The First Film You Saw In The Cinema?

joyb27 · 1 year

The lion king. Happy times :D

shotglassanhero · 1 year

Toy Story.

End of story, the greatest film in my childhood.

Kapooks · 1 year

Jurassic Park. I was too young for the movie and I made it in. It was awesome. I was also scared shitless and cried half of the time.

HankLago · 1 year

Aladdin. It was awesome.

lillalilly · 1 year

Return Of The Jedi 1983

JaZepi · 1 year

E.T. But it was at the drive in. First run yes. I am old-ish.

gruntyboy · 1 year

"Star Wars" 1977

I was five years old when my Dad took me.

Darth Vader scared the living crap out of me.

I thought it was the greatest movie ever for many years...

tom_wilde · 1 year

The Empire Strikes Back. In Wales. In the rain.

That was a looong time ago.

sleepyhead1975 · 1 year

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stumblebreak · 1 year

Space Jam. Bugs Bunny, Michael Jordon, AND Bill Murray

much_too_easy · 1 year

It was either Ghostbusters 2 or Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, can't remember which one I saw first.

WackingWillies · 1 year

The Mask! Did I mention Cameron Diaz in a red dress!!

kersplash · 1 year

Robin Hood though i'm not sure it counts. I went towards the cinema door and got terrified as I looked through the window of it and saw this giant person on screen, I was so young I couldnt wrap my head around it and probably thought it was an actual giant person.

Mr_Happy_Face75 · 1 year

Toy Story 2. Must have been 3 at the time. Just learning to read. The title screen comes up saying 'Toy Story 2'. Excited little me reads this and screams it at the top of his lungs. Everybody laughed. That was a good day.

Dirty-Tampon · 1 year

Empire Strikes Back

nielish · 1 year

The Empire Strikes Back, and to this day it remains my favorite movie of all time.

ajh688 · 1 year

the rocketeer

vicfontaine · 1 year

Short Circuit.

jai_kasavin · 1 year

Short Circuit 2 1988

Madrugar · 1 year

Bambi in 1988.

ReiToei · 1 year

E.T.

Moonix · 1 year

All Dogs Go to Heaven

pardon_my_misogyny · 1 year

Pretty sure it was Toy Story. Even though I was only 2 at the time.

ataripixel · 1 year

An American Tail, I was 4 yrs old.

[deleted] · 1 year

Star Wars 1977. Got the tickets, and there is a black out. We waited, the longest time our hopes fading. So we decided to leave, got to the car, and all the light's suddenly came on! We run all the way back, arriving just in time. My Darkside experience!!!!

matthew011029 · 1 year

The one that I remembered was either Mummy or Mummy 2. I end up crying within the first 15 minutes and my dad sat outside with me until the movie ended (Since my mum and my brother is still in the cinema)

El_Sonador · 1 year

Flåklypa Grand Prix

Blankas_bitch · 1 year

The Dark Crystal - early eighties. I still recall my old man taking me out mid session for a choc-top to take my mind off Chamberlain's unnerving vocal screech.

cinemadness · 1 year

I want to say Galaxy Quest, but I don't know if that counts, considering I was very young, so my memory is vague (I was about 3), and it was playing in an amphitheater. I guess the first film I saw in a real theater was either Shrek or Spider-man. Probably Shrek as that came out earlier.

True_or_Folts · 1 year

The Nightmare Before Christmas

SMB73 · 1 year

The first movie I remember seeing in a cinema was the first Star Wars film in '77. I was four years old. Probably the worst move my Dad made in all that time because his wallet paid for it several times over the following years.

Majick · 1 year

Masters of the Universe (1987). After Skeletor made his first appearance I told my dad we can go home now.

