First movie you ever saw at the theater? [Archive]

Mikintosh

10-25-2008, 06:52 PM

My first film that I have any memory of seeing on the big screen was Aladdin (1992), though I'm told that I tagged along with my sister when my family went to see Beauty and the Beast and The Little Mermaid (we saw every Disney summer animated movie in theaters until Treasure Planet...yeah, we even saw Atlantis). I believe we saw them at either the AMC or the Century theaters nearby, both of which we still go to :) If we're talking live-action though, it was either Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (I might just have seen pictures of it) or The Pagemaster (guess we were big Macaulay Culkin fans).

And just for random, the most recent movie I've seen is Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist. Not bad at all, actually.

How about the rest of y'all?

CheshireKitten

10-25-2008, 06:54 PM

Little Mermaid with my parents. I remember Triton scaring me when he destroyed all of Ariel's treasures.

Chiptooth

10-25-2008, 06:58 PM

The Empire Strikes Back. I don't remember much of that first viewing, though, except for vague memories of the probe landing on Hoth, Luke cutting the fake Vader's head off on Dagobah, and frozen Han being lifted out of the carbonite chamber - I was only three years old at the time.

DarthGonzo

10-25-2008, 06:58 PM

I'm not sure (and I'll probably never find out because they only people who actually know this have passed away) but either a reissue of Disney's Alice in Wonderland, E.T. or Return of the Jedi.

Classic Speedy

10-25-2008, 07:00 PM

I'm not sure THE first, but my parents have told me I saw The Fox and the Hound in theaters as a toddler, though by that time it was a few years old (as I wasn't alive when it was first released). Obviously though, since I was only two, I don't remember that experience at all.

Light Lucario

10-25-2008, 07:08 PM

I thought that it was Aladdin back in 1992, but I don't think that was it. I only remember standing in a line in Burger King playing with one of the toys or imagining playing with one of the toys in my mind. I was only three at the time anyway. I do remember seeing The Lion King in theaters with my parents. I think I went and saw that movie like two or three more times after that.

Cabel

10-25-2008, 07:18 PM

The Land Before Time

JRP82190

10-25-2008, 07:19 PM

Spider-man at Loews theater the movie blow me away and its what really started my love of superheros

Tobias

10-25-2008, 07:34 PM

Smurfs & The Magic Flute in the Greenwood Mall movie theater, back when malls actually were fun places to be like they were on t.v.

Elven Moon

10-25-2008, 07:35 PM

I really couldn't tell you, but the EARLIEST movie I remember seeing in the theater was Oliver & Company, 1988. I was 7 years old. I can still remember the long line to get into the theater just to buy a ticket!

Movie06

10-25-2008, 07:39 PM

Well, it was Batman Forever for me.

EinBebop

10-25-2008, 08:03 PM

The Empire Strikes Back.Sure it wasn't my first time in the theater, but it's the earliest I remember as well.

Temple Fugate

10-25-2008, 08:14 PM

The three earliest films I recall sitting in a theater to see are Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Back to the Future Part III, and Ghostbusters II. I may have seen others before Crusade, but those all stand out because I had only seen the precursor films on home video and seeing the sequels in a theater with a giant screen was incredible.

EroSennin

10-25-2008, 08:25 PM

I think it was Gremlins. My aunt took me thinking it was a kids movie and ended up leaving half way through. I was 4 or 5 at time.

Draft

10-25-2008, 08:34 PM

the first one I remember seeing is Mulan, prolly saw some other Disney/WB stuff before then tho

Harvey Two Face

10-25-2008, 09:02 PM

I think the first movie I saw at the movies was Barney, but I can't remember what it was called.

defunctzombie

10-25-2008, 09:37 PM

I can't tell you what the first one I saw was, but I can tell you that the earliest I remember was Aladdin in 92. I was 4, so that probably was the first. I remember it because the theater I went to burned down in 95.

