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FOT Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: Smelodies on April 25, 2010, 08:10:45 PM
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Inspired by ScottP who posted the Breaking Away trailer. That took me back. Outside of Star Wars, Superman, Jaws, and movies of that ilk, Breaking Away is one of the earliest I remember seeing.
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Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey.
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Freaky Friday - the original. I was four. I saw it at Sunrise Mall in suburban Sacramento.
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I saw that too.
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Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey is actually the only movie I've ever seen.
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v642/alembic14/kellysheroes.jpg)
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An American Tail. Follow by La Bamba the following Summer. I was 4, or had just turned 5 when I saw La Bamba.
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Cat's Eye in a drive-in.
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Naked Gun 2 1/2
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(http://www.michaeldvd.com.au/CoverArtUnverified/6693.jpg)
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E.T. i remember sitting there forever thinking when the hell is this thing going to start already. Hey, i had no clue what a trailer was at that age.
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First was The Sword and the Stone. I remember very little about it.
Second was Dirty Harry. I was 13, and traumatized. I still get a little squidgy about big guys wearing leather gloves.
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Masters of the Universe.
I loved the He-Man cartoon, so my folks took me to see the live-action Dolph Lundgren vehicle, and as they tell it, I started crying when Skeletor came on, so my dad had to escort me outside.
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Somehow I remember seeing Star Wars sometime in 1981. They must have rereleased it in anticipation of the sequel. I talked to my Dad a lot throughout, describing for him what was going on. I would made the future me absolutely furious.
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I remember being excited about seeing ET, but not actually seeing it. My earliest movie memory is of the Cloud City in the Empire Strikes Back.
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I somewhat remember seeing Disney's The Fox and the Hound, which would've been out when I was about five.
More clearly: Return of the Jedi when I was seven.
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Vague memories of seeing Peter Pan (the 1953 cartoon) when I was three or four; clear memories of seeing the original Parent Trap when I was five.
God, I loved going to the movies when I was a kid. By the time I was seven, we lived within walking distance of our town's only movie theater, and I would go faithfully every weekend and as many nights as my parents would allow. It cost a quarter to get in, and I'd generally have another quarter for popcorn etc. One Saturday afternoon, I remember, my best friend Eric (two years my junior) and I were denied entry to Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. Why the Roxy was showing that on a day traditionally reserved for childish fare, I do not know. Another Saturday, we were allowed in to see Thunderball; it shocked my mother no end when I told her what I'd just been watching.
Oh, it was fun.
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I know I saw E.T., but I was too young to remember any of it. I remember seeing Footloose at a drive in and Gremlins at a theater.
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Ghostbusters was my first movie, when I was four. Scared the living bejeezus out of me, I don't know why my folks thought it was a good idea.
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I probably saw Empire in theaters the first time through, but only have vague memories of being in the front row of a theater for it. The first movie I have full memory of seeing as a kid is "Spacehunter: Adventures In The Forbidden Zone". I'm 99% sure we saw "Streets of Fire" the year after. They should have thrown my parents in jail.
Masters of the Universe.
I loved the He-Man cartoon, so my folks took me to see the live-action Dolph Lundgren vehicle, and as they tell it, I started crying when Skeletor came on, so my dad had to escort me outside.
Samir, how did you say He-Man growing up? I bet the British pronounced it as "HE-min", sort of rhyming with demon. Don't lie, man, we'll know.
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First movie(s) I saw that I remember were both of the Cinderella and Fantasia re-releases that my parents took me to in the early '70s but I've kind of blended them together in my head.
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Ghostbusters was my first movie, when I was four. Scared the living bejeezus out of me, I don't know why my folks thought it was a good idea.
Yikes -- I watched this with my 5-year-old recently!
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"Yentl"
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Star Wars when I was 3 or 4. In fact, I think the second movie I remember seeing was Empire Strikes Back. Or maybe Superman with Christopher Reeve?
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Ghostbusters was my first movie, when I was four. Scared the living bejeezus out of me, I don't know why my folks thought it was a good idea.
Yikes -- I watched this with my 5-year-old recently!
Haha, sorry. That wasn't to say that I didn't love the heck out of it.
