What was the first film you saw at the cinema

Veganic

I can't remember.
I have vague memories of  "Saturday Morning Picture Club" thing on a Saturday morning oddly enough.  This was on the weeks we didn't go swimming.

Flash Gordon? The black and white ones.
Something with horses in?
Something with a flood? 

mart

Star Wars, when it first came out in, what, 1978? I keep telling people I’ve never seen a single Star Wars film since 1978 and they look at me kinda strangely.

Of course, that might have nothing to do with the Star Wars thing.

Philly_Q

The Jungle Book, at the Carlton Cinema in Swansea.  At least I think it was the Carlton, it might have been the Castle.  I suppose it was on the original release at the end of 1968 or early 1969, so I'd have been 4.

The supporting feature was The Prince and the Pauper, I assume the 1962 Disney version.

I don't know if that particular film inspired a love of cinema, but I can actually remember the occasion quite clearly - or at least I think I can - so it certainly left an impression.  And I do still love films, it's one of my main interests.

MagicPigDetective

It was Return of the Jedi or ET. ET scared the shit out of me. 

stimpsonslostson

Jurassic Park. 
Still in my top 5 films ever. 
The moment they see the Brachiosaurus gives me goosebumps every time. 

merlin

not_the_dj said:

Condorman!

Two fit birds. 

stickyfiddle

As noted in the GB thread, Ghostbusters 2 - at least the first I remember. After that I remember Hook, but not sure if there was anything in between those two.

Maynehead

Myranda said:

Maynehead said:

I have absolutely no idea... how do people remember these things?!

As a youngster a trip to the cinema was unusual as we were a bit poor. So it stood out. And what with it's being an effects driven spectacular, a coupled with a brain all spongy and ready for new things in my case it stands out as one of the few moments of my younger childhood I can recall  

I don’t even remember the last film I saw at the cinema never mind the first! Maybe the fact that my memory is worse than a goldfish has something to do with it though...

guitars4you

as a kid with parents - Oliver Twist - Jungle Book and Swiss Family Robinson

With mates as a teenager - Day of the Jackal (original version with Edward Fox) 

first soft porn was something with Mary Millington in it

Myranda

Maynehead said:

Myranda said:

Maynehead said:

I have absolutely no idea... how do people remember these things?!

As a youngster a trip to the cinema was unusual as we were a bit poor. So it stood out. And what with it's being an effects driven spectacular, a coupled with a brain all spongy and ready for new things in my case it stands out as one of the few moments of my younger childhood I can recall  

I don’t even remember the last film I saw at the cinema never mind the first! Maybe the fact that my memory is worse than a goldfish has something to do with it though...

Last film I saw in the cinema was Bumblebee ... and that's after almost a bottle of wein 

Myranda

guitars4you said:

as a kid with parents - Oliver Twist - Jungle Book and Swiss Family Robinson

With mates as a teenager - Day of the Jackal (original version with Edward Fox) 

first soft porn was something with Mary Millington in it

I was in our school play version of Oliver Twist - I got to sing about about food glorious food.

scrumhalf

It was either Lady & The Tramp or Yellow Submarine.

Nitefly

In 1957, for my 8th birthday, my older cousin took me to the Hippodrome in Blackpool to see "The Great Locomotive Chase": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Locomotive_Chase

This was based on a true story from the American Civil War, in which a gang of Union spies steal a Confederate train and try to run it to Chattanooga, destroying the railway behind them in order to disrupt the rebel supply lines.

I had no idea what was really going on, but it had trains!

CHRISB50

For me Ghostbusters, the original, in 1984. 

I went to see it at Wimbledon Odeon with my mum as far as I remember. 

Loved it. 

EricTheWeary

I was going to say Star Wars but having checked the dates I think it was The Eagle Has Landed. 

My grandmother used to organise coach holidays for old people from Tipton and sometimes we would go as well, I guess it was very cheap. On one of these we went to Dunoon and I went to the cinema with my father when we were there. Also my only memory of staying in a hotel as a child ( the coach holidays were mostly to Butlins and family holidays were in caravans) and one of only three times I recall going to the cinema with him, the others being Star Wars and some film about a man who befriended a wolf (?).

I do like Michael Caine as an actor so perhaps that stems from there.

EricTheWeary

guitars4you said:

as a kid with parents - Oliver Twist - Jungle Book and Swiss Family Robinson

With mates as a teenager - Day of the Jackal (original version with Edward Fox) 

first soft porn was something with Mary Millington in it

The first X rated film I saw was The Kentucky Fried Movie. It was probably one of the most dissapointing moments in my life and I still carry a grudge against the people who made it. 

Philly_Q

EricTheWeary said:

guitars4you said:

as a kid with parents - Oliver Twist - Jungle Book and Swiss Family Robinson

With mates as a teenager - Day of the Jackal (original version with Edward Fox) 

first soft porn was something with Mary Millington in it

The first X rated film I saw was The Kentucky Fried Movie. It was probably one of the most dissapointing moments in my life and I still carry a grudge against the people who made it. 

Mine was John Carpenter's The Thing.  I didn't see many more X rated films because they introduced the 18 certificate later that year.

Still one of my all time favourite films.

ICBM

As a kid with parents - I'm pretty sure it was the Disney Robin Hood. Not bad, although these days I think it would look very quaint, and I don't think my kids would be bothered about seeing it.

'On my own', with mates - Star Wars. An all-time classic and almost as good now as it was then. Sadly this generation have had it ruined for them to some extent by the prequels and Lucas's dicking around with re-editing it.

MikeS

Star Wars, and the impression it made has stayed with me throughout life..

thumpingrug

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.