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My first movie was Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles when I was 5. I'm definitely proud to call that my first movie, my sister and I were obsessed. Loved the cartoon, loved that nasty dessert thing, had all the shirts and plush toys. Good times!

Bambi.
On a side note, my cousin's kid is four and I suggested my mom take him to see Winnie the Pooh. She said he was too jaded for it. My cousin has been allowing him to watch things like Godzilla since he was like 2. That is so not how I would raise my kid.

I dont remember. I know I saw Hercules in the movie theaters...that's the first movie i remember seeing in theaters. Disney's Hercules. Not sure if it was the first movie I saw in theaters though...

I don't even remember it that much. I liked it.

I don't remember what my first movie was but I remember my father pulling my brother and I out of Goonies after the first ten minutes because of the line about the statue of David pissing in its own face. I was 8 or 9 I think.

My son's first movie was The Tigger Movie. He was two but was very well behaved in the theater.

Raiders of the Lost Ark. Or Caligula.

According to my mother, it was Superman. But that came out in 1978 and I wasn't born until 79. So, maybe she only thinks it was Superman, but really it was Superman III with Richard Prior, which came out in 1983 (the day before my 4th birthday).

All that aside, the first movie I remember going to see in the theater was Gremlins in 1984.

Either way, it's clear that much of my life has been shaped by either one of those two experiences.

My mom took me to see 'Dumbo' when I was around 4 or 5; back then, Disney re-released their classic movies every 7-10 years.
My first "grown up" movie (had to clarify that and not say 'adult'....you might get the wrong idea!) that my parents took me to was 'The Sting'. I was 6, and the first time Robert Redford smiled, that was it for me. Loved him ever since. ;)

I can't remember the first movie I saw in a theater (apparently, my parents were THOSE people, and I hate those people), but I know that E.T. was the first movie I saw twice on the big screen. My most vivid child movie memory is seeing the Twilight Zone at age 8, which messed me up. I only saw it that once, and it still gives me the wiilies.

2001: A Space Odyssey. It was 1968, and I was 6 years old. Picture a young boy staring at the screen with his mouth open, and that would be me. It put a zap on my head that's never disappeared. Anything to do with technology, space or science fascinates me.
As for my kids? Muppet Christmas Carol. They were familiar with the characters, and I think they enjoyed the longer format and no commercials.

2001 at age 6? You must have spent a lot of time around that obelisk.

This reminds me of something that's been on my mind all weekend. How do I go see Winnie the Pooh, without looking like some kind of pedophile? I just want to see bad things happen to Eeyore. That's all.

My mom took me to see The Lion King the day after my fifth birthday, when it debuted. There was a lot of build up, a lot of "this is your first ever movie theater movie! this is your first ever movie theater popcorn!", and I remember being really thrilled by the whole thing (and upset that my three year-old sister got to come, too- I was a jealous child). I'm absolutely proud to own that as my first theater experience, and I sincerely hope that my future kids are able to have that kind of memory, too.

My old man took us to see “All the President’s Men” and we were pissed. We were so sure he was going to take my two brothers and I to see “Black Belt Jones” or some shit like that, we should have known better seeing as when we were pulling up to the theater, there wasn’t anyone black in sight.

I recently learned that the first movie I saw in theaters was "Father of the Bride" when I was two. My great-grandfather wrote the book on which the movie was based, so I guess my mom and her siblings all went together. I apparently was really scared of the dog scene.

The first movie I remember seeing in theaters was "The Lion King," when I was 4. I remember crying at the hyenas and but I loved the rest of it. It's still one of my all-time favorite movies, and my favorite Disney movie.

I want to say Mary Poppins, but I wasn't born yet when it came out -- maybe it was a rerelease. I have vague memories of watching Dick van Dyke dance with penguins. If not, it was Escape to Witch Mountain, which was definitely cool.

Bambi, I think. At about age five or so.

I think it was something with Cheech and Chong? Not sure which one, I know it had weed.

Mine was Batman, 1989. I was eight.

Star Wars. I was 3, it had been out for a week or so. Saw it at the Coronet in San Francisco.

I think it was the Ten Commandments. It was in the Philippines where (back then) it was common to walk in in the middle of the movie. God was blasting fireball-powered typeface right at Charleton Heston when we walked in.

