The first movie you saw at the Cinema?

Serenity · The first movie you saw at the Cinema?

My first Cinema experience was to see Bambi. I remember my nan taking us. Sitting on those red velvet covered seats, sitting up the top balcony, feeling OH so grand! Buying icecream from the usherette, funny how that sticks in your mind. The second film she took us to see was Walt Disneys Seven Dwarfs, it was marvellous, and I couldn't have been very old.

So what was your first Cinema outing to see?

Thumper

I think Iit was called the dark crystal, I cant really remember that much about the film. But I can remember my friend Kerry, Running round the balcony screaming, and her Mum Linda chasing her. Our mum never took us to the cinema with them again lol

The second film we saw was Pinocchio

Selious5

Golly this takes me back. Used to go to the Saturday matinee. The town practically emptied of kids in those days with everyone at the pictures. Got into the picutres with a bag of sweets for less than a shilling (that's abot the same as today's 10p coin for all you young things!

Can't mind the very first film but I remember the serial they used to play

"Flash Gordon" - now I am giving my age away but good good times

redhead

Crikey thats a long way back , but I went to the flea pit as it was known to saturday matinee to see a James Bond film which one can't remember it was a smelly old place ,ripped seats , didn't buy ices or anything to dodgy I think me and mates only went to get out of the rain in those days there was no shopping malls , haven't been to pics for ages the old flea pit out me of for life

Serenity

I remember going to the Saturday morning pictures. We used to get 25p pocket money and that got us in the cinema and a bag of sherbet from the sweet shop oppostie. I remember singing along with the words on the screen that were highlighted by a bouncing ball, 'We are the girls and boys well known as minors of the ABC'! can't remember any more words lol. Each week they showed episodes from various films, one was a space film about a metal frog like spaceship some kids had found. Another was an Arabian adventure, all great fun, as long as you didn't miss a week lol.

Going back to the sherbet, it was the bright coloured sand-like stuff,served from huge jars, I used to like a mixture of pink and yellow, they put it in a paper bag for you, then we'd sit all through the film, dipping our finger in and sucking it off, to come out in the daylight with a brightly dyed finger!! Wonder what they put in that stuff? lol you dont see it nowadays...ahhhh those were the days

MJH

andypisces

has to have been errol flynn as robin hood .....love that movie and have video of it.....andypisces

astra babe · first cinema trip

My first trip to the cinema was with my mum and younger brother to see Pete's Dragon at the old pilot.I remember catching the bus and my older brothers stayed on the bus to carry on to the swimming pool.I still love to watch the film if it comes on the telly.

My second was to see E.T my older sister and her hubby took me and our younger brother to see it and i remember blubbing alot and still do now when it comes on, lol.....

Amber

saturday matinees , the first film i can rembering seeing was "songs of the south" it was real people with animation brer rabbit.
I now have the video and still watch, singing along with zippy doda zippyed day my oh my what a wonderful day, plenty of sunshine plenty of rain zippidy doda zippyed day
MR, bluebird on my shoulder etc etc

think that film had an impact on me

daxxxx

1st film we saw in the pictures was Star Wars hmmm so thats where my scifi fascination comes from maybe lol

i remember the 1st movie i took my niece to see ..it was Cats ans Dogs ...we were sitting there room goes dark curtains swish open movie starts after 5 minutes Samantha turned to me and says in a LOUD voice Aunty Shirley where's the cats and dogs i don't want to watch tv !

Serenity

ohhh lmfao!! bless her!! I think I took my boys to see that when they were young!

Serenity · Re: first cinema trip

ImBlonde

The first thing I remember seeing is 'The Lion King'. I remember Jodie and Shell took me and my sister to go watch it! Aww

Thumper

Serenity

NEVER seen the Lion King!!????

ohhhh I musta watched that about a zillion times when the kids were little we had it on dvd, or probs tape come to think of it lol Used to love the songs, tho it did get a bit tiresome watching it day in day out lol

The Little Mermaid too, love that 'Under The Sea' song, and the lobster, whats his name Sebastian? I'm singing it now lol ~( ok too many tabs methinks)

Dreama

i think sebastian was a crab wasn't he? lol
my first film at the cinema was grease i LOVED it

daxxxx

Serenity

Yeah he was a hermit crab wasnt he? I knew he wasnt a regular crab thats why i got confused with Lobster lol

Wow @ Grease!! I watched that when I was 14 it was so GOOOOOD !!! And I cut out all the newspaper clippings of Sandy and Danny and had them up all over my bedroom wall pmsl!!

