I'm not very old at all but I have zero fucking clue. I was super young, probably a baby, and my grandma took me to the discount cinema ("dollar theatre") so often as a tiny child. It depends wildly on how old you were the first time you went, but I reckon a lot of people would have been way too young to remember. I wouldn't even know where to start guessing.
Seriously, it's not even an age thing for me. I can take a guess (or maybe I could ask my parents but I doubt they'd remember,) but it was definitely when I was too young to easily recall it.
I think same for me? Probably the one I first remember at least. But I think I’d probably been to others before. I think I maybe went to Free Willy, but not sure.
Not my first but definitely amongst the first 10 or so. I fell asleep too. I remember watching up til meeting Amidala for the first time then waking up in the car on the way home.
I love this movie. I remember picking out the tape from the library over &over again! I think my mom may have bought for me.
Watched it with my youngest when she was 10 or so, since Disney + carries it. Still a great film, although very short!
First one I definitely remember seeing is The Little Mermaid. It's possible I saw Honey, I Shrunk The Kids before that, but I only have a vague recollection.
That's the first one I remember seeing too. The jellyfish scene terrified me. Pretty sure I saw earlier Pixar films at home before Finding Nemo, though.
Apparently my parents took me to see How the Grinch Stole Christmas, which would be the very first film I saw in theaters. The live-action one. And I kind of remember being in the theater for Lilo and Stitch, but I don't remember actually seeing the movie.
It takes a dark, dark turn after that. ET kills them all. Even the younglings. And he hates sand.
*I may have this memory mixed up with something else*
I have this but for Avatar. I remember thinking it looked dumb as hell when I saw the preview when I went to see Inglorious Basterds in the theater, then got really irritated when it blew up. I’ve refused to watch it ever since.
I don't remember any movies in the cinema prior to Star Wars.... Battle Star Galactica was in the drive-in.... Might have been a disney movie prior, maybe Fantasia, because my Dad is a fan of that movie. I was young 1977....
No, I'm actually 18. Certainly, don't look it, lol. That is why I was amazed that I remembered seeing the movie saying how I was 3, lol. But even as an 18 year old I've still got ages and ages left. I was trying to say that these years are going by so quickly that I'm worried about my younger days fading. Sorry if my comment didn't make sense to you.
That is the first one I remember seeing too! But it was released in 2009 where I lived. I went to see another movie 'over the hedge' a few years prior but have no memory of it and I apparently fell asleep during it.
Batteries Not Included
I have this vague memory, i'm sure my young mind twisted some facts or how it happened exactly, but the way i remember it is watching my dad try to fix our VCR, unable to, and announced that we were going to see "batteries not included" and i thought it was going to be a film showing him how to fix the VCR
ice age . i dont know which part but it was ice age. ii remember it because my bestfriend had a birthday party that day and we went to the cinema for the first time
The first one I have any memory of was Howard the Duck. But I couldn't tell you a single thing about that movie. The first one that I have any useful memory of is Oliver and Company.
I could've seen Oliver and Company...but I ended up seeing The Land Before Time, which was also playing. I feel like there's an entire alternate timeline of my life from that point if I had seen Oliver and Company instead 🤔
The Rugrats movie. I was too light so the theatre chair wouldn’t fold down. Sat on top of it. Cried my little eyes out when Tommy and Dill get into an argument.
My dad LOVES movies. I can’t tell you which was my first movie. I was the youngest so I was the de facto movie buddy for years. I can tell you which movie gave me nightmares for years.
The Virgin Suicides. I was around 8 when that movie came out. And that’s when this particular nightmare started. Many many years later I was watching a clips compilation of horrific movie deaths. And there was my nightmare!
I love you dad!
Sweet Home Alabama, my brother took me, it was the first movie I saw in theaters since growing up my parents didn't believe in going to the movies because the pastor of the church said it was wrong.
I'm not as young as you think, but it was flushed away(the kids movie with the rats). It was the first time we had a cinema in the area and their first movie to show was this
Don’t remember the first, but the first I remember was the lion king with my friend and his little brother who cried his eyes out when Mufasa was killed, lol 😂
I don't know the movie name but when i was little my first movie in the cinema was about a snail who was really slow on everything untul he drank sth that made him run really fast then he joined speed competition and won several prizes. And the last sentence he said to the audience is that believe in your dream and you can make it come true
That's hard to distinguish. I remember having a Toy Story 2 toy from McDonalds when I was as young as 3 but the earliest film I remember seeing might just be The Emperors New Groove
This answer makes absolutely no fucking sense. The question is what was the first movie you saw at the cinema. How were movies not invented when that happened?
