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CommentAuthorgrant
- CommentTimeOct 15th 2007 edited
Winners Announced!
Click here to find out who won the Superman and Spider-Man dvds
The Prizes
1st Prize: The Christopher Reeve Superman Collection and
The Spider-Man 2 Collector's Gift Set
2nd Prize: The Spider-Man 2 Collector's Gift Set
3nd Prize: Superman The Movie Special Edition
New Visitors Need to Register to Enter
First of all you'll need to sign up to the forum if you're not already a member then you'll be able to post messages in the discussions. You no longer need to validate your email address but make sure to use an email I can contact you on if you win a prize.
Background
The first time I ever stepped inside a cinema was when I got taken to see the very first Superman movie when I was just about big enough to see over the seat in front of me but unfortunately not the person who was sitting in it.Even still I can vividly remember being completely taken in by the whole experience, how planet Krypton was unlike anything I'd ever seen before but mostly just the fact that Superman was actually FLYING which obviously meant that I could fly too and I just needed to convince my mum to get me the superman costume from the catalogue and I was sorted!
Never grew up to be a big comic book or sci-fi fan but the Superman movie did instil in me a love of cinema and the thrill of being swept up in a story for 90 minutes, not knowing where you're going to end up at the end of it.
So that's my first memory of going to the pictures, now it's your turn...
How To Enter
Just write a message below telling us what the very first film is that you saw at the cinema and what you can remember of the experience. If you can't remember the first then it could be the first film you remember really liking or being too scared to watch, just one that stands out.If you can find the film you first saw using our search then it would be great if you could post the link to it in your message like this:
http://www.dvdcollections.co.uk/search/fetchPrices.php?id=mfno1053286I can add a cover image of the dvd to your post afterwards.
Winners & Closing Date
Prize draw will be made randomly from all entrants with one first, second and third prize, one entry per member.Competition closes on Sunday the 21st of October at 11.59pm. Winners will be announced around lunchtime on the 22nd.
Thanks to Loquax Competitions, The Prize Finder - UK Competitions and MSE forums for the links!
Good luck everyone and look forward to hearing your stories!
Grant
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- CommentAuthorkimmywal
- CommentTimeOct 15th 2007 edited
The first film I remember seeing at the cinema was The Sound of Music. It was amazing, it felt like I was running on the hills with Julie Andrews. The sound and sight of it all gave me a lasting love of films.
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CommentAuthorgrant
- CommentTimeOct 15th 2007
Thanks kimmywal, sure I recently heard that the original's getting another cinema release soon if not already. Added a link to the dvd in your post.
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CommentAuthortazgirl
- CommentTimeOct 15th 2007 edited
Hi guys,
well my first film I remember wasnt going to see superman but SUPERGIRL!! Lol!
It was on my sixth birthday and I was a bit hyper on fizzy drinks and birthday cake I think because I dont actually remember very much about watching the film. What I do remember was being shown to my seat by a lady with a torch and the same lady coming back at the interval to serve icecream! My friends from a few doors down were there too sitting in front of us and we were probably being the sort of annoying kids that wont sit still and I find incredibly irritating now LOL. Well I have since seen the film of course but cant remember how much of it I actually recall from the cinema visit. I just remember loving the whole experience and wanting to go back every birthday!
ooh almost forgot the link: Supergirl DVD
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CommentAuthorrobtallica
- CommentTimeOct 15th 2007 edited
Nice collection of childhood memories , I've got similar ones.
BTW I'd watch out though giving specifics like that - people are gonna know your exact age
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- CommentAuthorbusbybantam
- CommentTimeOct 15th 2007 edited
My first film (or the one I can remember) was Buck Rogers in the 21st century. I was on holiday in Blackpool with my parents and my Grandad and my great-aunt. My grandad, dad and myself went to see it and the only thing I remember about it, was 10 minutes in when my grandad stood up and shouted "I thought this was a cowboy film" and walked out. Hilarious
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- CommentAuthorjadring
- CommentTimeOct 15th 2007 edited
I remember being able to take 1 friend and my brother to see Grease for my birthday, it was like nothing I had ever seen. My eldest daughter loves it now.