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I don't remember the first one. My parents took me to see Return of the Jedi but I wouldn't go in the theater for some reason (probably worried about my snob cred). I also remember my mom making us leave during National Lampoon's European Vacation due to the on-screen filth.
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I know I saw other movies before this but my parents took me to Top Gun when I was 5, mainly because it was shot in San Diego and that's where we were living at the time. Definitely did not make it through the whole thing.
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I probably saw Empire in theaters the first time through, but only have vague memories of being in the front row of a theater for it.
Did you see the whole thing? (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0196530/) Also, hip parents.
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I don't remember the first one. My parents took me to see Return of the Jedi but I wouldn't go in the theater for some reason (probably worried about my snob cred). I also remember my mom making us leave during National Lampoon's European Vacation due to the on-screen filth.
Seeing Star Wars is definitely the first movie where I have easy recall of the experience, because it played for months and months-all that summer of '77 and beyond. I think I saw it in the theaters multiple times - at least 3 or 4, because you'd go to birthday parties of your classmates and the activity was going to see Star Wars.
The cartoons I mentioned earlier are really just snatches of memory for me.
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Masters of the Universe.
I loved the He-Man cartoon, so my folks took me to see the live-action Dolph Lundgren vehicle, and as they tell it, I started crying when Skeletor came on, so my dad had to escort me outside.
Samir, how did you say He-Man growing up? I bet the British pronounced it as "HE-min", sort of rhyming with demon. Don't lie, man, we'll know.
There's got to be a Masters of the Universe "reboot" in the pipeline, right? Probably starring a completely CGI Phillip Seymour Hoffman, a la Ray Winstone in BEOWULF?
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Herbie Rides Again (1974)
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I also remember my mom making us leave during National Lampoon's European Vacation due to the on-screen filth.
I assume by filth, you mean she objected to that movie's unfortunate interpretation of the Rusty character. EuroRusty is easily the worst of the Four Official Rusties. "Hotel Hell Vacation" is not yet considered Vacation canon and I can't speak to the Rusty Griswold portrayed therein.
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Pete's Dragon is the probably the earliest movie I remember going to the theater to see, but I remember seeing Smokey and the Bandit, 9 to 5, and Flash Gordon pretty early on. Now I'm going to IMDB to see if I can put together a timeline and test my memory.
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Ghostbusters was my first movie, when I was four. Scared the living bejeezus out of me, I don't know why my folks thought it was a good idea.
It think this freaked me out too, but Robocop had a lasting impression on me. I remember hiding behind the large guy seated in front of me during the bloody parts.
WHAT was my mom thinking?! Taking a 7 year old girl to see ROBOCOP?! Although, I guess it was the 80's -when you could take a kid to something like Robocop and not think twice. Other than that, I have pretty fond memories of seeing The Chipmunk Adventure in theaters.
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I wish that I could have seen Ghostbusters as a kid. I only got around to watching it when I was nineteen.
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Pete's Dragon, Star Wars, Smokey and the Bandit are all from '77. 9 to 5 and Flash Gordon are from '80. I wonder what I saw in between?
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I saw Pete's Dragon, Freaky Friday, Oh God, and The Wiz all before Breaking Away. Huh.
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HA HA The Wiz, yeah yeah. I did see that in the theater.
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Herbie Rides Again (1974)
Holy shit I was about to write that. I got my parents/brothers to take me FIVE TIMES. I guess it works out to be cheaper than day camp.
First PG-rated movie I remember seeing was Murder By Death. I thought it was the funniest thing ever. Now I see Peter Sellers in that "Sidney Wang" make-up and I want to punch myself for laughing.
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Sasquatch, the Legend of Bigfoot (1977). I was 7.
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I see nothing wrong with yellowface.
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Come on, Pidgeon. Enough with the trolling.
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Don't know what the first movie I saw in a theater was. Probably a Disney reissue. I think we went to the theaters to see Fantasia, and Dumbo, and Pinocchio, and Song of The South ... the early 1970s was maybe the last time that Disney re-released "Song of the South" before they started pretending that the whole thing never happened.