Dreama

how is a hermit crab in any way similar to a lobster, and i think i was about 7 or 8 when i watched grease, i didn't realise you was THAT old! lol

Serenity

Take the Hermits shell away and they are strikingly alike! lol and you arent THAT far behind me in age dear !!

ImBlonde

Thumper

Probably was Frank, You probably remember Scott and I taking you to the Circus when you and Jordan were little, There was animals there too

ImBlonde

Thumper

LMFAO @ you and the flag!!!!

Serenity

Now she just runs around pretending to kill people with NO flag lol xx

ImBlonde

Oi you

Im not that violent. Although Im not sure thats true after Saturday night

Thumper

What happened Saturday night

C'mon SPILL

ImBlonde

Haha, well!
Sunday morning I went into Woolies to see my friend Craig who had taken me home that night. He said to me, 'Jade, do you remember what happened with that bloke?' I said, 'No, what bloke?' Craig said, 'The bloke with the handbag, about 30ish, quite big?' I have almost no recollection of what he looked like.
Apparently, he had stood on my foot whilst I was dancing. I then proceeded to turn round, call him an 'Effin C' and put my fists up. He then apparently put his fists up back to me and Craig had to pull me away and apologise and say I was drunk
Oh dear. Not good. Must get it from Jodie

Haha.

Serenity

Good gawd Jade!! lol

Thumper

Don't worry babe, one day you'll be able to handle your drink

And are you trying to say sweet Jodie is aggressive

ImBlonde

I think it was more that I mixed my drinks - usually I stick to Archers and Lemonade, but I also had a big mouthful of Fosters and voddy and coke too.

Jodie, aggressive? Never

Guitar666

I think it was either Godzilla or Volcano i cant remember but they are both great films lol

knewlove

The first movie I ever saw at a theatre I think was Star Wars or maybe it was Star Trek. Can't quite remember lol. I remember going with my parents and grandparents and secretly passing around homemade peanut brittle as snacks as my fuddy duddy grandma found paying for theatre food an abomination lol.
The first movie I remember going to see alone as a kid (well with my brother who is a year older than me) was either ET or 101 Dalmations. I remember trying not to cry at the end of ET in case my brother should notice and make fun of me as he so often did so I yawned and stretched my way through the ending without shedding a tear - and then looked over at my brother who was bawling his eyes out LMAO. Ahhh a wonderful trip down memory lane

Serenity

lol you'd have to be pretty emotionally baron NOT to cry at ET !

Thumper

I can still remeber how Jodie and I sobbed for hours after E.T, and two older lads who sat behind us were taking the mickey out of us, so our Mum told him off LMAO

Skippy X

hi Shell,
first flick i saw at the pictures was probably Fox & The Hound; well, that's earliest one i remember seeing, it was way too many moons ago!! (i do remember i used to see several flicks at the Pilot cinema - the venue most recently known at Zoots!!!).
i think it was your typical disney type family pic, where fox & hound shouldn't be friends but become friends anyway (ooooh, them rebels!) & i think the fox probably got caught in a trap or died at the end, you know, typical slushy ending.

Serenity

Are you sure you're only 30 Skippy? lol I remember the Pilot, used to like that better than the Majestic, shame they closed it down

Fox and the Hound rings a bell, think I musta seen it on tv though. Funny when you see things at the flicks, that no matter how long ago it was, you still remember it!

Skippy X

of course i'm only 30!!!? (i think....)
yep, Pilot cinema was cool, remember seeing Empire Strikes Back there.
first flick i remember at Majestic was probably Revolution (the Al Pacino flick that had Ricky from Eastenders in it...??), i know i suffered during the film, as big guy next to me was smoking cigars all the way through - how things change.

Serenity

Oh gawd I'd forgotten you used to be allowed to smoke in there! lol Cigars? omg ! Star Wars films were brill in the cinema, especially coz the sound was always pumped up full blast, great effects.

Skippy X

i love knowing i saw great flicks at cinema as a kid that i still think are cool (E.S.B, Return Of Jedi, Big Trouble Little China, etc.), means i didn't waste all my youth! hee hee!

Thumper

chibi_steph18

...I never cried watching ET..

Skippy X

dintrox

Although It wasn't the first film I saw ... Star Wars when it came out in 1977 was outstanding.. The line up when I went to the only cinema in a city of 10000 was about 2 blocks long...

I remember seeing "The return of the Pink Panther" and that may have been the 1st movie I saw.. I really love peter sellers in the classic pink panther movies... I like Steve Martin but it just isn't the same..

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