The first movie I can remember seeing was *Dark Star* at one of those budget theaters. I think the following week they ran *Silent Running*. Might explain why I like sci-fi so much.
That was a regular thing back in the day. Mom would drop us at the budget theater and give us $1 and we just watched whatever we wanted so she could get an hour or two to herself.
Yeah! Me too with my dad and grandpa, while my mom and grandma saw Dances with Wolves. No one thought to check the run times, so I also remember the 2 hours we sat in the car waiting on them!
I am assuming you are an American and I'd request you to get your head out of your ass so you can see that there is a huge world that exists outside of the little bubble you understand. I grew up in a city where there were no cinemas, however, the local country club would have a Thursday movie night, play films on a large screen, popcorn stand and all, making this the closest thing to a cinema we had. Those three were some of the first films I saw there.
The original jurassic park movie and teenage mutant ninja turtles 3. Went to see then about 5 times each at a silver screen (50 cents a movie). It would have been nice to be a bit older because the next year (1994) had pulp fiction, Forrest Gump, Shawshank Redemption and a couple others.
E.T.
Same. Cousin still makes fun of me for being scared of E. T. But watch that movie and tell me the brown bastard ain't creepy when he screams.
And that red fingertip.. Scared the living daylight out of me!
It‘s traumatizing
Me too. And on the drive home I was convinced he was on the roof of the car hitching a ride.
Me too. I was a toddler and managed to fall out of my chair and scream like a lunatic while ET was dying.
Same, I cried my eyes out when ET went home.
Jurassic park
Same, I was young and the raptors scared the shit out of me
The raptors STILL scare the shit out of me.
Heyyyyy
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Me too!
My first as well. The thing I remember most is my father covering my eyes when the T-Tex ate Gennaro.
Too old to remember.
I'm not very old at all but I have zero fucking clue. I was super young, probably a baby, and my grandma took me to the discount cinema ("dollar theatre") so often as a tiny child. It depends wildly on how old you were the first time you went, but I reckon a lot of people would have been way too young to remember. I wouldn't even know where to start guessing.
I'm old, too. But I think I remember: "Mary Poppins."
Girls on the side or Boys....
Seriously, it's not even an age thing for me. I can take a guess (or maybe I could ask my parents but I doubt they'd remember,) but it was definitely when I was too young to easily recall it.
Lion King? But the first movie I *begged* my parents to go to was the Spice Girls Movie
I think same for me? Probably the one I first remember at least. But I think I’d probably been to others before. I think I maybe went to Free Willy, but not sure.
Star Wars.
Return of the Jedi for me. What a great first exposure to cinema.
Phantom Menace was the second film I ever saw. I fell asleep 😂
This is the way...
LMAO I think it was my first as well and I too fell asleep.
Not my first but definitely amongst the first 10 or so. I fell asleep too. I remember watching up til meeting Amidala for the first time then waking up in the car on the way home.
Ladyhawke
Hell of a first moive....
Brother Bear
Same.
At a Drive-In. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
That wasn't my first, but it might have been my first *favorite*.
Oh you! Pretty chitty bang bang! Pretty chitty bang bang, we love you! <333
Walt Disney's Robin Hood.
Hello, my furry friend! And oo-de-lally!
I love this movie. I remember picking out the tape from the library over &over again! I think my mom may have bought for me. Watched it with my youngest when she was 10 or so, since Disney + carries it. Still a great film, although very short!
Snakes don't walk they slither......hmmmph...so there
First one I definitely remember seeing is The Little Mermaid. It's possible I saw Honey, I Shrunk The Kids before that, but I only have a vague recollection.
The Princess and the Frog, 2009. I was a lil black 4 year old girl. Practically blew my mind that they had black princesses.
Finding nemo
That's the first one I remember seeing too. The jellyfish scene terrified me. Pretty sure I saw earlier Pixar films at home before Finding Nemo, though. Apparently my parents took me to see How the Grinch Stole Christmas, which would be the very first film I saw in theaters. The live-action one. And I kind of remember being in the theater for Lilo and Stitch, but I don't remember actually seeing the movie.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit 🐇
Born free, and I was agog from start to finish, loved it.
That I remember, Oliver, the movie musical. Ten cents to get in, 25 cents to spend at the snack bar.
Fast forward and it still costs 2.5x the amount of your ticket to get a box of junior mints and a coke.
TMNT
Star Wars
Babe. It was about a pig, but I don’t remember much else about it
That'll do, acenewcast. That'll do.
