I remember it very distinctly because we went twice. The first time it was a rainy day and I had on a raincoat that was wet and slippery and I sat on the edge of a fountain at the Eagle Rock Plaza and slid into the fountain and was fished out by an older gentleman. Had to come back the next day.
Hey, you're a local guy. I remeber seeing Monty Python and the Holy Grail for the first time at the "Eagle Rock Plaza", on a twin bill with movie "Network."
I don't suppose that "older gentleman" realised that the fate millions of future pod-listeners turned on his decision to get out of bed and go to the mall that day, and then fish some little shit out of a fountain.
I really am aging myself! My older brother took me on a bus to Honolulu to see this in Cinerama, which was a new technology and a big deal at the time!
I remember this one because it was the first time I experienced my mother's power to terrify a child into silence. She turned to the child behind here and boomed, "I didn't come here to listen to YOU." He probably never spoke again, anywhere.
Same film. I remember it because my grandmother was visiting and she insisted that we could not possibly go out and leave the lunch things unwashed. So we missed the start of the film. So cross with her.
I was about five when my grandmother took me to see " It's a mad mad world". Saw it at the Cinerama Dome in Hollywood. I've been looking for a big "W" ever since.
Double feature. Cartoons first, then this, finally some adult movie that my parents would have watched while my little brother and I slept in the back of the station wagon.
My parents managed a drive-in movie theater. This is the first movie I can remember watching. *And also every single spaghetti western starring Clint Eastwood*
This was my first true theater experience. I saw movies in the theater before this but I only remember matinee movies in the second or thirty-second runs of Disney films. It rocked my world!
Drive-in for my big family, but same year and was enthralled with this, Enter the Dragon, Exorcist, and Three Musketeers. Probably a Benji, Herbie the lovebug, and Godzilla one too, but don’t remember which ones.
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Double feature. Cartoons first, then this, finally some adult movie that my parents would have watched while my little brother and I slept in the back of the station wagon.
I have started to realize that "awesome" now sounds like an old lady thing to say.
Me now: Ugh
But I remember my mother wanted us out of the house so she dumped us at the local Fox Theater to watch a double feature of “Oliver” and “Camelot”
Boy was that a lot of sitting
Then, I got in trouble for going to a Rated R movie.
Also first time I bought some smokes, Salem out of machine
Pinocchio was sold out, so we saw this.
(Yes, I am really Bambi years old! I saw it at a drive-in theater as a child!)
Films in the Cinema.