And I was about the same age, sitting on the bumper of the car at a drive in, seeing Bambi, with my parents and their best friends who had a daughter my age.
Needless to say, without a spoiler, both the daughter and I were crying hysterically after about 3/4 through the movie. We cried all the way home.
It was a trauma and I am surprised I ever wanted to see another film after that.
Star Wars, 1977. I was four (if it was summer, I was three), and my grandfather took my 2 older brothers and me. I don’t remember much about the movie itself, but I remember being very cold in the theater.
What I don’t remember is the second movie I saw in a theater.
Isn’t it funny, DMark…I never got that moment from Bambi. I was young when I saw it and my mother had warned me it was going to make me cry…but I saw it and thought it was really boring. However I can understand that some children (and probably you were younger than I) would certainly get upset, I’m not minimizing that!
And no one ever mention Old Yeller to me LMAO - that is one of the dumbest things I’ve EVER seen. First the cowboy gives his much needed WORK dog to some kid just because the kid likes it…uh huh THAT would happen. Not. Ever. Then the kid is a whining worthless piece of shit brat through the whole damned movie, so bad I wanted to shoot HIM - all the kids were rotten brats IIRC. And then the dog dies. As pets always do. By that time I was so pissed off at the rotten kid I didn’t care.
Give me Mary Poppins any day 
(Saw that in a drive-in - anyone remember THOSE wonderful wonderful places? How I miss them 
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Everybody has such great first movies. But not me, nooooo.
Three words: Johnathon Livingston Seagull
Bad part is that I can remember some of it. I don’t know how old I was. Probably 3 or so.
Duel was the first film on TV I recall seeing, though I probably saw Cinderella and Snow White and Peter Pan, as well, but just can’t remember.
I remember the first time I was taken to the cinema with my parents - American Graffiti.
Where I grew up, there was a drive-in that had Family Night every other week during the summer. You paid per carload instead of per person, and they showed a double feature: one full-length animated movie (which meant Disney) and one “family” live-action movie (which usually meant Disney as well). I remember the drill: we’d have either hot dogs and beans, or fried spam, fried potatoes, and beans, as soon as Dad got home from work, on paper plates. He’d have the popcorn popper running while we ate and jump up to dump it out and start another batch, until he had enough to fill up an old potato chip can. Mom would have put the big Thermos jug in the fridge earlier in the day, and she’d make up a gallon of Kool-Aid with three trays of ice cubes. Then we’d throw out the plates, put the pots and pans in the sink to soak, and load up the car. We’d smuggle the popcorn and Kool-Aid under an old quilt in the back of our station wagon.
I don’t remember the first movie I saw that way. I just remember the paper cups of popcorn and red Kool-Aid, the rickety playground right in front of the screen with its wooden swings with prize-winning splinters, the scary stinky toilets, and the count-down on the screen as dancing hot dogs told you there were fifteen minutes left until showtime - still time to Visit Our Concession Stand! Ah, and the movies. Since I was the littlest one in the family, I was taken along from the time I was in diapers, and often fell asleep early in the second feature. I’ve seen the first twenty minutes of so many movies… I still don’t know how That Darn Cat ends.
The first movie I clearly remember seeing in an indoor-type movie theater with seats and all was Close Encounters of the Third Kind, though I’m sure I saw others before that. The reason I remember this is because my dad and older brother were supposed to be keeping an eye on me for the afternoon, but they wanted to see that movie and figured hey, let’s take the kid, she’ll love it! Scared the living poo outta me :eek:
Midway, 1976 or thereabouts, which would mean that I was four. I remember a lot of loud noise. Also, I remember being in the lobby and pointing out the “no outside food or drink” sign to my mom. I was very loud. “Mom, you have to leave your bag outside!”
My first movie ever was when I was 3. My father took me to see Jungle Book.
My first drive in movie was w/my family. We went to see Zippity Do Dah/Song of the South and a Herbie Movie…double feature lol.
My first movie w/a date … was a DRIVE IN date :eek: lol I was 14. We saw “Up the Academy”