what was the first movie you remember seeing?

[fizzgig]

my dad took me to see gremlins when it came out, i was three and it scared the shit out of me

the first movie i remember seeing that i loved was willow, one year later

yes, i'm a young 'un

[terrya]

1. "Jason and the Argonauts"

That's the first movie I remember seeing.

[johnnie]

6. I saw that at the Drive in

It was that and Lord's of Flatbush with my family. Although I know that Jason and the Argonauts came out well before that.

[SeattleGirl]

2. "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World"

Mom and dad took us to the drive-in to see it.

[KitchenWitch]

109. I love that movie

:rofl:

[LeftyMom]

3. ET

The scene with the contamination suits scared the shit out of me and my mom carried me out of the theatre screaming. I was very young (2, I think.)

[fizzgig]

4. my parents took me to see that in the theatre

but i was too small to remember

but i did have an et nightmare not too long after it...

i screamed hysterically when i saw him coming through the window in my room

[huskerlaw]

105. LOL

I just posted the same thing! I still hate that damn movie.

[seemunkee]

5. Pinocchio

I was afraid of Monstro the whale.

[mac56]

47. Me too, on both counts.

nm

[justabob]

7. Star Wars

Is the first one I remember seeing. I am sure I saw some Disney movies, but I have no memory of them.

[djeseru]

8. Young Frankenstein

At the Twin Drive-In on the turnpike near downtown Fort Worth. If I got bored with the movie in front of me, I would just turn around and watch the other screen - didn't make any difference if there was sound or not! I also remember a couple of the Pink Panther films.

[EstimatedProphet]

9. There are two

1) Hello Down There (1969)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064417/

2) The Sterile Cuckoo (1969)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065037/
However, this was WAY over my head, being 6, and I fell asleep in 5 minutes

[peekaloo]

10. At a drive-in, 'Thomasina' or something like that.

It featured an orange cat, a Disney film I think. I was very young but I remember the cat and the theme song. (too lazy to look it up right now)

[jobycom]

30. The Three Lives of Thomasina, starring Patrick McGoohan. Oddly

this is the second time in five minutes I've mentioned the film, for different reasons.

[peekaloo]

40. Yes. Thank you.

I hope you said nice things about it. :-)

[jobycom]

42. It was one of my favorite movies

I begged my parents for a cat just so I could name her Thomasina.

I mentioned it in another thread because McGoohan was once offered the role of James Bond.

[southlandshari]

11. Song of the South

[Left Is Write]

12. "101 Dalmatians" at the drive-in when I was three.

[fizzgig]

13. i saw it in the theatres some time in the late 80s or early 90s

my cousin took me, we ate a lot of twizzlers

i wish he weren't my cousin

:evilgrin:

[MiwSher]

14. "Dr. No"

It was the only time my parents went to the drive-in. I fell asleep sitting between them. :)

MiwSher

[skygazer]

15. Sleeping Beauty

I was quite little and when the evil witch turned into a dragon and roared out that line about "all the demons of HELL!" I just about peed in my little britches!

[fizzgig]

29. only my favorite disney movie of all time!

no idea why, but it is

[flvegan]

16. "The Pink Panther"

at the drive in, too. It was almost tradition, too. Every time a new Pink Panther movie came out, off to the drive in we would go.

[Beware the Beast Man]

17. "The Muppet Movie," when I was five.

My first Drive-in film was "Jaws."

[fizzgig]

21. my cousin took me to the drive in for the first time

la bamba and born in east la

i still cry like a little girl whenever i see la bamba

[miss_american_pie]

18. ET

What year was that? 82 maybe? I was young.

[NNadir]

19. Alice in Wonderland, I think.

I'm not real sure though.

[Deja Q]

20. The Black Stallion

[MountainLaurel]

22. In a theater: Star Wars

I know we had went to the drive-in many times before that, but I can't recall any films.

[Immad2]

23. How the West Was Won was the first and the encore was Stagecoach

which made for a long movie day! It was great!

