Including movies I first saw on TV, Duck Soup.
Excluding TV, either Silver Streak or Silent Movie.
First movies I remember ever watching were back to back: Jason And The Argonauts… and The Giant Claw, on Saturday afternoon TV.
Jason still holds up pretty well…
When I was about six, HBO showed Time Bandits and Flash Gordon over and over again. I would watch both every time.
In the last couple years, I watched both of them again and enjoyed them for the most part.
Hell, I first saw it around age 25 when it first came out and didn’t grasp all the nuances then, and I was in graduate school. I *FINALLY *understood *EVERYTHING *about the con for the very first time when I saw it for possibly the 15th iteration at age 60. (Finally got the FBI stuff and “Salino.”)
For me it has to be King Kong. I saw it as a young child on TV before the 1976 remake. I’ve been fascinated by the movie since that time.
I saw Take The Money and Run on first run.
But really isn’t it going to be the Wizard of Oz for most (Americans) anyway?
The Godfather
It’s A Mad Mad Mad Mad World
The Poseidon Adventure
Fantasia Five
Sleeping Beauty
What is Fantasia Five? I can’t find any mention of such a film. Are you taking about Fantasia 2000, perhaps?
I remember that too. I was only 7 or 8 but remember that vividly. Then I found out that someone had died during the making of the film and I always wondered if it was that man.
Also, I remember that as a round stone was rolling and rolled right up against the man.
I have tried to find a version of this film that still includes that scene but it seems to have been cut from all modern versions.
In any case, IMHO, I find that on the whole, S&D does not hold up as a great film nearly as well as The Ten Commandments.
Star Wars. It wasn’t the first movie I ever saw in a theater, but it was one of the first few.
Maybe “Umbrellas of Cherbourg”. I often put the entire film on YouTube and just listen to the sound track while I’m working. Sometimes I watch for a while. Amazing, transfixing movie. 48 years old now.
So is this the oldest movie you like? Or is it the first movie you saw that you still like now? Hard to imagine either way.
The latter. Of all the movies I liked a long time ago, that one comes to mind as one I still love. I was 27 when I first saw it, and other pictures of that and earlier eras don’t stand the test of time all that well. There are older movies that I also like, but none that I saw that long ago.
My sister took me to see Chariots of Fire when I was 6. I understood the gist of it and loved it immediately. It just seemed larger than life because… well, it was.
I think it still holds up.
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids; Who Framed Roger Rabbit (which my sister and I still quote from all the time), and The Fox and the Hound, which still makes me cry.
I failed to include The Iron Mistress (1952) in the OP list, but it has been in my memory all these years since I saw it as a kid. It shows its age and the limits of its entertainment value in rewatching, which I did for the first time in a long time this week. But I still love it. Finding it on YouTube has taken weeks, since the version they had up earlier was taken down for some reason. This version is barely acceptable but at least most of the good parts (the ones with The Knife!) are okay. Seeing it again satisfies me that I don’t really need to own a copy of it – even a good one – but it brings back fun memories.
Duel.
Sometimes, while playing Euro Truck Simulator, I’ll home in on a random AI vehicle and follow them around the map for hours.
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The Day the Earth Stood Still(the 1951 original with Michael Rennie and Patricia Neal)
I saw it in Japan when I was two years old (no kidding-- I have a picture of myself standing in front of the poster at the base theater). I saw it again when I was about 11 and loved it all over. I’ve never gotten tired of it. In fact, I may watch it again later today!
I’ve always been amazed how the interior of the space craft STILL looks futuristic by 2016 standards. Even the ST:TOS bridge looks a little dated now. But not Klaatu’s ship.
My sisters took me to a bunch of movies when I was little. Only remember Silver Streak and Smokey and the Bandit, though. Still watch if I run across them while channel surfing.
Saw Star Wars with the whole family and a sister’s friend at a drive-in in '77.
The same drive-in showed a print of the animated Jungle Book when I was very little. I only remember because the film melted. Still love that movie!
:wanders off, humming “Bare Necessities”:
Still watch this as often as possible and since the death of Gene Wilder it has been showing up on the movie channels more often. I am glad that we can still enjoy this awesome actor for years to come.