Mine was, I shit you not, The Exorcist, and I was 4. Sure, sure my parents took me to the drive-in because they assumed I'd curl up in the back with the family dog and go to sleep. No. fucking. way. That movie still haunts me. I can't even put it in my Netflix streaming queue because of its bad ju-ju.I think after that, it was "Let's Scare Jessica to Death." Another classic.

Fantasia. Though we didn't make it all the way through after the hippos in tutus terrified my infant brother.

The Little Mermaid, at least that is one of the first movies I have a clear memory seeing in a theater. Also in the same year, Ghostbusters 2, which terrified me to no end. To this day I have no idea why I was allowed to see that and am still sort of more scared of Vigo the Carpathian than I probably should be.

The Great Mouse Detective in 1986. Re-watched it in 2006, hated it. Way to ruin childhood memories. Wont watch any other childhood movies anymore ever since.

The Muppet Movie (1979)

My first movie was Disney's now-infamous Song of the South, when I was about three. I remember the "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah" scene, but that's about it. My son's was A Bug's Life at about the same age.

Beauty and the Beast.

One of my favorites to this day. That was also the first Academy Awards I watched when it was nominated and was so angry when it lost...granted it lost to Silence of Lambs, but still, for a five year old, it was a tragedy.

Mary Poppins.

Stop laughing; I am that old. ;-)

I can only say the first film I remember seeing was "Bugsy Malone" in 1976. I guess that explains why I have a soft spot for musicals. I even bought the soundtrack, and it still holds up. Then other memories are Star Wars, Grease, and...Julia? My Mom took me because she wanted to see it. All I remember is that women were rowing a boat. But I was voted "Most Well-Behaved Child at a Grown-Up Film"

Mine was The Sound of Music. I was so disappointed as I teenager when I read Maria Von Trapp's biography and found out how much of the film was bullshit. We teased my older daughter endless ly about her first movie, Aladdin. She very loudly screamed, disgustedly, "ewwwwwwwwwww!" when he kissed Jasmine at the end. Some things you can't prepare children for.

I know my first was The Little Mermaid (still a favorite) but the first I remember is The Lion King. I was about 5 and I remember sitting on my brother's lap (he was 15) and balling my fool eyes out when Mufasa died. Traumatic! It was also my first Broadway musical a few years later. (on Broadway, my theatre geek parents had been taking me to regional theatre stuff since I could sit up on my own). Still a very important movie to me.

Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade. I was 13. I grew up in a religion that thought movie theaters were hotbeds of sinful activity. My non-religious uncle took my brother & I to see the movie without telling my parents. The best thing he's ever done. I loved it.

I took my four year-old niece to see WALL-E, as her first theater experience. She was awed & attentive, but grew tired towards the end, so we left with about fifteen minutes remaining.

As to children now seeing movies at younger & younger ages? Most def "yes," according to the vast number of infants I see attending inappropriate movies with their dumb-ass parents.

My brother would sneak me into the drive-in (i would hide behind the bench seat) with his GF. You see my parents left him to babysit me and he was too cheap to pay my way in even though mom and dad gave him the cash. So as a young child I saw monster movies and slasher movies and all kinds of stuff I shouldn't have. The first one I remember for sure is "Bloody Mama" a movie about Ma Barker. Seeing all that sex, blood and violence at 7 didn't hurt me a bit.

Now if you'll excuse me I have this hooker to finish cutting up before the wife gets home.

Star Wars. {wistful sigh}

Platoon. My parents took me when I was just about 1 year old. I blame that for my current mental state, although they claim I slept through most of it.

I saw "The Land Before Time" when I was about 4 or so. We lived in Long Island, and my Aunt took me and my brother out for a day in Manhattan - the first trip to New York City that I really remember. My parents were out of town and my grandmother was supposed to be watching us, but my Aunt convinced her to let us go. The movie was playing in a big old fashioned theater with a red velvet curtain covering the screen. I kept thinking that when the curtain drew back, I would see a puppet show. When the curtains finally opened, I was confused because all I saw was a big flat screen. I don't remember what I thought of the movie, but I remember loving the whole experience.

