30 day film challenge #1

[jazzfish]

Via shadowkat.
The challenge list:


1) The first film you remember watching

I know we went out to see Lady and the Tramp in a theatre on post in what the internet tells me was 1980, but literally all I remember of that is a mental image of black leather bucket seats in the lobby. And we had a VCR and a handful of movies including Star Wars by 1982 if not before, but again I can't remember watching them. I know I must have, though, because I was already a Star Wars fan by the time we moved to Virginia in the summer of '83. So, the first film I remember watching:

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Admittedly what I remember of that viewing is having to pee near the end, and walking back into the theatre to Darth Vader's pale naked head filling the screen.

I've always had a soft spot for Jedi, despite the fact that it's two half-movies awkwardly glued together. I was the right age to appreciate Ewoks, which helped. (I mostly didn't mind the special edition re-release in 1997 but I did get mad that they cut the Yub Nub song for CGI Coruscant.)

Comments

[reedrover]

The first movie I saw in the theater was The Secret of NIMH. I hid in the bathroom for the scary part.

[jazzfish]

I didn't see NIMH until years later and it was still terrifying.

[sartorias]

Heh!

I think my earliest film was Peter Pan, and me sobbing at the tragic ending (the kids had to go back home), while being shaken and asked "What's wrong with you?" I also remember the thousands of other four or five year old baby boomers around me whooping and chattering and I marveled at how oblivious they were as I sobbed and hiccoughed and sobbed.

[magedragonfire]

The first movie I recall seeing in a theatre was Prancer, and the first movie I recall seeing on VHS was Lady and the Tramp, but... I can't recall which came first. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[nixieq]

First movie I vaaaaguely remember seeing in the theater is Lord of the Rings (Bakshi), which mostly consists of feeling slightly ill at Frodo's wound on Weathertop and Aragorn carrying him on horseback.

Next one I remember is Raiders of the Lost Ark. Interestingly, I have no memory at all of being fazed by the melting faces. Oh no. What got ME was the scene at the beginning where he discovers on the way out that the guide was impaled on the spear trap. Couldn't walk past our hallway closet for WEEKS without expecting that dude to pop out. (Cut me some slack; I was like 8.)