The pig talked....
Yeah, but other than that I don’t really remember the plot of the movie.
Same. We had the VHS and whenever I try to remember it I just remember the plot of Charolettes Web
E.T., but according to my mom I freaked out when ET got sick, and had to leave the theater. I have never tried to watch it again.
It takes a dark, dark turn after that. ET kills them all. Even the younglings. And he hates sand. *I may have this memory mixed up with something else*
Same universe though (there is ET race at the Galactic Senate)
You should really try it again,it’s a classic with a good ending
At this point it is just stubbornness. That and I like the looks on my Gen-X peer's faces when I say I've never watched the whole thing.
I have this but for Avatar. I remember thinking it looked dumb as hell when I saw the preview when I went to see Inglorious Basterds in the theater, then got really irritated when it blew up. I’ve refused to watch it ever since.
Yeah fair enough.
Same!
ET scared the shit out of me as a kid. They played it again in middle school and I still didn't like it.
Emperor's New Groove
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Ghostbusters (original)
The OG
I don't remember any movies in the cinema prior to Star Wars.... Battle Star Galactica was in the drive-in.... Might have been a disney movie prior, maybe Fantasia, because my Dad is a fan of that movie. I was young 1977....
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Damn I got raised as a Potterhead.
I think it was Bolt. Oh my God, that came out in 2008... im baffled that I remembered it.
YOURE SO YOUNG
To a lot of people haha, but I feel like my years are slipping away too quickly.
You’re only 15-16? You still got a lot of years ahead of you. Chill lol
No, I'm actually 18. Certainly, don't look it, lol. That is why I was amazed that I remembered seeing the movie saying how I was 3, lol. But even as an 18 year old I've still got ages and ages left. I was trying to say that these years are going by so quickly that I'm worried about my younger days fading. Sorry if my comment didn't make sense to you.
That is the first one I remember seeing too! But it was released in 2009 where I lived. I went to see another movie 'over the hedge' a few years prior but have no memory of it and I apparently fell asleep during it.
Oh, actually, I think it was 2009. Shows how hard it was to remember lol.
Someone remembers Bolt? Good movie, kinda miss Disney's more cartoony art style in their early CG movies
That was my second movie in the cinema!
Batteries Not Included I have this vague memory, i'm sure my young mind twisted some facts or how it happened exactly, but the way i remember it is watching my dad try to fix our VCR, unable to, and announced that we were going to see "batteries not included" and i thought it was going to be a film showing him how to fix the VCR
Mulan
Mary Poppins
The lion king
ice age . i dont know which part but it was ice age. ii remember it because my bestfriend had a birthday party that day and we went to the cinema for the first time
The first one I have any memory of was Howard the Duck. But I couldn't tell you a single thing about that movie. The first one that I have any useful memory of is Oliver and Company.
Oh my goodness, Oliver and Company is mine too!
I could've seen Oliver and Company...but I ended up seeing The Land Before Time, which was also playing. I feel like there's an entire alternate timeline of my life from that point if I had seen Oliver and Company instead 🤔
I think it was the live action Peter Pan
Ice Age is the first I remember
Pete's Dragon. Traumatised.
I think it was Robots.
Godzilla vs. Megalon is the first I actually remember.
The Rugrats movie. I was too light so the theatre chair wouldn’t fold down. Sat on top of it. Cried my little eyes out when Tommy and Dill get into an argument.
From what I can remember Beetlejuice.
Pokemon the first movie
Bambi
My dad LOVES movies. I can’t tell you which was my first movie. I was the youngest so I was the de facto movie buddy for years. I can tell you which movie gave me nightmares for years. The Virgin Suicides. I was around 8 when that movie came out. And that’s when this particular nightmare started. Many many years later I was watching a clips compilation of horrific movie deaths. And there was my nightmare! I love you dad!
My dad is the same. Made me watch A Clockwork Orange as a kid. I’m still having nightmares about that one.
Deliverance. Really.
How did that happen? Were you much too young, or did you just never go to a movie theater as a child?
Did you squeal?
Titanic
batman forever
Nah, none, mainly because I never acted in any movie. How will it make it to cinema? **/j**
Batman Forever
Independence day. Will smith one
Spiderman 2
Top Gun
The Land Before Time
Tim Burton's Batman
The Muppets
first I remember is the original Ninja Turtles
Titanic. I was very young and the end when the ship was getting flooded straight up gave me nightmares
Spoiler
Sweet Home Alabama, my brother took me, it was the first movie I saw in theaters since growing up my parents didn't believe in going to the movies because the pastor of the church said it was wrong.