Lord Dalek

10-25-2008, 09:57 PM

1988 reissue of Bambi at the Albany Twin Cinema, Albany CA.

Peter Paltridge

10-25-2008, 10:10 PM

The Care Bears Movie (well, there's not much a three-year-old can see that's high-quality.)

Spider-man at Loews theater the movie blow me away and its what really started my love of superheros
Your first movie visit was in 2002? Uh.....are you 13 yet?

NewcomerDC

10-25-2008, 10:16 PM

First movie was back in 1989, well that's what my mom told me, when I saw Who Framed Roger Rabbit. I was born back then so I didn't remember the film until I got the video and DVD.

Michael24

10-25-2008, 10:36 PM

I actually spent some time this summer compiling a list of every movie I've ever seen in the theater (original run, special screening, etc.) Aside from maybe a couple, I think I've gotten them all, noting the year, theater/location, and how many times I saw them. (Don't ask me why. I guess I was just bored one day. :) )

Technically, the first movie I saw in the theater was Raiders of the Lost Ark in 1981. According to my parents, I saw it with them at the drive-in, though I only recall faint images since I was about three years old. The next movie I saw was Return of the Jedi in 1983. I have a minor recollection of that, as I was about five.

But the earliest movie experience I have the clearest memory of is Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom in 1984. I also saw Ghostbusters and Gremlins that same year and have a good memory of them. My mom likes to remember how I liked Gremlins until they changed, then I wanted to leave, but she was like, "We drove all the way here and paid, we're staying until it's over." :D

Classic Speedy

10-25-2008, 10:38 PM

Old Guy

10-25-2008, 10:40 PM

I have no idea. The first I remember is Batman Returns in June 1992.

J'onn J'onzz

10-25-2008, 10:45 PM

I think it was Toy Story...

Anarky

10-25-2008, 10:45 PM

Orca

J. B. Warner

10-25-2008, 11:01 PM

I have no idea what my first one was. The earliest I can remember is Aladdin in November or December 1992, but I was six years old then, so I suspect I must have gone to a theater at least once before. (My mom remembers taking me to the movies as early as 1990, but she can't recall which movie we saw - given my love of the Disney output as a child, it might have been The Rescuers Down Under.)

Mikintosh

10-26-2008, 12:56 AM

The Land Before Time

Ah crap, I might have seen that in theaters too...though I saw so many things on VHS when I was very little that anything before '92 is a bit of a blur.

I think the first movie I saw at the movies was Barney, but I can't remember what it was called.

I'll assume it was Barney's Great Adventure: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120598/

Tapout

10-26-2008, 05:42 AM

It was one of the Star Trek movies. I don't remember which one, as I fell asleep during it, but I do remember it being a big deal because it was the first movie I ever saw in a theater. The first I actually remember was Back to the Future II. Although being 7 years old combined with the fact that I hadn't seen part 1 at that point left me incredibly confused.

Baltofan

10-26-2008, 06:45 AM

The Smurfs and the Magic Flute.

jlaking

10-26-2008, 12:17 PM

The first movie I saw in theaters was 'All Dogs Goes to Haven'. It was the first and only I sat in the first row.

Jave

10-26-2008, 12:17 PM

My mother always tells that the first time she took me to the movies I wouldn't stop crying after we left the theater.

The movie was An American Tale, by the way.

Mala Loba

10-26-2008, 02:01 PM

I think it was The Lion King, but don't hold me to that- it's the first I remember seeing. It could have easily been something with dinosaurs, as I was obsessed with those as a child.

J. B. Warner

10-26-2008, 02:56 PM

I think it was The Lion King, but don't hold me to that- it's the first I remember seeing. It could have easily been something with dinosaurs, as I was obsessed with those as a child.

