wagon with chairs. My boys pulling and pushing the wagon all the way to the park. The walk home late at night with flash lights. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady Florida. Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 The Sound of Music is the first one I remember, though I can't say it's the first one I went to. I would have been around 9 or 10 then. We used to go to the drive-in often with cousins, but I can't remember a single movie I saw there as a kid. I think it was more exciting to be out late, and having fun in the car in our pajamas. I do remember us getting fussed at for playing with the speaker that used to hang on the window. And getting junk food at the concession stand. But the movies? No idea. :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnthemLights Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 China Cry (1990) I was 15. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AuntieM Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 Well, not counting things like Bedknobs & Broomsticks, I'm also in the Jaws club. You've never seen popcorn fly so high. When, under the deserted fishing boat, where there's a hole.... you know the scene... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reign Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 Care bears but I feel asleep. I remember my first drive in better it was honey I shrunk the kids and turner and hooch. I feel asleep for the last show too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mama2cntrykids Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 ET. My grandpa took me to see it when I was 4 (?). I remember being really happy about it:001_smile:. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FaithManor Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 Dh says, "The Dove". I've never heard of this movie. Now, I know that I was taken to the movies several times and so I should be able to remember some Disney movie from the early 70's, but for whatever reason the first one I really remember is Star Wars. Sad, sad, sad...I was born in 1968, I KNOOOOOOOOOOOOW that my parents took me to Disney movies I just can.not.remember.them. Faith Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RahRah Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 That I remember - Star Wars! I'm sure we went to movies before that, but I guess they weren't memorable? But maybe we didn't go to movies? I dunno - we did go to a LOT of Broadway shows and things at the garden, Radio City, etc. when I was kid - tons love live shows and theater - I remember those and was much younger than when I saw Star Wars, so maybe it was my first movie? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jenL Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 My first theater movie was Disney's Sleeping Beauty. I think I was 5 or 6? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elise1mds Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 Ah. That would be Oliver & Company when it first came out in the '80s. My mother has no memory of this despite the fact that my sister and I talked her into buying the soundtrack on cassette and sang all the songs constantly for about two years. The second movie I ever saw in the theater? The Matrix. Sad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jujsky Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 The first one I remember seeing was ET. My mom and aunt took me in the theater, and then my aunt & uncle took my cousin and me to the drive-in to see a double-feature of ET and The Dark Crystal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maus Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 Winnie-the-Pooh and the Blustery Day. I remember being very concerned about Owl losing his house. My parents said it took days to convince me that he would move in with Pooh until he could rebuild and it would all be all right in the end. The next one I remember was Sleeping Beauty. I was about four and my older cousins took me without my parents. Maleficent was a recurring figure in my nightmares clear up til high school. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stripe Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 A Care Bears movie. I also have a vivid memory of watching Sophie's Choice at a young age. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forget-Me-Not Posted August 5, 2011 Author Share Posted August 5, 2011 You know I really wish they still had drive ins. I would take the kids all the time. :iagree: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amydavis Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 I remember seeing Disney's "The Rescuers" with my parents at the drive-in with my parents. That would have been '77, which would have made me 7. I'm sure I saw something before that...but that seems to be the earliest memory. And I do remember that it was very scary to me (the whole kidnapped thing). I did see "Star Wars", also '77, but according to Wiki, Rescuers came out a few months sooner. I'm gonna be racking my brain, trying to remember something prior to '77! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akmommy Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 (edited) The first move I remember seeing in a theatre was a double feature: Firefox and Superman. They showed Firefox first and it was "boring" adult male movie. I fell asleep during it and slept through most of Superman. I remember being very upset about that. 1978 Edited August 5, 2011 by akmommy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murphy101 Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 First movie in a theater was when dad took me with him to see Platoon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amydavis Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 You know I really wish they still had drive ins. I would take the kids all the time. There actually are still a few around! We just discovered one that is 2 hours away, and we're planning to take the kids in a couple of weekends. The theater near us shows two new movies for $5(adult) and $2(children 3 and up). That is actually a good deal, plus the coolness of the drive-in! Check the data base, Canada is included, too! http://www.drive-ins.com/database.