I was three, and my mom had to carry me screaming from the theater. The dancing, singing flowers in Alice in Wonderland freaked my shit out--flowers do NOT sing and dance! I still have echoes of a nightmare wherein Brer B'ar and Brer Fox threatened me with a handgun made of a rolled-up sheet of white paper.
I was a timid child, with an unclear demarcation between real and fantasy. Haven't really changed all that much. ETA: But the takeaway here is: Disney is evol. I've still never seen Bambi in a theater.
Oh, I don't remember it, but I apparently flipped out like a mammal during Fantasia -- it was alternately boring and scary, IIRC.
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang has some seriously weird moments.
The child catcher. 'Nuff said.
I know I must have seen Disney at an earlier age, but the first one I remember seeing is The Arisocats at the drive-in when I was around five. I was about that same age when I saw Sound of Music on one of its many rereleases. The earliest grown-up movie (not rated R) film I saw was The Sting at the age of seven. My first rated R film was The Blues Brothers when I was 14.
My first R-rated movie was
So Fine.
Because that was the first movie I drove to with friends.
The only movie I remember freaking out over, in a theater, was Jaws. I was 7 and I remember hiding under my dad's coat for most of the movie.
And the child catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang wigged my shit for a long time.
My first R-rated movie was So Fine. Because that was the first movie I drove to with friends.
I think my first R-rated movie was
Coming to America.
Which I saw with my parents in a dollar theater. And I think it was the first time I saw breasts.
t is now earwormed
Oh! You! Pretty chitty bang bang! Chitty chitty bang bang we love you! And our pretty chitty bang bang chitty chitty bang bang loves us too!
I saw Body Heat and Arthur in a double feature sitting next to my mom when I was 16. Had no problems with Arthur, but all that canoodling in Body Heat had me squirming in sheer embarrassment. Not that I hadn't already seen a lot more than that, but not with my mother in the room.
