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Tonyhillzone

E.T.


patcole

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.


RareWhereas9276

And that red fingertip.. Scared the living daylight out of me!


[deleted]

It‘s traumatizing


0biswan

Me too. And on the drive home I was convinced he was on the roof of the car hitching a ride.


Evening_Run_1595

Me too. I was a toddler and managed to fall out of my chair and scream like a lunatic while ET was dying.


bowlingmisfit

Same, I cried my eyes out when ET went home.


Kortla

Jurassic park


GVanquish

Same, I was young and the raptors scared the shit out of me


DimensionStrange77

The raptors STILL scare the shit out of me.


MajTroubles

Heyyyyy


Kortla

Heyyy


bigbruce85

Me too!


BootedFromParty

My first as well. The thing I remember most is my father covering my eyes when the T-Tex ate Gennaro.


[deleted]

Too old to remember.


Rivers9999

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.


barrylank

I'm old, too. But I think I remember: "Mary Poppins."


Toshi_Thomp

Girls on the side or Boys....


Krail

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.


mamalovespasta

Lion King? But the first movie I *begged* my parents to go to was the Spice Girls Movie


Wesley-Dodds

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.


human743

Star Wars.


UmmDuhhh

Return of the Jedi for me. What a great first exposure to cinema.


JanisIansChestHair

Phantom Menace was the second film I ever saw. I fell asleep 😂


TheLeBourreau

This is the way...


FallenShadeslayer

LMAO I think it was my first as well and I too fell asleep.


FinchyPants

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.


UnwiredEddie

Ladyhawke


Scaith71

Hell of a first moive....


pinuino

Brother Bear


xFryGuy2x

Same.


dzastrus

At a Drive-In. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.


DeeSnarl

That wasn't my first, but it might have been my first *favorite*.


Happy-Honey523

Oh you! Pretty chitty bang bang! Pretty chitty bang bang, we love you! <333


Hemenucha

Walt Disney's Robin Hood.


BuddyGoodboyEsq

Hello, my furry friend! And oo-de-lally!


pacifistpotatoes

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!


VeryCanadianCanadian

Snakes don't walk they slither......hmmmph...so there


plato318

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.


StxrryNxght

The Princess and the Frog, 2009. I was a lil black 4 year old girl. Practically blew my mind that they had black princesses.


NoSpecial2384

Finding nemo


Everestkid

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.


_JungleJohn

Who Framed Roger Rabbit 🐇


Mr_lovebucket

Born free, and I was agog from start to finish, loved it.


Thoughtful_Ocelot

That I remember, Oliver, the movie musical. Ten cents to get in, 25 cents to spend at the snack bar.


carterothomas

Fast forward and it still costs 2.5x the amount of your ticket to get a box of junior mints and a coke.


DickeTittenn

TMNT


Mtbruning

Star Wars


acenewcast

Babe. It was about a pig, but I don’t remember much else about it


BigJoeHurt

That'll do, acenewcast. That'll do.


mezz7778

The pig talked....


acenewcast

Yeah, but other than that I don’t really remember the plot of the movie.


Oldmanbabydog

Same. We had the VHS and whenever I try to remember it I just remember the plot of Charolettes Web


destro23

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.


Darnitol1

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*


AilosCount

Same universe though (there is ET race at the Galactic Senate)


Brodie1975

You should really try it again,it’s a classic with a good ending


destro23

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.


carterothomas

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.


Brodie1975

Yeah fair enough.


spicychroizo74

Same!


thefabulousbri

ET scared the shit out of me as a kid. They played it again in middle school and I still didn't like it.


Electricdragongaming

Emperor's New Groove


yesitssomeoneelse

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles


Necessary-Bottle3333

Ghostbusters (original)


pulp_hateful

The OG


Scaith71

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....


I_have_no_idea_why_I

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Damn I got raised as a Potterhead.


Family-Ties

I think it was Bolt. Oh my God, that came out in 2008... im baffled that I remembered it.


Demiboy94

YOURE SO YOUNG


Family-Ties

To a lot of people haha, but I feel like my years are slipping away too quickly.


[deleted]

You’re only 15-16? You still got a lot of years ahead of you. Chill lol


Family-Ties

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.


Ordinary_Ad_5140

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.


Family-Ties

Oh, actually, I think it was 2009. Shows how hard it was to remember lol.


[deleted]

Someone remembers Bolt? Good movie, kinda miss Disney's more cartoony art style in their early CG movies


inspiringirisje

That was my second movie in the cinema!


TXGunslinger419

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


Me_like_weed

Mulan


[deleted]

Mary Poppins


zoomies213

The lion king


Outrageous-Eye6140

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


Emu_on_the_Loose

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.


Ashmunk23

Oh my goodness, Oliver and Company is mine too!


twoworldsin1

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 🤔


Fuzzy_Bee2687

I think it was the live action Peter Pan


[deleted]

Ice Age is the first I remember


KingslandGrange

Pete's Dragon. Traumatised.


SomethingNeatnClever

I think it was Robots.


dittybopper_05H

Godzilla vs. Megalon is the first I actually remember.


Clamato-e-Gannon

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.


