What was the first movie you remember seeing in a theater?

  • DarthChile
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    		 In my case, it was Return of the Jedi (or so I think). I was about 5 and since then Star Wars changed my life.

    I also have vague memories of things like "The Gods must be Crazy" and other movies I did see in a theater when they were new. Goonies, The Never Ending Story, Ghost Busters (I really liked that one, I had to sit on the floor cause the theater was so full).

    I saw ET a few years later after it was released, in a auto cinema (hahahah kinda miss those).

    Good times...
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  • DCPuppyGirl
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    		 Oliver and Company
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  • DeliGuy
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    		 Aladdin
    [quote]In my final meeting with the gods from the heavens above, as they spoke to me and hit me with the power of the Ultimate Warrior, they told me Exit stage left! Exit stage rig
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  • The Ronin Identity
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    		 oliver and company was also my first movie in theater's... i was shocked to see it as the very first reply
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  • CoverMePorkins
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    		 E.T.
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  • jprc10
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    		 Jurassic Park back in 1993. I probably saw other movies before, but I don't remember them, plus JP really impressed me as no other movie at the time, I was only 7 years old.
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  • Lepew
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    		 The Smurfs and the magic flute (1983)
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  • Drahken
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    		 Does "theater" include drive-ins? The first movie that I can be certain of a general date for was one I saw at a drive-in when I was about 5, "convoy".
    The first one I can affix to a certain timeframe from a walk-in theater was disney's peter pan, when I was 6.

    I was familiar with star wars when I was 5, but I can't be certain if I saw it in a theater or if it had been on the ABC weekend movie or somesuch (this would have been after the first movie came out, but just before empire strikes back). Likewise, I saw disney's cinderella &robin hood at a very early age, but can't recall exactly when or how (I just know it wasn't on video, since I hadn't even -heard- of a VCR until years later).
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  • OutaTime1987
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    • 1 year 7 months ago
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    		 Executive Decision-1996.It was my dads choice I didnt mind. Before that it was all VHS tapes since my parents were always working so they never really had the to go to the movies.
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  • jitteryjewel
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    		 Summer School was the first movie I remember watching in the theaters. My cousin took me and the funny part was I was 8 or 9 and it was a pg-13 movie. LOL i can't remeber what I thought was cooler watching the movie or that I was breaking the rules :)
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  • demonpuppet87
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    		 Aladdin (1992). I was 5 and my cousin Tracy took us to see it at the Regal Cinema Seven, now an event center owned and operated by a nearby local college.
    “You know, bras are okay. Socks and T-shirts are only going to make me trip.” - Jakob Dylan
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  • Gemini Guy
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    		 Hard to say, I think the earliest I can remember is Dunston Checks In (1996)
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  • DirtyD1979
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    		 ET, when it was re released in 1985. Me and my brother went to see it with our grandma and I remember shortly afterward there was a parade.
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  • TurboLover
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    • 1 year 7 months ago
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    		 The original Star Wars, I believe. Not in 1977, but a few years after.


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  • fatkid84
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    		 The Little Mermaid was my first but I most remember going to see Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles with my father when I was 5.
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  • krazoom
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    DeliGuy wrote:
    Aladdin


    No way! That was mines too XD My dad took me and my sister.
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  • demonpuppet87
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    krazoom wrote:
    DeliGuy wrote:
    Aladdin


    No way! That was mines too XD My dad took me and my sister.

    Same here, folks. Check my last post on this thread.
    “You know, bras are okay. Socks and T-shirts are only going to make me trip.” - Jakob Dylan
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  • jango52577
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    		 The Little Mermaid when I was 4 in 1989. I remember it was at the Westwood Town Center General Cinemas (now AMC) in Rocky River, OH The movie was great from what I could remember however Ursula scared the shit out of me.
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  • OldSchool6239
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    • 1 year 7 months ago
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    Well I think I've finally figured it out after really drilling my brain ironnically enough it was Disneys Robin Hood. What threw me off was that, that came out in "73" but I remember watching it in a theater on a field trip in "85" with a summer camp center. Must've been a special screening or something that day weird.
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  • CleverHans
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    		 Caligula.
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