Another early movie memory: My mom yelling at the theater manager for showing violence-laden trailers for R-rated movies during afternoon kiddie matinées. I was pretty embarrassed at the time, but in retrospect: Good for you, Mom!
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Here's some more early theater viewings I remember:
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/30/HelloDollyFilmPoster.jpg)
I thought Carol Channing was in the movie version, but I guess I'm wrong.
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51A2HDSTNNL._SS500_.jpg)
Hansel & Gretel ...Claymation, originally released in 1954 ... pretty well-done, as I recall.
(http://www.impawards.com/1976/posters/hugo_the_hippo.jpg)
As Altamont was to Woodstock, "Hugo the Hippo" was the evil offspring of "Yellow Submarine". I had to get some assistance from the internet to remember the title of this one. I know I saw it in the theater, and I know I was bothered by it ... in a way I couldn't quite understand at the time. My research on the 'nets has confirmed that this film was astoundingly misguided (http://www.filmthreat.com/features/1341/) and that, as a children's film, it made some choices that were just plain bizarre (http://www.badmovieplanet.com/unknownmovies/reviews/rev411.html) . This movie could have achieved "Song of the South" levels of infamy, but I think the world just made a collective decision to ignore it instead.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9a/Benji1974.jpg)
The 1970s left a lot of scars on my psyche, but surely "Benji" wasn't tainted by any of that bad Travis-Bickle mojo, right? Right?? Wait, let's ask the Germans ...
(http://www.motionpictureart.com/store/files/images/PostersLarge/BenjiMoviePosterGerman.jpg)
Thanks, Germany. Thanks a lot.
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Another early movie memory: My mom yelling at the theater manager for showing violence-laden trailers for R-rated movies during afternoon kiddie matinées. I was pretty embarrassed at the time, but in retrospect: Good for you, Mom!
I agree. Good for your mom! I remember going to a matinee of "Going In Style" with my dad. Granted, not a kid movie, but PG and in the afternoon. Kids would be there. I remember absolutely nothing about the feature presentation. All I remember was a trailer showing tidal waves of blood coming out of creepy hotel elevators.
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Another early movie memory: My mom yelling at the theater manager for showing violence-laden trailers for R-rated movies during afternoon kiddie matinées. I was pretty embarrassed at the time, but in retrospect: Good for you, Mom!
I agree. Good for your mom! I remember going to a matinee of "Going In Style" with my dad. Granted, not a kid movie, but PG and in the afternoon. Kids would be there. I remember absolutely nothing about the feature presentation. All I remember was a trailer showing tidal waves of blood coming out of creepy hotel elevators.
Kubrick's "The Shining", right? I gotta say, that was a pretty amazing trailer, inappropriate forum or not.
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dunno the first one i saw, but the first i saw with glasses was "death becomes her."
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Kubrick's "The Shining", right? I gotta say, that was a pretty amazing trailer, inappropriate forum or not.
What amazes me is that someone back then had the stones to make a trailer that told you nothing about the film other than "Blood coming out of elevators. Dissonant music that includes howling voices. Brace yourself" followed by the equally-vague title "The Shining."
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Kubrick's "The Shining", right? I gotta say, that was a pretty amazing trailer, inappropriate forum or not.
What amazes me is that someone back then had the stones to make a trailer that told you nothing about the film other than "Blood coming out of elevators. Dissonant music that includes howling voices. Brace yourself" followed by the equally-vague title "The Shining."
Probably obvious, but I'm sure the trailer was Kubrick's idea. He tried to control the marketing of all his films.
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Kubrick's "The Shining", right? I gotta say, that was a pretty amazing trailer, inappropriate forum or not.
What amazes me is that someone back then had the stones to make a trailer that told you nothing about the film other than "Blood coming out of elevators. Dissonant music that includes howling voices. Brace yourself" followed by the equally-vague title "The Shining."
Probably obvious, but I'm sure the trailer was Kubrick's idea. He tried to control the marketing of all his films.
Nope. It was Scatman Crothers' idea. Kubrick planned to cut what was going to be a pretty standard horror trailer, and Scatman kept calling him up and saying "Just the blood, Stan! Just the blood!" Shortly before his death, Crothers was also the one who had to talk Kubrick out of his "fanatical, Lobo-fueled obsession" with casting Claude Akins as Sgt. Hartman in Full Metal Jacket, which made it possible for R. Lee Ermey to later win Kubrick over.
