First Cinema Experience?

THE MASK

i was 8 i think and felt like a bit of a late starter compared to a lot of my mates who had been to see loads of stuff before then. was for a fellow mates 8th birthday and he was allowed 3 friends to go along with him and his dad to the cinema.

Did yer mates Dad touch you up?

not that i remember but he did buy me a big bag of mint imperials.

Jurassic Park - great cinema experience, still up there prob n top 5 cinema experiences to this day

ha that was one of the first ones I saw with my mates as well, great times.

I also saw this gem

I remember renting that out

I was always more for renting films out than going to the cinema. Used to go to the video library on the Ballygowan Road, get a few films out and then take them down to my Uncle John's and he'd double record them for me.

Used to get loads of Ghostbuster's cartoons out, must have had about 4 or 5 dozen episodes spread over three or four videos. I even remember cutting out pictures of Ghostbuster's toys from the Argos catalogue and making my own covers for the vidoes.

Pikey/10

yeah i was into renting videos more than cinema as a kid too.

it was through going to the video rental shop every saturday as a kid that i got into wrestling. i couldnt think what to get one time and my dad said to me why not try some wrestling. so i hired out wrestlemania 6 and havent looked back since. the hulk hogan v ultimate warrior match blew me away.

the video shop then got closed down a couple of years later as the bloke running it was doing under the counter pornos

I used to tape all the boxing off ITV & cut out the newspaper pictures the following day to make artwork for the tapes.

Suburban Commando was fucking shit, even as a kid I knew it was shit. Was exciting as hell though having Hogan in his first proper staring film role. Shame it was shit.

Never had the technology to do tape2tape but had 100's of VHS tapes from TV. Theres films where when I watch a DVD I feel almost disappointed when the Daz advert doesn't pop up after the Ewoks meet R2D2

glad i wasnt the only one who made front covers for things taped off tv.

used to get those big black vhs tape cases that made them look like books. get a pritstick and some cut outs from the newspaper or a magazine and make a front cover for all the wrestling and stuff.

I know I always say it but we had almost identical childhoods. My dad brought a tape home of that from work & that was it for me, my childhood had a purpose. Before that I used to watch NWA with the freebirds, Sting & Muta, great times.

I reckon before I was 18 I probably only went cinema maybe 10-15 times, could probably remember the lot that I saw.

yeah same. even to this day i probably only go to the cinema about 4 or 5 times a year despite being big into films. but yeah before the age of 18 i hardly ever went and when i did it was mostly to absolute toss, i remember liar liar and the first mr bean film being particular highlights.

it was either Jurassic Park or Cool Runnings at the Odeon (before it got turned in the world club in the world) first one without parents was Mortal Kombat

It's too fucking expensive. If I do go usually it's in TCOTU then it's a saturday so it's 10 quid, 10 quid to watch a film I could buy for 3 pound on DVD a year later. I deliberately try to pick a long film when I go as well to get my moneys worth

So yeah my best memories of films from a young age were video rental shops. VHS artwork was the fucking best, they really could make the biggest pile of shit look the most amazing film ever.



Who the fuck could see that on the shelf & not wanna hire it out?

I used to rent wrestling videos as well, can't remember what it was called but i remember getting a compilation video out, it had Demolition vs Powers of Pain from Wrestlemania V, Rick Rude v Roddy Piper in a steel cage, Hogan vs Hercules and a Warrior v Savage match. I must have rented it out about 10 times.

My best cinema experience was Flacko throwing a minstrel across the cinema and smashing some little kid in the back of the head who cried for 20 minutes during Dante's peak.

& sneaking a Mcdonald's in everytime & stinking the whole place out.

I do that with DVD's. It doesn't determine if i buy it or not but i love thinking to myself "134 minutes for £3 ... bargain".

This takes me back ...