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Don't remember my first movie in theatres, but the first one I definitely remember was Jurrasic Park, and the first one I saw by myself was Super Mario Brothers.

The first movie I remember seeing in a theater is Richard Donner's Superman. I was 6.

The first movie I have a solid memory of seeing in a theater was Star Trek V. However, I think I probably saw The One With The Whales, and there was some Sesame Street movie when I was really little where all I remember is Big Bird riding in a car with his head sticking out of the sunroof.

Follow That Bird?

Star Trek V was the first Star Trek movie I saw in theaters.

The first movie I ever saw ended with a nefarious outlaw pointing his gun at the audience and firing! I nearly fainted; as I recall, several ladies in attendance actually did.

My parents were drive-in junkies, so there's no way I remember the first drive in movie I saw. But, I do remember seeing Dr Doolittle with Rex Harrison (1967) and True Grit (1969).

First movie I saw in a sit-down theater was Mary Poppins. It came out in 1964, but I didn't see it until a re-release in like ... 71 or 72.

After a quick search, yeah, probably.

I think I saw that movie too!

The One with the Whales? Isn't that ST IV: Voyage Home?

https://www.startrek.com/news/the-one-about-the-whales


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ST 2 was the first I remember seeing in theaters. My dad totally ruined the search for spock by predicting they would bring him back on the way out of the theater.

Nah, you're not remembering it right. They brought him back on the Genesis planet and then Vulcan.

Not for nothin (as we say in Jersey), but the most obstinately "I'm never wrong" people I've ever known were in their 20s. I literally watched a friend and his 20-year-old girlfriend (were were about 30 at the time) consult a lawyer friend at a party, then after the lawyer left she said "I think he's totally wrong, I think we can blahblablah..."

And again, because of this:

@Tuckerfan disagrees:


Finger slip?

hmm... earliest I recall would be the apple dumpling gang at a drive in. Guess I'd have been about 6.

some other Disney mid length thing with bears...

In a cinema, some matinee at the mall while out moms went shopping. Something with Fred MacMurray...

Of course, by the time I was 8, mum would just give us each a bus ticket and $5 to go across town and see Star Wars for a Saturday afternoon...

My first movie I can recall was The Burbs when I was 9. That was a hell of a fun movie, and I still love it to this day.
I remember my brother inviting me over to the WWE Royal Rumble PPV event one year, and I showed up with pretzels and sardines.

I saw Star Wars in its first theatrical run in '77. Though I missed part of it when I needed a diaper change.

My first movie I remember was the 1978 re-release of Star Wars. My next movie was Star Trek The Motion Picture.

I still remember the first time I saw Star Wars... I was 8 and it made an impression

I was 7. However Empire Strikes Back had two scenes that made a bigger impression on me: the Back of Vader's head without the helmet and Luke's face in Vader's decapitated helmeted head.

For me it's the whole thing... what cinema (skyway mall, Burlington and the uptown, here in toronto for ESB), the massive lines at a time when having two screens was kinda novel, running into my cousin at SW... just yeah, a pair of those rare, full memories with vivid details...

When I was in my Star Wars phase I used to like walking around with a cape like Vader. My grandmother would safety pin a towel to my Star Wars shirt for me. My mother wondered why I liked Vader, the bad guy. Apparently I told her that there was something wrong with him and they fixed him. I guess I partially identified with the medical issues he had.

The first movies I can remember seeing in the theaters were Transformers: The Movie which came out in August 1986 and Star Trek IV which came out in November 1986.

If I saw any movies in 1985 or early 1986 then I don’t remember them, I would have been only 4-5 years old.

I watched a lot of the early 80s stuff on VHS.

I feel compelled to point out that at least one person reacting to this post about Hwil Hweaton now being older than Sir Patrick Stewart was when TNG began isn’t even as old as Stewart was in 87.

Or to put it another way…

Umm why did my post get 3 ‘angry’ reactions?

I don’t care either way, I am just confused…

Did I miss something? I am not logged in here very much these days so probably missed some drama.

You're making them feel old?

The first movie I'm sure I saw in theaters was The Land Before Time.

The first movie I can remember sitting there watching was ST VI. I remember being confused how Kirk and McCoy were suddenly in a snowy place and then I must have dozed off.