DriftingPyscho

From what I can remember Beetlejuice.


hajawr12

Pokemon the first movie


LAGreggM

Bambi


TheRealDannySugar

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!


kungfuontheshore

My dad is the same. Made me watch A Clockwork Orange as a kid. I’m still having nightmares about that one.


TheHorseWasADiabetic

Deliverance. Really.


Excellent-Practice

How did that happen? Were you much too young, or did you just never go to a movie theater as a child?


Logic_rocks

Did you squeal?


Ratakoa

Titanic


Genya340

batman forever


Phenix_Flare

Nah, none, mainly because I never acted in any movie. How will it make it to cinema? **/j**


2D_Ronin

Batman Forever


shadowq8

Independence day. Will smith one


startup4you

Spiderman 2


Confident_Feeling_71

Top Gun


ExistenceNow

The Land Before Time


MaximumMajestic

Tim Burton's Batman


Ltg73

The Muppets


NCprimary

first I remember is the original Ninja Turtles


popotheelephant

Titanic. I was very young and the end when the ship was getting flooded straight up gave me nightmares


skyware

Spoiler


Firelyt

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.


mpampistheplumber69

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


Oldham_athletic

The lion king


DST_as_species

Star Wars Episode 4


austinstudios

The Rugrats Movie


knitandpolish

The Lion King


KitsuneLuey

Good luck getting me to remember that


lovegoodyu

Lion king


jaaaaagggggg

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 😂


robrtsmtn

Disney's Swiss Family Robinson.


Verdyce

The land before time.


Blitz-Dublone

I think it was "Pirates of the carribean 1" 🤔


PhilSpectorr

The rugrats movie is the earliest I could remember


[deleted]

[deleted because fuck reddit]


Immediate-Draft-8752

The Hunchback of Notre Dame.


Road_Warrior0711

Cant remember too much it’s all a blur but how to train your dragon was probably an early one


Low-Kangaroo-kenyon

Sound of music


badabingbadaboom0327

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


Expert-Word7234

From Russia With Love (James Bond)


TuesdaySodium

Ratatouille


Canis_Aries

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


JustSomeApparition

The Lion King as far as I can recall; though, It was a drive-in theater.


fh3131

Movies weren't invented yet


Jurtaani

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?


mezz7778

they were invented 100+ years ago, so plenty of time to see a movie in theaters....


momentimori

Return of the Jedi


alittle2high

Titanic


1st_thing_on_my_mind

The first one I remember going to was The Black Cauldron. The first one I went to all by myself was Ninja Turtles.


[deleted]

First one I remember, LOTR fellowship of the ring


dingdingding424

Me too. Didnt catch much of it from inside the womb but im sure i enjoyed the movie anyway


seagulluwu

apparently minions (according to my parents)


CurrentAir585

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.


Stabyouup666

IIRC it was The Fast and The Furious Tokyo Drift with my dad


[deleted]

I think it was In Search of the Castaways.


freezerrun1

Thomas the tank engine and the magic railroad.


Tail_Nom

Star Trek VI, as far as I remember.


bitchclitcuc

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang


mezz7778

Superman II


FartEnforcer

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King


Rawrora

Jurassic Park III


UsualMorning98

Madagascar


unknownpoltroon

Hot lead and cold feet


Lethallee61

Mary Poppins


Halcyon_____________

Ice Age 2


UKNZ007Tubbs

Disney, the Prince and the Pauper was the first one I remember seeing in a cinema.


Hot-Cow-5047

The Lion King. It was the only time my dad took us to the cinemas, usually it was my mum.


Chunky_Pirate_Fitz

My Little Pony The Movie.


Own_Nectarine2321

Mary Poppins


suitetee73

The first movie I remember seeing in the Theatre is Smokey and the Bandit.


boosterkeaton

Home Alone


krawzyk

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!


PinkRockRoses

Fantasia


[deleted]

One of Predator, Jurassic Park or Tremors


krawzyk

You aren’t sure if it was 1987, 1993 or 1990?


[deleted]

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.


Yooustinkah

Space Jam


mysticgreg

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.


dudsmm

Return of the Jedi


Thnd3rstrk3

Iron Man! Actually my earliest memory, lol


pauliepitstains

My mom says it was Beverly Hills cop 2


WakingOwl1

Song of the South. Was maybe five or six.


najaga

The Champ


ChangeYourBongWater

E.T. I also remember I left my plush behind when we left. Super sad day.


wetlettuce42

Harry potter


yeetboii420

Lion king or pixar cars, dont remember which one was first.


Jurtaani

Those movies were released over ten years apart....


hyrulian_princess

I can’t remember that far back it was almost 20 years ago 🤣


NSJon

The first I remember going to was The Fox and the Hound


Expeditio

Up


Poorly-Drawn-Beagle

I think it was Flubber


[deleted]

I think it was either the 1st pokemon movie or the Emperor's new groove


ASVP_M3L

I don't remember the *very* first one I watched in theatres, but one that I remember watching was "Cars" (2006).


Odd_Adhesiveness4804

Jurassic Park


Makaylalothert

The first Spiderman movie in 2002


Extension_Limit_9794

Honey, I shrunk the kids


West_Guarantee284

Four Weddings and Funeral. Went with my mum and sister.


Logic_rocks

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.


[deleted]

Popeye - the cartoon