The Land Before Time

In the '70s, obviously pre-VCR, Disney would "re-release" every 15 years or so in theaters.
We went to see "Darby O'Gill and the Little People" with Sean Connery. I would have nightmares of the banshee.

C1NRB said:

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In the '70s, obviously pre-VCR, Disney would "re-release" every 15 years or so in theaters.
We went to see "Darby O'Gill and the Little People" with Sean Connery. I would have nightmares of the banshee.

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That movie was creepy.

The Land Before Time.

It's still one of the saddest movies I've watched.

Peter Pan 1953 - Majestic Theater downtown San Antonio

First movie experience I remember was Star Wars. Then I remember Star Trek and also Moonraker after that. You see the trend there with my dad….

Four-year-old me watching Chitty Chitty Bang Bang at the old drive in theater at Northgate in College Station in 1968. I'm still slightly traumatized by the kidnapping scene!

Not my first movie but I was pretty young when my parents took the family to the drive-in-movies in Muleshoe to see 10. Me in the back seat trying to not get caught peeking around the seats when my parents made me hide my eyes.

It had to be one of 3 Disney movies. I know I saw No Deposit, No Return in the theater. I know I watched The Apple Dumpling Gang, Gus, and The Shaggy DA when I was really young, but those might have been Disney Sunday Night Movies that were a big deal.


I loved No Deposit, No Return and I remember thinking it was hilarious. All of them were. Sadly, I watched NDNR later, and it just didn't hold up.

BrownDeerAggie said:

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Four-year-old me watching Chitty Chitty Bang Bang at the old drive in theater at Northgate in College Station in 1968. I'm still slightly traumatized by the kidnapping scene!

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The child stealer is so freaking creepy.

I do vividly recall some of the next few for me and it included

Herbie Rides Again - 1974
The Strongest Man in the World - 1975 with Kurt Russell
Gus - 1976 with Don Knotts, Tim Conway, Ed Asner and Dick van Patten (man that was loaded)

But I also saw Jaws in there in early 1976 and Rocky later that year.

That about ended my days of kids movies.... Star Wars and Close Encounters came along in 1977.

I saw two movies somewhere between then and 1979 on HBO my aunt had it when we visited her in 77-79. I vividly recall watching both Midnight Express and Invasion of the Body Snatchers which both scared the crap out of me.

1979 was really my first big movie year when I saw at least a dozen movies in the theater
Alien - rated R but my parents took me I begged them
Superman
Amityville Horror - also rated R I was reading Stephen King by then so they didn't mind me seeing horror
Rocky II
Meatballs
The Jerk
Moonraker
Escape From Alcatraz
1941
Kramer vs Kramer - full frontal nudity in a PG movie my parents took me to

Wuthering Heifhts- didnt like iy

BigJim49 AustinNowDallas said:

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Wuthering Heifhts- didnt like it

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BigJim49 AustinNowDallas said:

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BigJim49 AustinNowDallas said:

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Wuthering Heifhts- didnt like it

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Don't go see a chick movie next time.

I remember Gus. I think I saw it at the Southwood Movie Theater in Austin as a double feature with a Japanese monster movie "Destroy All Monsters". Seems like it was a friend's birthday treat.

If I remember Gus correctly, the trigger word to get him to kick was "Oyich"

Ah, youth

"Bambi" at Memorial City Mall. Not the original release, it was early 1970s.

Batman Returns is the earliest I remember going to the theatre. I would have been about 5 years old at the time.

Old Yeller

My earliest memory, of anything, is seeing A New Hope at a drive in theater when I was about 3 1/2. My parents covered my eyes when Obi Wan slices up the guy in the cantina.

"How the West Was Won" in 1962 in the theater. I was six years old and the family went out for dinner all dressed up and then went to the movie. Men wore suits to the movies back then.

chick79 said:

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"How the West Was Won" in 1962 in the theater. I was six years old and the family went out for dinner all dressed up and then went to the movie. Men wore suits to the movies back then.

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So how was the west won?

You'll have to watch the movie.

Seemed like it took a long time. I remember that being a long ass movie.

It was a long movie. I watched it about three or so years ago for the first time since then, and it really doesn't hold up that well. Kind of dull.

Either The Fox and the Hound or the Star Wars ANH re-release in 1981 in the old Manor East Mall theater.

chick79 said:

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It was a long movie. I watched it about three or so years ago for the first time since then, and it really doesn't hold up that well. Kind of dull.

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I agree with your assessment.

maroon barchetta said:

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chick79 said:

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"How the West Was Won" in 1962 in the theater. I was six years old and the family went out for dinner all dressed up and then went to the movie. Men wore suits to the movies back then.

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So how was the west won?

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Led Zeppelin has a live performance that tells the story. Highly recommend it.

chick79 said:

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It was a long movie. I watched it about three or so years ago for the first time since then, and it really doesn't hold up that well. Kind of dull.

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Agree on the plot. I think the big selling point of that movie was that it was filmed in Cinerama which probably looked great on a huge, curved, theater screen that was design for it. But even on today's larger TVs it probably is not that impressive.

I tried to watch it a few years back and found it pretty cliche and tedious

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E.T. I was three years old. All I remember is that the scene where the government comes to get him, and they're all wearing hazmat suits, scared the $#!% out of me. My mom had to take me out of the theater and we walked around the lobby until the movie was done. My brother is two years older than me, and he was pretty much left alone in the theater and he loved it.

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I think I was about 3 as well and was taken to E.T. while we were vacationing near Yosemite Park. It was the screaming scene where Eliot first meets E.T. that freaked me out. I think they just calmed me down and I stayed and watched the rest.

DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp,, in a theater when I was about 4 or 5

Don't remember much, but finding the pyramid and digging it out of the sand stuck with me for some reason

I remember running out of the theater, screaming down the aisle during the train scene in Stand By Me when I was 3.

I remember seeing the original Ben Hur in the theater with my father.

Before that it had to be The Wizard of Oz on tv, back when it was an annual event.

Bambi when it was re-released in 88 at the old Bryan mall movie theater where HEB center is now on Villa Maria.

I remember seeing 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea at a drive in movie theater. That giant squid made quite the impression on me at my young age.

First movie I remember seeing at an actual theater was Where the Red Fern Grows. Who takes a bunch of 2nd graders on a school field trip to see that movie? I remember the movie but remember all the girls crying uncontrollably on the bus ride back to school more vividly.