@taw - lol. now ya mention it, that bald head does ring a bell they should have just give him a cat and be done with it

lol Vex, it does hurt like hell to be shot! not that i was shot with a real-steel bullet, mind, it was a plastic bullet round fired accidentally by a stupid pongo in N.Ireland that broke my kneecap (but i did think i'd been proeprly shot cos I hadn't seen the c***) stupid pongoes.

My first theater movie was Lion king

I don't remember my first film.

Although over the years, I repeatedly have bad experiences with Spielberg films.

At Jurassic Park, a girl behind me kept throwing candy and some it stuck to the back of my jacket. My friend kept laughing, when everyone else was jumping in their seats at parts.

At Schindler's List, during the scene when the kids jump into the toilet hole to escape, the woman next to me farted and I got smell-o-vision. Then at the end scene, the key scene of the movie, the projector quits.

At Minority Report, in the last half of the movie, a teenage group of kids carrying musical instruments come walking into the theater, making sure everyone sees them. Thankfully they didn't play anything, but then they walk out just before the end and of couse distract us.

I think there are more Spielberg film moments, but those always stick out most in my mind.

Sir S

@Taw - nasty!!!

I have a few Spielberg moments myself (if you inclued Men in Black (as Exec. Prod.)

Lost World my dad kept coughing all the through.
MiB my dad fell off his chair - what fun.

My first movie was Toy Story when I was about 7. Seems so long ago now.



BlazeME: Flameus Muchus n00bus

The first one I remember was Star Trek: VI. And I remember it becuase it's Star Trek

Life: No one gets out alive.

My first one was "Enemy Mine" - a very good one, I remember neither the director nor the main actors, but I have the short story somewhere...
I went to three different cities to watch it thrice, since a) it was the first SciFi move I had ever seen, and b) it was really good.
Now, looking back, I realize it was old, and the effects could've been betterm but it still had sth. Maybe because it was the first one (like the first chick )

"Beer is proof that god loves us and wants us to be happy" - Benjamin Franklin

that was only '91. What treats and gems you'll never have seen as they were meant to be seen! on the big screen.

there are many classic Hollywood epics of the 40s 50s and early 60s that i never saw big screen, sadly. Partially because so many were filmed in 3-split Panavision that they simply can't be projected with todays equipment. then of course its also the case that only sad film buffs like me would even bother to go! i was however fortunate enough to see quite a few big old offerings during the Cinema Century season a few years ago, such as El Cid and Ben-Hur and Ivanhoe and Lawrence of Arabia, and they were very impressive indeed, beautiful technicolor and you really do appreciate the fanatstic compositions in a film like El Cid (i hope no-one remakes it i hope no-one remakes it)

on a Christmas shopping trip to Londinium in 92, i took time out to go and see the restored cut of Spartacus at Leicester Square*, bejasus it was bloody good. On the big screen you really get the menace and power of the Roman Legions forming up for battle, coupled with the ominous steady thump of the soundtrack. Kubrick was a true master of cinema.

edit - sorry, Oxford Street, i was staying at Lancaster Gate so it was one tube stop down





Edited by - Tawakalna on 1/9/2004 12:06:53 PM

@Taw: I know I missed a lot, but remember, I was in a country ruled by communists, i.e. a democratic Soviet Republic (get the idea? ), so a lot of movies from "filthy West" just didn't reach us.
BTW, speaking of Spartacus, I saw it on screen, and I especially liked the shot where the Romans stand against the sky marked with jet plane traces - I'll try to locate it.

"Beer is proof that god loves us and wants us to be happy" - Benjamin Franklin

I remember Return of the Jedi or Superman III being my first, I was 6 in 83. My first at the drive in was Temple of Doom in 84.

EDIT: here in Memphis, Tennessee, we have an old Opera House and they show older movies and classics on the screen during the summer months while the broadway shows aren't using it. Over the past years they had Raiders of the Lost Ark, Airplane, Casablanca, Wizard of Oz, Rear Window, and a bunch of others that you don't find in any theater anymore.

"On this ship you are to refer to me as Idiot, not you Captain. I mean... you know what I mean."

Edited by - topher on 1/9/2004 1:56:48 PM

zlo there are lots of those in many films, esp. pre-digital editing. Now of course it doesn't matter, because anything can be touched out, thus saving complex and difficult takes.

a truly classic blooper, pointed out to me by my dad, is in El Cid. When the Cid enters Valencia in triumph, as his army parades diagonally across the screen, once Chuck has passed, check in the top right hand quarter of the screen at the little alleyway perpendicular to the flow of the procession. You'll see a little old guy with a flat cap and raincoat watching the action for several minutes, looks like he's at a 1930s football match! obv a nosey stage hand who got too near the action, but a huge complicated scene like that prob couldn't be reshot. Maybe the editors never even picked it up because you actually have to know he's there to spot him; but once you've seen the little guy, you can never forget him!

living where you do you've prob heard or seen the film "Pobeda" (Victory) dir by Yevgeni Matveyev (1985) Any chance you know where I might get hold of a copy? also in the same year, Idi i Smotri (Come and See) by Elem Klimov. Both films I've seen but are incredibly difficult to get hold of, i asked a Russian girl i know if she'd track em down if she went back home but i lost touch with her when she got divorced from me m8 help me out and Uncle Taw will make it worth your while!

The first movie I can remember seeing was .....Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

now I'm certain that I had been to the movies plenty of times before that.....unfortunately there has been a lot of drugs between then and now....the memory not so good anymore.....drugs are bad mkay......

on a related subject the oldest movie I've seen in a theatre was Enter the Dragon when they re-released it......man that was great!

Good?....Bad?......I'm the guy with the gun.

@topher Temple of Doom was the first movie I saw without my parents...didn't realise that I was 10 at the time though! I'm not surprised that I cacked myself when the witch doctor ripped out the guys heart!

One thing I do resent about british movie trips - there are very few outside venues....and as far as I know, no drive-ins whatsoever...I remember (vaguely) watching "Cool Runnings" outdoors at the glastonbury festival back in 94, and the atmosphere was so much better. Of course being able to smoke and drink certainly helped matters