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RE: Do You Remember The First Time...? - 30/8/2012 12:05:17 AM

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I remember I was once faced with the choice of either Batman and Robin or the Fifth Element. As a kid I didn't pay attention to reviews...but I still went to Element. I like to pat myself on the back about that one.

Fifth Element was certainly the lesser of two evils.

Off-topic slightly.But would you say Fifth Element is/was underrated.?

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RE: Do You Remember The First Time...? - 30/8/2012 12:08:20 AM

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Personally, I'm not a fan of The Fifth Element

*runs and hides*

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RE: Do You Remember The First Time...? - 30/8/2012 12:11:29 AM

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Never liked it.

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RE: Do You Remember The First Time...? - 30/8/2012 12:19:30 AM

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Never had one. I'm a single virgin.

Don't worry. There's no shame in that. And I think it's safe to assume you're not alone round 'ere. Besides, The Hobbit will be out before you know it!

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RE: Do You Remember The First Time...? - 30/8/2012 12:19:43 AM

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I love you MonsterCat. I feel I don't say that often enough

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RE: Do You Remember The First Time...? - 30/8/2012 12:21:18 AM

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I can't be the only one who had shitty taste as a young kid?

Children know nothing. They're like fanboys in that respect.

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RE: Do You Remember The First Time...? - 30/8/2012 12:23:39 AM

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ORIGINAL: Rgirvan44

I remember I was once faced with the choice of either Batman and Robin or the Fifth Element. As a kid I didn't pay attention to reviews...but I still went to Element. I like to pat myself on the back about that one.

Fifth Element was certainly the lesser of two evils.

Off-topic slightly.But would you say Fifth Element is/was underrated.?

I love the film and I can only think it helped that I ended up waiting to see it on video because it was absolutely lambasted in the cinema and I'd no illusions about it whatsoever. Still love it.

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RE: Do You Remember The First Time...? - 30/8/2012 12:25:25 AM

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My favourite film was once Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers: The Movie

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But before that I remember loving Shadowlands too, when I was 6

I've loved A Matter of Life and Death since I first saw it on telly when I was 8! It was like the day after The Naked Civil Servant was on and I thought John Hurt's Quentin Crisp and Marius Goring's Conductor 72 were the same character! Bless.

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RE: Do You Remember The First Time...? - 30/8/2012 12:28:48 AM

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: The Secret of the Ooze.

I am pretty sure this thread has been done before, because I don't normally write out the full title of that film.

I don't doubt it. But I figured a little ray of sunshine to alleviate the gloom from all the unrelenting negativity couldn't hurt.

(Glad to see this one's so popular.)

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RE: Do You Remember The First Time...? - 30/8/2012 12:32:30 AM

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What was your first film at the cinema? And what film changed you? Jaws was my first film. And my epiphany. I was five. And I was, er, hooked. It's an impressionable age. I still wonder if I'd been taken to a football match that weekend instead, would I have been a jock instead of a film geek?

(Then a couple of years later it was Star Wars and my fate was sealed...)

You got taken to Jaws at the age of five?� Sweet Jesus!� That really explains a lot Chris

Um... I insisted.

(I wanted to see The Texas Chainsaw Massacre the year before but the ****s wouldn't take me!)

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RE: Do You Remember The First Time...? - 30/8/2012 12:40:17 AM

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I can't be the only one who had shitty taste as a young kid?

Define 'shitty taste'. I grew up in the 80s......

I was a late bloomer and I never went to the cinema until I was 10 when I saw Superman IV: The Quest For Peace. I fucking hate that movie.

Christ on a bike! If that had been my first movie I'd be browsing FootballingFuckwits.com right now. Either that or glopping off to porn...

(I hope that unfortunate experience didn't put you off the sublime Superman: The Movie. A film I refused to go see at the cinema cos I was such a Marvel fan at the time. I even remember smugly sneering "That music's just a rip-off of Star Wars!" What a little turd!)

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RE: Do You Remember The First Time...? - 30/8/2012 12:42:59 AM

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I saw a lot of films at a stupid age.

A Nightmare on Elm Street / Full Metal Jacket / Predator / Pet Sematary / Salem�s Lot aged 6/7 (Babysitter�s Choice)
Aliens aged 7 (During a Mess Party with my brother and his friends who were 10/11.)

Yet out of all of those I was only ever truly afraid of ET, little fucker traumatised me.

He was banned in Sweden, you know.

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RE: Do You Remember The First Time...? - 30/8/2012 12:44:51 AM

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I remember I was once faced with the choice of either Batman and Robin or the Fifth Element. As a kid I didn't pay attention to reviews...but I still went to Element. I like to pat myself on the back about that one.

Fifth Element was certainly the lesser of two evils.

If the two evils were Peter Sutcliffe and Ian Brady. Or Hitler and... Satan.

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RE: Do You Remember The First Time...? - 30/8/2012 12:53:09 AM

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Off-topic slightly.But would you say Fifth Element is/was underrated.?

