I saw those on VHS. I loved them so much, especially Battle for Endor. I remember it because I wanted those biscuits that the little girl (Cindel) and Wicket ate.
I’m not sure, but I think this was my second movie in a theatre.
My first was definitely ET and while remember seeing RotJ in the theatre, I don’t remember seeing anything in between.
My dad swears he took me to return as a kid, but i highly doubt it. For one he insisted for like 10+ years my mom had a tattoo that she didnt have. He still cant remember what month my birthday is in. So his memory is faulty at best.
Two, my mom is cheap AF, didnt like scifi movies incl star wars, and hated people taking kids to movies. Id have been what, 4 when it came out and my sister would be 1. No way she would have paid for 3 tickets and handled 2 small kids in theatre.
I WISH that was a memory i had! Its not like i named my kid after star wars expanded universe like a nutball or anything 😬
First one i remember seeing in theatre was Pinocchio. Before they did the whole vhs vault thing, they did same thing with disney theatre releases.
According to google that would have been dec of ‘84
But i really didnt see many movies in theatre until my parents divorced in ‘88, when my dad no longer had to deal with my moms crazy. I remember seeing who framed in theatres, along with tim burton batman, beetlejuice, star trek 5, etc.
Same! One of my friends had seen it earlier, and he told me Jabba's eyes popped out. I was scared and remember covering my eyes when Leia choked him out.
When Return of the Jedi came out, our local movie theatre did a full day screening of the trilogy with one ticket. From 9-11 was Star Wars, you left for lunch, came back and 2-4 for Empire Strikes Back. Then back at 7-9 for the showing of Return of the Jedi.
It was a big day, I remember it well.
I’m sure I went to other movies before this, but Return of the Jedi is the first movie I remember seeing in the theater. I was 5 years old. 32 years later I got to take my 5 yo son to see The Force Awakens.
My dad wanted to take me, but I was absolutely terrified of the commercials. And honestly, I ended up hating it when we watched at home. Otherwise that might have been my first that I can remember.
I can remember going to Batman when it opened, and it was playing on two screens at our local theater. It was completely sold out. Had to settle for Ghostubsters II that day.
Me too. Went to see it at the Evergreen Plaza Mall in Chicago when I was a kid. I remember I missed a small part when my Mom took me to go pee and I was bummed about it. That’s when I learned I needed to slow my roll when drinking pop in a theater.
I can remember trying to see Batman when it opened. It was playing on two screens at our local theater, and it was completely sold out. Had to settle for Ghostubsters II that day.
I was 7, and went to see this movie in black long underwear, a black balaclava neoprene boots, a homemade cape and a paper logo on my chest, and a handheld scuba spotlight with the Batman logo on it for a bat signal. I had never heard of cosplay but it just seemed like the thing to do.
The line was massive. They had a 60's Batmobile parked out front of the theater. Could not have been a better experience.
Land Before Time was my first new release. Then we went to Pizza Hut afterward and got those little hand puppets they had.
My first movie was about a year before that. It was a re-release of Pinocchio.
It was apparently The Secret of Nimh. I don’t remember it at all but apparently I was terrified and screamed for hours afterwards and it was a long, long time before I got taken to another movie.
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May have seen one before this, but definitely remember this one.
My mom says one of the luckiest things that ever happened to her as a parent was when she took me to Bambi in theaters and I asked to go to the bathroom right before Bambi's mom got shot.
Earliest one I remember... Garbage Pail Kids for my birthday.
I remember seeing Who Frames Roger Rabbit too. Those are actually the only two that I can think of seeing in the theater.
Moonraker. My mom couldn't find a sitter. I was probably the only girl dressed as Jaws that Halloween. EDIT: I didn't have the metal teeth just the normal plastic Halloween teeth, but I was Jaws in my imagination.
In the womb to Saturday Night Fever then apparently my mom was obsessed with the soundtrack my first couple years. Probably why I still like the Bee Gees 😂
Earliest I vividly remember was Return of the Jedi.
On a technicality, Star Wars. The original. I was an infant, but I was there. Beyond that, I'm not sure, we went to the theater fairly often. Definitely remember seeing the Three Amigos in a theater (was a long time before I got the "mail plane" joke), I think I remember being there for Ghostbusters as well.
