Author Topic: What was the first film you watched? (Read 2621 times)

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #25 on:** 05 May, 2015, 09:58:55 am »

Either Bambi or Bedknobs and Broomsticks. I can't remember which was first, but I do remember that B&B seemed magical to me, the way it was a mixture of real people with animated backgrounds and magical situations. Perhaps this is why I much later was so impressed by magic realism such as (principally) The Master and Margarita. Disney as preparation for Bulgakov!!!

FWIW, I think the Disney films made by Disney, as opposed to the later stuff (yes, I know B&B was later) is a lot darker than is popularly supposed. Bambi didn't leave much impression on me, though.

mrcharly-YHT · « **Reply #26 on:** 05 May, 2015, 12:34:50 pm »

I made my kids watch Bednobs and Broomsticks when they were in their early teens. They thought it was brilliant.

drossall · « **Reply #27 on:** 05 May, 2015, 12:58:41 pm »

The first one I remember was Chitty Chiity Bang Bang. We later went to see the car at a local dealer's showroom.

I remember Bedknobs and Broomsticks as one that we enjoyed. Must have seen the Jungle Book too.

rafletcher · « **Reply #28 on:** 05 May, 2015, 01:04:42 pm »

"Thunderball", or "Dr Who and the Daleks". Soon after, the cinema became a Liptons supermarket.

Woofage · « **Reply #29 on:** 05 May, 2015, 02:37:54 pm »

Can't remember. I can, however, remember the first X/18 fillum I saw: "The Shining". I would have been 14 or 15 at the time.

hillbilly · « **Reply #30 on:** 05 May, 2015, 07:25:50 pm »

Superman

At least that's what I remember and what I want to believe.

My mum told me that it was Pete's Dragon.

mattc · « **Reply #31 on:** 05 May, 2015, 07:46:16 pm »

Quote from: Caerau on 04 May, 2015, 09:30:40 pm

Ah the days of t'internet leave such things not such a mystery

It was the imaginatively titled

'The cat from outer space' I suspect - certainly looks right on IMDb

So good I saw it twice! (What actually happened: two groups of friends saw it at different times - so I went with both. remember there was nothing else to do back in them days, a film didnt need to be great to see twice!)

To this day, I dont think I've seen another film twice. I think I'm too tight now.

I'd love to claim
"Jungle Book"
because it was certainly _amongst_ the first, but was also a great film ... and a lot cooler than TCFOS

IanN · « **Reply #32 on:** 05 May, 2015, 08:35:49 pm »

Jungle Book - 1977 ish
Then Star Wars 77/78, then Superman (II, I expect).
The last one I could probably date exactly because there was heavy snow on the way back - in Cornwall - which is rare.

jsabine · « **Reply #33 on:** 06 May, 2015, 02:31:50 am »

Double bill of Gregory's Girl and Chariots of Fire when I was about 7.

The cinema closed about a fortnight later and turned into a snooker hall.

Vince · « **Reply #34 on:** 07 May, 2015, 10:51:23 am »

As a 5 yo I was taken to Carry on Screaming. It's memorable because I had to be taken out half way through as I was too frightened!

ian · « **Reply #35 on:** 07 May, 2015, 10:58:56 am »

Jungle Book. We (me and my motley bunch of cousins, my mother and her eleven siblings raised a small army, and figured they could get rid of us by sending us to Saturday matinees at the local cinema*) left at the intermission because we thought it was the end.

*Heanor, long since gone. Now a depressing block of flats. Pretty much all my childhood is depressing blocks of flats or dull housing estates.

Kim · « **Reply #36 on:** 07 May, 2015, 11:17:55 am »

Star Wars: A New Hope (remastered CGI dinosaur edition)

[moved to https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=6884.msg1857597#msg1857597 as this is the wrong thread]

There was an awful lot of unadulterated Star Wars in my childhood though.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #37 on:** 07 May, 2015, 11:20:44 am »

Kim · « **Reply #38 on:** 07 May, 2015, 11:58:50 am »

And I've just realised this is the *other* film thread.

