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Subject: Movies you saw at the cinema/theatre in the 80s

Written By: ultraviolet52 on 05/06/06 at 4:26 pm

Just a few movies I recall seeing in the 80's are:

The Fox and the Hound (which I think was rereleased in the mid to late 80's, even though it was from 1981)
The Little Mermaid
Big
Beetlejuice
Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (I definetly remember this one!)
Oliver & Company
Twins
Kindergarten Cop
The Land Before Time
Short Circuit (probably one of the first movies I ever saw in the theatre)
Spaceballs
Three Men and a Baby
Mannequin
Harry and the Hendersons
An American Tail

Subject: Re: Movies you saw at the cinema/theatre in the 80s

Written By: wndysbg on 05/06/06 at 6:58 pm

The Breakfast Club - best '80's movie
Footloose
Ghostbusters
St. Elmo's Fire
E.T.
Purple Rain
Good Morning Vietnam
Top Gun
European Vacation
Rocky IV
Mystic Pizza
Dirty Dancing
Back to the Future
. . . and many more - but as we all know as we get older our brains fade :)

Subject: Re: Movies you saw at the cinema/theatre in the 80s

Written By: JamieMcBain on 05/06/06 at 7:59 pm

Unfortuatly..... not awhole lot.

E.T.
The Black Cauldron
Gremlins
An American Tail
Masters of The Universe
One Magic Christmas
Batman
Follow That Bird

Subject: Re: Movies you saw at the cinema/theatre in the 80s

Written By: rich1981 on 05/06/06 at 9:50 pm

Follow That Bird
Gremlins
E.T.
The Little Mermaid
An American Tail
Cinderella (Disney) ~ 1987
Back To The Future II
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Oliver & Company
Peewee's Big Adventure
Lady & The Tramp ~ 1987
Honey I Shrunk The Kids

Subject: Re: Movies you saw at the cinema/theatre in the 80s

Written By: whistledog on 05/06/06 at 10:35 pm

The first movie I can recall seeing at a theatre was 'The Last Starfighter' at a Drive-In back in 1984. Or should I saw almost saw. I fell asleep during the movie, but later saw it again when it came out on video

I can't remember all of the ones I saw in theatres, but here are a few that I do ...

E.T.
Masters of the Universe
Follow That Bird
The Secret of NIMH
Twins
Big

and last but not least, I made the mistake of seeing Batman on opening day, and boy was it a packed theatre. Remember that scene when the Batwing flies up to the moon, and makes the bat symbol? The audience in the theatre screamed like you wouldn't believe :o

Subject: Re: Movies you saw at the cinema/theatre in the 80s

Written By: ultraviolet52 on 05/07/06 at 1:08 am

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Subject: Re: Movies you saw at the cinema/theatre in the 80s

Written By: BrianMannixGirl on 05/07/06 at 3:23 am

No way could I name them all. We owned a Drive-In so I saw movies there every weekend, and during the week I was given tickets to every film because we were in the industry. So I went most days after school to the local cinema and also most evenings to local drive-ins. I would estimate I saw 160-250 movies a year (and count some as multiples cos I went to many of them several times - specially the Star Wars and Indiana's).

Subject: Re: Movies you saw at the cinema/theatre in the 80s

Written By: Trimac20 on 05/07/06 at 11:53 am

Subject: Re: Movies you saw at the cinema/theatre in the 80s

Written By: 80smuzikhead on 05/07/06 at 8:03 pm

Disney's Cinderella
Superman III
Short Circuit II
Rainman
Beaches
Dead Poets Society

Subject: Re: Movies you saw at the cinema/theatre in the 80s

Written By: Ebontyne on 05/08/06 at 3:43 pm

My family lived in a small town in the '80s and I was still just a tiny person, so going to "the City" (meaning Winnipeg, where I live now) always felt like a big deal. I watched tons of movies as a kid due to my teenage brothers renting them all the time, but I didn't see very many in theatres because we didn't go to the city that often. These are the few that I do remember though:

Short Circuit (1986) --> almost certainly the first movie I ever saw in theatres, when I was 2 or 3
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
Oliver & Company (1988)
The Land Before Time (1988)
Ghostbusters II (1989)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
The Little Mermaid (1989) --> a crystal clear memory, and one of my favourite movies as a kid

