What do you think about that movie now?
I remember a drive-in screening of Clint Eastwood’s Firefox and Megaforce. Megaforce seems to have found a cult audience in 2023, and I don’t know if I’ve ever heard Firefox mentioned.
I’ve avoided both as even though I have positive feels of that particular night, I doubt the films were good.
Firefox is actually decent.
I’ve considered giving it a watch as I would have been around 8 that night, and I can imagine I was a bit young, especially if it was after my bedtime and following the high of Megaforce.
MegaForce was such a disappointment. You figure that a movie directed by a stuntman would have great action, right? Nope.
Also, Persis Khambatta was in three bomb movies in a row. [not in exact order] MegaForce, Nighthawks, and Star Trek I
Possibly Fern Gully
The iron giant and bubble boy are some of my earliest memories. Still great movies
Star Wars in either 81 or 82 when it had additional theatrical runs.
Still love it.
The first one I remember was Rescuer’s Down Under. My mom took me to see it in theaters. Like most Disney animated movies, it’s held up.
Perhaps the Peter Cushing version of Dr Who and the Daleks when it was first shown on TV in the late '60s. It’s pretty weak - toned down to get a ‘U’ cert - and not a patch on Daleks Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. from the following year. When I saw that one, I recall that I was drawing scenes from it for some time afterwards. I don’t recall that from the first one though.
Something interesting I discovered recently, Bernard Cribbins was in Daleks Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. predating his role as Wilfred Mott by some 40 years.
Disney’s Cinderella was re-released in theaters in 80s, I’m pretty sure that’s the first one that formed a permanent memory. I’m not sure I’ve seen it from start to finish since then.
King Kong 1976 beat out Star Wars, which was the next year.
I think probably Star Wars. I still like it.
Ducktales Treasure of the Lost Lamp. And man its got powerful nostalgia, i had completely forgotten about it but rewatching it 30 years later i remembered all the dialogue.
That may very well be one of my first ones as well! Could be fun to watch it again!
Lady and the Tramp. Had to have been a re-release because I definitely wasn’t alive in the 50s. Don’t really think much because I don’t remember much except the spaghetti scene.
Empire Strikes back. Han Solo being carbonised, Luke skywalker hanging from bottom of cloud city. Just wow. Probably earlier ones but that was stamped on my brain.
Kiki’s Delivery Service
That is a lucky draw. That’s a damn good movie!
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
I was 3 years old and my parents took me to see it at a drive in theater. Fell asleep before the end.
Isn’t that the one with the whales? Probably not a riveting movie for a 3 year old!
Whales and time travel to the present day. Which is 1986, of course.
A horror movie called It’s Alive. I was 5 years old. My mom would rent horror movies without checking the ratings and I’d watch them. Even after this I always loved horror and never had nightmares or anything. But, I rewatched It’s Alive a few years ago and it is definitely not for kids… But honestly the craziest thing my mom rented was The Toxic Avenger, when I was maybe 10. She never saw it herself it so still has no idea what she allowed me to watch at a young age!
