re: Movies Your Parents Took You To See

"The Poseidon Adventure" (December '72) Robert E. Lee Theater, NOLA

"The Great Waldo Pepper" premiere at the Downtown Joy Theater in NOLA (Spring of '75)

"Jeremiah Johnson" (also December '72) Downtown Joy Theater, NOLA

This movie was famous for giving the interweb this gif gem:



Once I got my driver's license in '76, I hardly went to the movies with them again.

Scarface at the Twin City Mall in Monroe. I was 10 and my brother was 13. After about the first 10 minutes, my dad gave us $20 a piece and told us to go hang out in the mall until the movie was over.

That same year, my religious grandmother took me and my brother to see the original Vacation with Chevy Chase. Very awkward moment when Clark lost it in the car when the rest of the family wanted to go home.

Kramer vs. Kramer. Strange choice of films to take a 7 year old boy to. But I think it was the first time I saw tits so that was cool.

Invasion USA
Top Gun
The Fly
Police Academy 3

First one that I can remember was Smokey and the Bandit 1977.

Every Which Way But Loose - Pasqua Theater

I can still hear my dad laughing his arse off at that "gaaaahd daaaam ape"

My dad took my sister and I to see Mars Attacks! Think I was about 6 years old. Remember screaming when they took the head off the dog and put a human head on it. Good times.

Scarface. I was like 9 years old. It taught me proper chainsaw technique.

Not taken too but my grandparents bought us our first vcr. Along with the vcr the gave us, Laurel and Hardy, Shirley Temple, night of the living dead and Beverly Hills cop. We were 7, 4 & 3. They had no idea.Night of the living dead scarred us and Beverley hill cops got me in trouble at school a lot.

My mom would rent us movies on fridays, as did most parents, but she never watched them with us. She rented us faces of death because it was in the documentary section. We watched that while eating doggironi(hot dogs cut up and mixed with Mac and cheese - our favorite meal as kids) when the guys started hitting the monkey in the head with the little hammers and eating it’s brain my 5 yo brother and 6 yo sister nearly vomited.

Patton - I was in first grade and the very next morning I am trying to tie my shoe in the car on the way to school with my Mom and I say "Goddamn it can't tie my shoe". My parents warned me there was language in the movie I should not repeat. They just didn't tell me which language.