First movie experience

According to legend, the first film my parents took me to was Return of the Jedi. I was a year old. Apparently, despite all the explosions and the yelling and shooting, I was not only awake, and quiet, but attentive.

The first theater experience I actually remembe is, embarrassingly enough, the Transformers movie. Doubly embarrassing considering I was one of the kids who ended up having to be carried out crying when Optimus Prime died.

Ghostbusters 2 was my first, and I'm proud of that!

I "saw" Conan the Destroyer when I was 6 weeks old.

First one I remember was Lethal Weapon 2...when I was 7. Yeah, my dad is cool.

Star Wars (aged 5) may be the first, but I suspect I watched a few prior and can't remember.

THE ADVENTURES OF MILO AND OTIS. I don't think, at the time, that I gave a fuck. But I suppose it was a pleasant ice-breaker- I haven't seen it since. My second was WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT, which was a nice step up.

I'm in the Geoff Foster camp. I'm sure I saw other movies before the first Star Wars, but that is the one that stuck. To this day, I always expect the John Williams opening music after the 20th Century Fox logo.

On another note, my 3.5 year old daughter loves the movies. Her first was Lilo & Stitch at a whopping 8 weeks. She was completely enthralled and only took her eyes off the screen for a diaper change.

My 1.5 year old son saw his first a few months ago. Pooh's Heffalump Movie. He sat completely still for almost the entire move, eyes wide open. He only broke his silence to clap wildly for the mommy Heffalump coming to the rescue.

The first theatre experience I remember was Jurassic Park when I was about 6 or 7.

My parents divorced when I was a baby, and I only got to see my dad about once or twice a year, but for my birthday he drove down from Saskatchewan to take me. It was a big occasion, and I fell in love with the movie. Scary Dinosaurs! Blood! Carnage! What seven year old wouldn't be in awe. After the movie he gave me a present, a Jurassic Park video game for Sega Genesis and a T-Rex action figure. That was the greatest day of my young life, and it's one of my favorite memories of my dad.

My first moviegoing experience was when I was four, to go see Who Framed Roger Rabbit? Needless to say, I've never had to wonder where my attraction to beautiful, buxom women named Jessica came from.

Who can blame him? That part made the film for me.

My first film was E.T. but I barely remember anything about going to see it. Sadly, I have a clearer image of seeing my second film, SUPERMAN III. Fuck that robot lady.

Since as a kid I was an hyperactive monster, it took me 14 years to go see a movie in a theater. Army of Darkness. Fuck yeah. Second one ? The Crow...

The fact that you were crying is pretty funny, since I remember sobbing back when I saw it in theaters. What makes your story hysterical is that you needed to be carried out, because you were presumably too anguished to walk.

My first movie memory was my dad taking me to see E.T. though I also remember a snippet of Robert Altman's Popeye. Until E.T. was re-released in VHS, my only intact memories were of E.T. in the shed, the shot with Yoda, the frog escape, and the giant ship in the end.

The first film I ever remember seeing was "Back to the Future".

Needless to say, my little four year old self thought that Marty McFly was the coolest cat ever. Why? Because he wore that dumb looking vest. Which meant that I ended up having to have that dumb looking vest. So, there I was. A four year old kid wearing a gigantic vest, because I wanted to look like Michael J. Fox.

Oh, no, my friend. It's worse.

I was carried out crying DURING the death scene. As in, Prime kicked it, I lost it, my mom thought I couldn't take any more, picked me up by the waist, carried me out, waited till I calmed down, we came back and watched the last minute or so from the theater entrance.

Back To The Future 3, when I was five. I was totally blown away. The end where the train flies to the camera was awesome.

What's tragic is that you didn't get to catch Starscream getting whacked. That's what calmed me down in that film, seemed like an acceptable trade-off at the time.

