I’ve never been to a movie theater alone either. But on average I probably only go see about half a movie a year.
Huh! Me too! With my older cousin. Strangely, I still remember what I wore.
I’m going to assume he’s talking about seeing movies without parental supervision.
And I can’t recall exactly, because sometimes my older sister or brother was the chaperone, though they are only a couple of years older than me, and I’m not sure if that counts or not.
The earliest “movie” I can remember with my sister taking us was a documentary about Noah’s Ark. BORING! And, of course, entirely bogus. I was 7.
I seem to recall the first time I went to a movie without with any other kind of supervisor, it would’ve been Spider-Man. The TV show was theatrically released internationally, and I went with my younger sister. It was 1978 I think, so I would have been 9 years old.
The first movie I remember seeing was Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys, at a drive-in. My little brother and me in the backseat in our pajamas. I thought it was lame but loved the whole “movie” experience, (big screen, speaker hanging off the half-rolled-down window.) Our next outing was to see Rat Race with Tony Curtis.
Not too long after that we were deemed old enough to go downtown and watch movies by ourselves. (And why not? All we had to do was cross the 2nd busiest street to be found in any mid-sized town, wait for the bus, decide which of the two theaters to go to–the 3rd only showed hootchie-cootchie movies–then after the movie wait on the sidewalk for the bus that said our street specifically, not the other one or we’d never get back home.) We loved it. Saw Flubber, Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte and The Fall of the Roman Empire just as an example of our eclectic tastes. Little cosmopolitan movie snobs before puberty. Ah, the memories… Great question.
First time without parents was probably The Gnome-Mobile. But it might have been The Long Duel. Depends which one came out first in the UK first in 1967.
First time on my own was Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid. It was ‘X’ rated (i.e. over 18s only) and I was underage but wanted to see it because Bob Dylan had a bit part in it!
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Well, Star Wars was my first Han Solo movie…
If you mean first movie that I went to alone, it was Saving Private Ryan. It was mid-day, the theater was packed, and I noted seeing a lot of white hair around me. One of my favorite movie going experiences.
If you mean first remembered movie experience, then probably Raider of the Lost Ark. That movie blew my little 5 or 6 year old brain! Man, what a great memory.
If you mean first without parents, that would be Poltergeist, when my sister and I snuck into the theater. My parents took my sisters and I to the movies, along with my oldest sister and her boyfriend. My parents and us young kids saw some kids movie while my oldest sister and her boyfriend saw Poltergeist. Well, our movie ended first, and while milling about the lobby waiting for Poltergeist to end, my sister and I snuck in for a quick view. I remember we opened the door to the darkness just as the scene unfolded in the bedroom with the kid in his bedroom with that tree and the clown doll. Shudder I was 6, and that clown freaked me out bad. My sister and I both decided we saw enough and went back to the lobby.
Sorry I wasn’t clearer in to OP. By solo, I meant the first movie you ever saw where you picked the movie, you got your own ticket, and there were no “authority figures” around.
I actually have never been to a movie alone. When I saw Star Wars, I was with my best friend at the time. But it was the first movie I saw without my mum, dad, or any of my sisters around.
At the time, it was a big deal to me.
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Must have been Dick Tracy. Didn’t have easy access to theaters or extra money for them before then.
Probably Pollyanna.
Or more likely McKennas Gold.
First movie in a theater ever, a double bill of Mothra and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. That was freakin’ awesome.
First movie by myself, the 1966 version of Batman. I remember wondering something along the lines of why Cesar Romero (who played The Joker) wouldn’t commit enough to the part to shave his mustache off rather than just slather makeup over it.
Yeah, I was a weird kid.
Snuck out with “wild” friends, and we went to a … horror movie!
Wasn’t that hard core – a Dracula movie with Christopher Lee. But he did such a good job at scaring the piss out of a ten-year-old that I spent large chunks of the movie looking for something I’d dropped under the seat, or retying my shoes, or just “watching” with my eyes screwed shut.