First movie you can remember watching, where and when you watched it, one or two of its stars, and describe a scene from it:
El Cid
When/Where: 1962, at Rhein Main AFB, Frankfurt, Germany. I was 6.
Actors: Charlton Heston and Sophia Loren (who I remember hearing my dad say could "really act!"). My mom: 
Scene: The scene where Heston gets shot in the chest with an arrow, dies, and soon after is propped up on his horse and still leads his men to victory!
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In 1968 the Love Bug hit the theaters starring Herbie a 1963 Volkswagen bug racing car....use your imagination here folks. I remember seeing it with my parents at a San Diego drive-in in our Volkswagen minivan. We lived in La Jolla for a couple years after my Dad finished grad school. I was 5-6 years old and thought it was the best movie ever!
Fast forward 20-25 years later, I had the opportunity to see Buddy Hackett do his live comedy routine. It would be the filthiest live show I'd ever seen at that point in my life. He was a dirty little man! I'm not sure where he got his start, but I'm guessing the Love Bug was probably among his first movies.
Burlington MA., 1971 or 1972 (I was 5 or 6). I don't remember actors- I just remember the flying bed!
Well, the movie didn't have a flying bed, but it did have a flying CAR.
Place: Erie, PA I think at Dipson's Plaza Theater (maybe the Warner Theater), late 1968 or early 69
Stars: Dick Van Dyke, Sally Anne Howes
Scenes: I remember that the film had its peaks and valleys in terms of my level of interest. I thing I dozed a little in the middle. The Child Catcher with the pointy nose was frightening. The signing and dancing, the grandfather's house lifted high above the ground, and how can you forget a character name like the beautiful Truly Scrumptius? Ian Fleming (of James Bond fame) was also the writer here.
My favorite scene was this one and the song :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOZ8lIxj3OM
The above link still has meaning for me today, as I reminisce about the movie and have "2 of my own" that I cherish. 
Ripken Fan posted:
This was also mine! What I remember is there was a creepy guy called the "Child Catcher" who put all the children in cages, I got scared and had to be taken out. So, I guess I've never seen the end.
More importantly Fauda returns to Netflix this week and The Last Kingdom and Medici the first week of May. Billions returns to Showtime the first week of May. Homeland and Better Call Saul end in the next couple of weeks.
Homeland was the best show on tv the first couple of years with Damian Lewis. It’s gone up and down ever since. Damian Lewis is currently doing a show on Smithsonian about famous spies. It’s weird to hear him speak with an English accent even though he’s from England. I saw him in an interview where he said he can easily speak English or American depending on the role. I hadn’t heard him do English since The Forsyte Saga on the BBC/PBS.
This is probably bad to admit at this point, but it was The Sound of Music at the River Hills in Des Moines. I was probably five or six and I had chicken pox. My dad took me and he had to six in the back row where no one else was, and there was an intermission. It was the start of a long history of my dad and I enjoying the same movies and my mom and sister watching something else.
Bambi.
Church basement, sometime around 1962-3, in suburban Montreal. Cost 50 cents. I remember falling to pieces when Bambi's mother dies, and trying to hide my tears from my big brother as we left the church and walked home. He never said anything- he was probably in the same condition.
Am watching The Wire for the first time. I normally tire of "gritty urban" shows, but this one grabs me. I can only hope that the portrayal of the politics inside the Baltimore PD is exaggerated.
Am taking a break from Longmire, which I still like as a change of pace.
Great idea, just wish you hadn't used the word Netflix... I can't seem to think any further back than last month when I watched Tiger King ... still feel like I gotta take a shower every 15 minutes 
57special posted:Bambi.
Church basement, sometime around 1962-3, in suburban Montreal. Cost 50 cents. I remember falling to pieces when Bambi's mother dies, and trying to hide my tears from my big brother as we left the church and walked home. He never said anything- he was probably in the same condition.
