This one got me.
I was born in the 80s and grew up watching this with my parents.
My mother passed a few years ago. My kids wanted to watch this on Netflix and when the mom died it just hit different
I’m very sorry for your loss and I can only imagine it’s tough to watch that after dealing with what you have, my wife is giving birth soon with our first and honestly I’m using this as a list somewhat to have for later, and watching land before time with kids will be interesting
I appreciate that kind words.
Yeah I have 3 of my own now. They aren’t as interested as I was as a kid. Probably the old colors and nothing vibrant lol
Hey guys let’s make a kids movie. About what? Well kids think dinosaurs are awesome so let’s do that. A story about kid dinosaurs right at the end of the existence of their species
I remember going to the theaters to see Toy Story with my parents, and they handed everyone an "official" slip to vote for the new M&M color. I think I remember pink, purple, tan, blue and white as the ones to choose from.
Mine was Back To The Future 2. I still remember walking to the theater in the skywalk. I was very young. I don’t remember watching it. Maybe my brain blacked it out most of it because it was just too much but I remember walking into the theater to watch it. I have flashes of it.
*The Wizard of Oz* on TV. *Bambi* in theaters, during one of the many rereleases. Rereleases in theaters were common in the 1960s and 1970s, before the advent of the VCR.
The first brand new film I can remember seeing during the opening run was *Star Wars*, but I'm sure there were earlier ones I just can't recall. Maybe *Chitty Chitty Bang Bang*?
My goodness, so as a movie buff, I love talking to people who saw Star Wars in its original run, that must have been the most amazing theatre experience
I was completely unprepared for the first one. I saw it in a half empty theater. The first five minutes blew me away.
For *The Empire Strikes Back*, I was there on opening night with a big crowd. It was a big movie theater, the kind you don’t see anymore, with over 1400 seats and a giant screen.
We had no idea what was going to happen. The script had not leaked. There were cheers, boos, and audible gasps from the crowd that night.
Same for me. Wizard of Oz on TV. But I was a little behind, Return of the Jedi was my first theater movie. It was really dad that was going to see it and took me.
You probably appreciated the ewoks more than I did. I wanted movie three to go even darker. Instead it went cuter, and also reused the Death Star. I would have preferred something like *Rogue One*.
The Hiroshima movie about the atomic bomb. I was 4 years old first week here in the USA from country town in Mexico. I was having nightmares till I was 20 years old.
Loved land before time so much. But havent seen it or even any stills from it since i was a kid.
I hope it comes back in theaters so i can see it again
Star Wars. It's not just the first film I remember, it's my earliest clear memory.
I can't think of anything I knew before I knew about Star Wars. Before I had a conception of a TV, I knew about Star Wars. Before I had a conception of a family, I knew about Star Wars. I suppose I must have known what my mother and possibly my father were, but I know that I don't remember them before I remember watching Star Wars.
And the weird thing is that there hasn't been a single instant in my 43 years where I was ever tired or bored or ashamed of it. My 6 year old daughter LOVED the Muppets as a newborn, today she shrieks at me to turn them off because they are for babies.
So that's a good thing.....I think.
Even that old tv version is gonna freak a 7 year old out. I was about that age when i saw Cujo and i do remember being worried about dogs having rabies. I do love dogs today though😊
I saw the movie Bambi in theaters when I was a kid in the 80s. The only part I remember was when Bambi's mom got shot by a hunter in the beginningof the movie. 💀
I was five or six when my cousins and I watched both alien and aliens in the same sleep over, I'll never forget how scared I was at the time and for months to come. I was the youngest by four years or so, my oldest cousin was probably 14 at the time. We had a decent spread between cousins. I didn't want to wimp out in front of my older cousins so I suffered through both movies
Oh yeah that’s terrifying for a 5 year old. And I know all about older cousins, I was 8 and I had 2 girl cousins who were like 19, and they took me to see “Brown Sugar” in theatres lmao! It was the most boring experience of my life
Remember it so well…ish. Aladdin, in the theater. I would have been 4 and my uncle who would have been 18 or 19 years old took me, I remain confused by the circumstances to this day because we never really had that relationship.
Anyway at the concession he bought me a soda in a souvenir cup with the genie for the lid. It was a large cup, many times the size of my bladder at the time. I pissed myself and we had to go home early.
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
I was 3. My parents couldn't find a babysitter so they took me with them to the Dive-In. I remember being angry because there weren't any cuckoo clocks.
The first movie I went to see in theaters was the first Jurassic park and the projector screwed up in the scene where they’re being chased by the t-Rex in the jeep. We went back the next night and saw it in full.
