What was the first movie you saw in the Cinema?

MW

I remember my Dad bringing my Sister and I to see Snow White and The Seven Dwarves when it was re-released. We were so excited!!! Back then there was nothing in the cinema to eat, so you brought your L&N Superstores bag full of cheap goodies. Them were the days!! My friends first film in the cinema was "The Addams Family" and I remember thinking how much of a seasoned pro at cinema going I was compared to her. I still try to go to the cinema once a week, of course now it nearly costs as much as a night out on the piss!!!

Big Tone

I remember as a young kid being blown away by Jaws in 1975 and Star Wars in 1977 after that Battlestar Galactica movies in the late 70s early 80s era.

Kurumba

The Golden Child with Eddie Murphy, it was Christmas time and bloody freezing and we queued on O'Connell street to get in, but we didn't mind cos we were too busy looking at the Christmas lights. We were brought to McDonalds across the road after, thrilled with ourselves we were!

RxQueen

my mam bought me and my brother to see "the adams family" thought it was the job!! and then we got to got to macdonalds ater it! ah those were the days indeed!:D

looksee

Bambi was the first I can remember. I remember very clearly being 8 or 9going to a children's (!) Saturday matinee and seeing some random film about a Robin Hood type character, and someone was put in a dungeon where a spiked ceiling descended slowly on the unfortunate character - every since I can't look at things like barbed wire or spiked railings. It makes me feel queasy just thinking about it. ugh.

star-pants

MW wrote: »

I remember my Dad bringing my Sister and I to see Snow White and The Seven Dwarves when it was re-released.

Wonder was that around the same time as my first cinema trip?? I could swear it was Snow White... definitely a disney anyway.
Mad... we got those wee boxes of fruit pastilles

starn

Batman. Ever dance with the devil in the pale moon light

Black Swan

Yikes! OK... B!ue looks at ceiling. Takes a sip of java. Pulls at chin. I think I know! "The Little Mermaid." Geeeeeez, I was around 5 or 6 then methinks.

Latchy

I am pretty sure it was the Sound of music at the carlton cinema in o connel street .Snow white was another around the same time , you were not cool if you hadn't seen it ....:)

R33F

Big Tone wrote: »

I remember as a young kid being blown away by Jaws in 1975 and Star Wars in 1977 after that Battlestar Galactica movies in the late 70s early 80s era.

I remember being taken to Star Wars as a youngster !!

keefg

As far as my hazy brain will allow....I think it was Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back.

I remember being so upset that Han Solo was frozen in carbonite.

mise_me_fein

The Jungle Book I think.

Rovi

Half a Sixpence

Lizzykins

The Sound of Music in the Kenilworth sometime in the 1960s. When I saw it on TV again in the 1980s all I could remember was the opening scene!

Mint Sauce

think it was 1985, i was 6 or 7, my dad took me to the late show of james bond, 'view to a kill', was probably at the cinema before that, but thats the one i remember

dlofnep

Ghostbusters 2 I think..

dobsdave

First one I remember is Star wars,1977 I think.
Have vague memories of crying when Jaws got killed:D, but surely I was too young to get in to Jaws (5yrs old !!)
Those were the days when there was only 1 mcdonalds in Ireland, and it was an event in its self to go there.
So to get cinema and Mcdonalds on the same day was amazing.
Imagine saying that to a kid now.

Dizzyblonde

Probably Mary Poppins or The Sound Of Music :eek:

Pompey Magnus

The first I can remember seeing was Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles when on holiday in New York in 1990.

watna

The first one I remember going to the cinema to see is The little mermaid. It was for my birthday which is in January so by looking at wikipedia that must have been 1990. (It was released at the end of 1989.) Therefore it was my 6th birthday. I remember my mum made sweety bags for everyone and little bags of popcorn and dunnes coke or red lemonade or something. Good times!!

Gillie

The Jungle book or ET.
Can't remember which though!

Lawless_Samurai

starn wrote: »

Batman. Ever dance with the devil in the pale moon light

Classic :):D

Dunno if this is my first but its my earliest memory of the cinema.... GhostBusters!!!

vektarman

A dogs life.

Mrs. MacGyver

The first i remember was who framed Roger Rabbit?

Acid_Violet

The Lion King for my third birthday. Damn it was good!

Firetrap

Robinson Crusoe in a cinema in Portarlington in the early 80s. Now I've no idea why it was being shown as there hadn't been a Robinson Crusoe film made for a years and years.

gidget

Gremlins. i remember wanting to find Gizmo for sale somewhere in a shop after it.

Holmer

Bavck to the future. Although I was only about 5, so didn't really understand about time paradoxes or the like. Loved the delorean though

dfx-

I think it was Willow in the late 80s or something. Still probably the most boring film I've watched in the cinema

I think it's just ahead of the Never Ending Story which was my second film:D

Wishbone Ash

Star Wars (1977)

dobsdave wrote:

Have vague memories of crying when Jaws got killed, but surely I was too young to get in to Jaws (5yrs old !!)

