Reply With QuoteGone with the Wind
The Wizard of Oz
Some Like it Hot
Classic films you don't mind being old enough to have seen at the cinema...
Films that won't necessarily win any Oscars but are all great in their own way.
For me:
- Predator
- Terminator
- Robocop
- Star Wars (a New Hope)
- Raiders of the Lost Ark
- Total Recall
- Die Hard
- A Nightmare on Elm Street
I missed out on Blade Runner as I think it was a 15 (?) certificate and I was 14 at the time. My Mum was pretty strict. :(
It's strange but I still remember seeing those films and how it felt at the time.
Gone with the Wind
The Wizard of Oz
Some Like it Hot
Thunderball
Woodstock
A Clockwork Orange
I'm not old enough to have seen many 'classics' but Jurassic Park will always be remembered. Also, Titanic.
Where eagles dare
Lifeforce (1985)
Ice cold in Alex..
I agree with Jurassic Park - a really ground breaking and jaw-dropping film at the time.
Titanic - not so much... :)
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:) Passport scan please to prove you're 90!
Zulu, Goldfinger, Hard Day’s Night
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I watched The Blue Max yesterday on now TV. Last time I saw it I was 12 and it was at the cinema 1966...
Best worst film ever and Mathilda May was sexiest naked vampire EVER😎👍Lifeforce (1985)
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Jaws.
Indeed it is!
The Longest Day
Goldfinger
The Twelve Commandments
Lawrence of Arabia - mum took me to the Dumfries cinema when I was probably too young for such a long film.
I don't have a passport, and cinema came late to Cornwall.
American Werewolf In London
The Sound Of Music
Cabaret.
TSOM is one of those musicals which a lot of folk think is 'uncool', but an absolute classic.
Cabaret - immensely clever!
My dad took me to see The Guns of Navarone, and my sister dragged me along to see the Beatles in Help.
She was in love with Paul.
And I do remember Saturday morning pictures at the Odeon I think it was, in Enfield town.
Mary Poppins
Battle of Britain
Life of Brian
E.T
Superman 3
2010
Tron
Ghostbusters
Goldfinger/Thunderball as a double bill when I was about 8 or 9, in a little cinema in Windsor, so obviously not on first release.
The Spy Who Loved Me - Just for the mutually held breath when Bond skied off the mountain side!
Star Wars - Just because!
Jurassic Park - Groundbreaking for its time - Looks a bit flaky now, but it was incredible at the time
Saving Private Ryan - The beach landing scene
A Bridge Too Far - Maybe the last really BIG film ever made? Tons of top stars, massive scale.
Towering Inferno -Another mass star vehicle, but really tense and exciting at the cinema
2001 - Impenetrable now, let alone to me as a child, but, wow, it looked amazing!
Sure others will remind me of others I've forgotten!
M
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Hard day's night.
First time I went to the pictures on my own.
South Norwood Odeon London SE25.
Sadly went years ago to be replaced by a supermarket.
Cheers,
Neil.
Sweet November
Soylent Green
The Third Man
The Birds
Psycho
Doctor Zhivago
Boeing Boeing
The Graduate
2001 A Space Odyssey
Barbarella
The Wild Bunch
Then there's the films I watched as a young boy - hardly classics, but great fun back then....
The Thing
Creature from the Black Lagoon
The Blob
It came from Outer Space
The Mummy
Eeee, them were the days.
Best Regards - Peter
I'd hate to be with you when you're on your own.
Hard day's night.
First time I went to the pictures on my own.
South Norwood Odeon London SE25.
Sadly went years ago to be replaced by a supermarket.
Nice shot Neil, sad to see such classic architecture go.
My first picture house, back in the 1950's, is still standing - but it's a bingo hall these days. Back then we'd go to see mostly horror movies and then 'scare' the girls on the way home - of course, they loved it really.
Best Regards - Peter
I'd hate to be with you when you're on your own.
Going to see the Life of Brian whilst growing up in Dublin would have been nice but unfortunately it was banned. We had to make do with a bootleg tape of the album.
In the Sotadic Zone, apparently.
