[Ailesbury]

Mine is Tron. I was born in 1978, and, in 1982, when I was the age of 4, my dad took me to see Tron. The proto-cyberpunk Disney movie starring Jeff Bridges.

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[worry]

I think it was Cinderella in 1987, back when Disney kept their features in the "vault" and sporadically dropped them back into theaters.

[Ailesbury]

I like how yours was 80s Disney, too. Disney has become completely different now. I have a friend who really liked The Black Cauldron, another 80s Disney movie, from back in 1985.

[Whisperzzzzzzz]

I think Independence Day as a wee tot, but I had to be removed from the premises due to uncontrollable fear.

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

All I can remember is that it was terrible... terrifying. Mildly traumatizing, echoing through my dreams (the German term for dream---"traum"---turns out to be a false cognate of "trauma" (from the ancient Greek for "wound") incidentally).

Possibly My Little Pony...

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

... yes I think it was My Little Pony... I can recall what might be fragmentary blurry images from it, color schemes... so I took a look at some images of it on the internet---I still recoil in horror!

The Colours Out of Space...

(mostly kidding about recoiling in horror but I did recoil a tiny bit)

[Tsundoku]

The first "cinema" movie I can recall seeing was Empire (at the drive in no less), some time in 1980.

I think I might have gone with my parents to the cinema a couple of times earlier, but I can't recall the films.

[Tiste Simeon]

I think it might have been Cool Runnings back in the early 90s unless there was a Disney film or something I saw prior to that...

[QuickTidal]

Get this, at age 5 in 1982 my parents thought that ET would be too scary for me, so they got me a babysitter and only took my sister (3 years older than me) and it's one of my first ever memories because I remembering being FURIOUS about it. LOL I don't remember what most of the inside of that house looked like that we lived in at the time, but I recall the front foyer perfectly because of that memory and how angry I was. I was probably a dick to the babysitter too as a result.

So my first movie experience in the theatre was RETURN OF THE JEDI, and they took us down to one of the biggest theatres downtown (no longer there sadly) to see it. There was a photo in the newspaper of the lineup and we were in that lineup.

Here's the photo. I assume we are further back in line as I can't see any of us in this shot, but this was the lineup. EDIT: Fun Fact, in my 20's this theatre was a 2-story Pottery Barn...which is also now closed...but those iconic curvy roofs are stilll there...

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[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

I think I can remember the part of My Little Pony that broke me.

It was a terrible

Spoiler

purple flood

... it brings tears to my eyes thinking about it even now.

As the film decrees, "Friendship Is Magic": evil witchcraft whose practitioners should be burned at the stake!

Some monsters even like My Little Pony and think it somehow makes them moralier-than-thou. Ridiculous.

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[Chance]

I'm not sure it is the first time I went to the movies but the first time I remember is Jurassic Park, I remember hiding under the seat for at least some scenes. Most likely I saw some early 90's Disney before that but I'm not sure, I know I saw the Lion King the year after.

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[champ]

Chance, on 24 February 2026 - 04:43 PM, said:

I'm not sure it is the first time I went to the movies but the first time I remember is Jurassic Park, I remember hiding under the seat for at least some scenes. Most likely I saw some early 90's Disney before that but I'm not sure, I know I saw the Lion King the year after.

Jurassic Park was my first cinema trip too and what an experience that was!!

[Cause]

I know it cant be the first movie I saw in a cinema, but the earliest movie I can remember going to was the lIon King in 1994. I would have been 7. I think I remember it becuase it was a good movie, but also I think my parents took my sister and me but left us in the cinema to watch it alone. I remember they bought me a coke, popcorn and a bunch sweets. They teased me after it must have been good because I didnt eat any of the sweets.

[flea]

I'm one of the old farts here. My first movie was the original Mary Poppins some time in the '60s.

[TheRetiredBridgeburner]

Cause, on 10 March 2026 - 03:53 PM, said:

I know it cant be the first movie I saw in a cinema, but the earliest movie I can remember going to was the lIon King in 1994. I would have been 7. I think I remember it becuase it was a good movie, but also I think my parents took my sister and me but left us in the cinema to watch it alone. I remember they bought me a coke, popcorn and a bunch sweets. They teased me after it must have been good because I didnt eat any of the sweets.

Similar here - I seem to recall being told that Aladdin in the cinema (possibly the year before Lion King, so 1993 and I'd have been 3 or 4) was my Mum's first try at "can she sit still for a full film". Apparently I was absolutely mesmerised ten minutes in and barely moved for the whole thing. Still a nostalgic favourite to this day.

This post has been edited by TheRetiredBridgeburner: 11 March 2026 - 07:24 AM