Er... Underrated, actually. Sure, it's a bit annoying and, well, French. But at the time I thought it was a refreshing antidote to all the Blade Runner-style doom and gloom which remains a cliche to this day. And fuck me gently with a chainsaw, from Luke Perry to Chris "Harbinger of Imminent Apocalypse" Tucker, has there ever been more annoying twats onscreen in the one film in the entire history of the cinema? And what the feck was Gary Oldman thinking/snorting? Would sir like some eggs with that ham...?

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RE: Do You Remember The First Time...? - 30/8/2012 1:11:22 AM

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I was a late bloomer and I never went to the cinema until I was 10 when I saw Superman IV: The Quest For Peace. I fucking hate that movie.

Christ on a bike! If that had been my first movie I'd be browsing FootballingFuckwits.com right now. Either that or glopping off to porn...

(I hope that unfortunate experience didn't put you off the sublime Superman: The Movie. A film I refused to go see at the cinema cos I was such a Marvel fan at the time. I even remember smugly sneering "That music's just a rip-off of Star Wars!" What a little turd!)

Oh, I was a bit of a movie fan before that and I loved The first three Superman films (the third film, there's the 'shitty taste' element) but I hated the fourth film. Absolutely loathed it but it didn't put me off going to the cinema. In fact, the following year, my town started showing films in our local Bingo hall (which was actually a cinema years before but hadn't been used in a couple of decades) and I saw-

Who Framed Roger Rabbit (twice), Willow, Moonwalker (ahem...), A Fish Called Wanda (I was under-age), Twins, Young Einstein, Big and The Great Outdoors

I was far too young to see Die Hard, sadly but saw it on VHS not too long after, so all is good

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RE: Do You Remember The First Time...? - 30/8/2012 10:31:40 AM

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The first cinema trip I really remember was Ghostbusters for my brothers birthday, which is December, so I'm assuming that was December 1984. I'm assured by my father that I was taken to a showing of Empire Strikes Back in '82 and to Return Of The Jedi in '83, but I don't remember them as such. I rember that as a young kid (I don't know if this came from those early cinema screenings or from home viewings later) I always thought Darth Vaader travelled through space in a spaceship shaped like his helmet (ooo-er missus etc etc) it wasn't until a few years later that I realised it was just him stood in front of the huge windows on the star destroyers, with the blackness of his helmet (ooo-er missus etc etc) against the blackness of space.

Anyway, Ghostbusters was the first trip to the cinema I remember, cos I remember it being early evening and it was pitch black dark out and we had to queue outside for ages. It was at an old cinema in Sheffield, whose name escapes me, but it is close to the Odeon in Sheffield centre now. Anyway, I really remember being utterly terrified during the opening library scene so me mum took me out of the screening but I moaned that I was missing the film (I remember being scared anyway - I dont remember being removed, that's a blank filled in by me mam) so we went back in and the one really vivid memory I have of it was the 'He slimed me...' scene that got a big laugh. That one scene really stands out in my memory.

I don't recall many more cinema visits after that, but I know I went a lot with my mum and brother, I just don't seem to remember them. The next real memories I have of the cinema, and where my love of film really developed was around the age of 8 or 9, in 1988 and 1989. I really recall Batman and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade in particular but for different reasons, Batman was a 12 which meant I couldn't go. Well, balls to that! It became the first film I went too that was a higher certificate than I was allowed to see. Around that kinda age my dad hated going to the cinema, but my mum didnt mind. My dad was far more interested in renting films on VHS, in particular the dodgy 70's kung fun Spiderman movies which seemed to be on rotation for me as a child at that time. But it was those years, around '88/89 that I started going to the cinema lots.

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RE: Do You Remember The First Time...? - 30/8/2012 12:45:04 PM

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The Aristocats, I was around 3 or 4 years old. It was back when Disney used to periodically re-issue the "classics", in the years before sell-thru VHS was a thing.

Same here. I don't remember it but my parents like to remind me that I laughed like an idiot at the 'put-put-bang' of the motorbike. Would have been about the same age I think. What year was the re-release?

The earliest cinema trip I can really properly remember was probably Jurassic Park.

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RE: Do You Remember The First Time...? - 30/8/2012 4:00:29 PM

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I can't remember my first film at the cinema, which really annoys me. I've asked my parents several times but they can't remember either. One of the earliest I can remember was The Phantom Menace (I'm only a youngun' at 21), but I'm sure there were a few before that. I guess it's not really relevant since I can't remember it. I've always wanted to know what the first film I ever saw was as well, but I can't remember that either

(If I had to take a guess, it was probably one of the early Bondsl.)

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RE: Do You Remember The First Time...? - 30/8/2012 4:11:49 PM

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Anyway, Ghostbusters was the first trip to the cinema I remember, cos I remember it being early evening and it was pitch black dark out and we had to queue outside for ages. It was at an old cinema in Sheffield, whose name escapes me, but it is close to the Odeon in Sheffield centre now. Anyway, I really remember being utterly terrified during the opening library scene so me mum took me out of the screening but I moaned that I was missing the film (I remember being scared anyway - I dont remember being removed, that's a blank filled in by me mam) so we went back in and the one really vivid memory I have of it was the 'He slimed me...' scene that got a big laugh. That one scene really stands out in my memory.

