It was Star Wars...I dont remember seeing the movie per se, but I remember afterwards my dad and my best friend going to pick up toy light sabers.

The Empire Strikes Back

I remember seeing Alladin at the theatres with my Grandma...I got a sweet cup with a genie head.

Mine's a pretty good story...my parents were SUPPOSED to take me and my older brother to see Bambi, but we got there late...therefore, the first movie I ever saw in the theater was this theatrical masterpiece:

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This was my first movie also.I was about 3. I don't really remember what it was about, but I do remember Mickey Rooney, and the Dragon. I also remember that people were allowed to smoke in the theater. Man... Did that suck.

One of the Benji movies.

Egad. I remember Weird Science came out that same week and I was dying to see it. But got stuck watching Big Bird because my older sis and her friend wanted to see 'Science' alone (Couldn't put up a fight in those days, I guess)
But I eventually got to see it about a week later. And I wasn't let down!

Me too! I was about 5 when my grandfather took me, but that was in '76.

Star Wars is not just the first movie I remember going to, it is my first visual memory period.

That's the same year I saw it. I actually tracked down a poster from that release on ebay, but the bidding got too high.

I remember seeing Bambi and ET when I was still young. Actually remembering the plot of the film probably goes to The Rescuers Down Under or The Little Mermaid.

Charlotte's Web

A 1974 re-release of Disney's Alice in Wonderland.

*edit* Or maybe it was 2001: A Space Odyssey. Can't recall for sure. Christos! If those are the first two movies I can recall seeing in the theater, it's no wonder I'm a little warped.

Bednobs & Broomsticks. Not the first release but a rerelease of it (I know it now but not then). Possibly one of the cartoon Disney movies but I'm not sure.

Other than Disney, I really didn't see many movies at theaters til at least 6. I did see Star Wars and Empire in the theater during one of the rereleases because Jedi came out soon after and I was into Star Wars then so it made sense.

I believe it wasSon of Flubber around 1961 or so when I was three. For most of my childhood I had vague recollections of Fred MacMurray driving a flying car shooting a weather ray-gun. Finally saw it again in the early 70s.
The first I have a vivid memory of is the Bond film Thunderball in 1965 when I was 7. Walked out of that theater hooked on movies for life.

Me too. I basically remember the bike scene and that's about it.

The first movie I remember seeing in the theater was a giant bug movie. I know it was about spiders going crazy and attacking. I think most of the spiders were normal size (for tarauntulas) but there was one scene where a Deputy ( :D ) was being eaten by a giant spider. I remember him hanging upside down and being eaten through a mouth on the bottom of the torso. I also thought some spiders ate that way for years. I wish I knew the name of the movie so I could check it out again.

"Wizard of Oz"

The monkey fly sceen scared me big time.

1968 or so - Thanksgiving.

That reminds me, I thought The Wiz was very unsettling.

I believe it was Star Wars.

The Empire Strikes Back at the now defunct Laurel Theater in San Carlos, California.

It was either the Pinoccio re-release in 91, beauty and the beast, or Ernest Scared Stupid. Actually, the first one i can recall was home alone 2, seeing it with my babysitter at the lowes valley center 9 (that place is still a piece of shit).

I think it was Popeye when I was five.

Transformers: The Movie. So you guys think that Lucas raped your childhood? You got nothing on Bay! ;)

Edward Scissorhands the only memory i have of this is being terrified crying when

I was eight and my martial arts teacher took a bunch of us kids to see Enter the Dragon in 1973. We didn't expect the nude scene; so that was a first also. :D