What Movie did you watch

[Broken_Hero]

for your first experience at a theater? Myself, the first one I can recall was E.T. and my second one being Star Trek II Khan.

[Enrique]

1. Benji

that's the first one I remember anyway

[Skittles]

2. Thoroughly Modern Millie

in England

[trof]

7. Everything today is thoroughly modern...

Check your personality...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=_WYXyVph81U

[DebJ]

3. Maybe the Sound of Music. So I was about 9 or 10

My Aunt took me to movies from time to time. Don't remember that much about them
or which they were, but I just LOVED that she cared enough to take me.

[trof]

4. Some western shoot-em-up.

Roy Rogers, Lash LaRue, The Durango Kid, Gene Autry, Red Ryder, one of those.

5 Points Theater, Birmingham, Alabama.
Circa late 40s, early 50s.
Theaters were the ONLY way to see movies way back then.
Weird, hunh?

Grandpa worked half a day on Saturdays.
We'd have lunch and then sometimes he'd tell granny "Wifey? (Yeah, that's what he called her.) Buddy (That was me.) and I are going to a shoot-em-up." and off we went. I think he liked them as much as I did.
No TV.

When I was a bit older, 9 or 10?, I was allowed to go by myself.
Mom gave me a quarter.
I could walk the several blocks in daylight.
10 cents admission, 5 cents for a Coke and 5 cents for a bag of popcorn.
The other nickle was for the bus ride home after dark.
I soon figured that I could spend that nickle on a Hershey bar and walk home in the dark.
Mom was none the wiser.

[frogmarch]

5. The Blue Lagoon (1949)

I may have seen other movies in theaters before this one, but it was the first movie I saw in color.

[ScreamingMeemie]

6. Double Feature "Gus" and "The Apple Dumpling Gang"

[CBGLuthier]

8. The Jungle Book

1967 release. First one I can remember.

[Shrek]

39. +1

Same here.

[bluesbassman]

9. First one I really remember was "Gone With The Wind" at the Grand Lake Theater in Oakland.

This was in the late sixties and they were doing a special presentation. Had to wear a collared shirt and tie. It was kind of overwhelming as I remember and much of the movie was over my eight year old head, but I do remember how impressive the cinematography was on the big screen.

Beautiful theater, still there and showing films.

[RebelOne]

10. Black Beauty with Elizabeth Taylor. n/t

[WinkyDink]

12. "National Velvet," perhaps?

[WinkyDink]

11. Well, it was with my parents, so I'm thinking maybe "The Caine Mutiny" (I was 5).

[Stuart G]

13. Fourteen Hours..released in March 1951

My grandmother took me and I was relatively bored. I was 5.. But the theater was wonderful. It was a huge old neighborhood theater and had to have at least 1400 seats in many rows. ..It was not a fun movie, but I remember this guy on a ledge, and he was going to jump . but that is another story...black and white film..too much of a drama for me.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043560/?ref=nv_sr_1

[Bertha Venation]

14. I have no idea.

The first I remember was "Raiders of the Lost Ark." I was eighteen years old then, and I'm sure I saw other movies in the theater before this one. But I'm glad this is the first I remember. I saw it at the Cineramadome in Hollywood. It was huge. I think the screen must've been as wide as -- maybe even wider than -- an IMAX screen. I've never had a better movie theater experience. ("E.T." is a close second, followed by "Return of the Jedi.&quot

[fizzgig]

15. my parents took me to et, but i was too young to remember

gremlins is the first one i remember. it scared the shit out of my three-year-old self.

[femmocrat]

16. I think it was "The Red Shoes".

It wasn't released in the US until 1951, so it might have come to our little local theater some time after that.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040725/

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

17. I was three years old in 1953 and my mom took me to see Invaders From Mars

followed a few weeks later by It Came From Outer Space. For this latter film, the theater handed out 3D glasses and the movie was filmed in 3D. It was pretty good; the rock slide scene in the film made people think rocks were falling on the heads of spectators in the front rows. I've been a big fan of science fiction and horror ever since. Thanks mom.

[lame54]

18. The first I remember...

Take The Money And Run

been a woody allen fan ever since

[Joe Shlabotnik]

19. Not exactly sure, but I think "the Car"

was the first movie I ever saw at the theatre. No wonder I turned out to be such an oddball.

[csziggy]

20. Earliest I can remember is "Gone with the Wind" at a drive-in

First in a theater was "X: The Man with the X-ray Eyes" with Ray Milland.

Scared the heck out of me!

[CrawlingChaos]

22. Have you ever heard about the alternate ending?

Supposedly Corman also filmed an ending where, after clawing out his own eyes to end his torment, Ray Milland's character says, "I can still see!"

I have not idea why they didn't go with because since it would have been a hell of an ending!

[csziggy]

23. No - I haven't watched that movie since the original release

That would be a horrible ending - as creepy as the rest of the movie.

What's bad is that I have never been able to enjoy any of the classic Ray Milland movies because I keep expecting something science fictiony to happen any second. "Laura" is the only one I have ever been able to get through because it met my expectations.

[Doc_Technical]

21. "The Great Locomotive Chase"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049279/

[orleans]

24. my parents didn't realize what they were getting me into

...
cool hand luke!

omg--it's the first movie in a theater i remember seeing
and my parents talking over me, trying to distract me from the girl washing the car scene! lol

[Ron Obvious]

25. Asterix, I think...

I'm not entirely sure, but I think it was Asterix (an animated film) based on Asterix le Gaulois, the first book. My sisters took me.

