First movie you saw in the cinema

Renn

I'm pretty sure it was the 1989 movie Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097523/) when I was four years old. Hoping it was something else but nothing springs to mind. Can't remember all too much from it, just the scenes with the long grass/lawnmower etc...Shame the parents didn't hold off for a year and bring me to Goodfellas instead.

So yeah, what was yours?

Paulyh

The Never Ending Story.
In a cinema in Fairview, i dont know what the cinema is now, as it has been closed for about 20 years.
I think i was about 5 or 6 at the time.

Lillylilly

The first one I remember seeing was The Muppetts Christmas Carol when I was about 7 or 8.

Paddysnapper

Disney's Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs when I was about 3..and slept through all of it!:mad:

syklops

I have a very vivid memory of going to see Police academy when I was about 5. But the year seems strange. Also it must have been some kind of censored version as there is a lot of sex and innuendo in it for someone my age. It came out 1984 and if my memory is correct it was about 1989. Could it have been an edited re-showing?

Kess73

Mine will be the same as a lot of people my age.


It was the first Star Wars film.

joes girls

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial:)
My gran, me and my brother went to see it. I remember the excitement that I was going to the cinema, and i remember hiding my tears in the cinema:)
Brill film, still one of my all time favourites

celticbest

Mine was BMX Bandits , I remember going straight home and getting the BMX out.......

krudler

Batman 89, I still remember the smell more than anything, that freshly hoovered carpet and popcorn smell that only exists in cinemas. I couldnt tell you what ads or trailers played before it, but once the Warner shield appeared and Danny Elfman's score blared out of the speakers I was dumbstruck.

Evac105

Empire Strikes Back which was showing around Halloween the year of release (at least it was in the cinema in Waterford) on one of our biannual visits 'to the movies' in da big city.

monkeyfudge

Don't know if it was the first. But the earliest memory of going to the cinema would be to see The Dark Crystal.

Handsome Bob

Might have been Jurassic Park, jaysus I was scared ****less.

Rhyme

LZ5by5 wrote: »

Might have been Jurassic Park, jaysus I was scared ****less.

Same here, I was on the dinosaur buzz for two or three years afterwards.

Still remember vividly the scene with the power coming back on and the velociraptor bursting through the wire mesh. One of the best scares of my life.

Handsome Bob

Rhyme wrote: »

Same here, I was on the dinosaur buzz for two or three years afterwards.

Still remember vividly the scene with the power coming back on and the velociraptor bursting through the wire mesh. One of the best scares of my life.

For some reason the scene where Numan from Seinfeld got killed freaked my out. I don't know what you'd call the dinosaur but when it starts screaming and that thing shoots out of its head it just freaked me out!

johnny_ultimate

Paddysnapper wrote: »

Disney's Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs when I was about 3..and slept through all of it!:mad:

Same for me, except for the sleep part. I'm not sure how, it must have been re-released when I was a young lad. I remember being brought to a now disappeared cinema in the Dun Laoghaoire area, maybe Sandycove but I'm not quite sure. Don't remember much about it bar that, but it is the first film I remember seeing in teh cinema.

Einstein

My first cinema visit was a tad of an overload...after the the 3 star wars movies were released, there was a cinema in town showing all 3 films in a day...seems I slept through most of the second one...:P

Beruthiel

The Jungle Book. At 4 years of age, I was in awe.
I still think it's the best Disney film ever.

Clare Bear

Look who's talking. Oh the excitement!

donegal lass 4

It was free willy! Slightly embarrassing first choice of film!

Roaster

I can't remember which one but it was either The Aristocats or The Jungle Book. Two great films but The Jungle Book has aged better.

Feeona

The first film I saw at 'the pictures' was Popeye, with Robin Williams. Just looked at a clip of I Yam What I Yam on youtube there and it's a bizarre film.
Ah 'the pictures' . And we used to go to the shop to get 'messages' :)

MrsMcSteamy

Went with some friends for my birthday to see The Indian in the Cupboard !

bonerm

Einstein wrote: »

My first cinema visit was a tad of an overload...after the the 3 star wars movies were released, there was a cinema in town showing all 3 films in a day...seems I slept through most of the second one...:P

I remember going to that also. A while back I was checking thru the Irish Times Archive and apparently The former Carlton Cinema on OCS Dublin (which was called "The Odeon" at the time) showed them in April 1985. I've been told since that the projector broke down half way thru Empire and it held the whole thing up for a while (tho I don't remember that specifically).

epgc3fyqirnbsx

Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles in a dump of a cinema in Ballyhanis and I feckin' loved it!

enda1

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade - 1989 in some cinema in town ("which town!!!?!?!") which is gone now.

monkeyfudge

enda1 wrote: »

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade - 1989 in some cinema in town ("which town!!!?!?!") which is gone now.

The town is gone?!?

wayne0308

It was Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, I think I was about 6 or 7 at the time. My brother had to take me which I'm sure he was delighted about. We went to see it in the old cinema in Clonmel near the Dog track. I think it's a furnature store now.