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heidi Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 Joe Vs. the Volcano Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcconnellboys Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 Walt Disney's Three Lives of Thomasina, followed closely by Mary Poppins.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caterpiller Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 The first movie I can remember going and seeing is Hocus Pocus with my grandma. lol :p Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jelbe5 Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 I was born in '63. I think the first major motion picture my parents took me to see was Oliver! in 1968 or possibly Disney's Peter Pan sometime in the '60's . . . I could not have been more than 5 or 6 . . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jen in PA Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 The Muppet Movie was my first in a theater. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbgrace Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 I think it was ET. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ewe Mama Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 Star Wars Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mom2jjka Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 Benji - and then Fantasia -(which we had to leave early because the end scene scared me so much.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissKNG Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 Bambi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsmith Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 Well, they are all jumbled in my mind and I'm too lazy to look up dates, but I remember seeing Herbie and the Love Bug, Escape to Witch Mountain, Bambi, Peter Pan, and other Disney movies. I was born in '67, but I remember every few years the major Disney movies would be in the theaters. They must have rotated them... Oh, one of my faves was Chitty Chitty Bang Bang! I was so excited to watch it with ds, but he hated it.:svengo: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ocelotmom Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 The Empire Strikes Back was the first movie I attended in a theater (<6 months old). Sleeping Beauty is the first movie I went to for myself. Or so I'm told - I don't have any actual memory of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SailorMom Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 At the theater - I remember seeing Empire Strikes Back. I'm pretty sure I saw the original Star Wars as well, but I was too young to remember it. I will never forget the first movie we rented with a rental VCR - An American Werewolf in London :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daisy Mommy Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 Lord of the rings :001_smile: 2001 that was my first movie theater experience.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laughing lioness Posted August 6, 2011 Share Posted August 6, 2011 Well, not counting things like Bedknobs & Broomsticks, I'm also in the Jaws club. You've never seen popcorn fly so high. When, under the deserted fishing boat, where there's a hole.... you know the scene... I read the book in high school- truly horrifying. I'm a water person- swim team, life-guarding, red cross swim instructor, the whole bit. My fam went to Myrtle beach for a week that summer and I did not step one big hairy toe in the water the whole week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nmoira Posted August 6, 2011 Share Posted August 6, 2011 The first movie I remember seeing in a theatre is Disney's animated Robin Hood. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kalanamak Posted August 6, 2011 Share Posted August 6, 2011 The first one I remember was Jason and the Argonauts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roxanne23 Posted August 6, 2011 Share Posted August 6, 2011 (edited) . Edited January 4, 2023 by roxanne23 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zaichiki Posted August 6, 2011 Share Posted August 6, 2011 Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back at a drive-in movie theater. My little brother and I ate pizza from the roof of our little car while watching. It was a big deal and one of the few movies I saw as a young kid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pahansen Posted August 6, 2011 Share Posted August 6, 2011 The Magic Pony (1977) for my third birthday. It's so unknown now that IMDB doesn't even have a picture for it! ;) --Pamela Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrissiK Posted August 6, 2011 Share Posted August 6, 2011 Bambi and ET. I also remember seeing Star Wars in the theater. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lovelaughs_times_three Posted August 6, 2011 Share Posted August 6, 2011 Mary Poppins! I was in love with the movie! My mom & dad let me stay in the theatre and see it again! :001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CAMom Posted August 6, 2011 Share Posted August 6, 2011 I remember going to see Freaky Friday. Star Wars shortly after that.:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JFSinIL Posted August 6, 2011 Share Posted August 6, 2011 Sound of Music and How the West Was Won (in Cinerama for the latter). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hillary in KS Posted August 6, 2011 Share Posted August 6, 2011 "Cinderella" by Disney in 1973, I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeanne in MN Posted August 6, 2011 Share Posted August 6, 2011 Mountain Family Robinson http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_Family_Robinson Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sassenach Posted August 6, 2011 Share Posted August 6, 2011 ET is the earliest one I remember. We watched it in a Drive-in and it freaked me out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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