Eccentrica Gallumbits · « **Reply #39 on:** 07 May, 2015, 12:28:25 pm »

Quote from: ian on 07 May, 2015, 10:58:56 am

Jungle Book. We (me and my motley bunch of cousins, my mother and her eleven siblings raised a small army, and figured they could get rid of us by sending us to Saturday matinees at the local cinema*) left at the intermission because we thought it was the end.

*Heanor, long since gone. Now a depressing block of flats. Pretty much all my childhood is depressing blocks of flats or dull housing estates.

Jungle Book is in my top 3 all time favourite films, and sometimes it's no1. My mum used to pack my brother and me off to the Saturday matinees too, at the ABC^*, with 50p each for a ticket and 50p each for sweets. We saw some really bad films, but I did win a prize (an enormous bar of Fruit & Nut) for doing the best picture of the view from Captain Nemo's submarine.

^*Now Mr Sainsbury's Emporium of Toothy Comestibles.

ian · « **Reply #40 on:** 07 May, 2015, 12:50:33 pm »

We used to use our money to buy a giant bag of broken biscuits from the market and smuggle those into the cinema (an Empire, if I recall). That would leave us enough spare change for Kia-Ora. I feel sorry for the usher, for whom I'm sure the descent of the Sutton clan fueled by large amounts of sugar and unmoderated e-numbers was a frightful experience.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #41 on:** 07 May, 2015, 01:12:15 pm »

[Moved as per Kim's post]

Asterix, the former Gaul. · « **Reply #42 on:** 07 May, 2015, 02:42:50 pm »

Strangely enough, it is still 'Zulu'.

citoyen · « **Reply #43 on:** 08 May, 2015, 08:10:55 pm »

Bambi for me too.

I don't remember it very well, though my mum tells me I cried when [spoiler redacted]. I have a much better memory of the first film my son saw, which was Toy Story 2. The beginning bit with Buzz in space scared him half to death.

Andrew · « **Reply #44 on:** 19 May, 2015, 08:00:23 am »

I think it was Grand Prix. My dad took me to see it at a Leicester Square cinema. I remember it had a race car in the foyer and we had a spaghetti bolognese for tea. I was 4.

If it wasn't that one (but I'm pretty sure it was) then it was Song Of The South. We went as a family and I cried because I found the tar baby scene scarey and I didn't want Br'er Rabbit to be killed.

In fact, things like the tar baby (puppets, dolls, masks - any human-like caricature that is inanimate) still freak me a bit. Ventriloquist dolls ditto; the Anthony Hopkins film 'Magic' scares the crap out of me.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #45 on:** 19 May, 2015, 09:48:24 am »

"The Young Ones" with the incomparable Cliff Richard. This could explain the fact that I doubt that my lifelong cinema attendance has probably not exceeded an average of one attendance every four years.

TheLurker · « **Reply #46 on:** 19 May, 2015, 08:50:05 pm »

Bits of, "The Magnificent Seven".

Terendak camp cinema (probably Kinema, the army's odd that way). Poor old dad didn't see much of it either. Hint; don't take a 4 year old to the pictures.

The first film I can remember watching from beginning to end was Bedknobs & Broomsticks at a picture house on the Lothian road in Edinburgh.

nicknack · « **Reply #47 on:** 19 May, 2015, 10:19:53 pm »

Quote from: Wowbagger on 19 May, 2015, 09:48:24 am

"The Young Ones" with the incomparable Cliff Richard. This could explain the fact that I doubt that my lifelong cinema attendance has probably not exceeded an average of one attendance every four years.

Ditto.
At least it's the first one I can remember seeing cos we were on hol in Woolacombe at the time.

Author Topic: What was the first film you watched? (Read 2621 times)

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