[ET Awful]

57. How the West Was Won and it's atrocious theme song featuring

alternative lyrics set to Greensleeves :puke:

:P

[regnaD kciN]

77. That wasn't its theme song...

That was just a number performed by a "saloon girl" entertainer.

The real theme was standard western movie music (while it did have lyrics, they were only sung the final time, when the film flashed forward to "present day") and the tune is now stuck in my head. Thanks. ;-)

[ET Awful]

85. It played all the way through the movie.

I just saw it again a few months back :P

Something about "I'll build you a home in the meadow" or some crap. If it wasn't being sung, the music was playing in the background. Hell, when they were waiting for the riverboat to take them up the Eerie canal the chick sang it (and she was a major character), it was pretty much a constant from there.

It about drove me batshit :)

[Dinger]

24. Snow White

I was 5

[fizzgig]

25. that was the only disney movie that has ever pissed me off

she was such a broad

but the witch, awesome

[Giant Robot]

26. Bambi

Probably scarred me for life.

[fizzgig]

28. my mom bought me that dvd

so i call her crying every time i watch it...

i also saw it when they re-released it to the theatres

'look mama, we got out'

:cry:

[AwakeAtLast]

46. Me, too!

I can still see the forest fire as if it were yesterday!

:hi:

[Karenina]

56. Me too!

I remember the forest fire and being completely traumatized for days!

[nutsnberries]

101. another *me too* here

[JitterbugPerfume]

27. Daddy long legs

starring Leslie Caron and Fred Astaire
(I think)

yes---I'm an old'un

[CatholicEdHead]

31. Return of the Jedi

[jobycom]

32. The Yearling,

[southlandshari]

33. Awwww....

I'll bet if we watched that one now, we'd both boo hoo!

;)

[jobycom]

34. Oh

Ya think? :-)

[southlandshari]

37. No.

I know.

:hug:

[jobycom]

41. Maybe

Unless we melded into one person and missed the movie. (Hmmm, that has overtones I didn't mean to put there...)

[Roon]

94. That Darn Cat!

I was five!

[GoddessOfGuinness]

86. That's one of my all-time faves!

I'm a useless mess after I watch it. :cry:

[Lavender Brown]

35. Back to the Future

[Rising Phoenix]

36. Indian Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark

[Dervill Crow]

38. Forbidden Planet. n/t

[Catch22Dem]

39. The Jungle Book

I believe I was quite bored. Took me many years to fully appreciate Louis Prima. :)

[Cocoa]

43. Benji

[rateyes]

44. Either "Swiss Family Robinson"

or "Song of the South"...maybe, "Uncle Tom's Cabin." Yeah, I'm a pretty old fart....at least getting there.

[Shine]

45. I have no idea....it was a loooooong time ago.

Gremlins?? Yeah, you're a young 'un, alright!! :)

Gawd, I feel old. heheh.

[momophile]

48. I remember seeing the first (4th?) Star Wars when I was 5..

I have strong memories of watching Salem's Lot from behind a chair when I was way too young to watch it, but the biggest impression on me was watching Jaws - made me super scared of water at a very tender age.

[doc03]

49. Old Yeller

[Rowdyboy]

62. Ole Yeller for me too, at the drive-in, maybe 5 years old....

I still remember squalling like a baby.

[raccoon]

73. Me, too, at the drive-in, six years old. I had an Old Yeller

coloring book too.

[nykiera]

67. Old Yeller

Sometime in the early 60s at the drive-in.

[Not_Giving_Up]

50. Well, it was either Bambi or a Benji movie

I remember going to the movies after lunch on Sundays, in between church sessions. I saw all of the Benji movies in the theaters, as well as any disney movie that hit during that time.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

51. Pollyanna

I fell asleep. My mother woke me up because for some reason it was a big deal for the kid to be wrapped up in an American flag... :patriot:

[regnaD kciN]

79. Same here (on both counts)...

It was at a drive-in, and I was about four or five. I fell asleep, too, fairly early on. Fortunately, no one woke me up, so I've only seen the first half-hour, at most.

