# What was the first movie you ever saw? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 30, 2003, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-movie-you-ever-saw/172139 "2003-04-30T13:24:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-movie-you-ever-saw/172139/21 "2003-04-30T16:25:52Z")
Showing my age here… the first movie I remember seeing in a theater was “That Darn Cat,” which my grandmother took me to see at Radio City Music Hall back in 1965! ---
**Author:** ![Kaspar\_Hauser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b3f665/32.png) [@Kaspar\_Hauser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaspar_Hauser)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-movie-you-ever-saw/172139/22 "2003-04-30T16:36:14Z")
The earliest movie I actually remember going to see was the _King Kong_ remake in 1976 (I was three), but my parents had been taking me to the movies for years before that (I was a very well-behaved baby). ---
**Author:** ![mipiace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb9ed0/32.png) [@mipiace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mipiace)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-movie-you-ever-saw/172139/23 "2003-04-30T16:43:14Z")
The Jungle Book. I was 4 and my older brother took me. ---
**Author:** ![roadrunner70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19b73/32.png) [@roadrunner70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roadrunner70)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-movie-you-ever-saw/172139/24 "2003-04-30T17:01:25Z")
**Bonnie & Clyde** , IIRC…I still enjoy watching it when it comes on TV. ---
**Author:** ![gwendee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/35a633/32.png) [@gwendee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gwendee)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-movie-you-ever-saw/172139/25 "2003-04-30T17:07:13Z")
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. My uncle took me. It’s still one of my favorites. ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-movie-you-ever-saw/172139/26 "2003-04-30T17:12:50Z")
Mine is **The Empire Strikes Back** at the ripe old age of 3. My parents were afraid I’d be all fidgity and run up and down the aisles of the theater, but they said I literally sat at the edge of my seat riveted until it was over. ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-movie-you-ever-saw/172139/27 "2003-04-30T17:21:05Z")
The first movie I remember seeing was **Star Wars**. My father rented a movie projector when I was about 3 and we got to watch it in our living room. The first movie I saw in any type of theatre was **Winnie The Pooh** at a drive in when I was about 4. I’m pretty sure it was a double feature but I don’t remember what the second one was. The first movie I saw in an actual movie theatre was **E.T.** whenever it came out - 1983 sound about right? I guess I would have been 5 or 6 depending on the month of it’s release. ---
**Author:** ![Interrobang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/interrobang/32/17463_2.png) [@Interrobang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Interrobang)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-movie-you-ever-saw/172139/28 "2003-04-30T18:53:49Z")
I remember seeing Disney’s **Robin Hood** when it first came out. I loved it so much I got the sticker book. ---
**Author:** ![romare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cab0a1/32.png) [@romare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romare)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-movie-you-ever-saw/172139/29 "2003-04-30T19:35:38Z")
The original Snow White in about 1962… I was 4 years old and my parents dropped my older sister and myself off at the theater and left. Given that this was extremely unorthodox behaviour for them I later wondered as an adult what the hell they were doing while we were in the movie… ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-movie-you-ever-saw/172139/30 "2003-04-30T19:49:38Z")
We went to the drive-in every so often when I was a kid so I forget which was first…either Disney’s **The Rescuers** or **The Jungle Book**. First movie in a theater was an odd experience. Mom said we were going to see a movie and I was perplexed as to how we could go see a movie #1) in the middle of the day and #2) inside a building! You’ll laugh when you find out what it was: **In Search of Noah’s Ark**! [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0076182](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0076182) IMDB says 1977, so I guess I was 6 years old. I really remember little to nothing about it! ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-movie-you-ever-saw/172139/31 "2003-04-30T20:14:32Z")
The first movie I remember seeing was \*Yours, Mine andOurs[\i] A Henry Fonda/Luclle Ball comedy based on the true story of a widow with 10 kids marrying a widower with 8 (they have more together). That came out in 1968, so I’d’ve been 7. I’m sure there were others - my family liked to pile all us kids into the stationwagon and go to the drive-in. StG ---
**Author:** ![Clint\_in\_Wichita](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7993a0/32.png) [@Clint\_in\_Wichita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clint_in_Wichita)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-movie-you-ever-saw/172139/32 "2003-04-30T20:24:18Z")
Mine was either _Star Wars_, one of those ridiculous _Herbie movies_, or one of those **Pink Panther movies**. I guess I’d go with Star Wars…at a drive-in to boot. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-movie-you-ever-saw/172139/33 "2003-04-30T20:37:49Z")
_Rodan! The Flying Monster_ (1957), one of the great cheesy Japanese monster flicks. I must have been about six. ---
**Author:** ![irishgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@irishgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irishgirl)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-movie-you-ever-saw/172139/34 "2003-04-30T22:17:33Z")
The Jungle Book. And i remember it. ---
**Author:** ![Delly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Delly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Delly)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-movie-you-ever-saw/172139/35 "2003-04-30T22:49:06Z")
The Disney version of The Little Mermaid, i cant remember what age I was, I dont remember much of the movie, but thats probably because i spent most of it going in and out to the toilet, purely because i could! lol ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-movie-you-ever-saw/172139/36 "2003-04-30T23:51:26Z")
This thread is weird 😃 The first movie I was ever _taken_\* to was **Star Wars: a new hope**. I was all of six weeks old. I wonder if the noise made an impression on my infant mind, and is a buried memory is responsible for my dislike of the series. The first movies I remember seeing (it was at the drive-in so there were two) were **Bambi** and \*\* The Blue Lagoon\*\*. My guess is that everyone hoped the cartoon would tire out the tots, but not so in my case; I thought the Blue Lagoon was wicked cool because of the stranded on an island thing. I must have been three since TBL was released in 1980. ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2003, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-movie-you-ever-saw/172139/37 "2003-05-01T00:03:36Z")
\*The Sound of Music \* when I was about four or five years old. I still think it’s a pretty cool movie. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Eman\_Bruin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Eman\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eman_Bruin)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2003, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-movie-you-ever-saw/172139/38 "2003-05-01T00:04:29Z")
The first movie I remember was Return of the Jedi…I was 5. I thought the Ewoks were cute. And Jabba scared the crap out of me. I don’t remember watching the previous two movies, and yet I had all the toys. Weird. ---
**Author:** ![FisherQueen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@FisherQueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FisherQueen)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2003, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-movie-you-ever-saw/172139/39 "2003-05-01T00:12:55Z")
The first movie I remember seeing was “Time Bandits.” Confused the heck out of me, as I recall, and I found the ending scene, where the parents turn into insects, extremely disturbing. ---
**Author:** ![Agrippina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@Agrippina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agrippina)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2003, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-movie-you-ever-saw/172139/40 "2003-05-01T00:13:00Z")
The first one I can remember is either the re-release of **Lady and the Tramp** in the mid-80s or when my parents and some fo their friends went to see the Chuck Berry documentary **Hail! Hail! Rock 'n’Roll** in 1987. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-movie-you-ever-saw/172139.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-movie-you-ever-saw/172139.md?page=3)