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Anything else would be too much today - like wading through War & Peace after reading Moby Dick or the like.
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cadhla posted today got me thinking - what's the first movie you remember seeing? In the theater, mind. Taken out, sat down and had popcorn put in front of you at the movie theater, movie.
I recall being taken out to see Mary Poppins on opening night - VERY big stuff, we had everything related to the movie release in the house - but I also recall being taken to see Alakazam the Great as a matinee...and I had the soundtrack to go with it.
Summertime, I can recall checking out silent films on 8MM from the library and watching them with the neighbor kids when it was so hot outside we wouldn't dare it. Laurel & Hardy, Charlie Chaplin....
If KTLA had a Japanese monster flick on, we sat around and MSTK'd it. Good times, good times....
What was your first film?
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I recall being taken out to see Mary Poppins on opening night - VERY big stuff, we had everything related to the movie release in the house - but I also recall being taken to see Alakazam the Great as a matinee...and I had the soundtrack to go with it.
Summertime, I can recall checking out silent films on 8MM from the library and watching them with the neighbor kids when it was so hot outside we wouldn't dare it. Laurel & Hardy, Charlie Chaplin....
If KTLA had a Japanese monster flick on, we sat around and MSTK'd it. Good times, good times....
What was your first film?
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Date: 2007-03-15 07:54 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2007-03-15 08:32 pm (UTC)But I also remember a cartoon Wizard of Oz story and a live action Repunzul movie. Also by going on a class trip to a theater.
If you're talking family outings, then I think we're talkin' Star Wars here. :-)
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Date: 2007-03-15 08:47 pm (UTC)Some of my earliest memories are from my parents taking my sibs and I to the drive-in. We'd pile into the station wagon and go to the Rosecrans theater. I remember seeing the old Matt Helm movies with Dean Martin. (My Mum was a big Dean Martin fan.) We'd also see science fiction and action flicks.
My five-year-old brain found the original Thomas Crown Affair with Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway to be boring.
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Date: 2007-03-16 12:09 am (UTC)The last movie I saw (and will likely ever see) in a theater was Spider-Man 2. :-)
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Date: 2007-03-16 12:56 am (UTC)(The first film I ever ever watched, apperantly, was Chitty Chitty Bang Bang when I was 3 and just sat transfixed in front of the tv for the whole thing without wandering off or getting bored...)
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Date: 2007-03-16 01:12 am (UTC)All of the rest is rather hazy, but those first few moments are imprinted indelibly on my brain. I still think that's one of the best opening shots of any science fiction movie before or since.
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Date: 2007-03-16 10:07 am (UTC)And I remember either channel 9 or channel 13 in L.A. showing not only Japapnese monster movies in the 70's, but whole series of classics like the Ma & Pa Kettle movies.
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Date: 2007-03-16 10:30 am (UTC)And I MSTK anything I see that needs it. I've been doing this so long, it's hard not to do it.
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Date: 2007-03-16 04:26 pm (UTC)