Grease Singalong Special Collector's Edition
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CommentAuthorlucydu52
- CommentTimeOct 15th 2007 edited
I know I was lucky enough to see quite a few as a child like the disney films. There is one film in particular though that really sticks in my mind. It is going to sound sad but it was My Girl. It was one of the first times I went to the cinema with a friend without an adult. I know I cried at the film but what really sticks with me was the much older man sat behind us sobbing like a baby, so rare to see men letting out their emotions like this, it must have really upset him.
My Girl DVD
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- CommentAuthorikoo
- CommentTimeOct 16th 2007 edited
Well I wish I could say it was a disney classic or something kiddy - but unfortunately being the youngest of seven children the votes went to JAWS - I was 7 years old and frankly a bit scared, but I had ice cream and a green kia-ora drink so it wasn't all bad. Funny thing is though, I have never learned to swim - scared of the water - TRUE STORY!
Jaws DVD - 2 Disc Special Edition
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- CommentAuthorkoven
- CommentTimeOct 16th 2007 edited
First one that I can seriously remember was the Jungle Book. But not the cartoon one.
After watching I seriously considered living in the jungle.
Note from Grant: Welcome to the forum Koven, afraid I lost the link you posted could you add it again please and I'll put up an image up of the dvd as not sure which version of the Jungle Book it is. Thanks, Grant
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- CommentAuthorlazarus007
- CommentTimeOct 16th 2007 edited
The first film i saw on the silver screen was Hangar 18, after viewing it recently I know it is a bit cheesy, but I can thank this particular film for giving me my first taste of Sci-Fi, which I have been a fan of ever since.
Does anyone else remember this film?
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- CommentAuthornettynora
- CommentTimeOct 16th 2007 edited
The first film I went to see at the cinema was Disney's The Jungle Book.
I must have been 5 years old and was amazed at the size of the screen. I can still remember feeling as though I was actually in the jungle with Mowgli, Baloo and the frightening Shere Khan. My Mum said that I turned into Mowgli overnight! I recently took my daughter to the cinema for the first time and when I looked at her little face when we walked in I knew exactly how she was feeling!
The Jungle Book DVDs - 40th Anniversary Editions
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CommentAuthorgrant
- CommentTimeOct 16th 2007 edited
Hi nettynora, welcome to the forum, must have been amazing seeing Mowgli and Baloo and co on the big screen when it first came out! Nice job adding an image and link - hope you don't mind but I swapped the link and image to point to the new page I just made for the newly restored Jungle Book DVD that's out in a couple of weeks.
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CommentAuthorgrant
- CommentTimeOct 16th 2007 edited
Great stories everyone, love the Buck Rogers outraged grandad story, brilliant
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- CommentAuthorPUMPS2007
- CommentTimeOct 16th 2007 edited
Hi, Richard here.
The very, very, very first film i ever went to see at the cinema, was Star Wars, way back in 1977.
I must have been only, 5, at the time, but, wow!!!!!!!!!, what a movie.
I will always remember the opening with the blockade runner and the massive star destroyer, which kept on going, and going, and going, i remember sitting there with my mouth open.
I will always have a fond memory of that occasion.Yeah I'll never forget it.
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- CommentAuthorandrea graham
- CommentTimeOct 16th 2007 edited
Escape From Witch Mountain
I`ll always remember this as a happy childhood film, me and my brother went to the pictures with our mam,it was an adventure from start to end, even for us getting on a big bus. we felt like Tia and Tony were our friends because we were around the same age.( and my brother was slightly older than me as was Tony.)I put the dvd on for my children and they were glued to the screen, it`s magical and full of family fun.
Escape To Witch Mountain DVD
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- CommentAuthormattbaldwin
- CommentTimeOct 16th 2007 edited
The first movie I ever saw was E.T. I was only four at the time but have vivid memories of trying to hold the tears in as the auditorium sobbed and blubbered.