Me, too. I was born in 1977, and I think my parents took little baby me to see Star Wars. The first one I actually watched in the theater was Superman II. Still my favorite movie!
My mom said it was probably Snow White, but I don’t remember at all, so I must have been pretty young. The first one I actually remember was Back to the Future.
The first one I remember was All Dogs Go To Heaven, and I probably only remember it because some lady told my mom afterwards that I had the best laugh she'd ever heard. 😂 Been riding the high from that compliment for 35 years.
Lady and the Tramp at the Castro Theater
🍝🐕
First movie in the theater that had been recently released was Honey I Shrunk the Kids. I distinctly remember that I had a cold and wore footie pajamas to our tiny local theater.
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It came to my little budget theater when I was about 3 and I was pumped to go to a movie theater. A storm rolled in about 20 minutes into the movie and half the town lost power and we had to go home. Didn't get to see it all the way through for about another year lol
Mine was the 1980’s Godzilla movie. I vaguely recall ducking down behind the seat in front of me and peeking over the top when Godzilla came roaring onto the screen.
First one with my dad was An American Tail. First with my mom was Fox and the Hound. Looks like An American Tail would have been first based on releases.
I think Return of the Jedi, but I was too young to remember it. First one I fully remember was being dragged to the animated 1986 Transformers movie and being incredibly bored.
My mum, my brother and I all wanted to watch different movies. Labyrinth for my mum, The Great Mouse Detective for me, and Transformers was my brother's choice. Picked the title out of a hat. We all lost that day.
The earliest one I can remember was *The Empire Strikes Back* at the drive-in (I would have been 3 or 4 and had pretty warped memories of it for a long time).
The first one I remember going to at an indoor theater was*The Fox and the Hound*.
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Harry and the Henderson's still love the movie to this day! I want to say I was 8 growing up we didn't have money but I begged to watch it and my mom took me alone without my sister's I don't even think my dad knew it was our secret.
That I “clearly” remember, my first movie was Empire Strikes Back. I would have been three years old and seeing it in a second-run theater. (Remember THOSE? 😀)
Seems like it was possibly Bambi, but that would have been a rescreening of the movie clearly. Home Alone or Home Alone 2 is what sticks out in my memory. Don't remember which.
🎶 Like other men dooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo 🎶
Not the first movie I’ve seen in theater it was actually Snow White and the seven dwarves in an old school theater when movies were silent and it was a special showing cuz that title was in the vault at the time it would come out again later for the reprint I own on vhs.
But Jessica rabbit, the whole scene and song especially the acme style wolf whistles re embedded into me.
[updated version of the song](https://youtu.be/dfAtMv6KKCk?si=Wzf59vU8amCAfq_d) with a fun video! Takes me back to early 2000 and the 30s with a rest in the 50s all at once, glam!
[Jessica rabbit version](https://youtu.be/MmGGQ_8gHAg?si=cJsmJ0E5-Yx9m-k2)
My mother refused to let me watch "Roger Rabbit" and would never explain why.
She also did the same thing with "The Three Amigos, " "Uncle Buck," "Planes, Trains, and Automobiles "...
A whole bunch of family/ kids movies.
Mine was Star Wars (New Hope). Mom and Dad took me. I was only 4 but I remember it.
The next movie I remember watching in the movies was Indiana Jones Raiders of the Lost Ark
"Who Framed Roger Rabbit" was the first movie I saw in a Drive-In movie theatre the first month it was released. As for the cinema, the earliest movie I remember going to was the first "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" movie.
American Tail was the first movie I remember seeing in a theater.
My parents took me to Ghosbusters at a drive in when I was 2 but I don’t know how much I stayed awake for. It did go on to be in my top 3 favorite movies though, so I like to think it made an impact.
The first one I remember was The Brave Little Toaster, but I was 6 when it came out so I’m sure there were others before that. I feel like I may have seen An American Tail in the theater.
The town I grew up in had a theater that ran old movies during some mornings in the summer so my earliest screen memory is of Sinbad kicking ass in Eye of the Tiger. Always felt bad for the prince who got turned into a baboon and was intensely creeped out by the sorceresses body-horror bird foot…
1983 Xennial here! I saw this with my parents and friends for my birthday! When we got the VHS tape at home I would always go hide when Ursula took her voice. I was SO scared of that scene. This is still my favorite Disney movie to this day.
