# What Was The 1st Movie You Were Taken To See? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 29, 2000, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-1st-movie-you-were-taken-to-see/31214 "2000-08-29T17:38:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2000, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-1st-movie-you-were-taken-to-see/31214/21 "2000-08-29T19:38:01Z")
The first ones I remember - Peter Pan (by Walt Disney of course - no Eve, not the 1924 version) and The Sound of Music. As far as Peter Pan goes, it was obviously not the original theatrical release (since the movie came out before I was born.) My parents also say that they brought us to West Side Story but we fell asleep. Since this was Southern California (where I lived until I was 9) these were all drive-in movies. I remember The Sound of Music because of all the great singing, and the fun bicycle ride. Also the nun stealing something from the nazi officer’s car at the end was hilarious. Peter Pan was more traumatic. Poor Wendy being forced to walk the plank. Though I thought that Tiger Lily was more interesting. (Disney’s Peter Pan - Wendy or Tiger Lily?) ---
**Author:** ![Klytus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Klytus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Klytus)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2000, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-1st-movie-you-were-taken-to-see/31214/22 "2000-08-29T19:50:01Z")
Having a terminal case of C.R.S., I don’t rmemeber exactly which movie was first, but htese were the two movies that had the bigest impact on my pre-puberty mind: Star Wars Superman, the Movie ---
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I’m sure I went to others before these, but these are the only ones I can remember. Unfortunately, they all exist in a jumble inside my head, and I can’t remember which of the three was first. Here goes, it was one of these three: 1. _Lord of the Rings_ Crappy mix of live action & animation. 2. _The Jungle Book_ 3. Some obscure movie about a bunch of people competing in a scavenger hunt with some outlandish prize. One of the prizes was a parachute-- it “activated” while someone was driving down the highway and thus slowed them down enough that they didn’t make it in time. I think Richard Pryor was in it. ---
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> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by rastahomie \* > **One of the prizes was a parachute** What I meant to say was, “One of the _items_ was a parachute…” :rolleyes: ---
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**Taken** to see? Tora Tora Tora! LOL! Or it might have been Patton. Those are the only movies I remember being _taken_ to see. (My Dad was a WWII nut.) We normally just got dropped in front of the theater. I think my first movie was The Sound of Music. I was probably 6 or 7, my brother was 5 or 6. Such saner times back then, when a parent could do that. (1964-65, maybe) But the best movie I remember seeing when I was a kid was The Swiss Family Robinson. What fodder for the imagination! I still love it. That awesome treehouse… ---
**Author:** ![Gregor\_Samsa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a6a055/32.png) [@Gregor\_Samsa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gregor_Samsa)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2000, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-1st-movie-you-were-taken-to-see/31214/26 "2000-08-29T23:45:32Z")
I get the feeling it was _King Kong vs. Godzilla_, but I can’t prove that. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2000, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-1st-movie-you-were-taken-to-see/31214/27 "2000-08-30T00:14:40Z")
Young whippersnappers don’t remember when Radio City Music Hall showed movies, but I’m ancient (39) enough to recall those days. The first movie I remember seeing at a theater was “That Darn Cat” at Radio City (my grandmother brought me, of course). ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2000, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-1st-movie-you-were-taken-to-see/31214/28 "2000-08-30T00:57:44Z")
The first one I remember seeing in a theater is(like so many others) _Star Wars_. I was 4, and I’ll I remember is being cold in the theater. I was with my grandpa and older brothers. I honestly have very little memory of the movie though. ---
**Author:** ![Angkins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/fbc32d/32.png) [@Angkins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angkins)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2000, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-1st-movie-you-were-taken-to-see/31214/29 "2000-08-30T01:02:33Z")
My first movie in a theater was Star Wars. My dad took my brother and me. ---