I talked my parents into taking me to JAWS when I was 5~6. They were convinced that it would give me nightmares, but I was fine. Loved the movie, even got the rubber shark pool toy, plus that game where you grab stuff out of the sharks mouth and whoever gets chomped loses.

Then probably within a year I convince them that I could handle The Amityville Horror ... my Mom took me to see it with my sister and by the end we were bawling our eyes out (on my Mom's lap) we were so scared. That one gave me nightmares, or more like a couldn't sleep because I kept thinking there was something with red eyes looking in my window. It's funny looking back at that movie, it's not really that scary at all now.

There were probably kids movies before that that didn't leave too big of an impression: Bambi, Snow White, Superdad.

You didn't go for the meaty middle for his first time?

The earliest theater experience I remember, though I'm sure there were some that preceeded it (I'll have to ask my parents what they were), was Honey I Shunk the Kids. It was a blast.

Okay, my memory is a little hazy, but I know that the movie was a little under 90 minutes long and I think Optimus died within the first 20-25 minutes.

So what you're telling me is that it took you A FUCKING HOUR to calm down? My God, that's hilarious. If you ever get your hands on a time machine, please go back to that time and place with a camcorder.

Best first movie story ever.

It led to about a year of seeing all my movies on cable or network TV, my Vietnam vet father dragging me and my mom to see Platoon notwithstanding (I slept through all of it).

My second true outing went MUCH better, though. It was The Untouchables. And I walked out ranting to anyone who'd listen about the carriage scene for the next 3 days.

Easily the most frightened I've ever been during a movie.



Fuck that robot lady, indeed.

Hey, I remember the commercial merely implied that Optimus Prime would buy it, and first time I saw it, I got all teary and ran to my mommy. I was 6.

Man, what was Alexander Salkind thinking when he allowed that scene in the movie? To this day I've always had it in for robot ladies and if one shows up at a party I'm at I can't head for the exit fast enough.

I haven't seen the movie since I was a kid, but in my mind, that scene is more violating than Evil Dead treerape.

You know what makes NO FUCKING sense? As a kid Robot Girl made me think of Batgirl.

Yeah, me neither.

I have fuzzy memories of Petes Dragon and The Apple Dumpling Gang when I was small, I do very much remember seeing The Black Hole and when Maximillian drills Anthony Hopkins to death some kid near me literally shit his pants with fear

Fisrt movie my parents took me too was Emipre Strikes Back when I was two, I am told that I didn't make a sound.

It's really cool to know that I saw one of the best movies of all-time as my first film, whether I remember it or not.

LOL, I remember Blackhole (nobody shit unfortunetly, though I was scared when that happened), E.T. and Peter and the Wolf or something (some animated animal film?), as some of the first films I saw.

I'm sure I was taken to the theatre before, but my earliest memories include the following:

Who Framed Roger Rabbit - enraptured. Watched it several times in the theatre but I love it today for totally different reasons.

The 'Burbs - thought it was a horror flick; scared shitless. Now Dante is one of my Demigods.

One of the Look Who's Talking movies, I'm sorry to say - didn't appreciate the sexual innuendo.

Gremlins 2 - still the best movie ever. Ever.

But what sticks out as my most vivid moviegoing memory has to be Jurassic Park. I was 11 years old and I must've seen this at least 7 times at the cinema. It's what cemented my love of movies. And Wayne Knight (ok, maybe not).

Shit I was thinking of the original Star Wars IV: A New Hope. I clearly remember loving Empire, but yeah I was told I sat through A New Hope not making a sound and loving it at the age of 2.

Fearshit!!! That's wonderful.

But it was Perkins. Bates, not Lecter. Wrong version of Gein (oh, wait. Buffalo Bill was the Gein-inspired one. Dammit. Oh well, they both skinned and flayed).

it was my dad who took me to see Oliver back in the 60s. that's when I knew movies was my passion.

