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What movies were you watching at the cinema when you were growing up?

59 replies

BrickPoet · 12/04/2024 22:58

Harry Potter
Stuart Little

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DetOliviaBenson · 13/04/2024 00:32

My Little Pony
Flight of the Navigator
Karate Kid
Home Alone

Catsmere · 13/04/2024 03:19

First I remember was Bambi. Going to the cinema was rare. Mum took me to that, and Fantasia (I was young enough that the Night on Bare Mountain sequence scared the bejesus out of me). My father took me to Pufnstuff, the only outing he ever took me on.

BMW6 · 13/04/2024 04:21

Snow White, Bambi, Gone With The Wind

Northernsouloldies · 13/04/2024 04:38

Stichintime · 13/04/2024 00:18

We never went to the movies, but we did go and see a film or two.

The pictures as it was called Ne Scotland.
Dumbo
Bed knobs and broomsticks.
Star wars
Ghost busters.

Alchemistress · 13/04/2024 04:45

Films I remember watching as a kid:
Star Wars
Indiana Jones
Grease
The Aristocats!
Watership Down 😭
Superman

Then as a teenager once I could go to the movies unaccompanied:
Footloose
Flashdance
The Outsiders
The Breakfast Club
Pretty in Pink
Heathers
Risky Business
Ferris Bueller's day off
Ghostbusters
Gremlins

Then once I got a bit arty and up myself in my late teens:
Betty Blue
The Cook, the thief, his wife and her lover
The draughtsmans contract
Paris, Texas
Sex, lies and videotape
Do the right thing
Stranger than paradise

Snozzlemaid · 13/04/2024 04:47

The ones that come to mind are:
Crocodile Dundee
Ghostbusters
Beverley Hills Cop
Electric Dreams
Stand by Me
Terminator
The Lost Boys

Garlicked · 13/04/2024 04:53

Cinemas had Saturday morning kids' clubs when I was growing up. I seem to have watched a lot of Lassie films there. We also got some cowboy films, Champion the Wonder Horse, and cartoons such as Donald Duck or Popeye.

Big treat was going with Dad to see James Bond movies. They were age 12+ but he took us from age about 9.

BMW6 · 13/04/2024 05:03

Oh bloody hell Garlicked I've now got an earworm of the Champion The Wonder Horse theme music (with all the lyrics) 😣

RuthW · 13/04/2024 05:59

Snow White
Bednobs and Broomsticks
Watership Down
Grease
Abba the Movie

Willmafrockfit · 13/04/2024 06:23

i remember queuing up for Watership Down, and not getting in,
i remember some sort of Swiss Family Robinson in 1975 which i loved and wanted to live like.
as a teenager there was the Blue Lagoon and later Pink Floyd, the Wall and Nightmare on Elm Street
but cinema visiting was quite sporadic,

IwishIdidntlikesugar · 13/04/2024 06:36

Why do they never put Escape to witch mountain, Freaky Friday, Herbie and One of our dinosaurs is missing on TV anymore?

BobnLen · 13/04/2024 06:37

The Exorcist
Jaws
one flew over the cuckoo's nest
Towering inferno

BobnLen · 13/04/2024 06:57

BobnLen · 13/04/2024 06:37

The Exorcist
Jaws
one flew over the cuckoo's nest
Towering inferno

My choices were from when I was around 16-18, I didn't really go to the cinema much as a child

BlastedPimples · 13/04/2024 09:38

Grease was the first film I saw at the cinema. I was six years old and awestruck.

Garlicked · 13/04/2024 17:40

BMW6 · 13/04/2024 05:03

Oh bloody hell Garlicked I've now got an earworm of the Champion The Wonder Horse theme music (with all the lyrics) 😣

Can you also hear a couple of hundred children bellowing "Champion the WO-ON-DER horse" out of tune? 😆

PuppyMonkey · 13/04/2024 17:43

Grease
Superman
ET
Ghostbusters
Ferris
Poltergeist

EsmeeMerlin · 13/04/2024 18:01

One of the earliest memories of the cinema was watching mighty morphin power rangers and flubber.

13 going on 30 was one of the earliest films I went to see alone with friends. It was a 12 and we were 11 so we spent ages discussing how to look older and what order we should walk in 😂 of course the teenager giving us tickets did not even look at us but we felt grown up!

35andThriving · 17/04/2024 14:49

Babe
Jack
Muppets Christmas Carol
Matilda
James and the Giant Peach
Wind in the Willows
101 Dalmatains (Glenn Close one)

The Little Mermaid Disney animation was the first thing I ever watched at the pictures

WoodBurningStov · 17/04/2024 14:53

Goodies
ET
Flash Gordon
Raiders of the lost ark

samestyle · 17/04/2024 14:56

Most of the Disney movies Bambi, jungle book, Snow White.
Ghost busters 2
Look who's talking
Kindergarten cop
Cool runnings

Desecratedcoconut · 17/04/2024 14:59

My first cinema movie was E.T. I was about 4? I got a movie sticker book to go with it and spent months afterward niggling my parents for packets of stickers to fill the book. So glad they'd stopped that shit by the time I became a parent.

CheeseSandwichRiskAssessment · 17/04/2024 15:22

Eyesopenwideawake · 12/04/2024 22:59

Herbie!

Which one Grin
I saw Clueless in the cinema, instant classic

Eyesopenwideawake · 17/04/2024 16:34

CheeseSandwichRiskAssessment · 17/04/2024 15:22

Which one Grin
I saw Clueless in the cinema, instant classic

The Love Bug - 1968!

PuttingDownRoots · 17/04/2024 16:37

The two I remember were Pocahontas and The World is Not Enough.

I know there was more... but Icant remember them!

ginasevern · 17/04/2024 18:17

Mary Poppins
Sound of Music
Fantasia
Carry on Up the Khyber

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