[chookie]

52. "Tom Jones"

It was quite age inappropriate, but Mummy wanted to see it, and so I was taken with her. I remember enjoying it in my own way, as a toddler. It was interesting seeing it again as an adult and knowing what all that stuff really meant. Oh MUMMY!

[schmuls]

53. Wizard of Oz

[Flying Dream Blues]

54. The Sound of Music...with ginger ale in red plastic champagne glasses

at intermission. I was about 6 or 7 I think.

[Burma Jones]

55. A Hard Day's Night - At the Drive In

[ET Awful]

58. Probably Wizard of Oz at Thanksgiving on broadcast television

First one I remember seeing in a theater was either Close Encounters or Star Wars. I'm sure there were others before that, but those are the earliest ones I remember clearly.

[StaggerLee]

59. The Thing With Two Heads

At the drive-in when I was like...four.

DU attorneys. Ya think I still can file an abuse case against mom?




For those who aren't familiar with it:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069372/

[Fox Mulder]

60. I think it was Gremlins for me too.

I'm not sure, though. :shrug:

Either Gremlins or some Smurfs movie. Either way, both creeped me out. :scared:

[dolo amber]

61. Honest to God, the first one I *remember*?

The Exorcist. My parents dragged me with them to see it at the drive-in. :crazy:

I've heard the story about seeing The Birds and losing my shit a hundred times, but I was only like 1 and a half so I don't actually remember it. ;)

[CBHagman]

99. You poor people!

What is it with all the parents taking their kids to age-inappropriate films? Why not just take everyone to Roman Polanski's Macbeth and I Am Curious: Yellow and have done with it? Jeesh, I was relatively lucky.

[NoPasaran]

63. 101 Dalmations

In a theatre so long ago it had ushers!

[khashka]

64. Bambi

Totally fucked me up for the rest of my life.

Did Walt have to kill Bambi's mama? Was that really necessary?

Khash.

[ghostsofgiants]

65. Honey, I Shrunk The Kids

[Bridget Burke]

66. Disney's Alice in Wonderland.

But I also remember a movie about Blackbeard the Pirate. At least, I remember the end. They buried him in sand up to his neck--while he was still alive. Then the tide began to come in...

[bikebloke]

68. Pepe

My grandmother took me. I haven't the foggiest how old I was, or when. I suppose I could hit the Internet Movie Data Base.

It seemed long, though.

[mzteris]

69. Lady and the Tramp, Snow White or Sleeping Beauty

I was really young - so I'm not sure which came first . . .


Oh yeah, I also have a vivid memory of the beach scene in "From Here to Eternity", weird, huh?

[dr.strangelove]

70. Grease

Loved Olivia Newton-John for years. I still get "chills" when I see her in that black outfit at the carnival.

[last_texas_dem]

71. I loved "Gremlins" when I was little

I saw it first on television when I was about five years old (1988) and it became my favorite movie back in Kindergarten.

The first movie I remember seeing at the theater was "The Fox and the Hound" when it was re-released in the mid- to late-eighties. I don't even really remember the plot except that I think there was something tearjerking about it.

[fizzgig]

89. that movie makes me cry every time

not sniffle cry, but boohooing

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

72. I remember being scared as crap at the Disney "Sleeping Beauty" as

a little kid. Must have been 5 or less as we were still in NYC at the time.

I remember the whole thing where she was put asleep under the spell was scary to me, and the dragon breathing fire made me cry. Not sure if we were able to sit out the rest of that movie because of my crying, LOL.

[elshiva]

100. Yep. Sleeping Beauty was the first one I remember

That witch scared the crap out of me.

[TexxMatty]

74. On TV

I remember watching Chitty Chitty Bang Bang ( my sister scared the crap outta me doing freaky impressions of the evil icecream man..come on little children come and get your icecream,lollipops...<shudders>)

At the movies I think I saw Bedknobs & Broomsticks at the drive ins and saw Song of the South at the walk in.

-Matty

[Maine-ah]

75. Star Wars.

[TimeChaser]

76. The Little Mermaid

[WeRQ4U]

78. Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark.......at a drive in.

