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2019/10/04 16:47:27
Subject: Your first cinema experience? And how special was it?
The first TMNT movie was one of the few my wife got to see in the theater, and it still holds an important place in her childhood memories. When we showed the film to the boy, she surprised me by reciting most of the lines in the movie by heart.
Of course, I’m more of a TMNT 2 guy. Go ninja, go ninja, go.
Crispy78 wrote: I really can't remember what my first cinema experience was. The first one I can properly remember was A View To A Kill - 1985 apparently, so I would have been about 7, and my brother 4.
I mainly remember it because my dad went to sleep in his seat before the film even started, and I was most offended!
Having kids of my own now, I know exactly where he was coming from...
The flip side, a lot of "kids" movies have built in adult humor and such. Its an excuse to watch these movies. You miss that later...
Oh yeah, definitely. Think my favourite lately is Lego Batman. Just so many references the boys wouldn't have got...
Best Batman movie of them all.
-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
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2019/10/04 19:20:55
Subject: Your first cinema experience? And how special was it?
I suspect the ‘adult’ humour is manifold in purpose.
First of course is as Frazz says. If there’s something for the parents to enjoy, more bums on seats there and then.
It also appeals to ‘smug kids’, those that little bit more worldly wise.
And in future media sales, something for long term devotees to enjoy (adult and child alike, and every stage in between).
One example of a Family Film? Airplane!
That’s a film where there are so, so many jokes. Some physical slapstick gags, others cunning wordplay, some outright thinly veiled filth, that every time I watch it I get a genuinely new laugh.
Ditto the ‘Carry On’ series.
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BobtheInquisitor wrote: The first TMNT movie was one of the few my wife got to see in the theater, and it still holds an important place in her childhood memories. When we showed the film to the boy, she surprised me by reciting most of the lines in the movie by heart.
Of course, I’m more of a TMNT 2 guy. Go ninja, go ninja, go.
I find no fault in this post. Bonus points for the Robert Van Winkle reference; he was admittedly better than the Fat Boys of the first movie.
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2019/10/04 20:27:38
Subject: Your first cinema experience? And how special was it?
Wow, what a great bunch of movies and memories from everyone!!
However, I am going to go waaaaay back...
The first movie I remember was the family at the drive-in to see Fantastic Voyage. Then the first one I got to go see with just my friends and no parents, Billy Jack.
I'm pretty sure it was the mid-80s screening of The Jungle Book. Mum took us to see it twice as she loved it as a young girl. Wasn't a big Disney fan to be honest but Jungle Book was the exception...
...bit where Khan twiddles Kaa's nose was priceless!
Casual gaming, mostly solo-coop these days.
2019/10/05 23:23:25
Subject: Your first cinema experience? And how special was it?
The first one I remember seeing in theaters was at the age of 5: Terminator 2 with my dad, brother, uncle, and cousin. It was cussing awesome and remains one of my favorite films today.
2019/10/09 15:39:36
Subject: Your first cinema experience? And how special was it?
Wolf_in_Human_Shape wrote: The first one I remember seeing in theaters was at the age of 5: Terminator 2 with my dad, brother, uncle, and cousin. It was cussing awesome and remains one of my favorite films today.
That's extremely young to see that (according to the censors at least). Did you understand most of it then?
2019/10/10 07:00:57
Subject: Your first cinema experience? And how special was it?
That's extremely young to see that (according to the censors at least)
People didn't tend to pay a great deal of attention to movie ratings in the '80s and '90s, other than as a rough guide as to whether or not there might be a scene somewhere in the movie where you would tell the kids to look away.
2019/10/11 13:28:19
Subject: Your first cinema experience? And how special was it?
No clue what the actual first was. My grandpa would take me to the movies every Sunday for years and years. Not sure which was my first, but I certainly saw all the Disney stuff as it was rereleased in theaters in the 80's. Even Song of the South, which I distinctly remember because its one of the few times I've fallen asleep in a theater.
2019/10/13 08:07:43
Subject: Your first cinema experience? And how special was it?
I actually don't remember the first film I saw in cinema because it was a longstanding christmas tradition that my parents, my (older) brother and I watched the annual Disney movie on the day before christmas.
I do remember that we watched The Black Cauldron (and it was horrifying for young little me) and The Great Mouse Detective (which I didn't understand properly for many many years not having heard of Sherlock Holmes at that young age). I'm not sure whether I saw any of the films before that (which would mean that my parents would have taken me as a toddler).
The first movie I actually watched in cinema on my own was Dennis the Menace (1993). I don't remember much about the film (except Walter Matthau and Christopher Lloyd) and nowadays I surely believed it was more of an coming of age thing to go to the cinema on my own and choosing a film of my likeing. Since then I went to the cinema rather regularly (usually at about once a month).