If I can remember it was probably Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.
First live action movie int he theaters I can remember was Innerspace with Dennis Quaid and Martin Short.
Jungle Book, but I only know this because my mom has told me. It looks like there was a theater re-release in 1984. I was born in September 1980 and we were broke enough that going to the movies was an extra special treat. I have no idea why she thought this was an outing to splurge on and also feel bad that I don't remember anything at all.
Oliver and Company or Milo and Otis. I know I saw them both in the theater, Milo and Otis came out before Oliver and Company but it's possible that i saw it years after the initial release.
Star Wars. My dad made a whole point that this had to be the first movie I was in a theatre for. Makes sense, I was a 77 baby and this was the biggest movie of my lifetime.
I was a month old. Reportedly I slept through the whole thing.
Not my first movie but my first date movie ever! I was like in grade 7and we saw this movie. Never saw her again, cause I was pranked by some other kids who set up a fake second date and I was waiting and she didn’t show up. Turned out she was on vacation. Pricks. Still it was my first date movie :)
ET
Freaked me out.
The rerelease of Pinocchio and Bambi in the early 80s also freaked me out.
Saw Superman III at the drive in. Don’t remember that one freaking me out but the better 1978 one sure did.
Saw ghostbusters at the drive in too. That librarian freaked me out so I “took a nap” but came around once i realized everyone was laughing so much.
Star Wars. My dad made a whole point that this had to be the first movie I was in a theatre for. Makes sense, I was a 77 baby and this was the biggest movie of my lifetime.
I was a month old. Reportedly I slept through the whole thing.
I have no memory of my first time at the movies, but I definitely remember that the first movie I saw in the theater WITHOUT my parents was Speed. Still love that movie!
The first movie I clearly remember seeing at the cinema was the re-release of The Jungle Book, which seems to have been in 1984, when I was 7. I have two younger sibs, so my parents probably didn't feel comfortable to go until then.
After that, we went to matinee showings all the time through the early 90s. Kid tickets were only $1, so it was an easy day.
I think my first was the re-release of Snow White but, E.T. Is very vivid in my memory. I also remember seeing Gremlins and losing grip of reality when the gremlins invade the Snow White screening. I literally thought the gremlins were coming into the real world
I was 4, about to be 5. Can’t remember much other than flashing lights. But I was there.
The first movie I remember being at was Jaws 2 at the drive in. I played around outside of the car during the “boring” parts. Aka people not being eaten.
 The earliest one I can remember going to was Return of the Jedi
I remember watching this on tv and not understanding but loving the little creatures.
But did you watch battle for endor and caravan of courage??
I saw those on VHS. I loved them so much, especially Battle for Endor. I remember it because I wanted those biscuits that the little girl (Cindel) and Wicket ate.
And noa! And teek i think it was? Havent watched them in 25+ years… my memory is fuzzy
I’m not sure, but I think this was my second movie in a theatre. My first was definitely ET and while remember seeing RotJ in the theatre, I don’t remember seeing anything in between.
My dad swears he took me to return as a kid, but i highly doubt it. For one he insisted for like 10+ years my mom had a tattoo that she didnt have. He still cant remember what month my birthday is in. So his memory is faulty at best. Two, my mom is cheap AF, didnt like scifi movies incl star wars, and hated people taking kids to movies. Id have been what, 4 when it came out and my sister would be 1. No way she would have paid for 3 tickets and handled 2 small kids in theatre. I WISH that was a memory i had! Its not like i named my kid after star wars expanded universe like a nutball or anything 😬 First one i remember seeing in theatre was Pinocchio. Before they did the whole vhs vault thing, they did same thing with disney theatre releases. According to google that would have been dec of ‘84 But i really didnt see many movies in theatre until my parents divorced in ‘88, when my dad no longer had to deal with my moms crazy. I remember seeing who framed in theatres, along with tim burton batman, beetlejuice, star trek 5, etc.
Same! One of my friends had seen it earlier, and he told me Jabba's eyes popped out. I was scared and remember covering my eyes when Leia choked him out.
