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Post by Popeye Doyle on Jun 24, 2021 12:29:50 GMT
My default answer is summer 1989 with Ghostbusters II, Batman, and Last Crusade at the now closed Drive-In. Watching any of these, especially with Batman, really does take me back.
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Post by ck100 on Jun 24, 2021 13:04:36 GMT
Short Circuit 2 in 1988.
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Post by kolchak92 on Jun 24, 2021 13:12:01 GMT
Aladdin and The Muppet Christmas Carol in 1992.
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Post by gbone on Jun 24, 2021 13:15:00 GMT
Return of the Jedi (1983)
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Jun 24, 2021 13:15:43 GMT
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Post by mikef6 on Jun 24, 2021 14:37:27 GMT
I have written about this before on this and the old boards but here goes again.
The west Texas city where I was born did not get a TV station until about 1953. The station signed on in the middle of the afternoon and went off at midnight. (It’s true. Ask any old-timer.) After the 10:00 news, there would be a late movie. On a couple of occasions, as young as I was (second or third grade), my Dad would let me sit up with him to watch the movie. I have two memories of two movies that rocked my young self to the core and launched my life of film going. One was the 1945 Agatha Christie “impossible murder” masterpiece And Then There Were None, directed by René Clair. The other was the most uncompromising film noir that Hollywood ever made, D.O.A., directed by Rudolph Maté in 1950 (check out my avatar and SIG).
The first I remember seeing at an indoor theater was Disney’s Davy Crockett, King Of The Wild Frontier (1955). Disney had established his TV series “Disneyland” with a three-part mini series about Crockett that was enormously popular. Then he edited the series into a 90-minute movie which was also a big hit. He was a marketing genius, selling the same product to the same people twice.
Please pardon the length of this post. I do like to ramble on about early TV and classic film.
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Post by bravomailer on Jun 24, 2021 14:41:15 GMT
Forbidden Planet
I was three but I recalled the force-field scene.
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Post by Spike Del Rey on Jun 24, 2021 15:58:38 GMT
1972, I was a mere little eight-year old in second grade, seeing a Disney movie called Run Cougar, Run with my friend Tracy at the long gone St. Johns Cinema.
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Post by Prime etc. on Jun 24, 2021 16:05:10 GMT
I have a memory of watching King Kong on a tv set.
But with movie theaters my earliest memory was seeing the Exorcist and Black Christmas around the age of 4.
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Post by Cat on Jun 24, 2021 16:44:55 GMT
There is one movie I can't recall. It's an animated movie. I think it's about pandas or a panda or has panda imagery strewn across Chinese looking art, even though I don't think it's a Chinese movie. It's been driving me nuts for years.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs - earliest memory of going to a theater
Pulp Fiction - found it while channel surfing, was terrified when the guy at the beginning screamed when Travolta and Jackson shot him.
Major League 2, Sidekicks (with Chuck Norris), Romancing the Stone and Batman Returns are some of mt earliest memories.
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Post by teleadm on Jun 24, 2021 17:48:48 GMT
The animated sequenzes of Mary Poppins, the rest of the movie was just a big blurr until the early 1980s.
There might be an earlier Disney short films show, remembering Donald Duck and a clock that never stops.
Somewhere between 1963 and 1965.
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Post by millar70 on Jun 24, 2021 18:17:09 GMT
My dad taking me to see Rocky in 1976. It's possible I'd been to the theater before that, but I definitely remember seeing Rocky with my Pops.
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Post by marianne48 on Jun 24, 2021 19:14:18 GMT
The animated sequenzes of Mary Poppins, the rest of the movie was just a big blurr until the early 1980s. There might be an earlier Disney short films show, remembering Donald Duck and a clock that never stops. Somewhere between 1963 and 1965. This is pretty much my experience--I remember being in a theater when I was about 2 and seeing those penguins dancing with Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins, but that was the only part I can recall. For years afterwards, I begged to see more Disney classics as they were released (or re-released) in theaters, but was always told, "We took you to a Disney movie already, so you can't say we never did." I don't think I went to a movie again until some cousin invited us to a matinee of an Elvis film, which I couldn't remember either; then about 1968, the original Yours, Mine and Ours. Afterwards, I had a crush on Eric Shea, the little boy in the movie (he was the only movie actor I knew close to my age).
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Post by phantomparticle on Jun 24, 2021 19:41:37 GMT
Superman and the Molemen (1951) Those little guys crawling out of the well was scary stuff for a five year old.  |
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Post by mcclance on Jun 25, 2021 5:22:58 GMT
My oldest brother taking me and my third oldest brother to see All Dogs Go to Heaven. I would have been about 3 1/2 at the time.
I also have a memory of watching The Great Mouse Detective, but I don't know if that was in a theater or at home.
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Post by darkpast on Jun 25, 2021 5:31:32 GMT
I don't remember really, but first hyped movie I remember was batman 1989 😀
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Post by Xcalatë on Jun 25, 2021 6:31:33 GMT
Full movies:The NeverEnding Story &
The Goonies
But the first movie I kind of remember was a horror flick on TV but dont remeber the name just remember there was a woman's head on a plate during a party or something like that?
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Post by Mulder and Scully on Jun 25, 2021 9:25:16 GMT
Summer of 1996 - Dragonheart, Twister and The Phantom. Saw them in theaters. They really take me back.
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Post by jonesjxd on Jun 25, 2021 10:18:33 GMT
VHS: Universal Monsters classics collection, Ghostbusters 1 & 2, Beetlejuice, Batman, Weekend At Bernies
Theatre: Dick Tracy, Arachnophobia, Edward Scissorhands, Batman Returns, Bram Stokers Dracula, Jurassic Park
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Post by claudius on Jun 25, 2021 10:26:29 GMT
Theatrical film releases.
I think my earliest memory was at a Drive-in with BAMBI (1982 Re-release). Can't put my finger on what scene, except it had animals.
WINNIE THE POOH AND A DAY FOR EEYORE (THE SWORD IN THE STONE 1983 Re-release). I remember getting off my seat and wandering toward the screen (in the beginning scene of Pooh holding Acorns).
RETURN OF THE JEDI (1983) I do remember Vader getting his hand cut off. I think I confused Fortuna (Jabba's assistant) with the Emperor.
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