My parents swear that I dreamt this, but remember seeing ROTLA at the drive in when I was very young. I was in the backseat of my parents' car playing while they watched. So weird.

[robbedvoter]

80. "The Witch" - with Marina Vlady - saw it on TV

beautiful story, haunting music - I still think about it.

[no name no slogan]

81. The one I remember is "Star Wars"

I was 8, and we saw it at an "old-fashioned" movie theater, with a real curtain that covered the screen and a big huge balcony. I was completely blown away by it. Still am, 28 years later, for that matter.

[trackfan]

82. Cat Ballou

[gollygee]

83. Raggedy Ann and Andy and the Camel with the Wrinkled Knees

Apparently the official title is Raggedy Ann and Andy: A Musical Adventure

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076593/

I was 7 or 8 and I LOVED it.

[trof]

84. Birth of a Nation

[Sequoia]

88. You must be ancient if that was your first movie!

[Sequoia]

87. Elephant Walk

at a drive-in(about 5 years old)with Elizabeth Taylor. Those elephants were so cool and went stomping back through their land where a snobby Enlishman had built a huge villa although the people who lived there warned him what would happen. I remember Army Ants swarming around too and the elephants tore the place up.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

90. Snow White and the Seven Dwarves OR Peter Pan

Both are very early memories. I don't remember which came first. I was a bit more than three, and my mom tells me that I was scared of the wtich.

[KitchenWitch]

91. Tom Sawyer

[Dave Reynolds]

92. War of the Gargantuas.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060440/#comment

At my grandfather's drive-in, I remember the popcorn and going into the projection booth more than the movie, though.

[u4ic]

93. The Ghost and Mr Chicken

[bigwillq]

95. ET (nt)

[CBHagman]

96. I think I had been taken to other films, but...

...most clearly I recall being taken to the drive-in to see The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm. We kids were in our pajamas and brought pillows and blankets. I slept through a LOT of the movie (I was in my 30s before I found out Russ Tamblyn was even in it :blush:).

I suspect I had been taken to see things like Bambi and Pinocchio when I was even smaller, but that particular trip to the drive-in is my clearest early movie memory.

[ScreamingMeemie]

97. The Sound of Music.

:hi:

[Hissyspit]

98. First drive-In movie: "True Grit"

Was about 5. Terrified when Kim Darby fell in the snake pit.

[proud2BlibKansan]

102. The Five Pennies

starring Danny Kaye. It was 1958 or 1959. I was 5 and had the chicken pox. My dad told my sister and I that if we didn't scratch our chicken pox, he would take us to a movie. It is the first time I remember going to a movie theater.

I still love this movie. It is a sad story and it makes me :cry: but it brings back such wonderful memories.

[DanCa]

103. Tony Randall and the green onion

The main song was this :
Little gold fish were your going to little gold fish let me swim along with. Little gold fish we'll have a whale of a time with your fin and mine.

[huskerlaw]

104. ET

I was about 4 years old and I got so scared my mom had to take me out of the theater.

I still hate that movie. WTF is so cute about an alien with a light-up finger?

[unsavedtrash]

106. my mom wanted to see Rosemary's baby and she took my very young self along

We saw it at the local drive in and I was so young I was able to hide on the back seat floorboard of our pinto so she wouldn't have to pay for both me and my older sister.

[lpbk2713]

107. High Noon

And it's still one of my favorites.

[Kathleen04]

108. Oliver and Company

1988, I was two. :)

[lady raven]

110. The Dark Crystal

[Penndems]

111. "Mary Poppins"

In 1964, at the old Flower Theater in Silver Spring, Maryland. I was nine years old, and I STILL love that movie to this day!

[swimboy]

113. I think this is the first one I saw in a theater.

I watched part of it the other night.

Banks: What is the meaning of all this, I demand an explanation!

Mary Poppins: First allow me to make one thing quite clear: I never explain anything!



I think her words there are some of the most heroic ever.

[Mad_Dem_X]

112. Probably something from Disney, maybe Dumbo

At the drive-in. Wow, that dates me. LOL