11/11/2008 12:00 am

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What is the first movie you ever saw in a movie theater? What do you remember about it?

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LindaMyers
The first movie I remember seeing is Mary Poppins when I was eight. I had won two tickets at the grocery store, so my older sister that was old enough to drive took me into the nearest town to see the movie. I could count on one hand minus a couple fingers the number of movies that I saw in the first 15 years of my life. Linda
By LindaMyers on 11/11/2008 1:16 am
FrannieEm
I can’t remember, it was either a Disney animated feature or Darby O’Gill and the Little People. I loved it and it scared me at the same time.
By FrannieEm on 11/11/2008 2:32 am
CandisMalone
Linda - OMG -that was the first one I remember in a theatre as well!! I know we went to alot of drive-ins when I was little - but don’t remember the movies as much as the experience - but Mary Poppins I remember - maybe because it was in a theatre -not a drive in!! I went with several cousins - I think my aunt took us. it remains one of my favorite movies - I have shared it with my daughter and now am hoping to take her to the play in NYC.
By CandisMalone on 11/11/2008 12:04 pm
LindaMyers
Candis, I am still a Disney movie lover. And loved it when I could buy the DVD of Mary Poppins for my grandkids. Now if I like a movie, some I will go back many times to the theatre, Titanic six times with different people, and Sixth Sense five times with different people. I like the psycological thrillers but still have a heart for Disney. For some reason, it took four years of trying to watch the first Harry Potter movie, everytime I started I would fall asleep, so watched the movie in pieces many times. Not that the picture was a sleeper, just through me somewhere else each time I tried. Linda
By LindaMyers on 11/11/2008 12:20 pm
CandisMalone
Hi Linda - one of the nice things about being an older mom - I was 40 when my daughter was born - I get to be 50+ and still watch Disney and disney-style movies with her!!! My favorite now is Ella Enchanted - she knows if she asks me what I want to watch - it will be that one! (Favorite scene - when Ella sings “Somebody to love”) She is off school today and we are going to see High School Musical 3!! Hope I can still be around to watch them with grandchildren some day!! Unfortunately - I don’t get to see very many adult content films in theatres- I think the last one my husband and I went to was the first of the Star Wars Trilogies - 10 years ago!! I have seen a few chick flicks with girl friends - but most often watch a movie on HBO that I have Tivo’d!!! When we lived in NY - we would meet in the city after work on Friday night and see a movie and have a late dinner - (BC) before child!! Then we moved to NJ - where we could drive 5 minutes and park for free - but still went to the city - paid tolls, $20.00 to park - double prices on the movies - we just wanted to be in the city!!! Seems only yesterday - yet a hundred years a go!! I wish someone would re-invent the drive-in - I know there are still some out there- but they get a bad reputation these days - just need more security - but with the cinematogarphy and sound of today -it could be a wonderful new experience!!
By CandisMalone on 11/11/2008 12:32 pm
LindaMyers
Candis, I remember going to see Star Wars, the first movie when it came out. They were introducing the surround sound at the same time in the theatre, when you could feel the movie and watch it, new at that time and it was great! I took my grandson years ago to Universal studios in Califormia to see the three D terminator show they had. He was six at the time, and just looked at me and said ” I think I can wait on theatres doing this!” About the time Arnold had a machine gun in his face out in the middle of the theatre, he stook up, screamed and then dropped to the floor. :-) AMC has turned a few of the theatre sections here now into dinner theatres, so will have to try that out. Linda
By LindaMyers on 11/11/2008 12:48 pm
KarenBenedetto
“Ben Hur” at the drive-in during summer vacation in my pajamas!!!! What a great night!
By KarenBenedetto on 11/11/2008 12:30 pm
FrannieEm
Ben Hur - Cool. That chariot race was something else.
By FrannieEm on 11/11/2008 7:31 pm
kaitmcstay
I was ten. My grandmother took me, my sister and mom to a beautiful theater in Pittsburgh to see The Sound Of Music. It was breathtaking! The screen seemed huge. That has remained one of my favorite movies for 45 years. It was a few years before I went to a theater again, and that was a small shabby one in our town, to see Gypsy with my best friend. Another long time fave..
By kaitmcstay on 11/13/2008 6:55 am
Cjay
I’ll never forget it … “Bambi.” I only vaguely remember it now, but I do know the parts of that movie that had the greatest impact on me - I was not yet 3 years old, then, and It had just been released in GP Michigan, or the Fox in Detroit. My parents often talked about that event, too, for good reason. I never forgot about Bambi’s mother, and hearing her calling “Bambi, Bambi …” I think that set the stage for my future parenting! ;-) Thumper was my “friend” forever. Why? I have no idea. But, sadly, my mother had left dinner roasting in the oven while we were at the movies, with the table all set for us to return home, and “dive in.” As soon as we sat down, I was told many times, my father looked at the roast on the platter, picking up his carving knife and fork, in gratitude for the gift from a business associate, and announced, “That’s Bambi’s mama…” Need I say more? (Apparently, I stopped crying 3 days later!)
By Cjay on 11/11/2008 1:19 am
CARose
GEEZ! Mine was ‘Bambi’ as well. Mom took me to see it and I loved it. My favorite quote is, ‘Thumper, what did your mother/father tell you?’ Thumper answers, ‘If you can’t say somethin’ nice, don’t say nuthin’ at all.’ My first with my friends movie was ‘Dr Zhivago.’ My first love story. I still cry when I see it or hear the theme song. What was it called? ‘Lara’s Theme?’ I can hear it now…hmmmmmm, ‘somewhere my love…’ CA
By CARose on 11/11/2008 1:46 am
marylous
dr. zhivago was in the fall of ‘66, i think. nowadays actors can’t liplock their way to the light in the eyes of julie christie and omar sharif. that movie i DID see in a theatre.
By marylous on 11/12/2008 12:07 pm
OhMyFavorite
Golly…”The Sound of Music”…my father brought us down from Connecticut to Radio City Music Hall. The movie was on a gazillion foot screen :^) The seats were plush, crushed velvet in a color I know today as merlot. They were gilded too, and I kept creaking mine open and closed. Even the concession candy was the sweetest, most unique I’d ever seen before then (Jordan Almonds). And there were white gloves on the ushers, who had flashlights that glowed us to our seats. Julie Andrews seemed to be yodeling right at my face :^) and body felt connected to the singing and dancing in the movie. I wanted a marionette for a looong time after that. (Thanks for the memory.)
By OhMyFavorite on 11/11/2008 2:24 am
DeleteThis
“13 Ghosts” Everyone was wearing those goofy 3-D glasses….and on the way to the film my mother’s stationwagon filled with her 5 little children and the family car caught on fire. It was dramatic and fun. And with firefighters putting out the fire and my mother calmly making arrangements for other transportation by little brother Mark asked, ‘Will we see the movie?” I thought that was hysterical. We did. It was good according to all of us under 10-year old kids.
By DeleteThis on 11/11/2008 2:24 am
EKA
OMG, That’s what I was going to put ! Now, I’m not sure if it was my “first ” since it came out in 1960 and I was 13, I MUST have seen something before that, but that was the one I remember. I even have the 3-D glasses saved in my scrapbook !
By EKA on 11/11/2008 11:24 am
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