Your first ever "X" certificate cinema film?

Kebabkid

I can't remember exactly which one I saw first but it was one of the following and don't go by date of release as they're 73, 77 and 78 respectively.

The Exorcist!
Saturday Night Fever
Midnight Express - I think it was this one (I would've been 14/15 yrs old)

EricTheWeary

EricTheWeary said:

I remember my first AA rated film (yep, that was a thing). I'm now trying to work out if it was an earlier cinema going experience than the one I posted in the other Discussion, certainly a similar time. My father took me to see Rollerball (not the god awful remake) and I was definitely under 14 (the release date suggests I was about 12)but they allowed me in with him. Great film. 

jonnyburgo said:

Escape from Alcatraz although that may have been AA which is now 15 I think. I was a child, I don't think they really gave a shit back then, they let us see all sorts of stuff. Could be why the cinema is now a carpark.

boogieman said:

Wasn't AA "adult advisory"? More akin to a 12 I think. 

AA was 14. 

olafgarten

I've never seen an 18 in the Cinema, most films are 16 nowadays. 

Philly_Q

HAL9000 said:

Probably one of the Clint Eastwood westerns. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly was certainly an X certificate when it was first released. I think Fistful of Dollars and For a Few Dollars More were also18s but wouldn't swear to it. I suspect if they were released today they'd all be 12s or 12As.

They were all Xs on original release, but only GB&U is still an 18.  The other two have been reduced to 15s.  I guess they're still quite "adult" in tone (treatment of women, etc) even though the violence isn't particularly graphic.

mellowsun

Alien

Kebabkid

If we're talking "AA", too, mine was "Rollerball"

Philly_Q

Kebabkid said:

If we're talking "AA", too, mine was "Rollerball"

Mine was Blazing Saddles.  Now down to a 12A, I see.

57Deluxe

Was a double header of The Wicker Man and Don't Look Now. Went with my Mum and Dad and two of their friends  - having a double hard-on with your Mum and her big-titted friend either side of you at 14 was quite a damaging experience...

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ThePrettyDamned

I saw sin city, but I'm pretty sure I was 18 at the time. 

I remember getting into the matrix underage though, and felt well naughty. 

Chuffola

stratman3142 said:

The Exorcist. Yes I really am that old.

Me too. Although I saw it when re-released. Think we told our parents we were off to see ET.  I think I was 15.

FelineGuitars

I remember it well. Alien - the week it came out (late 1979 which made me 14 at the time), so nobody had revealed or spoilt the plot or anything yet.
That is by far the scariest and most atmospheric of the Alien films - mainly because you really didn't see much of the creature for so long. The whole cinema jumped together at the scary bits.

Philly_Q

57Deluxe said:

Was a double header of The Wicker Man and Don't Look Now.

That's one hell of a double bill!   Two of my favourite films.  In fact I'd probably name The Wicker Man as my number one, if I had to commit.

I think I saw both before I was 18, but on TV not in the cinema.  I have seen them both on the big screen since, though.

Guitar_Slinger

Either Cobra or Fright Night, when me and a mate were 15. There was a small cinema in a shady part of Liverpool town centre that either showed porno films or other films that were about a month old.  Entrance was £1 and they seemed to let kids in to non-porn films.

Both film weren't as scary as the thought of  being in a stinky place watching an 18 film.

mike_l

The Alien trilogy when I was 18.

The cinema in Coventry (I lived there for 9 months while avoiding doing any college work) showed the whole trilogy for £5 one sunday afternoon.

guitars4you

EricTheWeary said:

I remember my first AA rated film (yep, that was a thing). I'm now trying to work out if it was an earlier cinema going experience than the one I posted in the other Discussion, certainly a similar time. My father took me to see Rollerball (not the god awful remake) and I was definitely under 14 (the release date suggests I was about 12)but they allowed me in with him. Great film. 

recall Rollerball around 1976 time - wasn't there a scene near the end when the ball shot out at speed around the 'gutter/alley' and it hit  a player who was lying injured and knocked his neck off, so you saw the ball and head shooting around the stadium

EricTheWeary

guitars4you said:

EricTheWeary said:

I remember my first AA rated film (yep, that was a thing). I'm now trying to work out if it was an earlier cinema going experience than the one I posted in the other Discussion, certainly a similar time. My father took me to see Rollerball (not the god awful remake) and I was definitely under 14 (the release date suggests I was about 12)but they allowed me in with him. Great film. 

recall Rollerball around 1976 time - wasn't there a scene near the end when the ball shot out at speed around the 'gutter/alley' and it hit  a player who was lying injured and knocked his neck off, so you saw the ball and head shooting around the stadium

I can't remember. Perhaps I'll have to watch it again, I'm sure it's probably very little like how I think it is at all...

vale

blue velvet. "baby wants to fuck!". was also the first dvds i ever owned i think. so good.
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axisus

Not sure I've seen an X or 18 at the cinema? I've led a sheltered life.

RocknRollDave

mike_l said:

The Alien trilogy when I was 18.

The cinema in Coventry (I lived there for 9 months while avoiding doing any college work) showed the whole trilogy for £5 one sunday afternoon.

I don't think you should have been exposed to that at just 18.



Not the fillms, they're no harm...I mean living in Coventry

lasermonkey

I went to see Friday 13th at a makeshift cinema at the local community centre when i was fourteen, which would have been 1980. Didn't sleep for three days after that!
 On my sixteenth birthday some friends and I went to see the Kentucky Fried Movie/The Other Cinderella double bill. They were both pretty shit.