First movie you saw at a movie theater without your parents or another older family member?
09-22-19, 06:40 PM
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First movie you saw at a movie theater without your parents or another older family member?
What was the first movie that you saw at a movie theater without your parents or another older family member?
09-22-19, 07:20 PM
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Not entirely sure, only remember the first R-rated movie I was able to buy my own ticket was Disturbing Behavior in 1998.
09-22-19, 07:36 PM
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The hour and a half Nintendo commercial, The Wizard.
09-22-19, 07:43 PM
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Often my parents would go to an R-rated movie, and send me and my sister into the theatre next door to see something different (I remember seeing Return of the Jedi during it's 1985 re-release this way).
The first time I walked to the theatre all by myself was to see a matinee of Masters of the Universe. This was the summer of 1987 so I would have been 9, which I guess today would seem too young for me to walk twenty minutes downtown by myself.
The first time I walked to the theatre all by myself was to see a matinee of Masters of the Universe. This was the summer of 1987 so I would have been 9, which I guess today would seem too young for me to walk twenty minutes downtown by myself.
09-22-19, 07:50 PM
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Terminator 2. I think that's the one where I went by myself. I just went. Saw it twice back-to-back and it was great.
09-22-19, 08:14 PM
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In the summer of 1962, I took my younger sister to see these two films at a theater three blocks away. I was nine and she was seven. It was my first trip to the movies without an older sibling. The first film was Italian (dubbed in English) and more of a melodrama about court intrigue than an ancient spectacle. The second was directed by Robert Aldrich and had an incest subplot.
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09-22-19, 08:23 PM
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I'm going to just go ahead and curse the OP for this. I'll be thinking of it for the rest of the night, and never remember.
09-22-19, 08:58 PM
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I think it was Beethoven, the one with the big dog. I must have been 10 or 11. My parents let me go with a friend and I remember them giving me a good amount of money, like maybe $20 and buying concessions and having so little change left over to give them back that I still hardly ever buy concessions at the theater now.
09-22-19, 09:01 PM
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The first I remember was The Witches. But I think my parents took me to Chitty Chitty Bang Bang or something rerelease when I was younger.
09-22-19, 09:11 PM
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I think the first one I went to with friends was Rocky II.
09-22-19, 09:12 PM
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What came out first Robin Hood Prince of Theives or T2?
09-22-19, 09:43 PM
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I would’ve liked to have said Return to Oz was the first, but I’m sure it was Jaws 3D. A big group of us kids got dropped off to see that.
Same (As well as having a sister) but it didn’t happen that much. I’ll never forget my sister and I got thrown into seeing Two of a Kind (Bleh) While the folks lucked out by seeing the immortal Uncommon Valor.
Same (As well as having a sister) but it didn’t happen that much. I’ll never forget my sister and I got thrown into seeing Two of a Kind (Bleh) While the folks lucked out by seeing the immortal Uncommon Valor.
09-22-19, 09:54 PM
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I don't know. I know the first grown-up movies I saw were The Andromeda Strain and Silent Running. I can't remember if I saw any children's movies without a parent.
While looking up children's movies from the early 70s, I noticed that The Apple Dumpling Gang came out in 1975, three years after I saw The Andromeda Strain. No wonder I thought it was childish when a friend's father took us to see it for my friend's birthday. I'd been watching movies for adults for three years by then. They did much better a year later when they took to see King Kong.
While looking up children's movies from the early 70s, I noticed that The Apple Dumpling Gang came out in 1975, three years after I saw The Andromeda Strain. No wonder I thought it was childish when a friend's father took us to see it for my friend's birthday. I'd been watching movies for adults for three years by then. They did much better a year later when they took to see King Kong.
09-22-19, 09:55 PM
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09-22-19, 10:40 PM
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Thunderball,summer of 1966 my mom dropped me and my best friend off at the Wyandotte,MI theater.
09-22-19, 10:46 PM
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Georgy Girl with Lynn Redgrave. My babysitter worked at a movie theater. She wrote me a note so I could get in for free. This is what was playing on the day I decided to use my note. A friend went with me. We were bored.
09-22-19, 11:03 PM
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I think the first I went to with a friend was the remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. It came out the October shortly after I had gotten my driver’s license if I recall correctly. It was also the first R rated film I had seen in theaters without someone in my family (first was Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines in June of the same year with my grandpa).
09-22-19, 11:50 PM
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When I was in grade school there was a little movie theater within walking distance of my house. So I saw some PG and G rated movies there starting in the late 70s. Ones I specifically remember are Grease and The Muppet Movie.
09-23-19, 12:07 AM
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It's been a very long time, but I'm going to guess it was either Pippi Longstocking or Pippi in the South Seas.
09-23-19, 05:15 AM
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09-23-19, 05:27 AM
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It was either Star Wars or Jaws 2.
09-23-19, 05:53 AM
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In the summer of 1962, I took my younger sister to see these two films at a theater three blocks away. I was nine and she was seven. It was my first trip to the movies without an older sibling. The first film was Italian (and dubbed in English). The second was directed by Robert Aldrich and had an incest subplot.