The Lion King was released in 1994; perhaps you might have seen We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story in 1993. (Jurassic Park also came out in '93, but it's not exactly a kids' movie.)

email2003

10-26-2008, 03:44 PM

I think mine was Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990). I was 5 and my parents took me and my sister to see it.:D

Mikintosh

10-26-2008, 04:44 PM

Michael24

10-26-2008, 04:47 PM

Ha, I'll top that, I've made a list of every movie I've seen EVER. It's way too long. lol

Haha!! Now that I could probably never do. Well, I maybe could if I had a massively-comprehensive list to start with, then go through and narrow them down, but otherwise, I wouldn't want to even think about attempting such a list. :D

Old Guy

10-26-2008, 04:51 PM

Ha, I'll top that, I've made a list of every movie I've seen EVER. It's way too long. lol

That's a difficult list to make especially if you have to include obsecure movies a teacher showed in school.

Czar Gato

10-26-2008, 04:51 PM

Orca
You poor thing. :P

The first I remember seeing in a theater was a rerelease of Fantasia, which probably would have been around 1990.

Boy Wonder

10-26-2008, 05:05 PM

Baby Geniuses. Tied for worst movie seen in theaters with The Love Guru.

JRP82190

10-26-2008, 06:25 PM

Your first movie visit was in 2002? Uh.....are you 13 yet?
I think I was 11 I moved to the U.S when I was 5 and my family didn't really have any money to do any thing back then

jph139

10-26-2008, 06:32 PM

NewcomerDC

10-26-2008, 06:38 PM

I believe it was The Lion King. The first I really remember was A Goofy Movie, though. To be more specific, I remember the NIGHTMARISHLY creepy short that aired before it. Runaway Brain, if the internet is to be believed.

Still scared to death of it.
Runaway Brain was with A Kid in King Arthur's Court back in 1995 however in other countries the short was with A Goofy Movie.

I saw it on the Internet but I wished that I saw it in theaters.

Michael24

10-26-2008, 06:40 PM

Mikintosh

10-26-2008, 06:40 PM

That's a difficult list to make especially if you have to include obsecure movies a teacher showed in school.

Well, I probably missed one or two, but we got shown theatrical-released movies so infrequently at school that it only took a little brain-wracking and some Google searches to come up with the names...plus, I started the list when I was 18, so I was pretty close to when I'd seen these things (and also only 1/3rd of the list is from before 2005, which is the sickest part lol). And who could ever forget Run Lola Run, really?

NewcomerDC

10-26-2008, 06:44 PM

I'd never even heard of Runaway Brain until I bought one of the "Disney Treasures" Mickey collections a couple years ago. I can see why many of the hardcore Disney fans don't like it, but still, very cool and stylish. :)
Why do some of the hardcore Disney fans disliked the short. I didn't think it was terrible. It might not be the most memorable but it at least brought the mouse back to the big screen.

Dr.Pepper

10-26-2008, 06:45 PM

The first one I saw was the box-office bomb Thumbelina. My mom, grandma, and I were the only people in the theater at the time.

Michael24

10-26-2008, 06:53 PM

Why do some of the hardcore Disney fans disliked the short. I didn't think it was terrible. It might not be the most memorable but it at least brought the mouse back to the big screen.

I agree with you. I thought it was great. Like I said, it was very stylish, and I thought Kelsey Grammer was great as Dr. Frankenollie. From what I've heard, some fans just didn't like seeing such a dark Mickey short in which he's portrayed so crazily. I got the general feeling that they felt it betrayed the nature of the character or something like that.

Mikintosh

10-26-2008, 07:02 PM

The first one I saw was the box-office bomb Thumbelina. My mom, grandma, and I were the only people in the theater at the time.

I saw that in theaters too; for the life of me I don't know why my family went to see all of these mediocre Don Bluth films...

ToOn~g@l

10-27-2008, 12:11 AM

I believe it was the Land Before Time, I was probably 3 and I loved the movie so much, I saw it eleven times in the theatre. I feel sorry for my mom on that one.