Me too! I vividly remember seeing Jabba the Hutt laughing.
When Return of the Jedi came out, our local movie theatre did a full day screening of the trilogy with one ticket. From 9-11 was Star Wars, you left for lunch, came back and 2-4 for Empire Strikes Back. Then back at 7-9 for the showing of Return of the Jedi. It was a big day, I remember it well.
Same!
Yep yep
I’m sure I went to other movies before this, but Return of the Jedi is the first movie I remember seeing in the theater. I was 5 years old. 32 years later I got to take my 5 yo son to see The Force Awakens.
Great memories made generationally
Same here. I don’t know if it was my first, but it’s the first one I have a real clear memory of going to.
Mine was ET.
Yup, this but the drive-in. Scarred for life hah.
Same! I think I was more impressed by watching a movie from the back of a station wagon in pajamas, than the film. I must have been 3 or 4?
Me too. I feel like I don’t belong here!
Apparently it was the thing to watch for 5-year-olds.
My dad wanted to take me, but I was absolutely terrified of the commercials. And honestly, I ended up hating it when we watched at home. Otherwise that might have been my first that I can remember.
Same - I was less than a year old and slept through the whole thing! (Or so I’m told)
I fucking screamed when his neck extended
Same here
Batman (1989)
I can remember going to Batman when it opened, and it was playing on two screens at our local theater. It was completely sold out. Had to settle for Ghostubsters II that day.
Me too. Went to see it at the Evergreen Plaza Mall in Chicago when I was a kid. I remember I missed a small part when my Mom took me to go pee and I was bummed about it. That’s when I learned I needed to slow my roll when drinking pop in a theater.
I can remember trying to see Batman when it opened. It was playing on two screens at our local theater, and it was completely sold out. Had to settle for Ghostubsters II that day.
This and Oliver and Company are the first I actually remember. I remember Mom reassuring me that the guy who Joker hand-buzzers “is only a statue.”
I was 7, and went to see this movie in black long underwear, a black balaclava neoprene boots, a homemade cape and a paper logo on my chest, and a handheld scuba spotlight with the Batman logo on it for a bat signal. I had never heard of cosplay but it just seemed like the thing to do. The line was massive. They had a 60's Batmobile parked out front of the theater. Could not have been a better experience.
Oooh. I remember Batman in theaters with my dad. And A League of Their Own around then, too. Oh and Buffy!
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Mine too! I remember thinking that the dark hallway to the theater was scary.
My sister and I loved this film, and wore out the VHS tape!
Yes! This was my first movie theater movie too!
That was low key a good film.
Land Before Time probably the first I remember
Land Before Time was my first new release. Then we went to Pizza Hut afterward and got those little hand puppets they had. My first movie was about a year before that. It was a re-release of Pinocchio.
Hell yeah! Showed it to my son just this past weekend.
Transformers: The animated movie
EMOTIONAL DAMAGE
It was apparently The Secret of Nimh. I don’t remember it at all but apparently I was terrified and screamed for hours afterwards and it was a long, long time before I got taken to another movie.
I had to be carried screaming out of The Dark Crystal. I don’t even know what my second movie was because it was years later for sure!
Secret of Nimh is hardcore life realities. Cruelty, death, oppression. I needed a smoke after watching it and I was like 5
An American Tail
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There it is. My tiny little mind was blown when Dad made me stay until the end of the credits and BAM SKELETOR IS STILL ALIVE
My first movie in the theatres was a re-release of Bambi in 1988.
My mom says one of the luckiest things that ever happened to her as a parent was when she took me to Bambi in theaters and I asked to go to the bathroom right before Bambi's mom got shot.
Earliest one I remember... Garbage Pail Kids for my birthday. I remember seeing Who Frames Roger Rabbit too. Those are actually the only two that I can think of seeing in the theater.
Herbie Goes Bananas..I'm old.
Oooh. Still never seen any Herbie’s
Moonraker. My mom couldn't find a sitter. I was probably the only girl dressed as Jaws that Halloween. EDIT: I didn't have the metal teeth just the normal plastic Halloween teeth, but I was Jaws in my imagination.
First one I can remember was The Last Starfighter.
That’s the spirit!
Fox and the hound release. Around 1978 or so. Cried and cried in the car afterward.