PurpleSfinx · 1 year

It was either The Lion King or Toy Story (at least when I was old enough to remember), so whichever of those came out first... internet says Lion King in '94, so that. Maybe I'm only remembering those two because they were so good, but it's funny how both of those ended up being hailed as timeless classics and went down in history

The 90's were the best for film. (Especially '99...) I wonder why that was? And why it's so terrible now? I know the 'financial crisis' caused the horrible sequelitis, but even the few original movies these days aren't that good. Best we've had in some time is Inception. Even Dark Knight is an existing franchise and a sequel.

Fremore · 1 year

Jack and the Beanstalk http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074705/

smalleyes · 1 year

Willow.

blarbdadouche · 1 year

The earliest I remember is the first Batman (Tim Burton).

bosteroargentino89 · 1 year

Toy story '95

Camodragon1980 · 1 year

Return of the jedi

simeon94 · 1 year

My record is terrible. The first I ever saw was apparently the Barney movie (really), and the earliest I actually remember was Phantom Menace. I enjoyed PM at the time, though...

pop_fest420 · 1 year

Jurassic Park. The theatre didn't have air conditioning, so it was just like being in the jungles!

Tkends · 1 year

I'm pretty sure it was Pokemon: The Movie. 90's child right here.

oldsillybear · 1 year

Wow, it was a long time ago. Probably Jungle Book (original release) although it may have been The Love Bug. I remember seeing Bullit at the drive in with my parents and was really young at the time.

More memorable was seeing Poseidon Adventure and What's Up Doc while we were visiting New York City when I was in first grade. My first airplane trip.

MonkeyManJohannon · 1 year

I was told that i was brought to several movies...but the first one i remember was E.T., and it scared the shit out of me, i cried and my dad had to take me out of the theater, calm me down and we tried it again, and i sucked it up as long as i could, but then when the part comes where Drew Barrymore finds him in the closet and screams...i lost it, and my dad had to take me home.

JediThark · 1 year

Disney's Tarzan (1999)

One of my favorites of the D-Renaissance. :)

editorinred · 1 year

it must have been mars attacks or american pie, cant remeber

BIG_PY · 1 year

There could've been earlier ones, but the earliest I remember is Casper (1995).

Fox_Mulderp · 1 year

star wars a new hope. it wasnt the original release, just a theater reshowing it sometime in the early 90s.

digging_for_fire · 1 year

My first film was Ghostbusters, but i was just a few months old, (yeah, my parents were those people.)

The first movie i remember would be Snow White, during some re-release or something... The witch terrified me.

My oldest son's was the latest Ninja Turtle cartoon, i think i chose wisely. His little brother's was Iron Man at the drive-in.

JavaLSU · 1 year

I believe it was "Little Shop of Horrors" when I was 5, but I'm not certain. I just went through what movies I remember watching in the theater and checking their release dates.

buttguy · 1 year

The first I remember is Terminator 2. My parents tell me I'd been to other movies but that's the first one that sticks in my head. I was 9 so depending on who you ask my Mom was either awesome, or damaging me.

zvwaller · 1 year

Lion King. Was young and don't remember though

cody_p24 · 1 year

Babe

MetalPanda · 1 year

Shark Tale when I first came to America.

johnhxc8 · 1 year

First memory was watching the film Lion King with my mom and twin. To be honest, I think that film was the reason why I enjoy films so much.

mcgovernor · 1 year

Not the first one I saw but the first one I remember seeing was Princess Mononoke on its first limited run in the US. My dad took me and my brother to this really small theatre where it was only playing for one night and the whole experience just blew me away.

kippian · 1 year

E.T in 1982. I was 3 at the time though I don't remember it. My Father said I was crying/generally freaking out when E.T. was found in the creek but that I was jumping up and down on the seat when he came "back to life". I love you Dad.

The first one I have a memory of was Batman in 1989 and I was on a "date". It sucked because all I could think about was how I was going to hold the hand of the girl I was with and paid little attention to the movie.

greener_pastures · 1 year

Space Jam

krakalacky · 1 year

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles! Even my Dad thought it was awesome!

