#2895969 - 11/06/09 07:17 PM
Re: Question about movie theatre experiences
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Mine is seeing "In Harms Way" at a drive in. I really don't remember what my first movie in a an actual theatre was. I do remember seeing "The Godfather" when I was 12 in a theatre.
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#2895984 - 11/06/09 07:30 PM
Re: Question about movie theatre experiences
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Probably wasn't my first, but the most vivid memory of seeing a movie in a theater when I was young was when my Dad took me to see Midway.
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#2895987 - 11/06/09 07:32 PM
Re: Question about movie theatre experiences
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I was about 5 I think when I saw "Carrie" and "The Wizards" in the theatre. I think I saw "Burnt Offerings" in the theatre as well at that age. I saw "Jaws" and "The Omen" at that age at a drive-in theatre.
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#2895990 - 11/06/09 07:36 PM
Re: Question about movie theatre experiences
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It was a Dirty Harry movie, the one where he shoots a guy at the end and throws his badge into the water. The guy was holding a kid hostage at the time.
My parents obviously didn't wait so long to take me to the movies because they were concerned with age-appropriate content, they just didn't take me to see stuff they didn't want to see (like Star Wars . . . grrrrrr! ). I was 10 years old when Star Wars was released and I still haven't forgiven my parents for not taking me. Every kid in school was talking about it. I finally saw a third generation (crappy) VHS copy around 1981.
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#2896049 - 11/06/09 09:26 PM
Re: Question about movie theatre experiences
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I remember seeing Bambi. It was a re-release of course. Darbi O'Gill and the Little People was another. I was probably 5. And I'm all messed up. As an aside. I don't mind paying the price for a ticket today considering how much the experience has changed over the years. Stadium Seating is da bomb. Surround Sound, 3D, IMAX, etc etc. It's surely a lot better than long flat auditoriums where you couldn't see because of the chap in front of you. The room echoes from the hard concrete flooring. The sound can't compare. I rarely have issues with the film quality, whereas back in the day it was based on the quality of print/# of viewings/mainetance....... Consessions? Well those are a bit much.
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#2896053 - 11/06/09 09:36 PM
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7SnGX_x8is&feature=fvwI give my age away when I say Old Yeller, but when I first saw it with my parents, I was so upset I made them watch it again the same day. And they did. And now I know where my preference for yellow labs comes from.
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#2896059 - 11/06/09 09:40 PM
Re: Question about movie theatre experiences
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I saw "The Out-of-Towners" starring Jack Lemmon and Sandy Dennis when I was 7 years old at Radio City Music Hall. Must have been 1970.
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#2896066 - 11/06/09 09:49 PM
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my dad took me to see Godzilla vs Megalon in Iowa City when I was about 5 yrs old... AWESOME!
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#2896091 - 11/06/09 10:31 PM
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dw griffiths' "birth of a nation" during its first theatrical run. those were the days...
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#2896193 - 11/07/09 02:12 AM
Re: Question about movie theatre experiences
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I remember seeing Ghost Busters in a drive-in theater; but I can't really remember my first "in door" movie...probably something like Bambi lol
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#2896212 - 11/07/09 03:16 AM
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The 7th Voyage of Sinbad, with my parents. I can distinctly remember walking out of the theaters like it happened yesterday
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#2896248 - 11/07/09 05:06 AM
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Herbie Rides Again is the one that comes to mind right now. I know I went to movies before that one... I think why it is the one I remember the most is because it was the first time I went with a friend. The parents left us at the theatre alone. It was 1974 ane we were only 9. I don't think anyone would do that now. Wheels
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#2896252 - 11/07/09 05:18 AM
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Good lord I think that was the first one I saw as well. Year checks out. I was 5 but I remember the neighbour's parents took a few of us. I know it was a Herbie movie and I'm just basing it approximately on the year I would have seen it. Never went to the movies again until Star Wars I believe.
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