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30 Day Movie Challenge - Day 15

Feb 02, 2011 14:08

Day 15 - The first movie you saw in theaters

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ivy03 February 2 2011, 20:02:50 UTC

The first movie I saw in theaters was Pinnochio. All I really remember from it was that I sat on my leg during the movie, putting it to sleep. And it hurt so badly when it started to wake up I didn't want to move it, but my mom made me walk back to the car anyway, instead of carrying me. Which was the right thing to do, to get the blood flowing again, but it seemed insufferably cruel at the time.

trinityvixen February 2 2011, 22:36:19 UTC

I never much cared for Pinnochio. I suspect it's animation snobbery. I don't much care for Snow White either.

bigscary February 2 2011, 20:46:59 UTC

Up until the advent of DVD, the equivalent of release "from the Disney vault" was a theatrical re-release.

trinityvixen February 2 2011, 22:34:46 UTC

Makes sense. One thing Disney's always been good at is making money.

negativeq February 2 2011, 22:34:11 UTC

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Mom and I went to see it multiple times.

After the first watching I asked her if we were dwarfs. She said no, we were just Oriental.

trinityvixen February 2 2011, 22:35:48 UTC

That's an adorable story. I'm glad to hear from more people that it's not just me. I didn't know Disney had done a lot of these. But when I got older and I still remembered seeing Cinderella, I got really confused because I knew it was too old for me to have seen. I guess we've always had the re-release with us, just not as often now that we live in an age of movie ownership.

moonlightalice February 3 2011, 02:41:24 UTC

I don't know about the first movie EVER, but the first movie I saw without my parents was a double feature of Free Willy and Hocus Pocus.

trinityvixen February 3 2011, 15:22:03 UTC

The first movie I saw as a teenager was Wolf. Or Airheads. I can't remember which actually came first, but I think it was Wolf.

bigscary February 3 2011, 12:08:41 UTC

Ghostbusters. Though my father attests to taking me to both ESB and RoTJ, I have no recollection of either in theaters, though I do remember being really into Star Wars at a time that would make sense, and really wanting the RoTJ wave toys. Given that my first theater recollection includes knowing to hide my eyes for The Librarian and relatives have said I saw Ghostbusters multiple times in theaters, it is apparently possible to put the point at which I started forming real memories with narrative (as opposed to single, contextless images), at late summer/early fall 1984.

trinityvixen February 3 2011, 17:05:09 UTC

You could do worse than Ghostbusters. Not a bad way to start a kid off with loving the movies.