What was the first film you saw at the cinema

Myranda · January 2019

Inspired by something said in the Ghostbusters 202 0 thread ... What film did you see first (in the cinema) ?

Did it ignite a live of cinema, did it make you hate films? Does it still seem as good/bad as you thought it was then?

I'll go first and unfortunately show my age a little ...
Masters of the Universe (with Dolph Lundgren). Whilst it's a fairly rubbish film, it had colourful and dazzling special effects for the time and was fun and exciting to such a young and impressionable youngster, and it fired my love of film and of sci-fi and kerplosions in films...

fretmeister · January 2019

Disney's The Black Hole.

I bought it on DVD a couple of years ago. It has not aged well"

Johnnyseven · January 2019

Police Academy 4 - Citizens On Patrol.

Blueingreen · January 2019

Can't be 100% certain but I think Pinnochio, which I saw more than once before I even went to school. As an adult I can still see why I liked it but I can't remember my actual thoughts as a 4 year old or whatever I was.

webrthomson · January 2019

Not 100% sure it was either The empire strikes back or the wrath of Khan - I was about 5 - I loved both, life long Sci-fi fan from it

not_the_dj · January 2019

Condorman!

1981 (so google tells me), I would have been 6.

https://cdn2us.denofgeek.com/sites/denofgeekus/files/styles/main_wide/public/condor_lead.jpg?itok=OEghCNRl

axisus · January 2019

Hmmnnn .... I saw 4 films as young kid with the family. We didn't have a lot of money so it was a pretty rare treat:

The Jungle Book
The Love Bug
Bedknobs & Broomsticks
The Aristocats

Not sure which was first and I can't be bothered to google 4 films! (think I've guessed right though)

I still love Bedknobs & Broomsticks, it's pretty naff in many ways, and I still laugh at a few suits of armour in a small museum translating to about 500 atop the cliffs! Having said that, I saw it at an age where it was truly magical.

Tone71 · January 2019

The Driver my mum took me to see it in Leicester Square on one of our many trips together to Soho when I was a kid.

LastMantra · January 2019

First I remember was superman 3.

guitartango · January 2019

Either Chitty Chitty Bang Bang or Where eagles dare.... i do like a decent war film

Maynehead · January 2019

I have absolutely no idea... how do people remember these things?!

menamestom · January 2019

E.T.

mudslide73 · January 2019

Superman the Movie. Just missed out on Star Wars.

Myranda · January 2019

Maynehead said:

I have absolutely no idea... how do people remember these things?!

As a youngster a trip to the cinema was unusual as we were a bit poor. So it stood out. And what with it's being an effects driven spectacular, a coupled with a brain all spongy and ready for new things in my case it stands out as one of the few moments of my younger childhood I can recall

the_jaffa · January 2019

Bedknobs and Broomsticks for me too

racefaceec90 · January 2019

around 84 i think it was star wars and empire strikes back double bill at my local cinema. pretty good i think for first cinema experience :-) .years later realized that friends i both knew then and had yet to meet (literally 20 odd years until i met one of my friends) were all there watching the films too lol.

actually it may well have been before return of the jedi actually as I'm sure they would have shown it so 81 then .

Snags · January 2019

I have no idea. Probably a kiddie thing, although we didn't go that often. I know I saw Star Wars when it came out, and that wasn't the first thing I'd seen, but no idea what I saw before it. Saw "Call of the Wild" at some point, but can't have been when released in 1972 (not the earlier versions) because I would have been far too young.