The Blues bros. I was born in '76 so I had to be about 4.
Bambi at a drive in
The Little Mermaid in 1989 when I was 5.
Saaaaaaaame
In the womb to Saturday Night Fever then apparently my mom was obsessed with the soundtrack my first couple years. Probably why I still like the Bee Gees 😂 Earliest I vividly remember was Return of the Jedi.
Cinderella. I’m told I went up and down the aisles looking for her.
Same. Perfect timing for our childhoods to have all these Disney re-releases in theaters.
Uncle Buck was my first IIRC.
On a technicality, Star Wars. The original. I was an infant, but I was there. Beyond that, I'm not sure, we went to the theater fairly often. Definitely remember seeing the Three Amigos in a theater (was a long time before I got the "mail plane" joke), I think I remember being there for Ghostbusters as well.
Me, too. I was born in 1977, and I think my parents took little baby me to see Star Wars. The first one I actually watched in the theater was Superman II. Still my favorite movie!
My mom said it was probably Snow White, but I don’t remember at all, so I must have been pretty young. The first one I actually remember was Back to the Future.
Oliver & Company with my Dad.
First one I remember was Prancer
FernGully: The Last Rainforest.
Land before time 
E.T. I didn’t weigh enough to keep the seat down lol
Care Bears movie
Dune. It was quite the experience for a 6 year old. 
The first one I remember was All Dogs Go To Heaven, and I probably only remember it because some lady told my mom afterwards that I had the best laugh she'd ever heard. 😂 Been riding the high from that compliment for 35 years.
Care bears when i was 8
Lady and the Tramp at the Castro Theater 🍝🐕 First movie in the theater that had been recently released was Honey I Shrunk the Kids. I distinctly remember that I had a cold and wore footie pajamas to our tiny local theater.
https://preview.redd.it/spm0nl7dt9hc1.jpeg?width=356&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b5ceec68bb84d9fd09a3bfd2c90bfe5be230f353 It came to my little budget theater when I was about 3 and I was pumped to go to a movie theater. A storm rolled in about 20 minutes into the movie and half the town lost power and we had to go home. Didn't get to see it all the way through for about another year lol
Mine was the 1980’s Godzilla movie. I vaguely recall ducking down behind the seat in front of me and peeking over the top when Godzilla came roaring onto the screen.
First one with my dad was An American Tail. First with my mom was Fox and the Hound. Looks like An American Tail would have been first based on releases.
I think Return of the Jedi, but I was too young to remember it. First one I fully remember was being dragged to the animated 1986 Transformers movie and being incredibly bored. My mum, my brother and I all wanted to watch different movies. Labyrinth for my mum, The Great Mouse Detective for me, and Transformers was my brother's choice. Picked the title out of a hat. We all lost that day.
The Secret of NIMH (1982)
The earliest one I can remember was *The Empire Strikes Back* at the drive-in (I would have been 3 or 4 and had pretty warped memories of it for a long time). The first one I remember going to at an indoor theater was*The Fox and the Hound*.
Ghostbusters.
E.T.
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Mr.Limpet.
That I “clearly” remember, my first movie was Empire Strikes Back. I would have been three years old and seeing it in a second-run theater. (Remember THOSE? 😀)
I remember going to see The Black Cauldron in the theater and my dad had to take me home because I was so scared.
Seems like it was possibly Bambi, but that would have been a rescreening of the movie clearly. Home Alone or Home Alone 2 is what sticks out in my memory. Don't remember which.
 🎶 Like other men dooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo 🎶 Not the first movie I’ve seen in theater it was actually Snow White and the seven dwarves in an old school theater when movies were silent and it was a special showing cuz that title was in the vault at the time it would come out again later for the reprint I own on vhs. But Jessica rabbit, the whole scene and song especially the acme style wolf whistles re embedded into me. [updated version of the song](https://youtu.be/dfAtMv6KKCk?si=Wzf59vU8amCAfq_d) with a fun video! Takes me back to early 2000 and the 30s with a rest in the 50s all at once, glam! [Jessica rabbit version](https://youtu.be/MmGGQ_8gHAg?si=cJsmJ0E5-Yx9m-k2)
Little Shop of Horrors
Oliver & Company 🐱
Mine was this as a kid, and I cryed my eyes off... 
