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12th Aug 2010, 8:23 AM #1
First Time at The Pictures
Can you remember the first time you went to the cinema to see a movie?
I can remember a couple of films that I went to see as a kid, but I'd be hard placed to say which was first. I suspect that it was He-Man and She-Ra: The Secret of The Sword
This came out in 1985. I'd have been six years old, which seems about right. It was a vitally important film, I was a big fan of He-Man as a kid and to see a full length movie was hugely exciting. The only disappointment was that it set up She-Ra, which my sister liked and therefore I hated with a passion.
My parents may have taken me to see Return of The Jedi, which came out in 1983 and surely had quite a long run in the cinema. The first film I can remember seeing though is the He-Man and She-Ra crossover classic!Pity. I have no understanding of the word. It is not registered in my vocabulary bank. EXTERMINATE!
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12th Aug 2010, 8:26 AM #2
The first film I saw at the cinema was a re-release of Snow White, probably sometime in the summer of 1980. It may even have been the day i got my first copy of DWM. We went to what seemed like a huge cinema in Bristol (probably wasn't!) with gold carpet and seats to see it and had fruit pastilles!
Other than that I can't remember a thing about it!
Si xx
I've just got my handcuffs and my truncheon and that's enough.
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12th Aug 2010, 8:30 AM #3
Batman in 1990 for Mickey Fishers birthday.
Si. :mobile
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12th Aug 2010, 9:56 AM #4
Re-release of Bambi sometime in the early 70s. I found it terrifying - all these talking animals and the like. And no weasels.
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12th Aug 2010, 10:12 AM #5
I remember seeing Batman in 1990 too at the old Watford cinema. It was the first '12' film, but my friends and I were all 11. I remember my Mum encouraging us all to pretend we were older!
Re-release of Bambi sometime in the early 70s. I found it terrifying - all these talking animals and the like.Pity. I have no understanding of the word. It is not registered in my vocabulary bank. EXTERMINATE!
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12th Aug 2010, 10:57 AM #6
My first cinema trips were to see Snow White, Watership Down and Star Wars. I remember nothing about them! The first one I remember is Star Trek the Motion Picture. This must have been 1978 or 1979 (Our cinema was very slow getting films in). The main things I remember is my dad falling asleep (he was the one who wanted to see it) and Dr McCoy having a beard. I think the rest of the film was too dull or confusing for a 4/5year to work out.
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12th Aug 2010, 11:07 AM #7
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My Mum took me to Star Wars 1977 when I was four. Do I win the thread?
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12th Aug 2010, 11:24 AM #8
Yes! First prize is 450kg of Wookie droppings.
Can you remember anything about going to see the film?Pity. I have no understanding of the word. It is not registered in my vocabulary bank. EXTERMINATE!
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12th Aug 2010, 2:11 PM #9
Apparently the first film I saw at the pictures was The Jungle Book, although I don't remember the occasion.
The first memory I have of seeing a film at the cinema was in 1973 - a double bill of Digby the Biggest Dog in the World, followed by Disney's Robin Hood.
Apparently I cried so much at the end of the first film, I missed the first 10 minutes of the second.
(ah, the age of double bills as a routine at the cinema - almost as long ago as the Wurlitzer coming up through the floor to play the incidental music )Bazinga !
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12th Aug 2010, 6:15 PM #10
I'm 95% sure my first film at the cinema was the giant of motion pictures classics that is...
Care Bears the Movie.
A quick wiki shows it was released in 1985 so I'd have been 4 ish. I remember it being shown with a Strawberry Shortcake b-movie which wiki also confirms.
We went with our neighbour Clare and presumably her parent and it was at the Odeon in Peterborough which would close a few years later, sit empty for a decade, reopen as a fancy cinema where I'd see Shrek and Men In Black 2 and possibly Pearl Necklace Harbour, then get reinvented as music/comedy venue where we'd see Belinda Carlisle and then close in 2009 due to a not at all suspicious fire.
Actually it might have been the other cinema accross the road that was closed down in 1987 and eventually reopened as various trendy bars.
My first trip to a multi-plex was the brand new Showcase cinema to see Roger Rabbit in 1988 and I liked it muchly. I've not seen it since though.
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12th Aug 2010, 7:15 PM #11
I remember my mother taking me to see the first Bond film Dr. No in 1962, can't recall anything earlier than that, and I don't recall anything about going to the cinema, which was later turned into a Mecca for bingo players.
later films included some of the biggest films of the sixties, Zulu, Jason and the Argonauts, the Peter Cushing Dr. Who's, the Thunderbirds films, Sound of Music, Mary Poppins (the first time I was allowed to go on my own, I was ten).Last edited by Stephen Morgan; 13th Aug 2010 at 12:53 AM.