RichOfTheJungle · 1 year

The Land Before Time

oakevolution · 1 year

The Little Mermaid, I was 5 years old. I covered my eyes during the "Kiss the Girl" scene because I thought kissing was "gross."

meeshkyle · 1 year

The earliest movie I remember seeing was I think Jurrasic Park in 1993. Maybe because that damn T-Rex biting the guy in half scared the shit out of me when I was 6.

watermouth · 1 year

free willy. went back and saw it literally like 8 times. finally got on vhs and wore the tape out.

According_To_Me · 1 year

I can't remember if it was Jurassic Park, The Page Master, The Lion King, or Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls

[deleted] · 1 year

Die Hard with a Vengance when I was like 9, still love that fucking movie.

ohjimmy · 1 year

And now for the most obscure answer: The Pursuit of D. B. Cooper.

Upliftmof0 · 1 year

Bambi, re-release in 1993.

The rest of my family went and saw Jurassic Park. I was five years old and super jealous.

addedpulp · 1 year

Aladdin.

Big_Poop_Wolf · 1 year

Well, my mother went into labor while in a theater. She was watching The Hunt for Red October. My father wanted us to go to the hospital immediately, but she refused. They watched the whole film. So that could kinda count.

But really, it was Jurassic Park. I was three-years-old. My Dad had to take me out of the theater because I ran up and down the aisles screaming random things about how awesome dinosaurs were.

Wow, looking back I've realized that I was a huge burden on my parents when they attempted to go see movies.

prince_of_tacoma · 1 year

I don't remember it, but my parents say Toy Story was my first. I was about 2 or 3 at the time. I don't specifically remember the first I can recall though.

w1ll1amz · 1 year

Jingle All The Way

classyplastic · 1 year

E.T. in 1982. First one i went to by myself was Army of Darkness

qazaibomb · 1 year

i think it was the rugrats movie, although it could have been bugs life. those were def the first two

cadon7 · 1 year

Jungle Book

jomu1074 · 1 year

Star Wars before it was Episode IV A New Hope.

mr_ow · 1 year

The Hunchback of Notre Dame. I still have my ticket stub.

laduke86 · 1 year

Snow White (when it was rereleased in the early 90s), or Beauty and the Beast. Can't remember exactly which one came first.

AcesCharles2 · 1 year

The Muppet Christmas Carol

obillion · 1 year

The big boss staring Bruce Lee. My uncle had me perched up on his shoulders and it was at a drive in theatre in Zimbabwe and we weren't in a car. We had to walk through a bit of bush (read jungle) and it was almost magical walking through the foliage following a a train of loosely grouped humanity all going in the same direction. One of my first memories and it was film related.

ofimmsl · 1 year

Alien3 when i was 4 years old

The_Kool_Kiddo · 1 year

Batman (1989) My mom said for the next week I was running around punching invisible criminals and jumping of the back of the couch with a towel as a cape.

Virog · 1 year

Mine would be Independence Day. I was about 9 or 10. It's the reason I love that movie and probably any movie Will Smith stars in. The scene where he takes down that small alien ship was awesome.

simpsun77 · 1 year

Aladdin. My parents took me to the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles when I was two, but I barely remember this.

bigdsnuts · 1 year

My mom told me the only time she went to the theater while I was a bun in the oven was to see Return of the Jedi. First movie I actually remember seeing in theaters was Masters of the Universe.

kthriller · 1 year

Beauty and the Beast <3

niquallis · 1 year

Batman Returns when I was 4 years old. I don't really remember much except being terrified of the Penguin.

mattwb72 · 1 year

Star Wars. I was 5 yrs old and afterwards was convinced it was all real and completely consumed with how to get the force.

thesilvertongue · 1 year

I can't remember but the earliest memory of going to the movie theater is when my whole family went to see the Phantom Menace in 1999.

Jackal_6 · 1 year

The Rescuers Down Under!

alexsb92 · 1 year

Well this is awkward. I have just discovered this subreddit through the Hitler thing and figured this would be a great question to ask. To answer your question, Saving Private Ryan. I was 6 at the time. Best parenting ever. I remember coming out in complete awe at the whole thing. Been in love with movies and cinema ever since.