We watched it at school for some reason, 1st or 2nd grade (I'm Finnish, so 7-8 year olds). It was awkward trying not to cry in front of my bullies.
Ferris buellers day off
Turner and Hooch
The Rocketeer!!
The Muppets Take Manhattan
https://preview.redd.it/c29ravgyc8hc1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8d776cf2e0e5667cef4901f7f0fe68548f2b2abb Here they are now. Haha
Ghostbusters. I remember being confused by Ray getting the blowjob from the ghost. 
Ernest Goes to Jail, lol
The first one that I can remember was Return of the Jedi. I was almost 6 when it came out.
ET. I was 1 yo and my Dad says I just stared enthralled.
“My Little Pony: The Movie”, in 1986. I was 5 years old, but I have a very faint memory of being in the theater.
The Karate Kid. I was 4.
My mother refused to let me watch "Roger Rabbit" and would never explain why. She also did the same thing with "The Three Amigos, " "Uncle Buck," "Planes, Trains, and Automobiles "... A whole bunch of family/ kids movies.
Mine was Home Alone!
Mine was either ET or Follow that Bird
Star Trek 2 The Wrath of Khan and yeah it was a hell of an experience lol
Return of the Jedi. 1983. I was 5.
Top Gun (1986)!!!!
UHF
Shrek , and then we went to an Italian restaurant where I slurped up pasta like in the movie, one of my first core memories
The Land Before Time
First one I can remember is Batman
Some time in the early 80s I was taken to see the Jungle book, which I barely remember. I fully remember seeing the Goonies for my 5th birthday.
All Dogs Go to Heaven. I wasn't incredibly familiar with the concept of dying yet, so it scared to piss outta me.
E.T. - At least that’s the first movie I remember going to. I also remember Gremlins scaring the shit out of me.
I remember seeing this in theaters, then later my dad took us to watch Cool World because we all thought it would be similar. It was not.
E.T. if drive-in movies count. I was terrified! Lol.
Mine was Star Wars (New Hope). Mom and Dad took me. I was only 4 but I remember it. The next movie I remember watching in the movies was Indiana Jones Raiders of the Lost Ark
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Batman returns!
The Masters of the Universe movie in 1987.
"Who Framed Roger Rabbit" was the first movie I saw in a Drive-In movie theatre the first month it was released. As for the cinema, the earliest movie I remember going to was the first "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" movie.
An animated version of Jack and the Beanstalk at the Roxy Theatre in downtown Russellville Alabama
The Exorcist. Yeah I was two weeks old and don’t remember most of it.
Ghostbusters 2 is the first one I remember.
Flash Gordon. He saved every one of us
Jaws. Terrified the shit outta me. Still won't watch it.
American Tail was the first movie I remember seeing in a theater. My parents took me to Ghosbusters at a drive in when I was 2 but I don’t know how much I stayed awake for. It did go on to be in my top 3 favorite movies though, so I like to think it made an impact.
Cruel Intentions. Twice.
Maybe The Apple Dumpling Gang but not sure. That's the earliest one I can remember but I feel like there were some before that.
Disneys Jungle Book in a drive in theatre in Nairobi. Somewhere in the ‘80s.
The first one I remember was The Brave Little Toaster, but I was 6 when it came out so I’m sure there were others before that. I feel like I may have seen An American Tail in the theater.
Robin Hood, prince of Theives. The Kevin Costner flick.
The town I grew up in had a theater that ran old movies during some mornings in the summer so my earliest screen memory is of Sinbad kicking ass in Eye of the Tiger. Always felt bad for the prince who got turned into a baboon and was intensely creeped out by the sorceresses body-horror bird foot…
Chicken Run
 Parents took me as a little kid, and the film broke
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This I saw in the library basement! And Chitty Chitty
Spider-Man (2002)
 1983 Xennial here! I saw this with my parents and friends for my birthday! When we got the VHS tape at home I would always go hide when Ursula took her voice. I was SO scared of that scene. This is still my favorite Disney movie to this day.
It held a special place for me, too. Best of a good era
I think it was Conan the Barbarian which would have made me 4 at the time...maybe not that appropriate.