I saw that in theaters too; for the life of me I don't know why my family went to see all of these mediocre Don Bluth films...

I remember going to see Thumbelina only because there was the Animaniacs short "I'm Mad" Before the film, I have not seen that movie in years.

G. Wen

10-27-2008, 01:03 AM

It's either Dick Tracey or the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle movie. I can't remember either movie too clearly.

MajorTom

10-27-2008, 03:52 AM

Toy Story in Lock Haven, PA.

Young Justice

10-27-2008, 09:41 AM

I'm not exactly sure because I was too young, but the first memory of me being in a movie was seeing Superman: The Movie back in 1978.

J. B. Warner

10-27-2008, 09:50 AM

I remember going to see Thumbelina only because there was the Animaniacs short "I'm Mad" Before the film, I have not seen that movie in years.

I felt cheated - my sister dragged my dad and me to see Thumbelina in 1994, and the theater we went to didn't show the "Animaniacs" short at the beginning. Either that, or we came in late, I can't recall.

Cartoons before movies were the primary incentive for me to see certain films that I'd have no interest in otherwise. Later in '94, I went to see Richie Rich only because it came with Chuck Jones' "Chariots of Fur" at the beginning.

Ishtar

10-27-2008, 10:05 AM

It was Beauty & The Beast, or maybe it was even The Rescuers Down Under.

Atoon

10-27-2008, 01:02 PM

I believe it was Aladdin in 1992. That was the only time I saw a newsreel before the movie.

KCJ506

10-27-2008, 01:25 PM

Oliver & Company.

The second one was Batman.

SpaceCowboy

10-27-2008, 01:42 PM

Fantasia, in its 1990-reissue release. I think Rescuers Down Under may have been the second.

JShaggy

10-27-2008, 01:46 PM

The first movie I saw at a movie theater was Batman (1989). I was around six years old at that time.

BartWinkle

10-27-2008, 02:25 PM

First one I remember seeing was Mary Poppins in its initial release.

Linkpre

10-27-2008, 06:30 PM

I love the whole movie experience. It's all so cool and mysterious,espicially as a kid. And even as a young adult, it's still pretty magical. I went to see WALL*E this summer and I felt just like a kid again.

Anyways, my first movie I remember seeing was a rerelase of Snow Whit and the Seven Dwarfs.

JiminyCrick91

10-27-2008, 11:48 PM

I'm not sure what it was but some of my earliest memories of film theaters are Pocahontas, A Goofy Movie and one of the Free Willy films.

ToOn~g@l

10-28-2008, 12:01 AM

I felt cheated - my sister dragged my dad and me to see Thumbelina in 1994, and the theater we went to didn't show the "Animaniacs" short at the beginning. Either that, or we came in late, I can't recall.

Cartoons before movies were the primary incentive for me to see certain films that I'd have no interest in otherwise. Later in '94, I went to see Richie Rich only because it came with Chuck Jones' "Chariots of Fur" at the beginning.

I know what you mean, when The Neverending Story 2 came out they said there would be the new Bugs Bunny short at the beginning called Box Office Bunny. Mom and I went in early but it never showed up even after the credits and I remember seeing a few others waiting for that short too. Turns out the stupid theatre showed it in a completely different theatre all on its own. :mad: I wish they would have explained that better.

Andrew T. Hingson

10-28-2008, 10:14 AM

I think it was Bambi... but I know one of my first movies in a theatre was the first live action TMNT movie.

Elven Moon

10-28-2008, 01:01 PM

I believe it was the Land Before Time, I was probably 3 and I loved the movie so much, I saw it eleven times in the theatre. I feel sorry for my mom on that one.

I almost got to see that, but got in trouble with my mom. So, we ended up sitting in the theater parking lot and never went in. What a missed opportunity for a cool memory :/

Bones Justice

10-29-2008, 12:53 AM

Does the drive-in count? My folks packed up all of us kids in the Oldsmobile to go see a double-feature of The Absent-Minded Professor and The Shaggy Dog starring Fred MacMurray.

