First movie you ever saw at theater or drive in?
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, re-released in '58. Saw it with my big sister in downtown Indianapolis. I was about 4 years old.
My first time in a theater. Giant screen. Downtown Indy. The whole experience left me a little shaken. Okay, totally shaken. The Evil Queen scared me to death.
My first time in a theater. Giant screen. Downtown Indy. The whole experience left me a little shaken. Okay, totally shaken. The Evil Queen scared me to death.
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1st one I ever saw at a drive in was Rosemary's Baby.
Wait... we were supposed to pay attention to the movie? I only remember the pretty lady I brought! 
Star Wars 1977. Me and a friend collected pop bottles, cashed them in and took the bus downtown to see it. It didn’t launch with much fanfare. I remember the ad in the movie section of the newspaper and it was the size of a postage stamp lol.
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We went to the late showing because we missed the premiere, sold out.
My dad fell asleep during the dogfight
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It wasn't the first one but it's the first one I remember. Empire Strikes Back
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If them cromagno women were that hot then it's amazing that no scientist perfected time travel yet!
But we all know that every human alive today has cylon dna.
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I am sure you are not referring to Napoleon Dynamite one of the best movies ever.
Gosh!!!
First I can think of was It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World.
A fairly high value production with even a couple of involving flying, one in a biplane so slow that cars on the highway beneath it were passing it and another in a Beech Model 18 in a wacky sequence where the pilot is drunk.
A fairly high value production with even a couple of involving flying, one in a biplane so slow that cars on the highway beneath it were passing it and another in a Beech Model 18 in a wacky sequence where the pilot is drunk.
Star Wars
I think it was "Prophecy". My earliest memory of the theater is that movie and "The Empire Strikes Back". I remember after watching "Prophecy" it had me freaked out, that mutated bear was gnarly looking. Looking back on it now, it's a little cheesy, but to a kid, it was horrifying. My Mother was not happy that my sister took me to see that.
The only drive-in movie that I have a memory of is a double-feature, it was "FX" and "Highlander".
The only drive-in movie that I have a memory of is a double-feature, it was "FX" and "Highlander".
If I remember correctly the first planet of the apes
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I vividly remember my parents covering my little sister's eyes. Haha
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Don't want to start a new post, but I wonder if anyone remembers their first "revival" movie that they saw in a revival house (if they did)?
Mine was, "The Last Picture Show." I was probably 14 and my younger bro 4. It was a different time. My parents had these soirees in Manhattan, and they left me and my bro to wander around on our own. We went into the Regency Theater in Manhattan, and I thought this movie seems old? Who's that pretty girl (Cybill Shepherd)?
Ok detectives, you can pinpoint my age with this info hahahahahaha
Mine was, "The Last Picture Show." I was probably 14 and my younger bro 4. It was a different time. My parents had these soirees in Manhattan, and they left me and my bro to wander around on our own. We went into the Regency Theater in Manhattan, and I thought this movie seems old? Who's that pretty girl (Cybill Shepherd)?
Ok detectives, you can pinpoint my age with this info hahahahahaha
JAWS at the drive in theater off of K42 in Wichita, Kansas!!! dad parked the car in reverse and me and my cousin were able to lay in the back of the El Camino. I think we were like five and seven.
It may not have been the first one but if not it's the first one I remember. It was In Search Of The Castaways, around 1960.
I'll never forget being mesmerized by a very young Haley Mills' blue eyes up on that giant screen in Technicolor.
I'll never forget being mesmerized by a very young Haley Mills' blue eyes up on that giant screen in Technicolor.
I think the first may have been the Disney Peter Pan. My grandmother brought me..
Later, when my parents took me to the movies, my mother was always late to everything and we would not be seated until at least 15 minutes into the performance. Then we would have to wait until the second showing to see the beginning of the movie.
As a small fry in the early 1950s, the movies I remember because they scared me out of my wits were "The Beast from 23,000 Fathoms" and "War of the Worlds".
Later, when my parents took me to the movies, my mother was always late to everything and we would not be seated until at least 15 minutes into the performance. Then we would have to wait until the second showing to see the beginning of the movie.
As a small fry in the early 1950s, the movies I remember because they scared me out of my wits were "The Beast from 23,000 Fathoms" and "War of the Worlds".
