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Star Wars, drive-in, 1977. I was 4.

Star Wars - the one where R2D2 gets zapped by Sand People and falls over with a comical thud.

Haven't seen it for yonks, but enjoy it when I do.

A horror movie called It’s Alive. I was 5 years old. My mom would rent horror movies without checking the ratings and I’d watch them. Even after this I always loved horror and never had nightmares or anything. But, I rewatched It’s Alive a few years ago and it is definitely not for kids… But honestly the craziest thing my mom rented was The Toxic Avenger, when I was maybe 10. She never saw it herself it so still has no idea what she allowed me to watch at a young age!

The Abyss.

Still awesome now.

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Possibly Fern Gully

I think probably Star Wars. I still like it.

Empire Strikes back. Han Solo being carbonised, Luke skywalker hanging from bottom of cloud city. Just wow. Probably earlier ones but that was stamped on my brain.

Bambi or An American Tale, probably. 1st one is okay. Feivel is still amazing.

The Cat From Outer Space. I was very young at the time, I only remember little wisps of it.

And yes, it is terribad.

Disney's Cinderella was re-released in theaters in 80s, I'm pretty sure that's the first one that formed a permanent memory. I'm not sure I've seen it from start to finish since then.

It might be a new hope, but I couldn't imagine when or where I saw it.

I still remember my dad renting a vcr to watch empire strikes back. It was well after the release of the Return of the Jedi, but it was the first time we used a VCR.

My family wasn't poor, but money was tight and so we turned it into a huge home theater experience with lots of special foods and unlimited soda. The last half was basically non-stop terror for me and I loved every minute of it.

I remember being more surprised that Luke lost his hand than Darth Vader being his father. My little kid brain just figured, yeah, that makes sense; not a lot of other potential dad figures lying around.

Ghost Busters, the possessed vacuum cleaner scene gave me nightmares lol

Ghostbusters.

First film I ever saw at the cinema. Loved it then and still do, probably watch it at least twice a year.

Gigi. Absolutely fucking horrified when I watched it as an adult. “Thank heavens for leetle girls.” Yikes. It’s all about a courtesan (high class prostitute) bringing up her daughter to also be a courtesan. Happy ending: she gets married!! Phew!

Actually my first movie might have been a Shirley Temple one. I remember her singing Good Ship Lollipop on a plane with a lot of grown men. At some point her mother got run over - they didn’t show the accident but she was carrying Shirley’s birthday cake, with a plane on it, and you saw the cake crashing to the ground and the plane smashed up. I haven’t seen it since so I have no idea what was going on.

I’m really old btw. All us kids used to go to the pictures every Saturday morning. First up were cartoons, then maybe a serial (Tarzan), then an interval, then the main feature.

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

I was 3 years old and my parents took me to see it at a drive in theater. Fell asleep before the end.

Jurassic Park in the cinema. I loved dinosaurs as a kid, film scared the shit out of me, and made me laugh. Still does the same today.

The Christmas that almost wasn't.

It might be Little Shop of Horrors. Definitely freaked me out.

I vaguely remember crying when the cat was electrocuted by chewing on Christmas lights in the Griswolds Family Christmas.

Arizona Raiders, with Audy Murphy, probably at the age of 10. I thought it was the most sophisticated thing ever. I saw it again as an adult, and realized it's dreadful.

Face off. I thought the premise was creepy, but I remember I was happy about the ending.

First, Roger Rabbit in a theatre. I was probably fourish.

More interestingly, at maybe eight, Pet Semetary. Kid me didn’t sleep for a good long time after…

The first one I remember was Rescuer’s Down Under. My mom took me to see it in theaters. Like most Disney animated movies, it’s held up.

The first movie I can clearly remember watching in a movie theatre was Mio min Mio, with a very young Christian Bale, and I've never watched it again since then but now you got me curious about doing that:

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The Empire Strikes Back, from the back seat of my parents' car, at a drive-in.

Apparently I kept asking "who's that? who's that?" whenever anyone new came on screen. To be fair, though, ① I hadn't seen Star Wars, and ② I was maybe three years old.

Perhaps the Peter Cushing version of Dr Who and the Daleks when it was first shown on TV in the late '60s. It's pretty weak - toned down to get a 'U' cert - and not a patch on Daleks Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. from the following year. When I saw that one, I recall that I was drawing scenes from it for some time afterwards. I don't recall that from the first one though.

The Muppet movie. I mostly remember the trailer for the empire strikes back that played before.

Ducktales Treasure of the Lost Lamp. And man its got powerful nostalgia, i had completely forgotten about it but rewatching it 30 years later i remembered all the dialogue.

Star Wars in either 81 or 82 when it had additional theatrical runs.

Still love it.

I remember a drive-in screening of Clint Eastwood’s Firefox and Megaforce. Megaforce seems to have found a cult audience in 2023, and I don’t know if I’ve ever heard Firefox mentioned.

I’ve avoided both as even though I have positive feels of that particular night, I doubt the films were good.

I think the first one I really remember is the Goonies. I remember thinking the Asian kid was cool because he had gadgets. And the skeletons were scary.

I watched it with my kids. The skeletons are still scary, and the depictions of fat kids, Asians, and people with disabilities wouldn't fly now. Also the casual fighting between the brothers was weird to watch.

Lady and the Tramp. Had to have been a re-release because I definitely wasn’t alive in the 50s. Don’t really think much because I don’t remember much except the spaghetti scene.

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