Mikintosh

10-30-2008, 01:38 AM

wow, this got buried in a rather short amount of time...

I almost got to see that, but got in trouble with my mom. So, we ended up sitting in the theater parking lot and never went in. What a missed opportunity for a cool memory :/

I'm with you on that; I had to see a lot of cool movies on VHS, though that was mostly because of my mother's apathy towards taking us to the movies when we were young. I doubt the Land Before Time would've been much better on the big screen anyway; Bluth's stuff seems better suited for a smaller scene.

WaggonerCartoons

06-22-2009, 09:18 PM

If I remember correctly, it was either "Toy Story", "A Bugs Life", or a Disney animated movie.

Prdgn

06-22-2009, 09:31 PM

The 1995 live-action Casper movie.

buttah

06-22-2009, 10:27 PM

I'm not completely sure because I was 3-4 at the time but I think it was The Lost World: Jurassic Park. At least it's the first movie I remember seeing.

savedbythebell

06-23-2009, 02:14 AM

my parents never really took me to movies when i was little...so the first movie i remember seeing was Jurassic Park

Rick Jones

06-23-2009, 02:44 AM

The first movie I saw in theatres was Twice Upon A Time when I was about 5, or maybe even younger. I don't know what year this was but it must have been a re-release or matinee or something. After that, the next film at the movies I saw was Disney's Peter Pan. I had a little crush on Tiger Lily too. After that it was Neverending Story 2, on a double feature with Joe Versus The Volcano, and a year or two after I saw Home Alone 2.

DonkeyKongSong

06-24-2009, 11:33 PM

It was either Jumanji or Toy Story.

mgr91686

06-25-2009, 12:16 AM

It was a double feature with Bambi and The Land Before Time (Which was in it's first year of release). I was 3-4 years old at the time.

Angilasman

06-25-2009, 12:29 PM

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie

I don't remember seeing it, but my mother assured me she took me when I was two years. I actually have vivid memories of seeing II and III in the theater.

Gold Guy

06-25-2009, 07:02 PM

I was probably Chicken Run.

snuggledingo

06-25-2009, 07:06 PM

the first movie i can recollect is the first land before time now that was a good movie

Cartoonzrule

06-26-2009, 10:53 AM

There's 3 movies that possible could have been my first, they were:

1.Homeward Bound 2
2.All Dogs Go to Heaven 2
3.The Hunchback of Notre Dame

moonzeppelin

06-26-2009, 01:03 PM

if i'm not mistaken, the first movie I ever saw in the theatres was The Little Mermaid in 1998 (for some reason it was showing) when i was about 4.

Little Mermaid with my parents. I remember Triton scaring me when he destroyed all of Ariel's treasures.

I can recall Ursula scaring the crap out of me, and for years (but not anymore!) :D

moonmaster

06-26-2009, 01:07 PM

A Bug's Life.

Novapocalypse

06-26-2009, 02:37 PM

Toy Story was the first movie I ever saw in theaters. It was in a small 2 screen theater on Christmas '95.

Bloody Marquis

06-26-2009, 02:42 PM

For me, it was Pokemon: The First Movie in a theater that has since been demolished and replaced with a Lowe's.

Jeff Harris

06-26-2009, 03:01 PM

The first I remember clearly seeing was E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial back in 1982 at the old Plaza Cinema. I was four years old. My grandma took me and my younger cousin. Didn't go to many movies when I was younger probably because there weren't a lot of theaters within the immediate vicinity of the house, and the good ones were way out of the way, so it had to be a special event to go. At least, that's how my grandma felt.

Haven't seen it in forever, but I clearly remember seeing The Ice Pirates in the theaters one time when my mom and some of her friends went to the movies. Same thing with Vacation, European Vacation, Lethal Weapon, and Batman.