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re: What is your earliest "movie memory?"

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Posted by Scruffy
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Posted on 5/25/16 at 5:22 am to
I remember getting really pissed because my parents wouldn't let me watch Congo when they rented it back in the 90s.
Posted by TrapperJohn
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Posted on 5/25/16 at 5:55 am to
I barely remember seeing "Oh God" at the drive in when I was 4. My brother took me to see Halloween when I was 5. Jackass scared the hell out of me for years by humming the theme music when I would head off to bed.
Posted by AUtigerNOLA
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Posted on 5/25/16 at 6:48 am to
Terminator 2 and Hook are the earliest movies I remember.
Posted by Saintsisit
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Posted on 5/25/16 at 6:56 am to
Clash of the Titans '81.

That little stupid owl flying around raising hell!
Posted by Breesus
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Posted on 5/25/16 at 7:18 am to
Either Denver the Last Dinosaur when he is the Rodeo clown, or Rockadoodle when the owls realize the little pig is running out of batteries.

Posted by Darla Hood
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Posted on 5/25/16 at 7:21 am to
One of my aunts took me to the movies with her to see "Imitation of Life."

This is the scene that I remember. I cried and cried. I was about five years old, and my aunt kept saying I was too young to understand it enough to cry about it.

LINK

The character, Sarah Jane, had moved away from home so she could pass as white.

ETA: Haha, I just cried again watching the scene.
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Posted by dr smartass phd
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Posted on 5/25/16 at 7:22 am to
Frankie and Annette beach movies, Elvis and Doris Day movies.
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Posted by Breesus
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Posted on 5/25/16 at 7:24 am to
Reading through this thread there is either Alot of bullshite or some of you have late memories. Half of the things listed aren't kids movies.

The first non-kids movie I ever watched was Terminator with my dad when I was 6. My mom came home at the end and made us turn it off
Posted by dr smartass phd
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Posted on 5/25/16 at 7:39 am to
quote:

Reading through this thread there is either Alot of bullshite or some of you have late memories. Half of the things listed aren't kids movies.


Other than a few Disney Fred McMurray Flubber movies. Kid movies were few and far between in the mid=60's
Posted by nes2010
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Posted on 5/25/16 at 7:40 am to
I remember my cousins talking me into seeing Back to the Future instead of ET. I also remember watching Song of the South in theaters.
Posted by LesMiles BFF
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Posted on 5/25/16 at 7:43 am to
quote:

Reading through this thread there is either Alot of bullshite or some of you have late memories




Or traumatic/scary memories are more vivid and therefore easier to recall.
Posted by GeauxTigerTM
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Posted on 5/25/16 at 7:49 am to
quote:

What is your earliest "movie memory?"


Two some to mind as important, though I'm not sure if they were the earliest.

First was being brought to see Rocky by my older sister in 1976. Must have been a Sunday, because I remember going to school the next day (I'd have been 6 so that would have been 1st grade) and telling anyone who'd listen about the scene with Mickey cutting Rocky's eye open in the final fight scene and Rocky drinking a glass full of raw eggs.

Second one was Star Wars also with my sister in '77. It was at the multiplex in whatever was the really big theater at the time at Lakeside in Metarie. Fully packed theater as it was probably a week or so after release. Somewhere around the time they break out the plans to destroy the Death Star I needed to go take a piss. Whisper it to my sister who, not wanting to get up and bring me, describes to her 7 year old brother where the bathroom is and tells me to go. I naturally don't follow her instructions and proceed to walk out the EXIT door at the back of the theater and start looking around the outside of the outer wall for a bathroom door. After a few minutes I realized what I had done and went back to the door and started trying to pry it open with a stick! Must have been tem minutes later when I hadn't come back see put two and two together and realized I was probably the reason the theater had lit up earlier and that I was outside. She came and found me and had to talk our way back into the theater, and we stood in the back to watch right as Luke blew up the Death Star.

Better memory from that SW one was sitting next to her in the theater as she read the opening crawl to me because it was going by too fast for me...
Posted by Napoleon
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Posted on 5/25/16 at 7:51 am to
earliest movie I saw that I can remember was Jaws 3d in theaters. The earliest movie I remember thinking about for weeks after was Back to the Future. I can even remember the lobby of the theater for that one, because it looked like it had stars. I remember wanting to turn my parent's Volvo into a Time Machine.

I remember older movies but I can't recall if I saw them on VHS or in the theaters first. BTTF is my earliest cinema movie experience.


(though I do remember seeing two movies back to back with my aunt back then, I thought it was a thing, later found out we always just snuck into the second one...... )
Posted by Tigris
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Posted on 5/25/16 at 7:54 am to
The end of Old Yeller.
Posted by BluegrassBelle
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Posted on 5/25/16 at 7:55 am to
Seeing Bambi in one of it's re-releases (88 I think) with my Mom.

ETA: Now that I think about it, it's not a "movie" per se but I remember my Aunt forcing my almost 5 year old self to watch Thriller with her when my Mom went into labor with my brother on Halloween.
This post was edited on 5/25/16 at 7:57 am
Posted by Das Jackal
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Posted on 5/25/16 at 8:23 am to
I believe it was the Disney movie Dragonslayer. I remember being terrified of those baby dragons.. didnt sleep well that night.
Posted by TigerLunatik
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Posted on 5/25/16 at 8:28 am to
Saw Star Wars at the drive-in when I was about 3 or 4 and remember Vader walking into the base and it scared the crap out of me on that big arse screen.
Posted by BeTheRightClub
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Posted on 5/25/16 at 8:31 am to
Deep Blue Sea! I was around 5 and the Sharks just stuck in my mind
Posted by danfraz
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Posted on 5/25/16 at 8:35 am to
the first memory is of going to the drive inn Showtown on Airline iirc with my mom in her ford torino seeing a movie called billy jack

in the theatre it was seeing Jaws at the Robert E Lee cinema on Plank Road


yes I am that old
Posted by kingbob
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Posted on 5/25/16 at 8:38 am to
In the movie theater watching bugs eat everyone in Starship Troopers. As a 5 year old, I hated it, scared the crap out of me
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