I was hooked on the cinema after that, grand memories in that cinema. Used to always bring in our own grub. I always brought in a few bags of popcorn and a 2 litre bottle of TK red lemonade :-) ah those were the days...

mooman

The first I remember seeing is Jurassic Park, I didn't sleep for days after it:)

The Pontiac

Fatal Attraction (1987), Misery (1990) and The Doors (1991) were the most memorable I think. All are probably a little dated now though.

monkeyfudge

<Ollie> wrote: »

Fatal Attraction (1987), Misery (1990) and The Doors (1991) were the most memorable I think. All are probably a little dated now though.

Fatal Attraction was your first movie? It's rated 18s!

Renn

Fatal Attraction didn't reach cinemas in Cork until 2005 iirc.

The Pontiac

monkeyfudge wrote: »

Fatal Attraction was your first movie? It's rated 18s!

Sorry, I misread the thread title. I thought it was 'favourite movies' at the cinema. Yes, I was only about 14 when I saw it. I also saw Dangerous Liaisons around the same time.

monkeyfudge

<Ollie> wrote: »

Sorry, I misread the thread title. I thought it was 'favourite movies' at the cinema. Yes, I was only about 14 when I saw it. I also saw Dangerous Liaisons around the same time.

Ha. Okay. That makes a bit more sense.

That said I think Scanners was the first film I saw on VHS back in what must have been 1984 or earlier.

rednik

Kellys Heroes nearly 40 years ago.:(

The Pontiac

monkeyfudge wrote: »

Ha. Okay. That makes a bit more sense.

That said I think Scanners was the first film I saw on VHS back in what must have been 1984 or earlier.

No sorry I definetly saw them in the cinema. I misread the thread title so that's why I listed three of my most memorable movies at the flix. Tom Thumb was the first movie I ever saw at the cinema - it was obviously a rerun as it's was first released in 1958. 'Annie' was the second movie I saw at the cinema and ET was the third (I think).

I cant remember what the very first movie I saw was. It might have been the Neverending Story. I do have vague memories of my family having the entire cinema screen to ourselves and the cinema staff coming in and watching it with us.

hblock21

The Loin King

The Pontiac

Renn wrote: »

Fatal Attraction didn't reach cinemas in Cork until 2005 iirc.

Unless I dreamt it so. Why wouldn't one of the biggest movies of the 80's not be shown in Irish Cinemas? I saw it in the Ormonde Cinema in Midleton, Co. Cork. It has a release date of early 1988 for European countries; and it was definitely the late 80's when I saw it.

monkeyfudge

brokenlaptop wrote: »

I cant remember what the very first movie I saw was. It might have been the Neverending Story. I do have vague memories of my family having the entire cinema screen to ourselves and the cinema staff coming in and watching it with us.

Sheesh... I remember the queue running down half of O'Connell street to get into the Carlton to see it.

marwelie

First movie was Grease. I've been trying to wipe the memory ever since. I was 5 and it seemed a good idea at the time!

Feeona

hblock21 wrote: »

The Loin King

Is that the porn version of 'The Lion King'?

anthony4335

Popeye early eighties, Burren cinema in Ennis all one screen, with the bottle of pepsi and king crisps. Can actually remember more of that film that some of the ones I have seen over the last year.

ricero

toy story now beat that as a first film to see as a child in the cinema i witnessed history cant wait for the 3rd one dis summer

kraggy

Three Men and a Baby, in 1987, courtesy of the local newspaper.

I used to deliver the Galway Advertiser and each year they'd bring the delivery boys and girls to the cinema.

Saw it in the Claddagh Palace which was a true picture house, but not there anymore unfortunately.

tony 2 tone

I saw Jungle Book many years ago in The Ambassador with me mammy It was great, little bottle of Cadet lemonade and chocolate buttons

kravmaga

Renn wrote: »

I'm pretty sure it was the 1989 movie Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097523/) when I was four years old. Hoping it was something else but nothing springs to mind. Can't remember all too much from it, just the scenes with the long grass/lawnmower etc...Shame the parents didn't hold off for a year and bring me to Goodfellas instead.

So yeah, what was yours?

JAWS- Fairview Cinema circa 1976

Minstrel27

E.T.

irishh_bob

i remember it well , 1st movie i ever saw at the cinema was during a school tour in the early 80,s , i was in junior infants , the movie was called CHAMPION , some crap staring john hurt about a guy who got cancer but won the grand national , i ask you , what kind of school teacher brings a bunch of 5 year olds to a movie like that

irish_stevo815

My first cinema outing was to see Jurassic Park (1993).

I was 8 and remember being absolutely terrified during the opening sequence, with the Velociraptors attacking from their transport cages.
Still one of my favourite movies to this day. And some of the effects put some of todays movies to shame.

mikhail

irish_stevo815 wrote: »

My first cinema outing was to see Jurassic Park (1993).

I think that might have been my second. My first was Ghostbusters II.

scillaria

The first film I saw in the cinema was matilda was ten years old. unfortunately this movie venture is slightly tainted by the fact that in the same year the cinema was closed done due to rats :eek:. Hasn't put me off going to the cinema though:)