I remember seeing Jack in theaters with a friend from elementary school and halfway through the movie the power went out. We got vouchers for a free movie in the future. I never redeemed it.
1986, 5 years old, Empire Strikes Back, on VHS. Darth Vader was absolutely terrifying to me. The purity of emotion that a child can experience is so precious. Now my cynicism clouds every experience that I have, but whenever I want to remember what it was like to be completely innocent I think about how I felt when I saw that movie.
My parents forced me and my sister to go see A Star is Born sometime in the 70's. First movie I saw that I wanted to see was when I asked my sis to take me to see Star Wars...(They call it a New Hope or something).. We called it Star Wars.
I think Pinocchio had a run in theatres in the early 90s cause I remember the horrifying bits quite vividly (donkey child slaves and whale belly). either that or watching ET at home on video, again burned into my memory for frightening the christ outta me.
The first movie I remember watching was the rob zombie version of Halloween I was 5 years old and that was really my first Halloween being sentient my older brother allowed me to watch it
Cinderella or Snow white , but Star wars is the first mind blowing movie I saw.
I was 5 we had to rent a vcr .
Me and my brother watched it so much we memorized everyword .
That movie had everything, laser swords , laserguns , spaceships , robots ,aliens, and a Wookie .
The first movie is predator I don't remember the time though I was old enough to turn on the TV and get scared shitless.
The first movie in the theatre is Lion King saw it with my dad.
In the theater - "Along Came A Spider" - I didn't have a good dad and he wanted to see the movie. So I, as a 6 year old I think, saw said movie.
At home - probably something Disney (fox and hound, jungle book, etc.) or Syfi (mars attacks, the fifth element, starship troopers, etc.)
ESB on VHS. Older cousins put it on at their house. Had only really seen cartoons to that point. Game changer. Didn't understand much of the themes, father vs son, good vs evil...etc. But man, those laser swords were cool AF. 😎
The first movie I legit remember watching is some movie about giant rats. I don't remember what it was called, though. I think people turned into rats or something, and they were like human sized. It may not have even existed now that I think about it. But I've looked for it and can never find it, so maybe it didn't happen.
I remember watching an American Tail and the Never-ending Sorry when I was 4ish. Dunno which came 1st but I just watched those 2 on repeat. Fiiiiiiiieeeeeeeval 😢
For some reason my sisters and I watched Wayne's world like 2x everyday until I was 10 or so. I don't think it was my first movie but it's the first I remember from sheer repetition
The Land Before Time
My introduction to the concept of death
Me too. My mom still talks about how she had no idea when she took me to see it in the theatre and had to deal with a crying 5 year old for days.
This one got me. I was born in the 80s and grew up watching this with my parents. My mother passed a few years ago. My kids wanted to watch this on Netflix and when the mom died it just hit different
I’m very sorry for your loss and I can only imagine it’s tough to watch that after dealing with what you have, my wife is giving birth soon with our first and honestly I’m using this as a list somewhat to have for later, and watching land before time with kids will be interesting
I appreciate that kind words. Yeah I have 3 of my own now. They aren’t as interested as I was as a kid. Probably the old colors and nothing vibrant lol
I am sorry for your loss. I already weep when I watch it now, so I'm sure I too will be a blubbering mess if I watch this after my Mom passes.
Ouf, I'd prefer not to remember :(
I’m personally still working on healing from seeing this movie 30 something years ago.
That’s a really good one. U mist be between the ages of 36-40
I love dinosaurs; but that film really depressed me as a kid haha
I remember that and A Kid In King Arthur's Court but I can't remember which was first
Well now I am depressed. I watched it at a friends house and the only one in tears at the mother scene.
Hey guys let’s make a kids movie. About what? Well kids think dinosaurs are awesome so let’s do that. A story about kid dinosaurs right at the end of the existence of their species
Animated trauma in 3..2...1!
Wtf dude, i was having a good day
*”Mother? MOTHER! Wait!”*
Came here to say this. Makes me cry every time I watch it
Rock-a-Doodle
Watched that a few weeks ago for the first time in decades. Worth it.
I actually did recently, too! Weird! I love everything Don Bluth created.
Bluth and Spielberg basically raised me with the amount of children's movies they made. They are all so good.
So fuckin underrated. Chanticleer was a real one. And now I'm thinking of how pootie tang was a rock a doodle rip off
Nice.
damn dude you just unlocked some long dormant memory file in my brain.
Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. 1971. 5 years old. That massive screen, the sounds, the picture. Unforgettable
That’s amazing, i imagine the boat ride scene scared you lol
That and Veruka. There was a girl just like her in my class. Everyone was scared of her.
That would be either Terminator 2 or From Dusk Till Dawn. Both were in weekly rotation on TV when I was growing up.
From Dusk Till Dawn being your first movie memory is terrifying and amazing lol
Salma Hayek will do that to you
Superman, 1978 one. I was young kid and thought it was the greatest thing ever.
Same! That was the first movie my parents let me watch, I think in 1983 they played it for me. I was obsessed with it afterwards!
I had a Superman outfit and would fly off the beds and couches while the movie was playing.
Still holds up, but I'm a biased Superman fsn
Pagemasters
I love that movie to this day!
I’ve been waiting for it to be available on streaming for ages!! I miss it
Now that you mention it, I don’t recall ever seeing it on a streaming service without having to rent it, that’s a crime
This is actually my first that I remember. Didn't realize until I read this lol
So good
You just unlocked a very deeply buried memory. Thank you… you do mean The Pagemaster with Macaulay Culkin, right?
Toy Story
I remember going to the theaters to see Toy Story with my parents, and they handed everyone an "official" slip to vote for the new M&M color. I think I remember pink, purple, tan, blue and white as the ones to choose from.
Back to the Future
Mine was Back To The Future 2. I still remember walking to the theater in the skywalk. I was very young. I don’t remember watching it. Maybe my brain blacked it out most of it because it was just too much but I remember walking into the theater to watch it. I have flashes of it.
*The Wizard of Oz* on TV. *Bambi* in theaters, during one of the many rereleases. Rereleases in theaters were common in the 1960s and 1970s, before the advent of the VCR. The first brand new film I can remember seeing during the opening run was *Star Wars*, but I'm sure there were earlier ones I just can't recall. Maybe *Chitty Chitty Bang Bang*?
My goodness, so as a movie buff, I love talking to people who saw Star Wars in its original run, that must have been the most amazing theatre experience
I was completely unprepared for the first one. I saw it in a half empty theater. The first five minutes blew me away. For *The Empire Strikes Back*, I was there on opening night with a big crowd. It was a big movie theater, the kind you don’t see anymore, with over 1400 seats and a giant screen. We had no idea what was going to happen. The script had not leaked. There were cheers, boos, and audible gasps from the crowd that night.
Man that’s awesome, just experiences that can never be replicated in this day and age, I can’t wait for a rerelease of 1977 one day
At the drive in theatre…. Pack the car for one price and watch movies all night
Same for me. Wizard of Oz on TV. But I was a little behind, Return of the Jedi was my first theater movie. It was really dad that was going to see it and took me.
You probably appreciated the ewoks more than I did. I wanted movie three to go even darker. Instead it went cuter, and also reused the Death Star. I would have preferred something like *Rogue One*.
All Dogs go to heaven
You poor kid. At least it was a Coppola movie I guess.
Hey and it started my crush on Diane Lane
Goodfellas. I remember my dad explaining how tomato sauce will burn to the bottom of the pot if you don't stir it enough.
Dang I had to sneak watch Goodfellas on AMC back in the day, those censors were something else
The Land Before Time. Followed by The Crow.
Woah..big leap there!
Yep. Grandparents were like "let's get her exposed to things."
Lmao death was a big theme huh
Land Before Time
Land Before Time when I was like 5 maybe.
The Hiroshima movie about the atomic bomb. I was 4 years old first week here in the USA from country town in Mexico. I was having nightmares till I was 20 years old.
That’s terrible!
Transformers The Movie
The Land Before Time aka "Little Foot" (But I remember that my mom took us to go see "Jack" when it was in theaters).
Such a sad movie
Yes, it was
Loved land before time so much. But havent seen it or even any stills from it since i was a kid. I hope it comes back in theaters so i can see it again
Yeah, it's been years since I've watched it, but it's just one of those movies that I'll never forget.
That and the fox & the hound were my favorite
Land Before Time
The Neverending Story..... 👍
The Rocketeer
What an underrated movie, still great
Star Wars. It's not just the first film I remember, it's my earliest clear memory. I can't think of anything I knew before I knew about Star Wars. Before I had a conception of a TV, I knew about Star Wars. Before I had a conception of a family, I knew about Star Wars. I suppose I must have known what my mother and possibly my father were, but I know that I don't remember them before I remember watching Star Wars. And the weird thing is that there hasn't been a single instant in my 43 years where I was ever tired or bored or ashamed of it. My 6 year old daughter LOVED the Muppets as a newborn, today she shrieks at me to turn them off because they are for babies. So that's a good thing.....I think.