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12th Aug 2010, 7:56 PM #12
Mine was either Disney's Robin Hood, or Jason & The Argonauts - I can't remember the former, but can dimly remember the latter.
My first real 'properly remembered' trip to the cinema was to see Star Wars in 1977 - when the Pearl & Dean logo came up, with its lettering racing towards the screen against a spacey background, accompanied by stirring music, I assumed that was the start of the film...
When did the idea of showing a 'short' film before the main picture stop? I can remember sitting through such odd delights as the guy from Dick Barton playing in Gawain and the Green Knight before some film or other - in fact, now I think about it, we went to the cinema a heck of a lot as kids - all the Star Wars films, Superman 1 & 2, Raiders, The Rescuers, Watership Down, The Cat from Outer Space... ah, those were the days!!
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12th Aug 2010, 8:40 PM #13
I went a lot as an older child when we went to stay with my nan in Grantham which still had intervals during the films! We saw some right lost old shit: Power Rangers, Baby's Day Out, Beethoven and I can't remember what else.
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12th Aug 2010, 11:18 PM #14
ET in 1984 I think....
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13th Aug 2010, 8:16 AM #15I went a lot as an older child when we went to stay with my nan in Grantham which still had intervals during the films!
Si xx
I've just got my handcuffs and my truncheon and that's enough.
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13th Aug 2010, 8:45 AM #16I'm 95% sure my first film at the cinema was the giant of motion pictures classics that is...
Care Bears the Movie.
Pull your shirt up for a big Care Bears' Stare (and Care Bear Cousins' Stare) in celebration!
I remember my mother taking me to see the first Bond film Dr. No in 1962Pity. I have no understanding of the word. It is not registered in my vocabulary bank. EXTERMINATE!
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13th Aug 2010, 12:53 PM #17
All Creatures Great And Small the movie ...
Remember, just because Davros is dead doesn't mean the Dalek menace has been contained ......
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13th Aug 2010, 6:49 PM #18
Actually, while I'm thinking about it, yes. My mother had, and still does have, a great love for the Bond films, so, yes, she took me to see all the Connery ones.
As for the Moore ones, I have a very fond memory of a date with a girl I took to see The Man With the Golden Gun.
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13th Aug 2010, 7:35 PM #19
I'm not 100% certain, I was told ages ago by Mum that it was The Slipper and The Rose, but when I mentioned it recently she claimed that wasn't the case, and that it was Bambi. That said, her memory isn't what it once was...
The first film I remember going to see was Flash Gordon at the Sutton Odeon with my Grandfather, which I loved to pieces, though I did see Star Wars when I was very young too. On the way home I persuaded my Mum to buy me a sci-fi mag, though due to the large segment on Alien (along with way too many disturbing pictures) I later wish she hadn't."RIP Henchman No.24."
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15th Aug 2010, 7:41 PM #20
My earliest memory is of seeing a James Bond film, You Only Live Twice. I remember that it was standing room only and my dad stood behind me balancing me while I sat on a wall (or else I was simply too small too see it from a seat and he took me to the back!). I'd have thought that I would have been too young to wtch a James Bond film at that age but I can remember seeing the opening scene and the scene where the volcano opens quite clearly.
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16th Aug 2010, 4:27 PM #21
The Land Before Time, followed by nagging my parents to order enough pizza for all six of the vinyl hand puppets.
Never bothered with the sequels.
Oooh, coconut macaroons!
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16th Aug 2010, 4:42 PM #22
That's probably for the best as there probably up to Land Before Time 26 by now.
Si xx
I've just got my handcuffs and my truncheon and that's enough.
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19th Aug 2010, 11:03 PM #23
I remember seeing A Bug's Life at the old Beau Nah in Bath, must have been a birthday many moons ago. Topping film, or so I thought at the time.
Now I think it's mediocre/a bit crap and my least favourite Disney/Pixar film.
What's better than that, though, is seeing both Thunderbirds films back-to-back on the Disney Channel. They'd never get away with it nowadays though.For every fail, there is an equal and opposite win.
...Oh, who am I kidding?
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20th Aug 2010, 8:05 PM #24
I know my Mom took us to see Bambi at some point but I don't remember when... If I were to hazard a guess, I'd guess that Superman was my first film, and that we probably saw it in 1979 when I was three... my brother would not yet have been one year old though which I would think would make it unlikely unless someone watched him...
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20th Aug 2010, 8:39 PM #25Close embrace
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I'm pretty sure it was Superman 2. And after that, I think it was The Empire Strikes Back.
I loved the old Pearl & Dean advertising (which I was delighted to find they still use when I visited an independant cinema recently), and the coloured bubbles they ran on the screen before the lights went down. Now it's just a single colour. Boring.
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