GREAT POST! Damn, this is bringing back some fond memories. Count me in as another kid that got the chills from Robot Lady in Superman III. Freaky stuff for a Superman film. Damn that synthetic Kryptonite!

I didn't see Amityville Horror at the theater, but I do remember seeing it on television. My parents used to let me watch horror movies on tv with the logic that they had been edited. Up until that point I had mostly seen older black and white stuff - live the Universal monster flicks. When I saw Amityville I was so frightened couldn't sleep that night - partially because my dad had told me it was based upon a true story. Looking back the movie isn't that scary, but I was freaked enough to cling to the railing when I walked down the stairs the next day, fearing that I could fall into some subterranean devil infested red room.

The first film that I clearly remembering seeing at the theater was The Fox and the Hound. Great memory. I went with my older sister (as chaperone) and my best friend at the time. The theater was a classic old one screen that had the design of a castle on the inside. That movie still has a fond place in my heart since the friend that I saw it with died many years ago. Whenever I think about that movie I still get a little choked up.

I have no idea what the first movie I saw in the theater was but I remember seeing Song of the South in the theater at a young age and singing Zippity Do Da!

I also remember seeing the pink panther movies in the theater because they were PG and surprised at the partial nudity at such a young age.

The first film I ever saw in the cinema was Bambi (when it was released for the second time). I remember being more excited about the fact they had an eppisode of "The Wuzxzles" before the main feature.

I was young forgive me.

You are all lucky bastards.

I saw Pound Puppies: the movie. My first movie.

My first five films (in no particular order) that I recall seeing in the theatre were:

1)E.T.
2)Return of the Jedi
3)Ghostbusters
4)Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (scared the bejesus out of me)
5)Gremlins


Looking back on it, that was an incredible opening streak that has artificially raised my expectations ever since.

Oddly enough, I had seen Star Wars on home video several times before seeing ROTJ, but I do not recall seeing Empire Strikes Back until I was 12 or 13. For me, the big reveal about Luke's father occurs in ROTJ, and I was pretty upset in the theatre when I found out.

Seriously, I'll eighth that. Talk about nightmares.

I soiled my dalek underwear when i saw that robot lady.
Ive had a thing for technology-rape ever since.
My first cinema going experience was either Star Trek: The Motion Picture,or The Cat From Out of Space in the Port Pirie Cinema.
My ma was a closeted sci-fi nerd so she dragged me too see anything sci-fi related and use me as her excuse.

My first movie experience is a legend in my family.

My Mom, her brother, and some friends took me to the drive-in to see a movie called "The Twilight People". After that was over, "The Grusome Two-some" started playing. Needlss to say, we got out of there in a hurry. I don't remember any of it though.

The first movie I remember was "Chitty-Chitty Bang Bang".
Then "Star Wars".

"Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, we love you... Repeat.

That song drove my parents nuts.

Titties. My first memory of a movie is titties. Titties In Slap Shot. I was at a drive-in in Smithers, B.C. Where I saw titties.

My second was The Rescuers, released later the same year. I'm pretty sure it wasn't as traumatic or as formative as Slap Shot.

Star Wars is the first i can remember, and being scared shitless and burying my face in my Dad's shoulder during the Sand people scene. Other than that, the late seventies are a blur, Pinnochio, Grease, Love at First Bite. Buck Rogers. What the hell was that, anyway? Glen Larson putting out television pilots in the theaters? What a fucking ripoff.

I go through Smithers every few years on my way from Prince George to Prince Rupert. Never seen titties there, though. Seabass was on to something at an early age.

Me: Star Wars, here in Toronto.

Not sure if it was my absolute first, but the first I remember watching was Beauty and the Beast when I was 5. I was pretty much alone in the theater as no one else was there and my mom had fallen asleep.

Actually, didn't that film have a photo spliced in of a women changing when the bird was swooping next to a buidling? I saw a news story on it when it was re-released on VHS years ago (I believe). If so, there ya go: Titties 2: Tits United.