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Posted on 10/29/19 at 1:52 pm to
Posted by Parmen
Member since Apr 2016
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Posted on 10/29/19 at 1:52 pm to
Patton is one of the Great War/biopic epics ever produces. I still think the tank battle in North Africa still looks good. Everything is real and gritty. Also George Scott carrying that film.
Posted by Ace Midnight
Between sanity and madness
Member since Dec 2006
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Posted on 10/29/19 at 1:53 pm to
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I still think the tank battle in North Africa still looks good.


The big knock is the modern tanks used are terribly anachronistic. But, Omar Bradley was technical adviser for the film - hard to get more authoritative than that.
Posted by Parmen
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Posted on 10/29/19 at 2:01 pm to
ThIs scene is also amazing.

A lot of issues in the Cold War inserted in here. Patton was brilliant.
Posted by GeauxTigerTM
Member since Sep 2006
30596 posts
Posted on 10/29/19 at 2:13 pm to
Don't recall the VERY first movie I saw in the theater, but what had to be one of the first was Rocky in 1976. I was in first grade and my oldest sister who would have been 16 at the time brought me to see it. all I could talk about the following Monday in first grade was watching Mickey cut Rocky's eyelid open at the end of the fight.
Posted by Gusoline
Jacksonville, NC
Member since Dec 2013
7629 posts
Posted on 10/29/19 at 2:36 pm to
little giants. Bought it recently for my son to watch. Aged well. Ed O'Neil plays the stereotype very well. Could have been major payne status with a little more comedy.
Posted by Jor Jor The Dinosaur
Chicago, IL
Member since Nov 2014
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Posted on 10/29/19 at 3:04 pm to
Jurassic Park when I was 4 is the first one I remember. Loved the movie and saw it a handful of times in theaters with my dad.

There were probably some other kids movies before that.
Posted by 504Voodoo
New Orleans
Member since Aug 2012
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Posted on 10/29/19 at 3:08 pm to
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he earliest I remember is Lion King - 1994.



or Jurassic Park. Whichever came first
Posted by fcollins
Member since Jul 2011
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Posted on 10/29/19 at 3:11 pm to
E.T. and honestly, he freaked me out. My aunt and grandma brought me.
Posted by midnight1961
Member since Jan 2007
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Posted on 10/29/19 at 3:14 pm to
I'm pretty sure I saw some Disney movies as a child, but don't remember them. The first movie I remember seeing at the theatre was Jaws in 1975.
Posted by SantaFe
Baton Rouge
Member since Apr 2019
6564 posts
Posted on 10/29/19 at 3:14 pm to
Song of the South at the Gordon Theater in Baton Rouge.
Posted by blueboy
Member since Apr 2006
56318 posts
Posted on 10/29/19 at 3:19 pm to
Jaws. I was 4. Dad screwed up.
Posted by WuShock
Metairie
Member since Aug 2018
1316 posts
Posted on 10/29/19 at 3:20 pm to
I'm sure I saw one before this, but the first one I can vividly remember is Remember the Titans. My grandma took my sister and I to it after we had lunch.
Posted by BoomNation
wetumpka. alabama
Member since Feb 2015
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Posted on 10/29/19 at 3:22 pm to
bugs life - ran out of theatre crying cause sound was too loud

next movie after that was harry potter and the chamber of secrets (2002) followed by Freddy Vs Jason (2003)
Posted by The Dudes Rug
Member since Nov 2004
13860 posts
Posted on 10/29/19 at 3:30 pm to
Aladdin
Posted by The Spleen
Member since Dec 2010
38865 posts
Posted on 10/29/19 at 3:43 pm to
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i remember the floor was really sticky



I also remember the floor of the theater in my hometown always being really sticky when I was a kid. It was like they never mopped it or something, and there was just years of spilled Coke on it.
Posted by arktiger28
Member since Aug 2005
4785 posts
Posted on 10/29/19 at 3:46 pm to
Return of the Jedi. For this reason, despite me knowing its the weakest of the original trilogy it still occupies a very special place to me because I feel it was my Star Wars movie.
Posted by Fewer Kilometers
Baton Rouge
Member since Dec 2007
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Posted on 10/29/19 at 3:47 pm to
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Patton. I was 3. It was fricking awesome. I got into A LOT of trouble for swearing for about a year after that.


Imagining some poor kid with a skinned knee crying on the playground and you slapping him as you call him a goddamn coward.
Posted by TheFonz
Somewhere in Louisiana
Member since Jul 2016
20375 posts
Posted on 10/29/19 at 3:50 pm to
The earliest one I can remember was E.T. It came out in ‘82 so that put me at 4 years old. It was at the theater at Cortana, I believe.
Posted by TeddyPadillac
Member since Dec 2010
25513 posts
Posted on 10/29/19 at 4:09 pm to
Home Alone, at the Southland Mall. I was probably about 7. Great movie.
Posted by udtiger
Over your left shoulder
Member since Nov 2006
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Posted on 10/29/19 at 4:11 pm to
It was either The Wild McCullochs or Airport 1975 at the Paramount in BR.

TWM was released in May 75 (A75 was in October 74), but movies stayed in release for a long time back then and I know A75 was in theaters forever.

I also remember seeing Earthquake at the Bon Marche with SURROUNDSOUND.
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