Movie experiences you had as a child

[PaulKTF]

I thought this might be a fun thread. Let's talk about experiences you had seeing a movie (or movies) as a child. Be it in a theater, or on TV- be they good, or bad experiences.

I can't think of anything at the moment but I'm sure I'm forgeting something. I'll post in this thread later when my memory is jogged. :)

[The Panda]

Me and the 'rents go to see That's Entertainment at the shore. The long scene where Eliz Taylor descends the stairs to introduce clips. The old man despised her as a tramp. The place is silent. The old man says conversationally: "what a B**ch." It carried through the whole theater, the audience roared. I was mortified.

[The Wanderer]

Movies that caused me to lose sleep as a child: "This Island Earth", "Magnetic Monster" and "GOG".

[Jerryb]

The Crawling Eye is the first movie and the first sci fi movie I can remember watching on tv. That probably started my love for sci fi books.

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[tommy-thewho]

All I could see growing up was Walt Disney movies.

We had a big movie theater in town and we loved going to it..

[Mike F]

Not seeing the Disney film my friends and I were supposed to for my eighth birthday but instead sneaking into the other theatre to see a double bill of Bruce Lee's 'Return of the Dragon' and 'Billy Jack & the Born Losers'.

Another favorite memory I'm still not sure if I saw correctly. In 'The Golden Voyage of Sinbad' when Sinbad carries Caroline Munro from the ship and puts her on her feet on the beach I swear I saw a brief glimpse of nipple. Gave me a thrill! :laugh:

[JohnG]

My parents were never into the movies, still aren't but my mother did take me to see a Hansel & Gretel movie back in the 60's.

I've never seen it since.

[Radiotron]

My parents took me to the movies when I was 7. The film was "Love Story". I cried a lot after the girl died. I'm still wondering why they made me watch that film.

[Marty Milton]

Our family lived 12 miles from the nearest town with a movie theater, plus we didn't have a lot of extra money when I was growing up. I recall my parents taking me to Disney movies. My earlist memories of seeing a movie in the theater was seeing Peter Pan when if first came out in 19543. I was four at that time.

I remember the first "adult" movie I saw was West Side Story when I was 12 or 13. Once I got my driver's license and earned some spending money I started going to movies on a regular basis in 1965.

[Tone]

Old Yeller....... Cried like a baby. Which I pretty much was at the time.

[Vinyl-Addict]

I think my 2 fondest memories come from seeing Goldfinger and Help. I remember my brother and I hid in the theater so we could see Help for a second time. The movie houses showed 2 features back to back in the old days in the UK where I grew up so it made for a long fun day at the movies (or pictures as we called it) :)

[full moon]

Close Encounters..Awesome...

[bekayne]

I remember me & my brother seeing Stardust with David Essex because there was an error in the newspaper-they had it listed as rated "G" & we were both under 12 at the time. I think the same thing also happened with Monty Python & the Holy Grail

[four sticks]

My Uncle took me to see Chariots Of Fire when I was 8 or 9. I recall eating a bunch of Starbusrt chews and falling asleep half way through the movie. :)

[masswriter]

Jaws at the drive-in theatre with my family at the height of its craze in the summer of 75 . . .

[sadie]

I remember going to the drive in. My parents picked..."The Cry of the Banshee". Amazing that the only part of it I remember was wondering what a banshee even was. :laugh:

Sadie

[seriousfun]

My parents took me to see the Cinerama roadshow of How the West Was Won in Chicago February, 1963. I was 6 1/2, but I understand that I behaved very well. I probably slept, since I remember a few scenes from the movie and little else. I remember the lobby of the theater.

A few years ago, I took my two sons to see this movie again in Cinerama at the Dome here in LA (this movie never played in the Cinerama Dome in its original release).

[Dr. Bogenbroom]

Getting freaked out by those stinking flying monkeys in "Wizard Of Oz". Why parents force a child to watch some things is beyond me.

On the other hand when I was a couple years older (6ish I think) ... my uncle taking my sister and I to see "The Dark Crystal". Still love that movie to this day. On the way to the theater I distinctly remember hearing "Maneater" for the first time. Awesome song.

[Jay F]

Old Yeller....... Cried like a baby. Which I pretty much was at the time.That was my first, too. He died. I cried. I didn't want to go to the movies again until I was ten.

[Frodis]

We went to Drive-Ins when I was little. It was a big family event. My Mom would pack up the cooler with sandwiches and snacks. My Dad would put a mattress in the backseat of the car so not only would we be up a little higher to watch the movie but we had more room to lay down (and eventually fall asleep). They also made us put our jammies on before we left for the show.

The movies were usually lame Disney live-action movies with a few cool cartoons (which was why we fell asleep...Disney flicks are BOring!). We also saw Star Wars for the first time at a drive-in. That one I stayed up for.

[cooper16]

This is a long story so please feel free to move on if you're in a hurry.

There was a budget theater not too far from where I grew up that would show triple features for a very low price during the summer. Parents loved it because they could drop the kids off and be free of them for most of the afternoon. When I was about 10 years old my friend Mike and I talked his Mom into taking us the see the Planet Of The Apes triple feature. For like $5.00 you got three movies, a hot dog and a soda. Anyhow we were a little late and had to settle for seats right up front right as the first movie started. Mike thought it would be funny to knock the hot dog out of my hand with the classic upward hand slap move. The move was successful and I was so mad I picked up my hot dog (sans bun) and hucked it at him as hard as I could. He ducked and the wiener hit the screen! The whole theater erupted in laughter because nothing's funnier to a 10 year old boy than a flying wiener. Now that would have been funny enough of a story, but it gets better.

Flash forward seven years and I'm hanging out with a couple of my best friends from High School. These were kids that lived in the same town but I didn't meet until we were teammates on our HS basketball team. We were telling stories about going to the see triple features at the Hacienda theaters and my buddy Steve turns to my other friend and says. "Remember that time we went to the Hacienda's to see the Planet Of The Apes triple feature and that hot dog hit the screen. Why would a kid waste his dog like that?" :eek: Stunned I replied "I'll tell you why..."

[zappa]

first movies i remember seeing at the drive-in: the poseidon adventure/battle for the planet of the apes...............an apemaniac to this day........peace

[Maggie]

It'll probably make a lot of people here very sad when I note that one of my favorite childhood moviegoing experiences was The Rocketeer (1991)...

And I think Steven Spielberg's Hook (also 1991) was the last movie I waited in line _outside_ to see...

[MikePh]

My dad kept this 11 year old home from school to see Pacino in "And Justice For All" back in '79. Hookers, drugs and guns - every kid's favorite :rolleyes:

He knew not what he was doing. :(

More fun memories from "Grease," "Star Wars" and "Seems Like Old Times" in the late 1970's ... :righton:

Earliest TV Movie memory is "Planet Of The Apes" Week on the WABC-TV 4:30 movie -- Good times after school...

There was still a Drive In in my town circa 1981, where me and some other 13 y/o friends snuck in to "see" such fare as "Tarzan The Ape Man" (Bo Derek ...) "and "Fort Apache The Bronx."

[HGN2001]

I remember my older sister taking me to the theater when I was very young to see ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN. It must have been a continuous showing (which they had in those days - the 50s) because I remember seeing the bulk of the movie and then seeing the beginning again (where they're unloading the boxes).

This had to have been maybe 1954 or 1955, and I was about 3 or 4 years old. (There weren't any ratings or Parental Guidance things going on in those days.) I don't think there were any ill effects, and I still like that movie to this day.

Harry