Kiki's Delivery Service
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That is a lucky draw. That's a damn good movie!
Hehe yeah, I'd have to agree. Studio Ghibli films are really nice. I should probably give it a rewatch some time soon.
Star Wars - the one where R2D2 gets zapped by Sand People and falls over with a comical thud.
Haven't seen it for yonks, but enjoy it when I do.
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A horror movie called It’s Alive. I was 5 years old. My mom would rent horror movies without checking the ratings and I’d watch them. Even after this I always loved horror and never had nightmares or anything. But, I rewatched It’s Alive a few years ago and it is definitely not for kids… But honestly the craziest thing my mom rented was The Toxic Avenger, when I was maybe 10. She never saw it herself it so still has no idea what she allowed me to watch at a young age!
You could say...
{Puts on sunglasses}
You got Troma-tised!
YYEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!
Possibly Fern Gully
The Abyss.
Still awesome now.
Ronja Räubertochter
I've never even heard of this before. I'm definitely going to have to look it up
It's a great movie, but watch the original, titled Ronja Rövardotter, instead of the German dubbed version:
The Cat From Outer Space. I was very young at the time, I only remember little wisps of it.
And yes, it is terribad.
Empire Strikes back. Han Solo being carbonised, Luke skywalker hanging from bottom of cloud city. Just wow. Probably earlier ones but that was stamped on my brain.
Yeah, was 7.
Carbonite == Kryptonite at that age.
Had to cover my eyes for the freezing
Ghost Busters, the possessed vacuum cleaner scene gave me nightmares lol
Bambi or An American Tale, probably. 1st one is okay. Feivel is still amazing.
An American Tale is the first movie I remember watching in the movie theater. And I feel in love with it. But I don't think I've watched that movie in over 30 years. My kids and I will 100% be watching that this weekend.
I think probably Star Wars. I still like it.
Disney's Cinderella was re-released in theaters in 80s, I'm pretty sure that's the first one that formed a permanent memory. I'm not sure I've seen it from start to finish since then.
It might be a new hope, but I couldn't imagine when or where I saw it.
I still remember my dad renting a vcr to watch empire strikes back. It was well after the release of the Return of the Jedi, but it was the first time we used a VCR.
My family wasn't poor, but money was tight and so we turned it into a huge home theater experience with lots of special foods and unlimited soda. The last half was basically non-stop terror for me and I loved every minute of it.
I remember being more surprised that Luke lost his hand than Darth Vader being his father. My little kid brain just figured, yeah, that makes sense; not a lot of other potential dad figures lying around.
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
I was 3 years old and my parents took me to see it at a drive in theater. Fell asleep before the end.
Isn't that the one with the whales? Probably not a riveting movie for a 3 year old!
Whales and time travel to the present day. Which is 1986, of course.
Perhaps the Peter Cushing version of Dr Who and the Daleks when it was first shown on TV in the late '60s. It's pretty weak - toned down to get a 'U' cert - and not a patch on Daleks Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. from the following year. When I saw that one, I recall that I was drawing scenes from it for some time afterwards. I don't recall that from the first one though.
Something interesting I discovered recently, Bernard Cribbins was in Daleks Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. predating his role as Wilfred Mott by some 40 years.
Gigi. Absolutely fucking horrified when I watched it as an adult. “Thank heavens for leetle girls.” Yikes. It’s all about a courtesan (high class prostitute) bringing up her daughter to also be a courtesan. Happy ending: she gets married!! Phew!
Actually my first movie might have been a Shirley Temple one. I remember her singing Good Ship Lollipop on a plane with a lot of grown men. At some point her mother got run over - they didn’t show the accident but she was carrying Shirley’s birthday cake, with a plane on it, and you saw the cake crashing to the ground and the plane smashed up. I haven’t seen it since so I have no idea what was going on.
I’m really old btw. All us kids used to go to the pictures every Saturday morning. First up were cartoons, then maybe a serial (Tarzan), then an interval, then the main feature.
The first one I remember was Rescuer’s Down Under. My mom took me to see it in theaters. Like most Disney animated movies, it’s held up.
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Jurassic Park in the cinema. I loved dinosaurs as a kid, film scared the shit out of me, and made me laugh. Still does the same today.
The first movie I can clearly remember watching in a movie theatre was Mio min Mio, with a very young Christian Bale, and I've never watched it again since then but now you got me curious about doing that:
The Christmas that almost wasn't.
First, Roger Rabbit in a theatre. I was probably fourish.
More interestingly, at maybe eight, Pet Semetary. Kid me didn’t sleep for a good long time after…
It might be Little Shop of Horrors. Definitely freaked me out.
I vaguely remember crying when the cat was electrocuted by chewing on Christmas lights in the Griswolds Family Christmas.
The Muppet movie. I mostly remember the trailer for the empire strikes back that played before.
Arizona Raiders, with Audy Murphy, probably at the age of 10. I thought it was the most sophisticated thing ever. I saw it again as an adult, and realized it's dreadful.
Face off. I thought the premise was creepy, but I remember I was happy about the ending.
Ghostbusters.
First film I ever saw at the cinema. Loved it then and still do, probably watch it at least twice a year.
Cinderella
Before anyone makes the obvious joke, it was a re-release! I’m not that old :)
It’s still a beautiful movie and I now regularly watch it with my daughter. It has beautiful art, cute animals and catchy songs. 🎶bippity boppity boo🎶
And that stepmother has one of the evilest smirks I’ve ever seen. No magic or anything and still one of the best Disney villains.
I think the only downside is the bland prince. He has about the same personality as a boiled potato.
I don’t remember how old I was when I watched it, but I was young enough to still be allowed to run through the theater.
Vampire Hunter D - Bloodlust
King Kong 1976 beat out Star Wars, which was the next year.
I remember a drive-in screening of Clint Eastwood’s Firefox and Megaforce. Megaforce seems to have found a cult audience in 2023, and I don’t know if I’ve ever heard Firefox mentioned.
I’ve avoided both as even though I have positive feels of that particular night, I doubt the films were good.
MegaForce was such a disappointment. You figure that a movie directed by a stuntman would have great action, right? Nope.
Also, Persis Khambatta was in three bomb movies in a row. [not in exact order] MegaForce, Nighthawks, and Star Trek I
Firefox is actually decent.
I’ve considered giving it a watch as I would have been around 8 that night, and I can imagine I was a bit young, especially if it was after my bedtime and following the high of Megaforce.
Thomas (the Tank Engine) and the Magical Railroad is the first movie I remember watching. I was a big Thomas-head as a wee kid lol and that claw train guy was terrifying to me
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I think the first one I really remember is the Goonies. I remember thinking the Asian kid was cool because he had gadgets. And the skeletons were scary.
I watched it with my kids. The skeletons are still scary, and the depictions of fat kids, Asians, and people with disabilities wouldn't fly now. Also the casual fighting between the brothers was weird to watch.
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