I remember several classmates in national school going to see Jaws although I think it was a 15 cert. They weren't as strict then especially if the underage person was with adults.

Mrs. MacGyver

gidget wrote: »

Gremlins. i remember wanting to find Gizmo for sale somewhere in a shop after it.

Actually now that i remember Gremlins was my first film then who framed Roger Rabbir a few years later. I got the sweatshirt to tie in with the film!

Driver 8

Technically Snow White in 1991, but my sister got freaked out by the queen's transformation and we had to leave :mad:

First in full was Beauty and The Beast in 1992 or so. Good introduction I say

GBX

Howard the Duck http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091225/

went to the UCI when the square just opened in Tallaght.

longshanks

indiana jones and the temple of doom. it was the parents brought meself and the bro and we were mesmerised, proper edge of the seat amazement. i kept shouting at the screen "look out indiana" and "they're behind you indiana" . in my mind it was just me and indiana battling the baddies, i didnt notice a packed cinema laughing at me. i was very young though

Rhiannon14

The Little Mermaid

Adyx

First I remember trying to see was one of those Land Before Time films ( I think). I know it was full though so didn't get to see it . Don't remember what I did see. Old single screen Kilkenny cinema ftl! First I definitely saw was All dogs go to heaven!

GAAman

Mine was jungle book (jesus upon searchin its been out since 1967!!:eek:)

So im guessin it was a re-release cos im sure my da took me to see it when my sister was bein born (would put it around march of 86) can anyone confirm that?

Davedubh

The first was the black stallion in 1979,there were huge gaps between my first four or five cinema visits.Next was dirty dancing then ghostbusters 2 then jurassic park.After that it was pretty regular.

It BeeMee

Willie Wonka and the choccolate factory.

Sill love that film.....

rossie1977

The Last Unicorn; around about christmas 1982 in Ballyhaunis Cinema County Mayo.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084237/

kelle

MW wrote: »

I remember my Dad bringing my Sister and I to see Snow White and The Seven Dwarves when it was re-released. We were so excited!!! Back then there was nothing in the cinema to eat, so you brought your L&N Superstores bag full of cheap goodies. Them were the days!! My friends first film in the cinema was "The Addams Family" and I remember thinking how much of a seasoned pro at cinema going I was compared to her. I still try to go to the cinema once a week, of course now it nearly costs as much as a night out on the piss!!!

Wow, that was the second film I ever went to see in the cinema! The first one was "The Love Bug", a silly film about a personified Volkswagen Beetle car.That was in 1981

Dudess

Mary Poppins, the Lee Cinema in Cork, some time in the early 80s. Whined at my dad to bring me home once the sweets were gone. I was five max.
First proper film-going experience: The Neverending Story at a cinema in Leamington Spa in England. The year was 1984, I was six.

aidan_dunne

I can't remember what the very first film I saw in the cinema was (I think it might have been some Disney film) but I do clearly recall 'Santa Claus - The Movie' being one of the very first ones I saw:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Claus:_The_Movie

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089961/

Holy Christ, 1985! That's 22 years ago! :eek: God, I feel old!

The Power Rangers Movie, would have been 1995 or so.

I tend to lock that part of my life away for the sake of sanity!

Dudess

aidan_dunne wrote: »

I can't remember what the very first film I saw in the cinema was (I think it might have been some Disney film) but I do clearly recall 'Santa Claus - The Movie' being one of the very first ones I saw:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Claus:_The_Movie

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089961/

Holy Christ, 1985! That's 22 years ago! :eek: God, I feel old!

I've a feeling it was actually out Christmas 1984. Ah 1984 - what a magical year for movies: Ghostbusters, Gremlins, The Neverending Story, Santa Claus: The Movie (if I'm correct), Nineteen Eighty-Four... ok, scratch that last one...

FatherTed

Snow White early 70's at the Savoy in Galway

Jeapy

Mine was "Babys Day Out". Our primary school used to go to the cinema once a year...ah the memories!

Hagar

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang in the Cinerama in Talbot St.

Fooz

Annie in Kinsale Cinema (now a ****ty slot machine place).

cazzy

I think it was 101 Dalmatians

God remember the queues for the cinemas in the 80's

there was only 2 in galway - the cladagh and the town hall and the queues in the afternoon for the matine and agaian at 8 for the evenign show would be right around the building. youd be out in the rain gettign wet. No fancy 10 screen cinemas or nice pop corn. the toilets and building were always gross and the shop had taytos, bottles of coke with straws or scots clan and bags of popcorn. The cinema s had a balcony and the kids on top would throw pop corn on top of the people down below. the seats were so manky dirty. abotu 100 years old. some of the old seats were moved into the upstaires of the quays bar in galway. they are kinda cool now.

robo

E.T. was my first I think.
My mum was pi$$ed at me cos I kept looking up at the projector at the back of the cinema as there was a tiny screen with the film...I also think that I asked if it could be turned down!!