Tell me about your first* (*movie)
 

*and share something cool about the movie.

The young kids won't understand thread got me thinking.
Poseidon Adventure 1972.
I was TWO.
I distinctly remember going to the drive in - in my dad's 911 back seat.
Ran around the screen playing before the show- still daylight.

It got dark, movie started, the boat flipped. Ernest and crew went around. I fell asleep, and awoke to the guys using a cutting torch to rescue the survivors from the bottom

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Random cool link to the movie model:

model ships in the cinema: The Poseidon Adventure 1972

The original Peter Pan. I remember tickets costing 50 cents.
This was in 1959

Double feature circa 1960: Prince Valient and Babes in Toyland.

Best
Les

Don't have that kind of memory. Mom would make a grocery bag of popcorn, Dad would pile us into the FT* and all 6 (or 7 after my brother was born) would head out to the drive-in for a cheap date.

*Family Truckster.

I was 5 or 6 and my mom took me to see The Wake of the Red Witch. I remember absolutely nothing about it except John Wayne’s character was killed diving for gold.

The first movie(s) I remember paying attention to was Chitty Chitty Bang Bang or The Love Bug.
My first "PG" movie was Jaws.
We had moved to Valparaiso, Florida from Defuniak Springs and went back to Defuniak to watch Jaws. I had a waterbed and was afraid to sleep on it that night, hey I was 9. [emoji23]

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I don’t know which I saw first, but I remember seeing the Dirty Dozen at the drive-in and Gone With The Wind at the theater... There was an intermission when they changed reels.

Like I said in the other thread, the first movie I saw was Bambi. That was probably in 1947 or 1948. It was at a drivein down the highway from the trailer park where the five of us lived in our 25 ft. trailer house next to Hwy. 99 south of Fresno, CA.

I think it was Herbie the Love Bug. I only remember the car doing wheelies and that it moves on its own.

Leaky, Poseidon scary the living siht out of me like Jaws did. I was afraid to brush my teeth thinking the shark may come out of the drain hole. Months later, we went to Marineland and I saw a nurse shark and I could not sleep for day after that.

I saw Batman the movie in the Philippines in 1970. Mom said I fell asleep.

My older brother was a Sci-fi fan at a young age. Mom had his birthday party watching 2001 A Space Odessey. I was very very young and confused! Not sure the year but I think I was 4.

First theater movie was Rocky in 76 when I was 9. First movie that glued me to the set was the Day the Earth Stood Still, probably when I was 4 or 5. Couldn't sleep, went downstairs in the middle of night, turned on the TV and it had just started. Was transfixed.

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Always thought how ironic that a classic anti-war film’s basic message was ‘Peace through superior fire power’.

Rich

1964 Rivoli Theater, Toledo

My Dad took me. The Nutty Professor. However, there was also a ten minute movie reel of the Cassius Clay - Sonny Liston fight. Round by round highlights and that's what got me there....... Bob Sr. wanted to see the fight highlights. Everybody wins!

I did listen to the fight with him on the radio earlier in 1964.

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Still confused after ten viewings at 66 years old.

I don't doubt my parents took me to some movies as a kid, only so they did not have to hire a babysitter. I just don't remember those.

I do remember as a 3rd grade kid, my older brother and I wanted to see the newest Elvis movie, and mom and dad has said maybe later. So they went out one night to an Air Force officers party, all dressed up, and got an really ancient old lady (likely in her 50s in reality) to babysit for us. At 7:00 it was bedtime, and we went upstairs to bed. The babysitter came and checked we were in our separate bedrooms, and went downstairs to the only air conditioned room, the living room.

My brother and I got dressed, climbed out the window, down a tree, got on our bikes and pedaled to downtown San Marcos, TX to the theater. We saw the movie, got back home and in bed and we would have gotten away with it except I put the ticket stub in my pocket. When mom was doing laundry she kew to check the pockets of little boys. She found my ticket stub and asked me about it. Well, um well, um, well um, I have no idea how that got there. Busted.

They realized then to babysitters were pointless. We got downtown and back safely at night and the sitter never knew we left. We never got another babysitter. We never did get the hot attractive 20 something babysitter like in movies, always some grandma age really old lady.

So the answer to my first memorable movie It an Elvis movie with the same plot where he is trying to be a "regular guy" and not the famous singer, and find a girl that loves him as just a broke working guy, that seems to break out into song every so often.

I do remember my parents took my brother and I to see:

https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/95451/whats-new-pussycat/#overview

I was 9 years old, and only because my parents brought my could I get in. It was a funny movie and then all of a sudden Boobies! Wow. That was the first movie I ever saw with boobs that were not on some African native lady in Nat Geo. And like Ron White says, ya see one pair, well you pretty much want to see em all.

I was six and went to the drive-in in the back our truck to see:

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I have zero recollection of the movie, just that we were at the drive-in.

The first one that I remember is the Sound of Music. We had to travel from Paterson to Montclair NJ because (IIRC) our theatre couldn't handle the sound. My 'rents also made us wear jackets and bow ties because it was a "fancy" theatre.

I don't exactly remember my first theater experience but like many here it may have been one of the Herbie movies or one of the Kurt Russell Disney flicks, possibly Superdad with Bob Crane. Also remember Worlds Greatest Athlete with Jan Michael Vincent.

Speaking of the Poseidon Adventure, I recall going to Movieland Wax Museum in Buena Park and seeing the Poseidon Adventure exhibit - impressive for a little kid.