The first film you ever attended on your own?

Brosnan_fan

Just interested in finding out what was the very first film you went to see, on your own, and how old you were at the time.

For me, it was When Harry Met Sally... ; I was 16.

BIG TAM

GHOSTBUSTERS in 1984. I was 16. It was forced upon me. Should have met up with friends but I couldn't find them in the queue, so had to go & sit by myself.

Napoleon Plural

I honestly can't remember. Tam's story reminds me it might have been Ferris Bueller's Day Off, was supposed to meet with a pal but thought I'd been blown out, turns out he went to meet me at the station not the cinema. Okay film better in hindsight than at the time, it doesn't ever really get going as a narrative, the highlights on youtube are the best.

But I would have been about 15, surely I saw a film by myself before that.

Moore Than

I honestly can't remember either. My first experiences of the cinema were as a young boy around the late 1960's early 70's watching the kids films at the local Odeon on Saturday mornings. My memory is very vague, I don't recall any of those films titles or attending any of them on my own, I do remember attending with my brothers. The best candidate I would say is Close Encounters Of The Third Kind when I was around 16 years old.

Napoleon Plural

For years I was the only kid who hadn't seen Star Wars. Tried to see it in Brighton with my sister but we got lost and ended up seeing another sci-fi film, Close Encounters! Not quite the same, rather eerie a bit like The Shining almost.

In my day, films were almost annual events as they didn't happen that often, so you'd go with your family. I very much enjoyed a season of Hitchcock movies at a cinema on Tottenham Court Road in the mid-80s, went to see them with my Mum. I was 15. Vertigo was a first for me, fantastic.

Fleapit cinemas were quite depressing on your own really. That changed late 80s, saw Lethal Weapon on my own in new multiplex in Leicester Square.

FelixLeiter ♀

Age 12 during the summer holidays after my first year at secondary school. I was supposed to be going with two friends who both decided on the way they fancied going shopping round ASDA of all places I still wanted to see the film so went alone. I barely knew the town and had to get my mate to direct me before we split up.
It was the Johnny Depp version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. I was glad I'd seen it as it wasn't too bad a movie, but I still much prefer the original and haven't re-watched the Depp one since.

After that I started going to the cinema a lot on my own. I found out the cinema did a Kids Club film showing on Saturday mornings for only £2 so went nearly every week for ages, usually on my own. Sometimes it was films I hadn't seen, although other times it was just to re-watch something I'd seen before if it was good enough.
Didn't do it again for years until I had no one to go see The Green Lantern or Hangover 2 with. Both average films.

I keep meaning to go to the cinema more alone, as far too often I miss seeing films just because I've got no one to go with. I'll be going alone to see Skyfall a second and maybe third time though.

DangerMouse

The Dark Knight Rises this year, although I haven't seen a film in the pictures since August 2004. )

Napoleon Plural

Eventually my mum let me go in alone.

wormlover

I think the only film I've been to see on my own was Ice Age 2! I bunked off of Sixth Form for the day but none of my friends wanted to see it! I still use it to my advantage whenever I want them to feel guilty!

Stay in school kids

welshboy78

Totally on your own????????

Jesus not many I attended on my own however with regards to Bond films I remember seeing Living Daylights with a school pal when I was a kid, vaguely remember seeing Octopussy with my father

Pendragon

the first Shrek movie. I was...uhh...newly 13.

mom sent me to the theater 'cause at the time, the house didn't have Air Conditioning, and I was having a massive (pollen) allergy attack, and the AC helped a lot.

Napoleon Plural

You seen Skyfall yet Pen?

PPK 7.65mm

First movie I watched alone was Rush Hour in 2007, I was 24. It was interesting to be in a cinema by myself. Strangely enough I think I was one of maybe 5 or 8 people total that came to see Rush Hour 3 that night.

Since then I have found that going to the movies alone is okay, but their are times where I prefur to have company with me.

NeverSayDie

I used to work at a cinema so I use to go in on my day off and watch every new release.
They would also let me have all the posters and banners. I have a load from Die Another Day.

Silhouette Man

I think it must have been Skyfall - took my nephew along with me.

Napoleon Plural

Your nephew not counting as a separate entity of course.

Barbel

It was definitely a 60s Bond, perhaps TB or YOLT. I'd seen GF earlier with my dad, and caught the others on double bills later.

KKwheelchair

looper sounds right to me although probably saw one before that and i saw skyfall 4 times 1 by myself

Hold Command

Skyfall actually, my 2nd viewing and so much better without distractions of explaining plot points etc.