Roooyce · 1 year

Aladdin!! I remember being completely blown away by the opening number.

jconsumer · 1 year

I might have went before but I distinctly remember my 8th Birthday. Our town only had 2 movie screens, this is 1980ish. I wanted to see Superman 2, but it was sold out, so we went to the other movie, which was the Coal Miners Daughter! The thing that sticks out the most is the preview for The Shinning they played.

[deleted] · 1 year

Pocahontas.

tehcemal · 1 year

star gate :)

FiftyCals · 1 year

"In the cinema". Errrr, it was out. Star Wars, at the drive in.

sortofnatural · 1 year

Twister

sleepyhead1975 · 1 year

Star Wars. The real one. The first re-release prior to Empire coming out. Saw it September 16, 1979.

brodieduncan · 1 year

A Bug's Life, in 1999. I ran out screaming the grasshoppers first appeared. I cracked my head open and had to go to the hospital.

RadicalBoner · 1 year

First one that stick out is Space Jam. I was born in 1993, btw.

wickedcold · 1 year

Ghostbusters!

novawreck · 1 year

Jurassic Park. It's what made me want to become a filmmaker.

lizardqueen12 · 1 year

The Care Bears movie - I was 3yrs old

razpotim · 1 year

I think mine was A Bugs life as well, atleast it is the first one I remember.

HeartlessTrouble · 1 year

Toy Story... i love my mum or taking us to see that movie.

SuperFunTimeMan · 1 year

I was born in the USSR and lived there until the fall of communism. First movie I ever saw was The Last Unicorn. Unlike in US we did not go to the movies much, so the first time happened as a school trip. One half of my class went to see The Last Unicorn and the other saw Galaxy Express 999.

ArK9 · 1 year

The lord of the rings:Return of the king. After reading(But not understanding) it at like 9.

gwvent · 1 year

One of the first movies I can remember seeing was Saving Private Ryan.

I don't know why my cousins took a child with them to see that movie but it probably explains my sick sense of humor now.

frankieh456 · 1 year

Beauty and the Beast.

Welmark · 1 year

Mine was also A Bug's Life. I ought to watch that again, actually.

tttt0tttt · 1 year

I think it must have been Disney's The Shaggy Dog.

LlamaswithMachetes · 1 year

Thomas the Tank Engine and the Magic Railroad Sparkle Sparkle Sparkle

TheBoringMuslimGuy · 1 year

Actually Monster's Inc. From That Day I Still Consider It A Classic.

BoothWilkesJohn · 1 year

I guess it must have been Transformers: The Movie.

Splankdigit · 1 year

From what I can remember, Paulie. It was either 1998 or 1999.

AbsurdityAtItsFinest · 1 year

The very first movie I ever saw was Barneys Great Egg Adventure (Im only 16.) After that I saw Tarzan, but I started crying because the scene where he fought a panther or some thing scared me and we had to leave. I didnt really watch a movie again after that until a while later, when my dad showed me a Harold Lloyd movie and we watched a new one every Wednesday night.

Nikko_1994 · 1 year

I don't even remember, but one that springs to mind is The Iron Giant. Haven't seen it since though.

Jon76 · 1 year

I was 5 years old and it was Jurassic Park III, I believe... whatever, the one that came out in '99.

wizz725 · 8 months

Dennis the Menace (1993)

ForeveraReject · 1 year

Mine was one of the Pokemon movies, that or the first Harry Potter.

muffinmonk · 1 year

George of the Jungle, 1997. At least that's the earliest I can remember.

Karmalade · 1 year

E.T.

KCSTL · 1 year

doucheplayer · 1 year

titanic

i was 9

dont ask

drnickmd · 1 year

Probably Flight of the Navigator or a reshowing of Neverending Story

TimmyBash · 1 year

This fucking 'movie'.

I have since spent the rest of my life with a huge passion for movies to make up for this one...

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