**Author:** ![Dijon\_Warlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@Dijon\_Warlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dijon_Warlock)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2000, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-1st-movie-you-were-taken-to-see/31214/30 "2000-08-30T01:18:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jack Batty \* > **The first movie I can remember being brought to was _Bedknobs and Broomsticks_** This was my earliest movie memory, too. In a drive-in, somewhere in the Black Hills. I also got to see Disney’s “Tom Sawyer” in the theater; with Johnny Whitaker (Jody from “Family Affair”) as Tom and Jodie Foster (my first crush–can I pick 'em, or what?) as Becky Thatcher. Also had the big Indian guy from “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” as Injun Joe. Scary guy, that one. ---
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The first movie I KNOW I was taken to, though I don’t really remember it, was E.T. I was five, I think, and the highlight of the whole thing, apparently, was that when I thought E.T. was dead I just started screaming and crying, I was so upset. My parents had to take me home. Mom’s still a bit irritated with her friend who told her, “Oh, don’t worry, she’ll LOVE it.” ---
**Author:** ![mazirian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@mazirian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mazirian)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2000, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-1st-movie-you-were-taken-to-see/31214/32 "2000-08-30T01:25:31Z")
**E.T.** I was 6. Hated it. ---
**Author:** ![bugman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@bugman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bugman)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2000, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-1st-movie-you-were-taken-to-see/31214/33 "2000-08-30T01:28:31Z")
Johnathan Livingston Seagull…Not a good choice for a 6 year old. Mostly what I remember about it was that I had a very sore ear by the end of the movie, because my mother kept twisting it and telling me to sit still and be quiet. If I had known what the word “suck” meant, at that tender age, I would have used it profusely. ---
**Author:** ![Geek\_Mecha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecae2f/32.png) [@Geek\_Mecha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geek_Mecha)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2000, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-1st-movie-you-were-taken-to-see/31214/34 "2000-08-30T02:45:40Z")
I don’t remember the movie itself at all, but I do recall standing in line for several hours to see The Empire Strikes Back. I think I was three years old at the time. ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2000, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-1st-movie-you-were-taken-to-see/31214/35 "2000-08-30T02:58:13Z")
The first movie I remember going to was _Coal Miner’s Daughter_. It’s entirely possible that I saw a movie earlier than that, but I doubt it. My parents weren’t (and still aren’t) big movie theater people, so I can’t see them hauling kids to the movies. ---
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Old yeller, I was about 3. I talked well enough that they had to know i understood what was going on. sadists. That is a terrible movie for a real little kid to see. ---
**Author:** ![silent\_rob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@silent\_rob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silent_rob)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2000, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-1st-movie-you-were-taken-to-see/31214/37 "2000-08-30T04:49:59Z")
I really can’t remember the first one. Though some of the earlier movies that I went to see that I remember are: **Snowwhite** , **Follow That Bird** , and **Ghostbusters**. I know, I’m a youngin. ---
**Author:** ![Scribe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Scribe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scribe)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2000, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-1st-movie-you-were-taken-to-see/31214/38 "2000-08-30T06:47:34Z")
The first movie I remember being taken to go see was a double bill of Diamonds Are Forever and Blazing Saddles at the drive in. I played with my new digital watch a lot in the back seat, pressing the button so it would light. The first movie I have strong memories of watching in a theater was Star Wars. I remember because we just got in, and I had to sit in the very front row and tilt my head waaay back. I’ll ask my mom what the first movie she took me to was. ---
**Author:** ![evilbeth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/evilbeth/32/2268_2.png) [@evilbeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/evilbeth)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2000, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-1st-movie-you-were-taken-to-see/31214/39 "2000-08-30T07:03:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jack Batty \* > \*\* > Another first I remember - first drive-in movie. My parents brought my sister and I to see _ **Young Frankenstein** _. \*\* My very first movie ever was _Young Frankenstein_ at the drive-in! I remember that my parents brought pillows and blankets for me so I could sleep in the back seat. ---
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Beats the heck out of me. My Mom and my aunt used to gather up the bunch of us kids, toss us in a car and take us to see Disney movies at the Polk Theater in downtown Lakeland. It’s now a historical site, or some such. Been renovated and they show special things there, like artsy type movies. That’s where my best friend and I saw Kenneth Brannagh’s Hamlet a couple of years ago. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-1st-movie-you-were-taken-to-see/31214.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-1st-movie-you-were-taken-to-see/31214.md?page=3)