E.T
Star Wars
Rocky IV (I know, I know, but the cinema was packed and we were all on our feet cheering at the end) (At the ending, not the end of the film :) )
The great st trinians train robbery
Battle of Britain
Mary poppins
Sound of music
You only live twice
All before I was old enough to go on my own
That’ll be the day
Gone in sixty seconds
Let the good times roll
Dirty Harry
American graffiti
As a young man, we’ll 16 at least
2001*
*Alright, not on first release.
Jaws
I'd been to the cinema before and probably not just for kids films (Disney etc) but Jaws was the first proper film I went to see.
As a pre teenager I lived in a rural location so we did not go to the cinema- the 1st film I remember going to was silver dream machine- my girls have been well inducted to all films from the '80's, I'm sure their friends think they are weird
Comon who's not seen the Goonies
"The Wild Bunch" , my Granny took me thinking "it was just a Cowboy Film" !!
" A Clockwork Orange" that didn't play publicly for very long, as I recall.
Ten Commandments
South Pacific
Around the World in 80 Days
Bridge on the River Kwai
1st new movie I recall going to see was Star Wars, also the first time I ever ate at MacDonalds, how sophisticated!
Raiders of the Lost Ark, I went through the summer hols about 10 times, as it was 50p (I think) for the lunchtime showing
Blade Runner - went before I was 15 of course, wow did it make an impression
And Moonraker, which was the last Bond film i went to see at the cinema until I was dragged to see Spectre by my girlfriend who has a crush on the new Bond
Clockwork Orange for me. Saw it at the age of 14 or 15, can’t remember which, but it was an X rated film so we did well to get in.........no ID cards in the 70s.
Also saw The Wild Bunch in ‘74, didn’t see much of the film as I was keepng a lady entertained on the back row.........those were the days!
Saw Saturday Night Fever in ‘78 as a fully-fledged grown-up aged 20. The film seems corny thesedays but it had huge impact at the time. The music’s aged far better than the film in my view!
Paul
Alien
Not bettered by any of the sequels IMHO.
Alien & Halloween - saw both at Barnet Odeon though I was at least 3-4 years under age. I think cinemas weren't quite as strict back then.
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For whatever reason, back in 1982 or so, my 12 year old sister dragged me, aged 9, to see this weird movie that had just come out and everyone was talking about. I had no idea what it was about (even after watching it in full, in a freaked-out semi-unconscious state). It was Pink Floyd's The Wall.
The first 3 films I remember seeing at the cinema was...
Candleshoe
Star Wars
Grease
All 3 seen in 1978 and I think it cost 50p (child ticket) at my local Odeon (London).
The Goonies, maybe not strictly a classic as others mentioned are but certainly a movie I’m still happy to watch every Christmas.
My first 2 ever seen were Ghostbusters and empire strikes back.
According to my dad I got so excited by the ghost in the library that I flipped the seat up and got jammed down the gap at the back and he had to haul me out by the ankles.
I still love them both to this day.
Easy Rider .
I was 15 and got in to see it at the local flea pit, the Savoy, Shaftesbury, Dorset.
Fantastic music and a real eye opener to a 15 yr. old.
Exorcist. I was only 16 and can still remember clearly how it made the hair stand on my neck. I haven't watched it since.
I just remembered some children's' classics I really liked at the cinema:
Bugsy Malone
The Herby films
One of our dinosaurs is missing.
:)
I seem to remember that Ghostbusters and Gremlins premiered the same weekend in December '84 at our little local cinema and the two queues wound twice around the building so we were all queuing next to one another but shuffling in the opposite direction!
Rambo First Blood - Part 2
I can’t remember anything i saw as a child at Saturday cinema.
But I do remember the impact of watching
Down by law and rumble fish when they first came out,the atmosphere in a packed cinema greatly improved the experience.
Only thing I remember from 'Saturday Morning Pictures' was "Son of Godzilla"
M
It was usually cartoons, a serial and a cowboy film most times.Only thing I remember from 'Saturday Morning Pictures' was "Son of Godzilla"
M
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