First film you saw in a Cinema??

Andy-Pandy

It was Annie I think, I still remember it even though i was only 5.

beano345

E.T

kincsem

Snow White

mconigol

Mrs. Doubtfire....

It was called the pictures then, I literally had no idea what "the pictures" were or even the concept of a cinema! Cue me expecting to visit a room full of pictures! Simpler times!

Edit: Actually I don't think I even knew what divorce was. That confusion coupled with Robin Williams dressed as a man will stay with me forever!

stovelid

Star Wars in 1977 I think

Galwayguy35

Went to see DARYL in the Town Hall in Galway. Think it was the mid 1980s.

Lockstep

The cinema in the Square with my dad, Muppet Christmas Carol.
What a movie

phasers

I went to see Beauty and The Beast when I was about 1 in some cinema that's closed down. Apparently I said "That's the biggest telly ever!" when I saw the screen.


On a side note my Dad knew the owner of the cinema, it was a total kip but we went there all the time cos we got free food and I got to go up into the projector room :cool:

Paparazzo

tempura wrote: »

Jaws. Mid 70's

The Savoy in O'Connell st ( Dublin)

I went to Jaws 4: The Revenge in the Savoy. Jaws 4 is clearly the best Jaws

RhubarbCrumble

My Little Pony I think, circa 1986. God I'm old

Toothpaste89

Titanic for my confirmation

Skerries

JupiterKid wrote: »

There used to be loads of cinemas in town - The Green, Adelphi, Carlton, Metropole, Odeon, Ambassador and Curzon.

All there is now is The Savoy, Parnell Cineworld and the art house IFI.

also The Odeon multiplex down by the Point and The Lighthouse in Smithfield and The Screen opposite Trinity College

Yawlboy

The African Queen - with my dad in Youghal cinema mid 70's

Galwayguy35

Toothpaste89 wrote: »

Titanic for my confirmation

So you got to see Kates boobies.

WoollyRedHat

Harry Potter? I probably went to see movies before that, but that's all I can remember... so Harry Potter

Oh, once time I went to see E.T, but, get this, it was just a remastered version, when I thought it was a sequel. I felt betrayed... but that was when I was young and foolish, I've since wisened up to them.

ziedth

I'd guess it was the land before time. I remember seeing it in the cinema and i would have been only 4.

brownlad

shrek in 2003/4

BluesBerry

Indiana Jones (cant remember which one) in Fairview Strand Cinema , I brought my own sweets hidden in the disgusting bum bags that were all the rage in the 80's come to think of it I might have been sporting my turquoise shell suit as well that day

moonfish

The land that time forgot the one with the submarine getting lost on a island of dinosaurs mid 70s man i thought it was great

skeleton_boy

101 Dalmatians

WoollyRedHat

Anyone remember the first movie they went to without their parents/family with them?

I do, it was so liberating at the time ( I was about 10), my student took me, went to see Scooby Doo... probably enjoyed the freedom more than the actual movie.

Naomi00

edit/ Actually it was Hercules in 1997

Wattle

Mel Brooks 'Silent Movie'. Can't remember if it was before or after Blazing Saddles but it was funny.

johngalway

The Jungle Book in the Town Hall Cinema in Galway, can't remember when. Do remember my runners sticking to the floor, and repaying those beneath the balcony throwing up peanuts with a coke shower

Skerries

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

my student took me,

ooh get him! were you a child genius?

maiden

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

Anyone remember the first movie they went to without their parents/family with them?

I do, it was so liberating at the time ( I was about 10), my student took me, went to see Scooby Doo... probably enjoyed the freedom more than the actual movie.

You had a Student?????? Im lost!

WoollyRedHat

Skerries wrote: »

ooh get him! were you a child genius?

maiden wrote: »

You had a Student?????? Im lost!

Sorry, should of clarified, they were foreign.

fergiesfolly

Herbie goes to Monte Carlo.
Town hall cinema in Galway in '78 or '79 I think.
Loved the concession stand. As someone mentioned eaelierm, glass bottles of soft drinks and fresh popped popcorn.mmm!
Not the cleanest place though.
Was said about it, "No matter what way you went in, you came out crawlin"

Dudess

Mary Poppins when I was three or four but had no interest. Then Neverending Story when I was six - was enthralled.

Big Nasty

E.T. in Stillorgan - didn't cry or nuttin'!

eyeball kid

Pretty sure that it was Beetlejuice and that it was in a mobile cinema of some sort
It was basically a glorified trailer on the back of truck with a screen and seats. The joys of growing up in Leitrim in the mid eighties.

First film I saw in a proper cinema was Jurassic Park.

baalthor

I'd like to say "The Empire Strikes Back" but it was the second.
First was "The Last Flight of Noah's Ark", 1981 in the Oscar Cinema Carrickmacross when I was 11.

ancapailldorcha

Waking Ned on school trip. It was awesome.

Gunmonkey

Who Framed Roger Rabbit? in the old (now demolished) cinema in Tullamore.

Think it was also the last film my dad also went to see in a cinema......but then again he only ever watches films as a time killer, not cos he is looking forward to them.

partyatmygaff

Godzilla in 1998 when I was five... I don't remember any of it barring one scene involving people hiding in or around a nest of eggs.

Miss Lockhart

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

Sorry, should of clarified, they were foreign.

That still makes no sense

Mars Bar

Baby's Day Out was the first film I saw. I was about four or five and really small and light. The spring on the cinema chair was too strong for me and it closed up on me while I was sitting in it. Maltesers went everywhere!

It's one of my first memories of my child hood too.

WoollyRedHat

Miss Lockhart wrote: »

That still makes no sense

Oh hello Miss Lockhart, fabolous day isn't it?

Dudess

Sweet Jesus there are some babbies here who seem at least twice their age on other threads.

4zn76tysfajdxp

phasers wrote: »

On a side note my Dad knew the owner of the cinema, it was a total kip but we went there all the time cos we got free food and I got to go up into the projector room :cool:

Ali? :eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

Miss Lockhart

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

Oh hello Miss Lockhart, fabolous day isn't it?

Not particularly - it cold and damp.

JackieChan

For me it was Popeye in Kildare town cinema(long since closed), sometime in 1980 or 1981.
I was more than disappointed when I saw that it was not a cartoon...I think we left early!

WoollyRedHat

Miss Lockhart wrote: »

Not particularly - it cold and damp.

It is with the most dreary and hopelessness, Miss Lockhart, that we may see and appreciate the most beautiful within.

Smidge

Miss Lockhart wrote: »

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. I'm pretty sure it was 1987 and I'm almost certain it was in the Ambassador in Dublin.

I was just about to put this up^^
Although I saw it in about 1980/81

Smidge

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

Anyone remember the first movie they went to without their parents/family with them?

I do, it was so liberating at the time ( I was about 10), my student took me, went to see Scooby Doo... probably enjoyed the freedom more than the actual movie.

Mannequin:D
I was 11

BrianJD

E.T i think. I was five. What were you thinking of Mam???:eek::eek::eek::eek:

greenbicycle

Pretty sure it was He man and She Ra, The secret of the sword, but really my memory is more about going to the cinema in stillorgan for the first time rather than the film itself, this was back when getting into the stillorgan cinema was like wandering into a dark cave, the entrance was down underground and very dark and creepy!

bigtimecharlie

Grizzly Adams. No idea of the year.

chughes

40 Guns to Apache Pass in the Casino cinema in Finglas. It was sometime in the mid 1960's.

Mickey H

Saving Private Ryan in '98 or '99.

Epic.