Subject: Re: Movies you saw at the cinema/theatre in the 80s

Written By: CatwomanofV on 05/08/06 at 4:21 pm

E.T.-twice (each time with someone different)
Return of the Jeti
Annie (yeah, yeah, I know-it was actually the first date with my ex. ::))
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (I actually went to see that by myself)
Ghostbusters
Short Circuit
The Breakfast Club
Footloose
Top Gun
Beetlejuice
Night Shift
Trading Places
A few of the Rocky movies (can't remember which ones-they are all alike to me).
Poltergist (I don't know what scared me more, the movie or the friend who we went with who started screaming-she got many people screaming-but I didn't. ;D She also was crying during E.T. Yeah, she was trip to go to the movies with.)
The only movie I ever walked out of was one called "Don't Go into the Woods" and my advice is don't go to see it. :P

I'm sure there were more but that is all I can remember.

Cat

Subject: Re: Movies you saw at the cinema/theatre in the 80s

Written By: Todd Pettingzoo on 05/08/06 at 5:05 pm

Movies I remember seeing:

Rocky IV (Just barely remember)

Friday the 13th Part VI (Just barely remember) (And saw it at the Drive-in, too, I remember)

A Nightmare on Elm Street 3 (Drive-in) and a double bill with Meatballs III (But like that other double bill we went to in 1990, we left before the second movie was over, lol.)

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (Drive-in)

Man, I wonder why I didn't go to more movies in the 80's?

Subject: Re: Movies you saw at the cinema/theatre in the 80s

Written By: mitch1987 on 05/08/06 at 8:08 pm

Movies I remember seeing to....

Commando
Road Warrior
Mad Max..Beyond the Thunderdome
Evil Dead 2
Halloween 4 and 5
Nightmare on Elm Street 3,4, and 5
Back to the Future 1 and 2
Batman
Ghostbusters
Return of the Jedi
Twins
Good Morning Vietnam
Harry and the Hendersons
Aliens
Predator 2
Heathers
Bad Dreams
Transformers the movie
Die Hard
Lostboys
Near Dark
Princess Bride
Masters of the Universe
friday the 13th Part 3 and 7

well thats all I can think of for now..

Subject: Re: Movies you saw at the cinema/theatre in the 80s

Written By: Bulldog85 on 05/10/06 at 1:07 am

I remember seeing...

Top Gun
To live and die in LA
Full metal jacket
Adventures in babysitting
Airplane
The Karate kid
Mad Max
Legend (with Tom cruise)
Running Scared
Transformers
Vision Quest
Spaceballs
War Games
License to drive
Sixteen Candles
Friday the thirteenth
Halloween
Fast Times at Ridegmont high
Die Hard
Uncommon Valor
Cocktail
Breakin'
Never ending story
Platoon
Red Dawn
Weekend at Bernies
Gremlins
All the right moves
The Abyss
48 hours
Willow
Time Bandits
Stand by me

I'm sure there is probably more, I just can't think of them...I guess I'm getting too old...lol :D

Subject: Re: Movies you saw at the cinema/theatre in the 80s

Written By: Philip Eno on 05/10/06 at 1:16 am

During the 80s, I saw so many movies/films and I cannot list them all.

Subject: Re: Movies you saw at the cinema/theatre in the 80s

Written By: wndysbg on 05/10/06 at 12:10 pm

Subject: Re: Movies you saw at the cinema/theatre in the 80s

Written By: quirky_cat_girl on 05/10/06 at 12:34 pm

I saw a lot of movies in the cinema, our mom would take us occasionally. The one that sticks out the most in my mind is when we were on vacation, and one night we decided to go to the movies and we saw, "Gremlins". My parents were not too impressed with it, and it scared my sister Brandy! LOL! :D ;D

Subject: Re: Movies you saw at the cinema/theatre in the 80s

Written By: BrianMannixGirl on 05/13/06 at 4:47 am

We have a few drive ins in Perth until recently, and one of my regrets is I never went to one. I think the last one closed about 1999, when I was still a bit too young. Ah well, never thought of it back then...

What do you mean "until recently" ? Until 1986 Perth had more drive-ins in the city & suburbs than any other city in Australia.
The Galaxy Drive-In in Kingsley is still going and has never closed.

Subject: Re: Movies you saw at the cinema/theatre in the 80s

Written By: 80s fanatic on 05/14/06 at 12:30 am

The only two movies I remember seeing in the movie theatre was E.T. The ExtraTerrestrial & Revenge Of The Nerds

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