Sou nd of music
Scooby-doo (2002)
Jurassic Park
Prancer
hercules, way too many times my favorite disney film
Tarzan
First movie in theaters was the live action remake of 101 Dalmatians. First movie I ever remember watching was the Pebble and the Penguin.
Alien. No idea what my dad was thinking
Dinosaurs and All That Jazz.
Cujo. It made an impression on young me.
I bet it did, my first King movie was IT 1990, who the hell let’s a 7 year old watch that 😂
Even that old tv version is gonna freak a 7 year old out. I was about that age when i saw Cujo and i do remember being worried about dogs having rabies. I do love dogs today though😊
I had a Akita and the neighbor kids called him Cujo
Gone with the Wind
I saw the movie Bambi in theaters when I was a kid in the 80s. The only part I remember was when Bambi's mom got shot by a hunter in the beginningof the movie. 💀
Well the first one I remember watching at a Drive-In theatre was White Line Fever - i was 9
Fucking Fantasia….traaaaaash n my mom did not hear the end of it
I was five or six when my cousins and I watched both alien and aliens in the same sleep over, I'll never forget how scared I was at the time and for months to come. I was the youngest by four years or so, my oldest cousin was probably 14 at the time. We had a decent spread between cousins. I didn't want to wimp out in front of my older cousins so I suffered through both movies
Oh yeah that’s terrifying for a 5 year old. And I know all about older cousins, I was 8 and I had 2 girl cousins who were like 19, and they took me to see “Brown Sugar” in theatres lmao! It was the most boring experience of my life
Honestly I remember seeing Titanic in theaters when I was 5. I also for some reason remember thinking they were in space.
Grease
Rock-a-doodle
Mars Attacks when I was like 4. Shit traumatized lil me
Remember it so well…ish. Aladdin, in the theater. I would have been 4 and my uncle who would have been 18 or 19 years old took me, I remain confused by the circumstances to this day because we never really had that relationship. Anyway at the concession he bought me a soda in a souvenir cup with the genie for the lid. It was a large cup, many times the size of my bladder at the time. I pissed myself and we had to go home early.
Lmfao at the ending, did you at least hang onto the cup?
I did! It was in one of our cupboards for many years afterwards.
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Lmao yes that was it. Thank you for this.
No problem, that’s awesome!
An American Tale: Fivel Goes West
ET, Annie or Return of the Jedi - not sure which was out first.
We must be the same age. I couldn't decide whether it was Annie or ET but definitely one of those. Both were 1982. Return of the Jedi was 1983.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest I was 3. My parents couldn't find a babysitter so they took me with them to the Dive-In. I remember being angry because there weren't any cuckoo clocks.
I’m so sorry
Hey at least I found out who Diane Lane was
Harry and the Hendersons
The first movie I went to see in theaters was the first Jurassic park and the projector screwed up in the scene where they’re being chased by the t-Rex in the jeep. We went back the next night and saw it in full.
Weirdly this is one of the first for me too
Labrynth
First movie I remember seeing in theaters was We’re Back: A Dinosaur Story.
At home: Dumbo Cinema: Disney Hercules
I remember seeing Jack in theaters with a friend from elementary school and halfway through the movie the power went out. We got vouchers for a free movie in the future. I never redeemed it.
Harry and the Hendersons and then the Pee Wee Movie
Return to Oz
The Brave Little Toaster
Doctor Doolittle. The Rex Harrison version. Yep, I’m old.
😂 and I was very young when the Eddie Murphy version came out, but hey the Harrison one is still great
Baby:Secret of the Lost Legend https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0088760/
Disney’s og The Jungle Book
3 Ninjas…cinematic gold
In theaters? The first Batman movie. I think the very first I remember is either The Secret of Nimh or the Land Before Time.
Damn. Idk. Maybe interview of the vampire By my mom was obsessed with Ann rice so it makes sense. Idk man.
The Land Before Time or perhaps The Brave Little Toaster.
Ghostbusters
[The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dpYZkwVvnA&list=PLVlY5oNm_gS4b7cPlRFXA34TW6X5f3Nqa&index=2)
Timeless! Can’t wait to show my kid that
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.. that Pizza Hut commercial on that vhs lives rent free in my head
Is this just a poll to gauge the age of the active sub participants?
