30 Day Movie Challenge - Day 15

[trinityvixen]

Day 15 - The first movie you saw in theaters
Before all of you start commenting on how truly remarkable I look for someone who'd have to be pushing seventy to have seen Cinderella in theaters, I will point out that this was obviously a limited-release revival of a movie in theaters at a point in time where movies had yet to really take off on VHS (much less DVD and formats beyond). I have huge holes in my memory, and even my memory of seeing this in theaters is patchy and vague, I know it's real. I remember going to some older theater in or around the town I grew up (which now has exactly no movie theaters in it). I remember seeing this movie. Not The Little Mermaid, which is certainly the first first-run movie I remember seeing in theaters. Somehow, somewhere, I saw Cinderella in a movie theater when I was only just young enough to retain patchy images of the red chairs in the dark theater, my mother seeing it with me, and Cinderella's updo. (Yes, that's what I remember.)

Bizarre.

Previous Days in the meme:
Day 01
Day 02
Day 03 - 06
Day 07
Day 08
Day 09
Day 10
Day 11-13
Day 14

Comments

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

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.livejournal.com]

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

[bigscary.livejournal.com]

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

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

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

[negativeq.livejournal.com]

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.livejournal.com]

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.livejournal.com]

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.livejournal.com]

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.livejournal.com]

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.livejournal.com]

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

[fairest.livejournal.com]

I think mine was also Snow White. I remember my grandmother, who loved the movie, taking me to see it.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

That's so sweet.