Am watching The Wire for the first time. I normally tire of "gritty urban" shows, but this one grabs me. I can only hope that the portrayal of the politics inside the Baltimore PD is exaggerated.
Am taking a break from Longmire, which I still like as a change of pace.
57 Special,
The Wire is excellent. I spent 30 years in law enforcement- I used to tell my wife when we watched the Wire which of the on screen supervisors correlated to my police department leaders. It is unfortunately a well told story about how big city PD operates. Ego and incompetence is the worst combination in a leader but sadly there are many.
The Wire is the best TV show of all time. Most of the characters are based on real people. I'd recommend the The Corner, which is kind of the prequel to The Wire.
Which one of these things is not like the others?
El Cid
101 Dalmations
The Love Bug
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang X 2
The Sound of Music
Bambi
I had terrible parents.
Tres Elakes 24 posted:57special posted:Bambi.
Church basement, sometime around 1962-3, in suburban Montreal. Cost 50 cents. I remember falling to pieces when Bambi's mother dies, and trying to hide my tears from my big brother as we left the church and walked home. He never said anything- he was probably in the same condition.
Am watching The Wire for the first time. I normally tire of "gritty urban" shows, but this one grabs me. I can only hope that the portrayal of the politics inside the Baltimore PD is exaggerated.
Am taking a break from Longmire, which I still like as a change of pace.
57 Special,
The Wire is excellent. I spent 30 years in law enforcement- I used to tell my wife when we watched the Wire which of the on screen supervisors correlated to my police department leaders. It is unfortunately a well told story about how big city PD operates. Ego and incompetence is the worst combination in a leader but sadly there are many.
I love the overweight Homicide cop(sergeant?) whose name escapes me. An unrepentant, ass kisser of the 1st order.
I am sorry to hear that about real life PD's. The very few times i have worked in bigger companies(or as part of a union) I couldn't believe the amount of waste, stupidity, and occasionally corruption. I've usually been part of very small companies, or worked for myself, where things get solved pretty quickly, or the company simply doesn't survive.
Most cop shows have WAY too many pretty people going around acting "street", especially the women. I simply don't believe that they are cops.
First movie I chose was Star Wars. Too many lines
First Horror movie was The Omen. Still scared
I can also watch The Simpsons reruns. Never gets old .
RJM posted:More importantly Fauda returns to Netflix this week and The Last Kingdom and Medici the first week of May. Billions returns to Showtime the first week of May. Homeland and Better Call Saul end in the next couple of weeks.
Homeland was the best show on tv the first couple of years with Damian Lewis. It’s gone up and down ever since. Damian Lewis is currently doing a show on Smithsonian about famous spies. It’s weird to hear him speak with an English accent even though he’s from England. I saw him in an interview where he said he can easily speak English or American depending on the role. I hadn’t heard him do English since The Forsyte Saga on the BBC/PBS.
Thanks for heads up on Fauda.
The first movie I remember going to was Day of the Dolphin at the Fresh Pond Drive In in Cambridge MA in 1973 (in back of family station wagon). I don't remember much about the movie because something more racy was being shown on another screen.
1973 was a GREAT year for a HS kid to see racy movies at the drive in! My baseball buddy had his own car and we'd occasionally try to crash the drive in. It was on the edge of town, surrounded by Ponderosa pine trees that were far enough apart to drive between them. lights off. Very exciting. I remember the vehicle approach strategy way more than any movie that was shown. In fact, you really couldn't see anything at all. The angle was oblique and there was no sound, of course. We'd wait 15 or 20 minutes for something to happen, and then give up and go to Denny's.
Senior year of high school friends and I went to see the X rated The Cheerleaders at the drive in. Two of us in the car. Two in the truck with a case of beer.
We got hungry and decided to go to the snack bar. We figured there wouldn’t be anyone there we knew. Who we saw were a lot more embarrassed than us. We walked past two cars of cheerleaders from our high school.