I'm not sure what I first saw, but I remember being taken to see Ninja Turtles, getting scared of the poster (I was four), and seeing Driving Miss Daisy instead.

I think I may have the BEST first 3 movies ever. I say this because the first movies I can remember seeing were at a drive-in, double feature.

Drive-in Double Feature: Platoon and RoboCop
Theater: Spaceballs.

Suck. On. That.

I was 6 or 7. This is because my parents learned early that if I said I could handle it, that I could. I fucking loved the double feature and made robot stompy noises with my feet for the next 3 days every time I took a step.

Hrm, I'm not sure if it was actually my first movie but the first movie I REMEMBER seeing was War Games. I would have been around 7 and it was at the drive in out in Montauk. I know I have seen movies before that one, I have some vague memories of seeing some cartoon movie with my dad when I was really little but I don't remember what.

Pissboy and I clearly have similarly fuck-up parents.

RV - I remember going to see The Blair Witch Project and sharing a row with two very small, terrified children whose mother kept threatening to spank them if they didn't "stop sniveling". Yep.

My first movie was The Gnome-Mobile in one of Disney's frequent re-releases. I think I was four.

After my mom's aneurysm in 1984, my parents stopped going to the movies. Dad just wasn't comfortable taking her to the theater because she's difficult to keep quiet. As he never had any free time when he wasn't at work, he didn't go by himself either. Right after he retired, The Greatest Game Ever Played came out and I dragged him to a morning showing of it while Mom's home health worker was with her. His first foot in a movie theater since 1984. Dad loves watching golf and reading golf history, so I thought he'd love it. The only comment he made when we got out of the theater was, "Gosh, when did movies get to be so LOUD?"

What? You trying to figure out how old we are? Well, here you go...

Mine was Bedknobs and Broomsticks.

Pretty sure I was 6. Soon after I think we saw aristocrats, which I loved. :)

Wow, *that's* impressive!

I bet you were a hit with the rest of the kids in Kindergarden the next day!

So, this family walks into an agent's office and says, "Have *we* got an act for you ..."

My mom took me along to see Star Wars when I was three years old. I couldn't be more proud about that being my first cinematic experience.

Oh and Animalympics was the first film I ever saw in a theatre.

According to IMDB, it was only shown on HBO, but that's just bullshit, because I remember as plain as if it were yesterday seeing the ad for it in the Malacca Straits Times, realizing that it was only playing 1 more day and throwing an epic tantrum until my mother relented and had our amah take me to the theatre to catch one of the last shows. It might have been a bootlegged print (lord knows everything we ever rented on video was bootlegged backed then) but it did play in K.L.

The Love Bug, as a school field trip. (WTF, I know.) Second was, for reasons just as inexplicable, The Exorcist, somehow shepherded there by my parents, the evangelicals. I was 8. I shit you not.

Right now, I'm not sure which is the more horrifying movie.

I honestly cannot remember. My mom was a big movie buff so we went often. But I do have a good first movie story. We took my three year old daughter to see a Disney re-release of Snow White in 1994. At the climax of the movie, when the dwarfs are chasing the wicked Queen up the mountain, we looked at our daughter and she had taken off running up the theater aisle in sheer terror. By the time we corralled her in the lobby, the movie had ended. We didn't take her to movies for a few years after that.

Of course, she is now studying film in college.

Jurassic Park. That bit where you see the, is it a brontosaurus, for the first time, and the theme comes swelling in.....
I think that's why I love movies.

walt disney's the rescuers , i believe it was, when i was like 6 or 7.

My mom is fairly sure it was A Christmas Story but I'm too young to remember and they aren't 100% sure I was with them (my parents are very good people, just not the best at remembering details like that).

The first movie I remember seeing is An American Tail. The waves tariffed me and I loved it. It's one of my most vivid childhood memories.

I have a memory of a movie that I saw as a kid with a scene towards the end where the cast was on a mountain top and there was a giant diamond involved. No clue what it was but it would have been 84-85.
The first movie I remember seeing is Howard the Duck. My mom and aunt watched something else while me, my older brother, and cousins watched HTD and mainly I remember the principal from Ferris Bueller turning into a monster and giving me nightmares for weeks.

