What was the first film you saw in the cinema?

[PositronicRay]

The 1st one I remember was the ghost and Mrs Muir.

It wasn't a new release, so no idea why. About 1964.

[OriginalFDM]

The Lion King

[irocfan]

markymarkthree said:

Wizard of Oz, early 60s in the old cinema which is now where the Thorndike Theatre in Leatherhead is.
Green witch, flying monkeys, I cried, we left early.

apparently I had a similar reaction to watching it on the idiot box - left the sitting room and hid in the bathroom (I still don't do scary films - though flying monkeys are cool!)

[knotweed]

Honey I Blew up the Kid.

1992, Mansfield. Went for a friend's birthday when I was 13.

[Planet Claire]

daddy cool said:

I think it was E.T.
I cried.
Havent watched it since.

Now the truth is out!

I saw this at the flicks and my (younger) brother hid behind his coat.

My first film, I think, was Jungle Book. I lived out in the sticks so it would have been a good decade after it was released until it was shown at our local cinema.

[Abbott]

My first film was Ambush Bay as a B movie to the main feature which was The Magnificent 7. It was back in the mid 60s

[TheRainMaker]

RedWhiteMonkey said:

daddy cool said:

I think it was E.T.
I cried.
Havent watched it since.

Snap, me too.

And me (don’t think I cried though)

[daddy cool]

Planet Claire said:

My first film, I think, was Jungle Book. I lived out in the sticks so....

...you thought it was a documentary!

[MKnight702]

First one I can remember was either taking some friends to see "The spy who loved me" for my birthday or watching "The Rescuers" with my middle brother (who fell asleep halfway through)

[essayer]

[Supersam83]

First movie I can remember watching at the cinema was My Girl in November 1991 @ Cannon Cinema in Leicester.

I was 8 years old and was taken by parents and my friend at the time.

Movie rental on VHS was a more frequent way of watching movies at the time and as a family we used to rent weekly and got introduced to many movies that way.

[maccas99]

TheRainMaker said:

RedWhiteMonkey said:

daddy cool said:

I think it was E.T.
I cried.
Havent watched it since.

Snap, me too.

And me (don’t think I cried though)

E.T. for me as well...

[Shakermaker]

I think it was either a re-showing of Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs or Sleeping Beauty, the Disney animated version, at Richmond Odeon sometime in 1988 when I was 3.. its a very, very early memory.

The first film I remember seeing at the cinema is Disney's Aladdin, when I was 7/8

[Steve vRS]

It was either Watership down or the animated Lord of the Rings film with my dad at the Whitehaven Gaiety Cinema.

It's a wonder I grew up so well adjusted having been subjected to Watership Down at the age of 5 or 6!!!

[mikal83]

I feel old

[Hackney]

Moonraker at the Savoy, Nottingham.
We'd actually gone to see Superman but it was sold out.

[smallgun]

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea 1954. I was 6 and went with my Gran.

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[Alex]

According to my mum, Paint Your Wagon (1969).

We were on holiday in Tenby and it was raining, so my parents took me and my one-year-old brother to the cinema. Apparently we fell asleep, luckily for them!

So I don't remember that one, but I do remember Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971).

[rowley birkin]

Abba: The Movie (1978). No further comment...

[768]

Death becomes her.

I was 10. And terrified.