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It was also Scatman's idea to have the t&a in Eyes Wide Shut.
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I submit these with special attention to the fact that I was 8 in 1986:
Raising Arizona (1986)
The Golden Child (1987)
The 'Burbs (1989)
I may or may not have also seen Sweet Liberty. I vaguely remember Alan Alda in a tri-corner hat.
(I am sure I saw a movie in the theater before these, but I don't remember them).
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The Little Mermaid.
I wasn't born yet when it originally came out, so it must have been some children's matinee sort of thing. I remember being terrified at the end and biting my finger so hard that it left a mark for a long time after (at least in my imagination at the time- I haven't verified this or anything).
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I think the second movie i saw in a theater was Crocodile Dundee.
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The first movie I saw in the theater was The Care Bears Movie. I was about 5 or 6 and watched it in a theater with a whole gaggle of other little kids - if I remember correctly it was a matinee screening for church groups. Anyway, probably five or six adult chaperones and about 30 little kids. I don't think the film lasted more than ten minutes before the first reel got caught in the film gate. Stunned, we all watched in horror as Funshine Bear's face melted through the celluloid until just a bright white light was projected on the screen with the fap fap fap of the broken film strip and a bit of smoke wafting out of the projector booth. All of the kids erupted in screaming/tears and the theater manager came in and told us all to leave.
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Most of my first moviegoing experiences involve me leaving the theater in fear. Vigo the Carpathian in "Ghostbusters 2" was too much for me, and the ending battle in "The Little Mermaid" had me going to the lobby and assuming the fetal position. Although it's also possible that those aren't exactly the firsts but just stand out more vividly because of the whole being terrified thing.
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Herbie the Love Bug.
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Vigo the Carpathian in "Ghostbusters 2" was too much for me...
(http://www.bestweekever.tv/bwe/images/2007/09/FRED%20THOMPSON%20VIGGO.JPG)
I can see why.
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It almost was Clash Of The Titans in 1981. However, my mom decided to sneak into another movie she wanted to see before that one -- Arthur.
Arthur it was.
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Samir, how did you say He-Man growing up? I bet the British pronounced it as "HE-min", sort of rhyming with demon. Don't lie, man, we'll know.
"Hey-min"
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Pete's Dragon re-release in 1984.
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Fox and the Hound.
I cried.
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E.T. i remember sitting there forever thinking when the hell is this thing going to start already. Hey, i had no clue what a trailer was at that age.
I remember seeing E.T. I got so upset when he was in that tent/hospital my mom had to walk me out of the theatre.
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My dad took me to see Firefox.
It BLEW MY MIND. I think I was 6?
There was another in there, called Never Cry Wolf about a guy who has to live up north (Yukon? Alaska?) and study wolves for a year. I remember a weird micturating scene, where he's marking his territory.
I remember liking that movie a lot.
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Ghostbusters was my first movie, when I was four. Scared the living bejeezus out of me, I don't know why my folks thought it was a good idea.
Yikes -- I watched this with my 5-year-old recently!
Me too! My daughter went nuts. Zuul made an impact.
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I appear to be in the right demographic. Flash Gordon and Watership Down were among the first movies I saw. I think I saw them at the same time. My uncle took me to one and maybe decided it was too scary and moved me to another theater, decided that was too scary, and then moved me to another. I don't know exactly what happened there. I know they both scared the bejeezus out of me. And intrigued me. Pete's Dragon was also one.
BTW, Never Cry Wolf was one of my very favorite movies as a kid. I saw it again, about five years ago, and I was surprised at how good it was. It has some depth to it that I didn't quite grasp when I was a kid.
And we all know how well Flash Gordon has held up over the years!
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At the theater watching Johnny Dangerously the night our house burned down.(http://www.impawards.com/1984/posters/johnny_dangerously.jpg)
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I think the Empire Strikes Back or Return of the Jedi
I just know I was scared as hell and fell asleep
I also remember being scared and queasy at Dark Crystal
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Something called Savannah Smiles, anyone remember it?