Same here. I think I was 5 or 6.
“The Brady Bunch” was my favorite show at that time, and I was thoroughly convinced that Drew Barrymore and Susan Olsen (Cindy Brady) were the same person.
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We went to the drive-in regularly when I was a kid (I still miss the playground they had at the one we went to), but the first movie saw in a theatre was The Empire Strikes Back when I was four. I guess I was five or so when Dad took me (just me, Mom and my butt-headed big brother didn’t get to go!) to a matinee of Lady and the Tramp. It’s still one of my all-time favorites.
Wow! This is a question that takes me back (a long way back!)
It was either Kill The Umpire starring William Bendix (who also was in the TV program called Life of Riley), or Francis the Talking Mule, starring Donald O’Conner and a mule.
I also remember seeing The Living Desert which was a nature documetary from Disney. Many years later I learned that some of the scenes were “set-ups”; as a kid I thought they were all 100% natural - after all, they were made by Walt Disney.
Ah, the innocence of youth.
My parents were the type who didn’t go to movies, so until I was about 13-14 neither did I.
Except for the time my buddy up the street had a birthday. And his parents were “with-it” modern. So they took us to see [ii]Them** in 1954 with James Whitmore, et al. Boy, as a kid that was neat. Scary but neat. At a theater on Columbia PIke in South Arlington which has long ago been demolished.
As a young teen, I started going to Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis movies. Hey! There’s no accounting for taste.
My mom loves to remind me of when she took us to see this movie. Apparently, at the ending, when a bunch of sad stuff happened, the theater was hushed in a sense of mourning when … in my outpouring of 4-5 year old emotion, I let out a loud cry of sadness and proceeded to sob. Everyone in the theater apparently said “Awwwwww!”
Thing is, I do remember seeing this in the theater - I do not remember this incident.
“The Jungle Book”, at the Radford Theater, in Radford, Va.
Ye cats! That’s almost five hours of movies!
Like many, my first movie was Star Wars - at least that’s what I remember. I was four. I might have seen The Wizard of Oz prior to that on TV.
The first movie I went to see was Charlotte’s Web, and I must have been about three years old.
Not long afterwards I also saw a really freaky children’s movie called The Nutcracker Fantasy about rats living in a clock (IIRC). This film seems to be lost in the mists of time, because I haven’t heard of it since.
The third film I saw was the '82 rerelease of Star Wars. I have a pretty good memory of this, and it’s something I recall with fondness. Star Wars really was something special back then.
Bedknobs and Broomsticks when I was 4. My daddy took me. 
I have no idea, but I’ll bet it was in black and white and probably a war movie or cowboy movie. The first color movie I remember seeing was “Meet Me in St. Louie” Since it was a musical I didn’t like it, but the color was amazing.
I think it was The Jungle Book.
Mom piled all us kids in the back of the station wagon and took us to the drive in.
Another great drive-in memory here. It was a hot summer night in my home town of Antioch Calif. The family piled into our Volkswagon bus and headed off to the drive-In. There our young eyes were enraptured by the then-leading-edge animation of Sleeping Beauty.
I remember that the witch scared me to death when she turned into the dragon. But it was then and there that I became a fan of the big big screen. Probably why I enjoy IMAX so much now.
According to my parents, it was one of the Star Trek films. Not that I’m doubting them, just that I don’t remember it at all. I was born in '84, so if one came out in '87-'88, it was probably that one. I think the first film I remember seeing in a theater was Disney’s Peter Pan, but I’m pretty sure that, like so many others, Star Wars was the first that I remember.
I saw Them when I was about 10 or 12, and loved it, but that’s not really the point. I took a class in Science Fiction at the local junior college during one summer in high school, and the teacher was telling a story about when he saw Them. He was about 8 years old and went and saw it (I think by himself), then as he was coming home at dusk, he opens the garage, and the rusty springs make the exact sound of the ants. Scares the hell out of him, he gets to the house in about 3 steps and runs and hides in bed.
Planet of the Apes or Jesus Christ Superstar
Both on TV. One already a re-run, maybe both of them.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
I was terrified. I never saw it again. To this day, I still don’t know who framed him…