I was 4 and it was Bedknobs and Broomsticks. I remember little about the movie, but my recollection is that we walked from my grandma's house to a giant old movie theatre. It's being in the theatre that I remember most.

We took Little Julien to Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs on his 4th birthday. I had to ask Mr. Julien if it had been good because so engrossed in watching him watch the movie. He's been to maybe 5 movies now. I lost it watching the lantern scene in Tangled with him on my lap. To be fair, it does make me cry every time.

Soylent Green, I saw what you did there and I laughed heartily.

E.T. was my first theatre experience as well. I was five and terrified by it.

Mine
The Apple Dumpling Gang -taken with group of kids by mother
My Wife
Jaws -taken by babbysitter
Both the summer of '75

My first movie was Star Wars - I win!!!

So, what's with the Iron Giant pic?

Ah! My first was Edward Scissorhands. At a mere 2 years old. I was obsessed with it, actually. Strange for a 2-3 year old girl. My mom encouraged it.

Well apparently my parents took me to see Jaws!
Did I mention I was born in February of 1974 and it came out in June 1975? Perfect film for a 16 month old!

My mom says my first movie was Midnight Run. The first one I actually remember was The Last Unicorn (age 5 or so). I saw it with a little boy from my neighborhood, and he held my hand during the scary parts! My oldest's first was Happy Feet, the middle one's was Bolt, and the youngest won't sit still yet.

(and NO I was not the person who sat there with a crying baby through a movie. As long as you kept him good in snacks/milk, he was good.)

Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom.

I was 6, and my parents took me to watch it at a mall. In hindsight, the PG rating couldn't have been more appropriate because I was crying at the top my lungs during the "rip the heart out of a man's chest" scene, and didn't stop crying until the end of the movie.

To this day, Indiana Jones is on my top 5 trilogies. What? There was a fourth?

James and the Giant Peach. Remember those big stormclouds which changed into killer rhinos? Scary shit.

Just to confirm Disney´s firm grip on our collective childhood memories, mine was The Jungle Book, even though it was originally released 14 years before I was born. Still probably my favourite Disney movie, and doubtless the one with the best music.

I'm not sure, but, I think it's the Iron Giant. Ath least, it should have been.

Hey Figgy, not to be the ruiner of childhoods, but the production company killed multiple pugs and orange cats filming Milo & Otis. It is for that reason that I can never watch that movie again. Especially the river sequence.

"I have a memory of a movie that I saw as a kid with a scene towards the end where the cast was on a mountain top and there was a giant diamond involved. No clue what it was but it would have been 84-85."
Hey Tidmore, was it the Dark Crystal?

I just had to email my mom to verify but I think mine was ET as well. I was 4 and even though it made me cry when ET was sick, I love that movie with all my heart. I still get choked up when I hear the theme song and see the kids flying on their bikes past the moon. Pissboy and I watched it not too long ago when it was on TV and we both got emotional. Don't tell him I told you.

The first movie I remember seeing was Home Alone. My grandmother and mom took me to see it, and I can remember laughing like crazy. After that it's sort of blurry, though Batman Returns stands out as my first PG-13 film.

E.T.....Cinderella...doesn't matter. i still cry during both.

Empire Strikes Back. But this is funny because I'm walking out the door to take my 3 yr old to see Winnie The Pooh. I'd never take her to see a movie like Empire.

Black hole. Then E.T. and The Return of the Jedi.

Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame, and it was a horrible experience because a)the theater decided to show a trailer for Escape from L.A before the film, b)after leaving the theater out of fear with my mother, the first thing I see upon entering is Glenn Close as Cruella DeVille screaming for 101 Dalmatians, and c)because that film is incredibly dark and full of things that are anything but G rated, especially for a 2 1/2 year old. It was so bad, I didn't want to go to the movies for years after that, the noise was too loud, and I just didn't enjoy the experience. Of course, being someone who goes to the movies typically twice a week, it's beguiling how scared I was of theaters. Or that compared to the crazy shit I watch, Hunchback is plain vanilla at this point.

It's funny that this comment diversion is going on because I was just researching this about myself. This is a huge coincidence or Rowles has a spy/scout assigned to me.

Anyway, it was a re-release of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in the summer of 1983. Not a bad introduction to the movie theater, which I still love going to to this day.