As Elliott's bike flies over the authorities, I finally caved and was bawling with the rest of the cinema. Twenty years later I found myself doing the same with friends while watching the 20th anniversary edition."Inventive, powerful and wonderful" to quote Richard Attenborough.
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- CommentAuthorloobs40
- CommentTimeOct 16th 2007 edited
The first film I remember seeing was Bambi. I can have been no older than 5 or 6. The excitement of going to the cinema with my Dad for the first time was immense. However, that happiness soon disappeared when I bawled my eyes out when bambi's mother was killed.
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- CommentAuthorkrailton
- CommentTimeOct 16th 2007 edited
chitty chitty bang bang
i can remember it was a christmas time in newcastle and my mum took me to see this film. its the first film i can remember going to see, and being very frightened of the children catcher.
karen
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- CommentAuthorCheeky
- CommentTimeOct 16th 2007 edited
The first one I ever saw was Star Wars. I won't say how old I was at the time in case you all start doing your sums, but it was a really really big deal. It was just me and my dad who went, and nearly everyone at school had seen it before me. I nagged and nagged and finally we went on a Saturday afternoon.
We weren't very well off when I was a kid, so my mum made us take a bag of sweets from home - she said they'd be too expensive to buy at the pictures (I didn't believe her at the time, but how right she was!!)
There were no big muliplexes - our cinema just had 1 screen and Star Wars had been on for weeks. In those days there were no DVDs or downloads. If you didn't see a film when it came out, you had to wait about 4 or 5 years until it was shown on one of the 3 TV channels. I remember being scared they's stop showing it and I'd be grown up before I saw Star Wars!
Anyway, we finally did go, & what an introduction to the big screen. I didn't speak the whole way through, & I don't think I touched my sweets - I'm sure I talked about nothing else for weeks! I'm not sure that anything has ever come close to that experience, or ever will. (It must have affected my dad too, as he started taking me to the pictures once every couple of months after that!)
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- CommentAuthorkirsteenatom
- CommentTimeOct 16th 2007 edited
My first film was Stars Wars Episode 4 (of course at the time it was just Episode 1 to me). My sister and I had been allowed to go to our local odeon which had constantly sticky floors from popcorn, drinks and icecream and you had to be careful not to move your feet too much or the noise would interrupt your enjoyment of the film.
My sister went in the small theatre next to mine to watch something like Grease (which she had watched a million times already) and I went to see Star Wars.
I had never seen anything like it and I think I held my breath all the way through! Despite being around 14 and female I wanted to fly the millenium falcon and BE Hans Solo. This film started my ongoing love affair with sci-fi, both in film and in books! The moment when Lei and Han swung across that abyss on a rope.....perfection!
Kirsteen
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- CommentAuthorpineapple
- CommentTimeOct 16th 2007 edited
The first film I ever saw at the cinema was sleeping beauty with my parents. I can't remember how old I was, but I do remember feeling quite scared in places, especially near the end when Maleficent turns herself into a big scary dragon.
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- CommentAuthorCassieopea
- CommentTimeOct 16th 2007 edited
Well I was another of the Star Wars brigade as my first film. I remember there even being an interval and buying a souvenir progamme
I so wanted to be Princess Leia! The second film though that I also remember and have to watch when it's on the tv was the Cat from Outer space - now there's a classic, time for a remake??http://www.dvdcollections.co.uk/search/fetchPrices.php?id=mfno1041404
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- CommentAuthorshay0
- CommentTimeOct 16th 2007
Star Trek: The Motion Picture. My parents took me for my birthday and about all I can remember is falling asleep watching it
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CommentAuthorlostfrog
- CommentTimeOct 16th 2007 edited
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- CommentAuthorCassieopea
- CommentTimeOct 16th 2007
Great pic for me! Thanks! I used to loved the ear muff style hairdo!!
