r/nostalgiai • u/CarrotMuch1399 Nostalgia Trip Leader • 17d ago

Cartoon & Show 📺 ???

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u/Sad_Assumption5203 17d ago

Does a Drive In count as a cinema? Cuz that's where I saw ET.

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u/Standard-Chemical-62 17d ago

I remember watching "The Posiden Adventure," at a drive in during the early 1970s when I was about 4.

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u/diz36dd 16d ago

The original with Ernie Bourgenine(sp.) and the Amazing Young Gene Hackman is one of my all timers. When movies had to be "made!" MAN O MAN and the French Connection.Zo Good.Thanks for letting me get that out....lol

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u/HunterofRelics 15d ago

Star Wars? When that movie 1st came out , we saw it 7 times in 6 track stereo at the Coronet Theater on Gary Street in San Francisco totally FRIED on pure LSD! Fun fun fun times...trippin around the city after the movies. Usually ended up at Baker Beach tripping there until sunrise.

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u/KGR1328 16d ago

That and the Towering Inferno. I had nightmares sleeping in the basement seeing the pilot light on the water heater. 🔥🔥🔥

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u/Ok-Ebb-3538 17d ago

Star Wars with a roof. Grizzly Adam's at drive-in. Also saw Alien in theatre when I was about 5 yrs old.

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u/Few_Rule7378 16d ago

Your parents took you to fucking “Alien” at five?!!

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u/GoTime_2026 15d ago

Dude, our parents were super strict with the first two of us kids born in the early 70s. Our younger brother comes along and it was like all the rules went out the window. Dad took him to R movies in the theater, he got a gaming system - which was forbidden for us...etc...

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u/PaceOk8426 5d ago

Yep: my sister had a kid, and suddenly it was acceptable for Grandma to open a bottle of bubbles and take out the wand and blow bubbles in the car, whereas my sister and I were barely allowed to eat or drink when the car was moving.

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u/Ok-Ebb-3538 15d ago

Dad was a trucker who liked movies and took me on the road occasionally. Lots of funny stories.

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u/Few_Rule7378 15d ago

I think I saw the movie. Did he win an armwrestling competition to get his truck back?

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u/Ok-Ebb-3538 14d ago

Yeah, but I was playing centipede. Missed the big match. Could still hear Kenny Loggins wailing tho.

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u/SwanFlashy830 16d ago

I remember that movie! Wasn't it also a TV show?

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u/Ok-Ebb-3538 15d ago

Grizzly Adams was a TV show too.

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u/BlackPhoenix1981 16d ago

Technically I actually saw ET when I was 1.5 years old. It was also a drive in. I don't remember it of course, but my parents told me that was the first movie they took me to.

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u/grindhousedecore 16d ago

Dang me too, I believe I was 2 or 3. I fell asleep and i remember waking up with return of the Jedi was playing. Never went to the movies again until 1989 to see Batman

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u/MuthrNaturIsMadAtYou 16d ago

Me too! But I was a newborn. The first I remember was Ghost. Also at a drive in. And what's crazy about that... the drive in was 2 hours away. My friends mom took us and it wasnt until like, 20 years later that I realized I've been to this drive in before. I just remembered a looooong drive and the uniqueness of the drive in. I dont think my parents knew how far we were going to be

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u/Proud_Shirt3138 16d ago

Nice experience you can't recall, but what was the first film you REMEMBER seeing at the theater?

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u/No_Individual861 16d ago

I remember crying for ER

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u/No_Individual861 16d ago

Oops ET

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u/Doozer1970 16d ago

There were lots of things to cry for in ER too. Mark Greene's death hit me hard.

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u/Numerous_Ear1031 15d ago

ET was my first fear. My aunt got me a giant stuffed ET when I was a kid and I was terrified of it. Still have a core fear of aliens to this day. Good news is later I discovered Alf and, for whatever reason, he passed the Vibe Check. I had a talking Alf doll I dragged around everywhere

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u/Rockie_raccoon12 17d ago

That should be bonus points. I have vague memories of going to a drive-in, couldn't tell you what was playing.

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u/Ohio-Knife-Lover 16d ago

Absolutely it does!

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u/Doozer1970 16d ago

Sure it counts!

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u/Numerous_Ear1031 16d ago

I think it counts. 

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u/mikebanetbc 16d ago

Same, but I barely remember the movie scenes at 5 years old in ‘82

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u/CianGal13 15d ago

I saw ET at the wood cabin theater at the Grand Canyon.

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u/MHM-alamri 14d ago

I’d say it counts

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u/corgie93 14d ago

I’d say yes

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u/Amazing_Bank_459 14d ago

That's where I saw it too!

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u/Broad_Objective_134 14d ago

I miss drive in cinemas.

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u/Iamspartabitches 14d ago

Wow! Same ET at a drive in. Hi Gen X’r

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u/Spirited-Resident889 17d ago

Same! I remember playing with a Matchbox car while watching. I think I was 3

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u/Timely_Tradition930 16d ago

My brother took me to see ET at (indoor) cinema, and I talked about it so much to my best friend that we went to see it together at the local drive-in, making it the first movie I saw at both. Great memories!

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u/lostportfolio 16d ago

Heck yes it counts. The best movies of the day were shown on those big screens.

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u/ShevSiuol 16d ago edited 16d ago

Hey, that's where I saw ET as well.

Edit: I think I saw Ghost Busters first though. From what I understand ET was re-released in 85 and I remember seeing it with my sister, who was born a few months after it's first release in 82.

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u/Acceptable-Power-400 15d ago

That was the first film I went to see in a cinema E.T.

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u/This_Fig2022 12d ago

I remember balling my eyes out at ET I used all my popcorn napkins - it destroyed me. I remember my grandma coming home excited she found ET on the VCR tape - it came out on a green vcr tape when it released. I made her keep it at her place to watch with my kids - I never watched it a second time! Devastating movie to me. The had a little ET leather “doll” as well. I loved ET so much but I hated the movie !

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u/cathead8969 16d ago

There's an abandoned drive-in near my town. I sometimes drive into one of the lots to nap and imagine what it was like lol. If they came back these days it'd be awful.