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First trip to the cinema


Gus Mears

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3 minutes ago, Loki said:

Conversely, I tried to get in to see Terminator: 2 but my fake ID was shit so we had to settle for The Rocketeer instead.

Something similar happened to me also. Paid into see Robin Hood : Prince Of Thieves and sneaked...snuck...into T2. Was escorted out of T2 just as Arnie took the bikers sunglasses and had to sit through that cunting Costner film.

After that, I got a fake ID from Dublin Bus a few weeks later that declared me as 15 and then the cinema world was my oyster...to an extent. Point Break three times. One of the greatest cinema experiences of my life, to this day. JFK, however, wasn't. That is no movie for a pre teen to be sitting through just because he could.

 

 

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I told my mate in primary school that I'd got into Freddy's Dead by wearing stilts, proving it by reciting a scene that my big sister had recited to me.

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8 hours ago, Devon Malcolm said:

At least my eldest daughter was started the right way with her first trip to the cinema - The Lego Movie. So she didn't get the awful start that I got with sodding Mac and Me.

You're an excellent dad.

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I went to watch Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles when i was 7 with my best friend and our brothers.

I remember as we were waiting to go in it was so cold and when we got out there had been a snow storm. I'd never seen anything like it before and still to this day.

We still talk about this now.

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1978, The Jungle Book ... The Empire on Oxford Street in Swansea.  It had been re-opened as a cinema after being one of two good sized (1200-seater) theatres in the town.  Shortly after it closed for good, went into wrack & ruin, to be re-opened as a Waterstones book shop in around 2005.

Next visit was for Moonraker at the Odeon on The Kingsway in Swansea, in 1979.  This has since been demolished.

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20 hours ago, Loki said:

Conversely, I tried to get in to see Terminator: 2 but my fake ID was shit so we had to settle for The Rocketeer instead.

 

I can still remember when my Dad wanted to see Batman Returns so took us en mass (Him and my Mum, my sister (13), me (10) my brother(9)) to a cinema down south somewhere. 

Because it was a 12 rating and they were still quite rare, they were very strict about it and my dad had a stand up row with the ticket booth when they questioned how old we were, because he damned if he was going to watch Hook again.

"How old is he?" *points at me*

......"12!"

"And the younger one?"

"...THEY"RE TWINS!" (to be fair me and my brother did look like twins. Sadly those twins were Arnie and Danny De Vito)

The film could have been the worst thing he'd ever seen (It wasn't, it was ace) but he sat there watching it with a big shit eating grin, safe in the knowledge that he had tricked the system.

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I'll be a father in a couple of years and this thread has got me thinking about taking the nipper on his/her first trip to the cinema. I think I'll choose the film for the first experience as I want it to be magical occasion and not me being dragged to see some thunderous dross like The Emoji Movie 3.

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4 hours ago, Rey_Piste said:

I saw the first Turtles film on a hooky VHS months before it was released in the cinema over here. I am fairly certain that Turtle Power by Partners in Kryme was the first single I ever bought. 

I watched the 2nd film on a friends 14" portable tv and couldn't make out a thing as most of the film was shot in the dark.

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The second one was the first ever pirate I'd seen. My mum told me her mates mum had bought it whilst on holiday in America to disguise the fact it was an illegal pirate. Needless to say the sight of people getting up and down to go to the toilet made my young mind fairly suspicious. 

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5 hours ago, Accident Prone said:

I think I'll choose the film for the first experience as I want it to be magical occasion and not me being dragged to see some thunderous dross like The Emoji Movie 3.

What you want to do is tell them they're going to see The Emoji Movie 3, and then slyly take them into Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves.

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I’m pretty sure my first trip to the cinema was Casper. It was at the old cinema in Newbury which has been converted into a gym, and I can vividly remember the queue was out the door and round the corner of the building (remember queues?? I haven’t seen a big queue at the cinema for years, but when I was younger it felt like you would have to queue for hours to see a film)

My favourite cinema memory was in 2000 at Butlins Bognor Regis. It was my 12th birthday and I was walking around the site with a huge 12th birthday badge feeling like billy big bollocks. As usual I was looking after my 7 year old brother while Mum was at the Bingo. We walked past the cinema that was on site, and noticed that X-Men was on. I had no idea what that was but it was a 12, and I was 12 now! Only problem was my little brother. I was a lanky kid and didn’t think I’d have a problem gettting in, so I took my badge off and put it on my brother, told him to keep his mouth shut and hoped for the best. Walked up to the ticket booth, ordered two tickets no problem, and my tiny 7 year old brother got a free popcorn for his 12th birthday! I felt like I had just pulled off the crime of the century! We watched the film for about an hour, but by then the novelty had worn off and we went back to the 2p machines. 

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