Just about the only thing I remember about it was that during the intermission, the theatre manager came in with the icecream cart and called out "Any of you kids want icecream?", only to be met by cold stares from a theatre filled with adults, many of them rather hirsute. I think I was the youngest one there

[LeftInTX]

26. Newsreels and Little Rascals, Dumbo, Snow White

We lived in Japan and didn't have English TV. We would go to the matinee and they would show Little Rascals back to back. The Little Rascals were popular with younger kids because they didn't require a longer attention span like full-length movies. Newsreels and the Star Spangled Banner came along with the movie too.

[betsuni]

27. Bambi

My first grade class went to the theater to watch it on a field trip. One girl had already seen it and advised us to have tissues ready because it was sad. We didn't believe her but of course when Bambi's mother died we all made use of the tissues.

[UglyGreed]

28. Not sure but I

think it was Jeremiah Johnson as I remember the film melting in the projector LOL my older sister was in love with Robert Redford so she dragged me along of course. Funny thing is my future wife was there that day also. I did not pick her up on that day, she picked me up about nine years later.

[LWolf]

29. Bambi or Sound of Music;

I'm not sure which came first.

[Brother Buzz]

33. Bambi was a 23 year old film when The Sound of Music was released...

but you probably saw The Sound of Music first in 1965, then Bambi which was re-released in 1966.

Short history of Bambi in the theaters: released in 1942, then re-released in 1947, 1957, 1966, 1975, 1982, and 1988.

Bambi was my first film, I caught it at the perfect age in 1957.

[LWolf]

36. That sounds right.

I grew up singing the songs from SOM.

[sarge43]

30. The first one I remember is American in Paris

I'm sure there were many others before it, but the beauty of it stays evergreen.

[logosoco]

31. Not my first, but the earliest one I have memories of...

My mom and her boyfriend took us to the drive in to see Dumbo.
The part where Dumbo was taken from his mother was too much for me. I made them take me home, even though I loved going to the drive in, because we wore our pajamas in a public place. That was cool, but I just couldn't handle the sadness.

Dumbo was one of the few Disney movies I did not get on tape for my kids when they were growing up in the 90s.

[hunter]

32. Mary Poppins. It was just out.

I remember there was a lot of instruction from my grandma beforehand about how to behave in a movie theater.

Sitting still and remaining quiet has never been easy for me. Sometimes a kid just has to get up and run!

I don't remember if I was successful or not, but the theater was probably full of screaming young kids who were worse, so maybe it didn't matter.

[EaterOfCabbage]

34. Lion King or Free Willy

I think it was the Lion King or Free Willy

[NRaleighLiberal]

35. I think it was with my parents - I am pretty sure Pinocchio.

I also remembering going with them to see The Sound of Music when I was 9, but I am sure I went to Disney cartoons with them prior to that.

[charlie and algernon]

37. Oliver and Company

[AllenVanAllen]

38. The Exorcist...

I was five



scared the holy shit out of me but it also awakened my imagination and a lifelong love for things otherworldly.

[WhiteAndNerdy]

40. I think it was "Escape to Witch Mountain". nt

[LawDeeDah]

41. The Blob

It terrified me.

Tonight I watched 13 Sins, and that terrified me too.

[Rhiannon12866]

42. I don't remember, but my mother told me she took me to see (Disney's) Cinderella

It can't have been easy for her, taking a little kid on the bus and she was pregnant with my brother at the time, and she said I cried and wanted to leave, since I was afraid of the cat...

[Jamaal510]

43. I watched "The Iron Giant"

with my big sister in '99.

[sakabatou]

44. The Lion King, maybe

[bigwillq]

45. I think ET was mine too.

[Rowdyboy]

46. Old Yeller....sobbed like the baby I was....

[whistler162]

47. Mary Poppins at a second run house(IIRC)

or Goldfinger at the local drive in.

[mucifer]

48. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

scared the hell out of me. I was 5 years old. I had nightmares for months about the boy in the chocolate river and the girl turning purple and blowing up.

My mom even wrote an angry letter to Roger Ebert for his positive review! He was a local SunTimes movie critic back then. No tv show.

Kinda funny looking back on it now.

[Le Taz Hot]

49. Well, it was up in the balcony at the Alcatraz . . .

oh, you mean my first experience with a MOVIE. That would be "The Nutty Professor" with Jerry Lewis. They had to remove me from the theater to the lobby as, apparently, I was laughing so hard (I was 6) they were afraid I wasn't breathing.

[shenmue]

50. Star Wars

[Callmecrazy]

51. A monster movie double feature...

Godzilla vs. the smog monster and Rodan. At the Huntridge Theater in Las Vegas around 1972.
Mom gave me $4.00 for the tickets, a and . Good times.

[LiberalElite]

52. May have been

Disney's cartoon version of Alice in Wonderland.

[Blue_Tires]

53. My mom was an avid theater goer every weekend

she would either do two on Saturdays or one on Saturday/one on Sunday, and as a toddler took me along to a lot of movies whether I was paying attention or not...To this day I don't remember any of the "grownup" stuff aside from a few random scenes in my memory...

The first one I remember that was for "me" was The Muppet Movie, probably because I saw the poster in the lobby and pointed at it...

[Art_from_Ark]

54. It's hard to say, really

My old hometown theater had Saturday matinees, and I went often since they were only a quarter. It could have been a nighttime showing of Mary Poppins, or it could have been a matinee showing of The Magic Sword.

[Xipe Totec]

55. To hard to remember that far back. It might have been "Hush Hush, Sweet Charlotte"

But maybe something earlier.

[yellowdogintexas]

56. Disney's Alice in Wonderland is the first one I remember

I was around 4 I think.

[cyberswede]

57. The Aritocats

Oh God was my first PG movie, and Ordinary People was my first R movie.

[Angleae]

58. The first one I remember was Charlotte's Web.

I'm told of other movies I've seen before that but I can't remember them (I was 2-3 years old).

[Odin2005]

59. Aladdin