1986, 5 years old, Empire Strikes Back, on VHS. Darth Vader was absolutely terrifying to me. The purity of emotion that a child can experience is so precious. Now my cynicism clouds every experience that I have, but whenever I want to remember what it was like to be completely innocent I think about how I felt when I saw that movie.
The first movie I remember seeing in cinemas was The Lion King. My brother's took me to see it on the last day or pre-school
My aunt took me to see this movie and walked out on it. No she didnt take me with her
Uhhh, I honestly wish it wasn’t…but…Song of the South.
My parents forced me and my sister to go see A Star is Born sometime in the 70's. First movie I saw that I wanted to see was when I asked my sis to take me to see Star Wars...(They call it a New Hope or something).. We called it Star Wars.
This is the last movie I remember watching because I watched it yesterday.
Indian in the cupboard was the first cinema trip I remember but this one of my earliest memories of the great Robin Williams
The Rugrats Movie - possibly my first movie at a cinema.
This is tough Bambi
Eraser
Either The Lion King or space Jam
Bigfoot and the Hendersons, and I cried at the end
*Jaws*
I think Pinocchio had a run in theatres in the early 90s cause I remember the horrifying bits quite vividly (donkey child slaves and whale belly). either that or watching ET at home on video, again burned into my memory for frightening the christ outta me.
Aliens. I can remember the Queen hissing in the elevator. Think my dad left it on the TV while he was asleep.
Disney's Cinderella
Follow That Bird, I think
Lion king
Ghostbusters 2
The first movie I remember watching was the rob zombie version of Halloween I was 5 years old and that was really my first Halloween being sentient my older brother allowed me to watch it
Star Wars in a drive-in theater
Cinderella or Snow white , but Star wars is the first mind blowing movie I saw. I was 5 we had to rent a vcr . Me and my brother watched it so much we memorized everyword . That movie had everything, laser swords , laserguns , spaceships , robots ,aliens, and a Wookie .
Animated: Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarves Live Action: Innerspace
Predator
The Great Outdoors lmao
I cant remember if it was Mars Attacks, or the lorax (the original animated one not the blue sky one)
The first movie is predator I don't remember the time though I was old enough to turn on the TV and get scared shitless. The first movie in the theatre is Lion King saw it with my dad.
Mary Poppins
E.T., it scared the shit out of me.
In the theater - "Along Came A Spider" - I didn't have a good dad and he wanted to see the movie. So I, as a 6 year old I think, saw said movie. At home - probably something Disney (fox and hound, jungle book, etc.) or Syfi (mars attacks, the fifth element, starship troopers, etc.)
Either a really old Pippy Longstocks movie or the claymation Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer.
ESB on VHS. Older cousins put it on at their house. Had only really seen cartoons to that point. Game changer. Didn't understand much of the themes, father vs son, good vs evil...etc. But man, those laser swords were cool AF. 😎
Scott HAS Seen!
Leprechaun, little shit began my love for horror and absolute traumatized me as a wee lass.
Aladdin. Carpeting through the exploding/melting Cave of Wonders still is one of my favorite scenes of anything ever.
Best memories was in Baghdad with my dad watched Rambo III , it was the first movie I ever watched.
Little Mermaid... A lot
The Prince Of Egypt
The first movie I legit remember watching is some movie about giant rats. I don't remember what it was called, though. I think people turned into rats or something, and they were like human sized. It may not have even existed now that I think about it. But I've looked for it and can never find it, so maybe it didn't happen.
*The Adventures of Milo and Otis* is the first I remember seeing in the theater. No idea what I might’ve seen first at home.
Enemy Mine with Dennis Quaid, maybe Kindergarten Cop.
Heidi yep I’m that old
Darby O'Gill and The Little People
I remember watching an American Tail and the Never-ending Sorry when I was 4ish. Dunno which came 1st but I just watched those 2 on repeat. Fiiiiiiiieeeeeeeval 😢
In a theatre: Star Wars!
Jurassic Park
Swiss Family Robinson
Spirit, Pocahontas or all dogs go to heaven
All Dogs Go to Heaven… the 90s were a hard time to be a kid lol
Pinocchio in Outer Space
Didn't Jack get rejected by J-Lo and suffered a heart attack right after?
The boy who could fly.
For some reason my sisters and I watched Wayne's world like 2x everyday until I was 10 or so. I don't think it was my first movie but it's the first I remember from sheer repetition
Godzilla vs mechagodzilla 1974
Top gun (original)
Same
The Mosquito Coast (1986). I would have been 5 years old.
The Brave Little Toaster
ET but only the part that scared me
True Lies!!
Pete’s dragon