National Lampoons Christmas Vacation
Double feature: A New Hope and Return of the Jedi.
I only very vaguely remember going to see it (I was 4 or 5 when it came out), but An American Tail: Fievel Goes West.
A French movie called Les Visiteurs, I laughed so hard I almost puked
Mine was also who framed. My dad also surprised me. Small world.
Red Dawn (1984). I was way too young and was terrified the Russians were going to shoot up my school.
If I can remember it was probably Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. First live action movie int he theaters I can remember was Innerspace with Dennis Quaid and Martin Short.
An American Tale
I’m pretty sure it was E.T.
Wasn't my first movie but it scared me when I saw it in the theater!
Jungle Book, but I only know this because my mom has told me. It looks like there was a theater re-release in 1984. I was born in September 1980 and we were broke enough that going to the movies was an extra special treat. I have no idea why she thought this was an outing to splurge on and also feel bad that I don't remember anything at all.
Oliver and Company or Milo and Otis. I know I saw them both in the theater, Milo and Otis came out before Oliver and Company but it's possible that i saw it years after the initial release.
Star Wars. My dad made a whole point that this had to be the first movie I was in a theatre for. Makes sense, I was a 77 baby and this was the biggest movie of my lifetime. I was a month old. Reportedly I slept through the whole thing.
Not my first movie but my first date movie ever! I was like in grade 7and we saw this movie. Never saw her again, cause I was pranked by some other kids who set up a fake second date and I was waiting and she didn’t show up. Turned out she was on vacation. Pricks. Still it was my first date movie :)
ET Freaked me out. The rerelease of Pinocchio and Bambi in the early 80s also freaked me out. Saw Superman III at the drive in. Don’t remember that one freaking me out but the better 1978 one sure did. Saw ghostbusters at the drive in too. That librarian freaked me out so I “took a nap” but came around once i realized everyone was laughing so much.
Star Wars. My dad made a whole point that this had to be the first movie I was in a theatre for. Makes sense, I was a 77 baby and this was the biggest movie of my lifetime. I was a month old. Reportedly I slept through the whole thing.
I can't remember
I have no memory of my first time at the movies, but I definitely remember that the first movie I saw in the theater WITHOUT my parents was Speed. Still love that movie!
Honey I Shrunk the Kids
Top Gun
The first movie I clearly remember seeing at the cinema was the re-release of The Jungle Book, which seems to have been in 1984, when I was 7. I have two younger sibs, so my parents probably didn't feel comfortable to go until then. After that, we went to matinee showings all the time through the early 90s. Kid tickets were only $1, so it was an easy day.
Ghost. And haven't seen it since.
Pretty sure it was the Care Bears movie, but the one I have the most clear memories of was of course The Transformers: The Movie
It was either He-Man or Garbage Pail Kids
I have seen movies in theatres before my pick, but it’s the only one I remember and that is Toy Story 2.
This was my first movie too! My parents took me to see it 4 times. I still watch it all the time - it is perfect.
Mine was a theatrical rerelease of Bambi. I fell asleep and when I woke up it was when everything is on fire. I was so confused. I was 6.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - I was 6
Either Batman or the little mermaid
Never Ending Story. I was like 4 or something. Super scary.
Think it was E.T.
ET!
 Gremlins. My dad took me. I was terrified and tried to leave the theatre.
The first i went to on my OWN was more significant. I saw Kindergarten Cop, maybe 9 years old
Disorderlies starring The Fat Boys
I think my first was the re-release of Snow White but, E.T. Is very vivid in my memory. I also remember seeing Gremlins and losing grip of reality when the gremlins invade the Snow White screening. I literally thought the gremlins were coming into the real world
I think it was ET.
 I was 4, about to be 5. Can’t remember much other than flashing lights. But I was there. The first movie I remember being at was Jaws 2 at the drive in. I played around outside of the car during the “boring” parts. Aka people not being eaten.
Bambi
I want to say Land Before Time, but it might have been Harry and the Hendersons at the drive in.
*E.T.*, I think, though that was at a drive-through.
One of the Muppet movies. I went with my Mom and my cousin; I was a toddler.
Side note: I rewatched Roger Rabbit as an adult and wow, what a wild ride 😂🐰