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CommentAuthorgrant
- CommentTimeOct 16th 2007 edited
Ear muff hairdo's due for a comeback, mobile in one side, ipod in the other
glad you like the pic, that's me done though, way more to do than I thought!
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- CommentAuthorshahumamer
- CommentTimeOct 16th 2007 edited
The film i remember going to was Twins when i was 11 years old but i didn't tell my mum and me and my friend went. well his mum told my mum and i got hit by my mum for lying but luckily that didn't put me off going to cinemas as i stlill go today and lately i did win 2 tickets to any film in vue cinemas in Birmingham.
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- CommentAuthorbrook_son
- CommentTimeOct 17th 2007
I can remember seeing Bambi with my Mum, I think I had a stray little tear.
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CommentAuthorlucydu52
- CommentTimeOct 17th 2007
I love all the pictures you've added Grant. How do you add pictures ? or should I just stick to the links !
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- CommentAuthorviviennejane
- CommentTimeOct 17th 2007 edited
Sinbad and the Eye of the tiger.
Ifound it on the site, but I couldn't work out how to add the picture.
I was really quite young when it came out and found it quite scary, especially when the woman ends up left with crow's feet.UGH!!
Sinbad & The Eye Of The Tiger DVD
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CommentAuthorgrant
- CommentTimeOct 17th 2007 edited
Thanks Lucy. It's kind of tricky to upload pictures at the moment as it's still buggy if you're using the Internet Explorer browser.
If you're using Firefox though it works fine and here's how to do it:
1. Once you've found the image you'd like to use (make sure it's no more than 500pixels wide - the width of this comment area) then save it to your desktop.
2. Go to an free image hosting site like this one and browse to the image on your desktop and upload it. On the next screen it shows you how to link to the image - copy the 5th one down that says "Forum code for embedding (2)"
3. Paste that into your comments and that should be it!
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- CommentAuthorlouiseoliver1
- CommentTimeOct 17th 2007 edited
The first film I ever saw at the cinema was The Lion King. We went with the school and I remember sitting crying my eyes out when Mufasa died!
The Lion King Special Edition (only available new from Amazon resellers)
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- CommentAuthoriut044
- CommentTimeOct 17th 2007 edited
The first film I remember watching at the cinema is Beauty and the Beast. I ate a lot sweets and was nearly sick but enjoyed the movie.
Beauty & The Beast DVD - only available new from Amazon resellers (£74.00 yikes!)
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- CommentAuthorsuperman
- CommentTimeOct 17th 2007
I loved the first superman movie in '78 - and they've just got better !
Anyone else see this one with Christopher Reeve'sClassic !
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- CommentAuthorbev71
- CommentTimeOct 17th 2007 edited
The first film I saw was E.T. I would have been around six or seven and I cried my eyes out all the way through! Thirty years later, I still shed the odd tear or two when I see it again!
I remember getting a stuffed ET and ET earrings for Christmas that year - I wish I still had them!
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- CommentAuthorhellcat
- CommentTimeOct 17th 2007
The first film i saw was Sleeping Beauty and my brother was terrified of the dra
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- CommentAuthorcheyne0
- CommentTimeOct 17th 2007 edited
The first film i every saw was 10 with Bo Derek,i sneaked into the cinema pretending to be 18 but i was only 14,it was great at 14 but you look back and think how silly it looks compared to todays tv.(back in1978)
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- CommentAuthoroldishmalik
- CommentTimeOct 18th 2007
I can vaguely remember my first film being The Jungle Book. And I still love it!
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CommentAuthorgrant
- CommentTimeOct 18th 2007 edited
When you think how many thousands of films have came out over the years it's funny how there's quite a few shared first films among the list.
I guess it has a lot to do with what Cheeky said about there being no big multiplexes and if you didn't catch it at the cinema then you had to wait years to see it on tv so we ended up seeing a lot of the same big releases.
Note for entries: Remember to post a link to the dvd and describe your experience of what it was like going to the cinema for the first time as well, thanks
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