Oddly enough, I distinctly remember an early cinema visit with my big sister, which was a showing of Ghostbusters. There was a young kid who kept crying at the start and both myself and my sister got frustrated that the mother wouldn't take him out. When she did, eventually, we were overjoyed. Surely, it couldn't be ... ?

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RE: Do You Remember The First Time...? - 30/8/2012 4:49:51 PM

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I believe the first film I seen was Alladin.

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RE: Do You Remember The First Time...? - 30/8/2012 4:57:15 PM

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Hmmm could be Moonwalker, I would have been about 5 but I have vivid memories of An American Tail for which I would have been 3 years old. Its probably more likely I remember it from TV or video a few years later, that or I just have an amazing fucking memory !

I haven't watched it in quite a few years but Chris Tucker aside I always found Fith Element to be an entertaining bit of Sci-fi !

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RE: Do You Remember The First Time...? - 30/8/2012 6:21:56 PM

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ORIGINAL: Prophet_of_Doom

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Anyway, Ghostbusters was the first trip to the cinema I remember, cos I remember it being early evening and it was pitch black dark out and we had to queue outside for ages. It was at an old cinema in Sheffield, whose name escapes me, but it is close to the Odeon in Sheffield centre now. Anyway, I really remember being utterly terrified during the opening library scene so me mum took me out of the screening but I moaned that I was missing the film (I remember being scared anyway - I dont remember being removed, that's a blank filled in by me mam) so we went back in and the one really vivid memory I have of it was the 'He slimed me...' scene that got a big laugh. That one scene really stands out in my memory.

Oddly enough, I distinctly remember an early cinema visit with my big sister, which was a showing of Ghostbusters.� There was a young kid who kept crying at the start and both myself and my sister got frustrated that the mother wouldn't take him out.� When she did, eventually, we were overjoyed.� Surely, it couldn't be ... ?

The biggest queue I've ever seen for a film was Ghostbusters at the Glasgow Odeon - now, tragically, no longer with us. (It's no longer with anyone!)

The second-biggest queue - Grease! (Which I enjoyed a helluva lot more at the time than I was prepared to admit.)

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RE: Do You Remember The First Time...? - 30/8/2012 6:46:48 PM

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According to my parents, the first film I ever saw at the cinema was a rerelease of Snow White. I had to be taken out when the wicked queen transforms into a witch because I was absolutely terrified

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The first one I can remember is The Lion King. We were in Center Parcs and cycled for absolutely ages until we reached the cinema. We were the only ones in, and I sat down not really knowing what to expect. There were no adverts or trailers, so we went straight to the film, and the first thing I saw was a black screen with ambient noise in the background. Then BAM! Circle of Life. It blew my tiny mind, and it's probably a big factor in why I got into movies in the first place.

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RE: Do You Remember The First Time...? - 30/8/2012 6:56:38 PM

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The busiest I've ever seen a cinema was when The Flintstones came out. One of the cinema employees had to tell everyone to move up and make room, there was so much demand.

Then it's either Casper or Revenge of the Sith.

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RE: Do You Remember The First Time...? - 30/8/2012 7:06:47 PM

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Free Willy. My sister and her friend took me to see it but we were turned away because the film was sold out for the entire day. We had queued for more than an hour.

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RE: Do You Remember The First Time...? - 30/8/2012 7:09:00 PM

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Free Willy. My sister and her friend took me to see it but we were turned away because the film was sold out for the entire day. We had queued for more than an hour.

At least you didn't miss a good film.

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RE: Do You Remember The First Time...? - 30/8/2012 7:29:37 PM

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When I was a kid I could have sworn films like Free Willy, The Flintstones, Casper and The Power Rangers were like, the biggest films EVAR! And then I discovered www.BoxOfficeMojo.com and my illusions were destroyed forever

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To clarify, I know some of those were enormous hits, just not the biggest things ever as I thought they'd be.

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RE: Do You Remember The First Time...? - 30/8/2012 8:59:30 PM

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Biggest queue and busiest I've ever seen a cinema was Jurassic Park at Showcase Cinema Birstall, literally could not move it was that busy inside.

I remember the queue for Lion King seemed to go on forever at my local flee pit way back when ! Miss that place

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RE: Do You Remember The First Time...? - 30/8/2012 9:32:27 PM

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First film I remember seeing was The Little Mermaid with friends for my birthday. First and only film I ever saw with my dad was Jurassic Park - I remember it well because he fell asleep

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RE: Do You Remember The First Time...? - 30/8/2012 9:41:09 PM

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First film I remember seeing was The Little Mermaid with friends for my birthday. First and only film I ever saw with my dad was Jurassic Park - I remember it well because he fell asleep

That's what Dads do. Now that I've been a Dad for a few years I can fall asleep to any film I want, no problem

First film I ever saw at the cinema was ET, I don't really remember it though but my mum claims I thought ET's spaceship was a Christmas tree and that I broadcast my thoughts at the top of my voice. The first film I remember seeing at the pictures is Basil, the great mouse detective. I think I enjoyed it.

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