What was the first film you saw at the cinema

Kebabkid

I think mine was Zulu, which is weird as that was released in 1964, yet I was born in 1963

darthed1981

The original Jurassic Park.

Still one of my favourites

axisus

Sassafras said:

Last Tango in Paris when I was 10.

How on earth did you get in? Oh, I guess the marg helped ....

earwighoney

Philly_Q said:

EricTheWeary said:

guitars4you said:

as a kid with parents - Oliver Twist - Jungle Book and Swiss Family Robinson

With mates as a teenager - Day of the Jackal (original version with Edward Fox) 

first soft porn was something with Mary Millington in it

The first X rated film I saw was The Kentucky Fried Movie. It was probably one of the most dissapointing moments in my life and I still carry a grudge against the people who made it. 

Mine was John Carpenter's The Thing.  I didn't see many more X rated films because they introduced the 18 certificate later that year.

Still one of my all time favourite films.

Oof. The Thing might be my favourite all time film. Great choice. Alongside Jason & The Argonauts, a film that everytime I see it (especially the monsters) I can't help but feel giddy with excitement. The first 18 certificate film I saw at the cinema was Paul Thomas Anderson 'Magnolia'.

Philly_Q

earwighoney said:

Philly_Q said:

EricTheWeary said:

guitars4you said:

as a kid with parents - Oliver Twist - Jungle Book and Swiss Family Robinson

With mates as a teenager - Day of the Jackal (original version with Edward Fox) 

first soft porn was something with Mary Millington in it

The first X rated film I saw was The Kentucky Fried Movie. It was probably one of the most dissapointing moments in my life and I still carry a grudge against the people who made it. 

Mine was John Carpenter's The Thing.  I didn't see many more X rated films because they introduced the 18 certificate later that year.

Still one of my all time favourite films.

Oof. The Thing might be my favourite all time film. Great choice. Alongside Jason & The Argonauts, a film that everytime I see it (especially the monsters) I can't help but feel giddy with excitement. The first 18 certificate film I saw at the cinema was Paul Thomas Anderson 'Magnolia'.

Oh, I love Jason and the Argonauts, the Sinbad films, all those Ray Harryhausen things.  Like The Thing, great practical special effects.  CGI can get stuffed.

axisus

earwighoney said:

...  Jason & The Argonauts, a film that everytime I see it (especially the monsters) I can't help but feel giddy with excitement. 

I love that film, one of the three movies that completely blew me away in my youth (The other two are the Golden Voyage of Sinbad and Willy Wonka). Even now I find the tension at the top of the cliffs incredible, the scattering of the teeth ....

equalsql

Custer of the West:

I thought it was boring though.

The second film was Disney's Jungle Book... which was brilliant.

Johnspreyer

Bambi.  Apparently I cried so much and so loudly when Bambi's mother died, I had to be taken home.  I've still never seen the end.

thermionic

I think it was Disney’s Aristocats. I also remember my mum taking me to see Daleks - Invasion Earth: 2150 AD when I was about 6!

DiscoStu

Star Wars, followed straight after by The Empire Strikes Back!
My dad ran our local cinema and he put on a double bill when Empire came out in 1980. I may have been to the pictures before then but that's the first film(s) I remember seeing. Me and my pal got in for nothing and got free sweets from the kiosk!
Happy days.

munckee

My dad took my brother to Star Wars but said I was too young, 4 at the time. I remember going to the original spider man film whenever that was and Indians jones.  First with my mates was soul man. 

A mate  and I took two girls on a double date when we were 13 and went to the pictures without having a clue what was on. It was the mission, seem to remember it was really good. 

wave100

Mary Poppins for me, closely followed by Thunderbirds Are Go! the soundtrack (mostly by the Shadows without Cliff Richard) of which has had a surprising influence on my subsequent musical output.

schrodinger1612

Jurrasic Park for me, then ’The Secret Garden’, both in 1993

DrJazzTap

Transformers 1984!

steveledzep

West Side Story when we were on holiday in Bournemouth and it was pissing down, I was about 8 yo.  Been to the cinema fewer than ten times since, not been for over 25 years.  Don't watch films on tv, don't have the attention span and I don't have the ability (inclination) to follow the plot.  Mrs Ledzep loves the films and thinks I'm an alien ! 

Philly_Q

steveledzep said:

West Side Story when we were on holiday in Bournemouth and it was pissing down, I was about 8 yo.  Been to the cinema fewer than ten times since, not been for over 25 years.  Don't watch films on tv, don't have the attention span and I don't have the ability (inclination) to follow the plot.  Mrs Ledzep loves the films and thinks I'm an alien ! 

I saw Michael Owen on TV the other day (might as well admit it was on Through the Keyhole...) and he said he's only seen about 8 films in his entire life.  I'd guess it's a few more than that, but whatever the actual number.... I've seen thousands and thousands.  It just seems weird to me that people don't watch them.

57Deluxe

Dr. No - yes, ermm no - probably...

quarky

Empire Strikes Back I think, or maybe A New Hope/ESB double. I can't remember seeing anything before that at the cinema.

TheBlueWolf

Star Wars - A New Hope probably.

bingefeller

The first one that I can remember is He-Man - 1987 classic!