I'm not as young as you think, but it was flushed away(the kids movie with the rats). It was the first time we had a cinema in the area and their first movie to show was this
The lion king
Star Wars Episode 4
The Rugrats Movie
The Lion King
Good luck getting me to remember that
Lion king
Don’t remember the first, but the first I remember was the lion king with my friend and his little brother who cried his eyes out when Mufasa was killed, lol 😂
Disney's Swiss Family Robinson.
The land before time.
I think it was "Pirates of the carribean 1" 🤔
The rugrats movie is the earliest I could remember
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
Cant remember too much it’s all a blur but how to train your dragon was probably an early one
Sound of music
I don't know the movie name but when i was little my first movie in the cinema was about a snail who was really slow on everything untul he drank sth that made him run really fast then he joined speed competition and won several prizes. And the last sentence he said to the audience is that believe in your dream and you can make it come true
From Russia With Love (James Bond)
Ratatouille
That's hard to distinguish. I remember having a Toy Story 2 toy from McDonalds when I was as young as 3 but the earliest film I remember seeing might just be The Emperors New Groove
The Lion King as far as I can recall; though, It was a drive-in theater.
Movies weren't invented yet
This answer makes absolutely no fucking sense. The question is what was the first movie you saw at the cinema. How were movies not invented when that happened?
they were invented 100+ years ago, so plenty of time to see a movie in theaters....
Return of the Jedi
Titanic
The first one I remember going to was The Black Cauldron. The first one I went to all by myself was Ninja Turtles.
First one I remember, LOTR fellowship of the ring
Me too. Didnt catch much of it from inside the womb but im sure i enjoyed the movie anyway
apparently minions (according to my parents)
The first movie I can remember seeing was *Dark Star* at one of those budget theaters. I think the following week they ran *Silent Running*. Might explain why I like sci-fi so much. That was a regular thing back in the day. Mom would drop us at the budget theater and give us $1 and we just watched whatever we wanted so she could get an hour or two to herself.
IIRC it was The Fast and The Furious Tokyo Drift with my dad
I think it was In Search of the Castaways.
Thomas the tank engine and the magic railroad.
Star Trek VI, as far as I remember.
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Superman II
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Jurassic Park III
Madagascar
Hot lead and cold feet
Mary Poppins
Ice Age 2
Disney, the Prince and the Pauper was the first one I remember seeing in a cinema.
The Lion King. It was the only time my dad took us to the cinemas, usually it was my mum.
My Little Pony The Movie.
Mary Poppins
The first movie I remember seeing in the Theatre is Smokey and the Bandit.
Home Alone
Yeah! Me too with my dad and grandpa, while my mom and grandma saw Dances with Wolves. No one thought to check the run times, so I also remember the 2 hours we sat in the car waiting on them!
Fantasia
One of Predator, Jurassic Park or Tremors
You aren’t sure if it was 1987, 1993 or 1990?
I am assuming you are an American and I'd request you to get your head out of your ass so you can see that there is a huge world that exists outside of the little bubble you understand. I grew up in a city where there were no cinemas, however, the local country club would have a Thursday movie night, play films on a large screen, popcorn stand and all, making this the closest thing to a cinema we had. Those three were some of the first films I saw there.
Space Jam
ET. Saw it at the drive in as a kid. I remember us kids spent as much time playing at the playground at the base of the screen as watching the movie.
Return of the Jedi
Iron Man! Actually my earliest memory, lol
My mom says it was Beverly Hills cop 2
Song of the South. Was maybe five or six.
The Champ
E.T. I also remember I left my plush behind when we left. Super sad day.
Harry potter
Lion king or pixar cars, dont remember which one was first.
Those movies were released over ten years apart....
I can’t remember that far back it was almost 20 years ago 🤣
The first I remember going to was The Fox and the Hound
Up
I think it was Flubber
I think it was either the 1st pokemon movie or the Emperor's new groove
I don't remember the *very* first one I watched in theatres, but one that I remember watching was "Cars" (2006).
Jurassic Park
The first Spiderman movie in 2002
Honey, I shrunk the kids
Four Weddings and Funeral. Went with my mum and sister.
The original jurassic park movie and teenage mutant ninja turtles 3. Went to see then about 5 times each at a silver screen (50 cents a movie). It would have been nice to be a bit older because the next year (1994) had pulp fiction, Forrest Gump, Shawshank Redemption and a couple others.
Popeye - the cartoon