First movie you saw in a theater

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What's the first movie you can remember seeing in a theater?

For me, it was 101 Dalmatians.

I remember my brother Jeff took me to see it in downtown, Lafayette Indiana.

It was winter, snow in the ground, and I remember running with him in the snow to catch a bus home after the movie.

I don't remember if it was the Lafayette Theater or the Mars Theater.

Looking up the release dates, this would have been 1969. I was 5 years old and he was 13.

A very fond memory!
 
First one? No idea. Edit: might have been Star Wars. I was about 4 years old. I know I saw that in the theater.
First R rated? Caddy Shack
First R rated no guardian? Rambo
 
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It was a Disney flick at the drive-in on Camp Lejeune.

First one I remember with any clarity was a Godzilla movie my dad took me to. I must have been 4 or so.
 
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First one I remember was Ice Pirates. I’m sure there had to be a Disney movie before that but hell if I remember.

It was 1984 and I was 11. So I’m sure that isn’t right.
 
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I think it was some Elvis movie when I was in elementary school. My parents (mostly mom) liked Elvis movies and they would take my brother and me with them. Everything was rated G in those days.
 
Either Popeye with Robin Williams or Flash Gordon. 1980.
 
Star Wars was a big deal. When you have three TV channels--4 with PBS--and you see just commercials, the build up was just nutty. Interesting that in retrospect a lot of people thought it might just break even or be a bomb, certainly not become what it did (even Harrison Ford didn't think it was going to do what it did). But all of my fellow 8 and 9 year-olds just knew it was going to be the rage. I saw it at at a theater which no longer exits, there was a huge line. Then I made my older sister take me back the next day, then the next. I was hooked.
 
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It had to be Roy or Gene or The Lone Ranger....maybe Johnny Mac Brown......Colonial Theater in Florence around 1953 or so....25 cents would get you in And a box of popcorn and a drink.
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I thought for sure yours would be Steamboat Willie.
 
First one I remember was Grease at the drive-in theater that used to be in Statesville. However, it had to be Star Wars, but I must have been just young enough to not remember it like I did Grease.
 
My grandmother took us kids to drums drive- in to see Have you heard the one about the traveling saleslady staring Phyllis Diller.
It was mainly for her she was a big Phyllis Diller fan
We may have to take a short break while all the youngsters Google Phyllis Diller
 
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King Kong Escapes (67)
The Ghost and Mr. Chicken
The Incredible Mr. Limpit.
One Million Years BC

Maybe some earlier, but that 66-7 time frame corresponds to my father being in Vietnam and my mother would take me to films on matinees.
 
The first one I can remember is Star Wars. I'm sure there was something before that. I was 7 or 8 years old.
First Scary movie was The Amityville Horror. We snuck in. A gentlemen beside me said something and I about jumped out of my seat. He taught me how to watch a scary movie by actually blinking and not staring so intently at the scary scenes. He didn't turn me in to the ushers. Good dude.
 
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The first one I can remember is Star Wars. I'm sure there was something before that. I was 7 or 8 years old.
First Scary movie was The Amityville Horror. We snuck in. A gentlemen beside me said something and I about jumped out of my seat. He taught me how to watch a scary movie by actually blinking and not staring so intently at the scary scenes. He didn't turn me in to the ushers. Good dude.
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The scariest non-scary scene was James Brolin was sitting in that chair and that cat jumped up in the window … you were on edge and kinda lulled back then and then came that damn cat … I about Bidened my britches! 99 out of 100 times it wouldn’t be anything but with the rest of the movie setup it was a scare.

 
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First movie I would have seen would have been from the back seat of mom and das car at a drive-in.
Probably a western.
It would have been in the mid '50s.
 
It was the Lion King movie for me. I don't really remember it. The first one I remember in detail is the American Godzilla movie. As bad as most people hate that movie, it was awesome for a 10 year old to see with friends.
 
The Man Who Fell to Earth (Bowie, 1976)
At 7 yrs old I was way too young to understand it, but I thought it sucked. Turns out I was right.
 
The first that I remember is Escape to Witch Mountain (1975). I'm positive there were earlier ones with my parents at the drive-in, but this is the first I remember seeing in the theater because my mom needed to do something and just dropped me off and told me she would be there to pick me up when it was over.
 
Star Wars

I was 3 when it first came out. But in 1980 right before The Empire Strikes Back came out they re-ran Star Wars. I can't remember the name of that (now) ratty little shopping center in Greensboro. Maybe "Friendly" something or other. I dunno. I'd know it if I seen it.

But I got to see Star Wars and then a few weeks later The Empire Strikes Back. That was my first two times in a theatre.

We had a drive-in theater in Siler City, but I never got to go as a kid and they closed before I became a teenager.
 
The Sound of Music, at some fancy theater in downtown Charlotte. I was a little kid, we sat in the balcony and I wondered what the separated-off section next to us was for. It was a long drive and US 21 North of Charlotte was still mostly an Asphalt strip through the woods. I signed up for piano lessons the next day.
 
I saw one of the Jaws movies with a friend. He lived on Topsail Island and we thought it would be a great idea to go swimming in the ocean later that night. I think we both made it about ankle deep and said “nope”
 
Disney was cranking out box office hits habitually in the late fifties, early sixtires. Can't tell you which was first. Probably 101 Dalmations. I think I would have been five.
 
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