First Movies...

The new Witch Mountain movie made me think about the movies I saw during my childhood. So what was your first Big-Screen movie. No, not on TV, or a Theatrical release on Video. Only at some kind of theater.

I'm not sure if it was animated, it would have been Disney in the early 70's, but I have only vague memories of where/when I saw those. The first one I can remember is probably Herbie Rides Again at a Drive-in.

Fast Times at Ridgemont High was the first R-rated film I saw. Again, at the Drive-in.

The drive-in was a great place, the cost was per carload, not per person. So, if you had siblings, as I did, and parents who weren't wealthy, again as I did, then it only made sense to go that way.



Movies I watched at the theater growing up:
(note: 1987 - those later in the year technically were after I was an adult.)

1973
Charlotte's Web
Robin Hood

1974
Herbie Rides Again
Benji

1975
The Apple Dumpling Gang
The Return of the Pink Panther
The Adventures of the Wilderness Family
Gus

1976
The Pink Panther Strikes Again
Freaky Friday
The Bad News Bears
No Deposit, No Return
The Shaggy D.A.

1977
Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo
Pete's Dragon
The Rescuers
Candleshoe
Star Wars
Oh, God!
The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training

1978
Revenge of the Pink Panther
The Cat From Outer Space
The Bad News Bears Go to Japan
Watership Down
Return from Witch Mountain

1979
Just You and Me, Kid
The Black Hole
The Muppet Movie

1980
Herbie Goes Bananas
Airplane!
The Empire Strikes Back

1981
Fox and the Hound, The
The Last Flight of Noah's Ark
The Devil and Max Devlin
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Great Muppet Caper

1982
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
The Dark Crystal
48 Hrs.
The Secret of NIMH
Trail of the Pink Panther

1983
Something Wicked This Way Comes
KRULL
Trading Places
Return of the Jedi (1983)
Flashdance
WarGames
Mr. Mom
The Outsiders
Christine
Rumble Fish
Blue Thunder
Class
Eddie and the Cruisers
Curse of the Pink Panther
Private School
Sudden Impact

1984
Conan the Destroyer
Ghost Busters
Beverly Hills Cop
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Gremlins
The Karate Kid
Police Academy
Footloose
Romancing the Stone
Purple Rain
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
The Terminator
Sixteen Candles
Splash
The Natural
Red Dawn
Revenge of the Nerds
Bachelor Party
Starman
The Last Starfighter
Firestarter
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
The Muppets Take Manhattan
Johnny Dangerously
Streets of Fire
Tightrope
Night of the Comet
Moscow on the Hudson
Blame It on Rio
Runaway

1985
The Black Cauldron
Back to the Future
Rambo: First Blood Part II
Rocky IV
Cocoon
The Goonies
The Breakfast Club
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
Weird Science
Ladyhawke
Pale Rider
Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment
Teen Wolf
Enemy Mine
Brewster's Millions
Mask
Desperately Seeking Susan
Young Sherlock Holmes
Silver Bullet
Phenomena
Once Bitten
King Solomon's Mines
Just One of the Guys
Volunteers
Vision Quest

1986
Flight of the Navigator
Highlander
Top Gun
Crocodile Dundee
The Karate Kid, Part II
Back to School
The Golden Child
Aliens
Ruthless People
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Stand by Me
Labyrinth
Big Trouble in Little China
Cobra
Pretty in Pink
Short Circuit
Police Academy 3: Back in Training
Heartbreak Ridge
Raw Deal
Jumpin' Jack Flash
F/X
Iron Eagle
Crossroads

1987
3 Men and a Baby
Fatal Attraction
Beverly Hills Cop II
Good Morning, Vietnam
The Secret of My Succe$s
Lethal Weapon
Dirty Dancing
The Witches of Eastwick
Predator
RoboCop
Raising Arizona
The Running Man
Empire of the Sun
The Lost Boys
Planes, Trains & Automobiles
Overboard
No Way Out
Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol
Throw Momma from the Train
Adventures in Babysitting
Near Dark
*batteries not included
Stakeout
Mannequin
Some Kind of Wonderful
Blind Date
Harry and the Hendersons
Less Than Zero
Summer School
Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise
Project X
Three O'Clock High