What Was Your 1st "R" Rated Movie?

[cardfaninfl]

Animal House. I was 13 and didn't fully appreciate it at the time.

It still holds up well 32 years later...wish I could say the same for myself.

The same. It took two weeks of constant begging, but my mother finally let me go.

I remember wishing I was the "Thank you, God!" kid from the parade scene.

 

[desertdawg]

Everything you wanted to know about sex / Woody Allen was a big bust for me in my childhood. It was not the knowledge i sought.

 

[MrYeahBut]

We lived in a small town in Wyoming and my cubscout leader took us to 'The Naked and the Dead' as it was the only movie in town.....my mother had a conniption fit over it

I was about 9 then I think.

When I would go to Kansas as a kid to visit my grandmother who owned a movie theater I could sneak into the projection room and watch whatever I wanted

Don't really remember much of the movie but I remember being struck by 'I am curious yellow'


They made us watch 'reefer madness'...to no avail, I might add



.

 

[Evil Ash]

Aliens when I was 7

In a theater? Die Hard when I was 8

Needless to say I wasn't sheltered

 

[Brian in Mesa]

Aliens when I was 7

Saw that at the original (and only, IMHO) Cine Capri with my dad when I was 15.

 

[Dr. Jones]

Beverly
Hills
Cop


BOOM!!!

 

[Covert Rain]

I think my first was Johnny Dangerously.

 

[AzStevenCal]

I think my first was Johnny Dangerously.

Did you know your last name is an adverb? Very funny movie. Knock down that wall, knock down that farging wall....

Steve

 

[Jersey Girl]

Like Jersey, I was a pretty sheltered child. My best guess would have to be Nightmare on Elm Street. I did not see it when I was 12, and it may have been on TV & edited. I know I lied to see Dream Warriors, but I don't think that was in the theater, either.

Ah, parents. Thinking they are keeping their kids safe from, um, whatever, lol. I know my cousin wasn't allowed to watch Dirty Dancing until she was almost thirteen (three years after the movie was released).

No kidding. Remember we weren't allowed to watch the Dukes of Hazzard? It sent the wrong message.

Crazy.

Really? I thought the Dukes wre a good wholesome family. One of the few shows we were allowed to watch, though we had to earn it through good behavior and chores.

My cousin who is a couple years older than me saw Jaws in the theaters in 1975. They lived in San Diego at the time...forget the beach - he wouldn't even go into the swimming pool in their backyard. LOL

I saw parts of Jaws and parts of The Godfather at family gatherings. The part of the Godfather where the horse head was in the bed affected me more than anything else.

 

[arthurracoon]

The Matrix

 

[devilalum]

I saw parts of Jaws and parts of The Godfather at family gatherings. The part of the Godfather where the horse head was in the bed affected me more than anything else.

They used a real horse head for that scene.

 

[Jersey Girl]

They used a real horse head for that scene.

Well, that just pisses me off. Like the mafia doesn't already kill enough living creatures in real life ... they gotta use real dead things in the movies? Seriously? Not at all cool.

Just kidding. Don't kill me. Seriously.

I'm guessing/hoping that horse was already dead.

 

[mojorizen7]

(Theatre-wise)
"Alien" at the old CineCapri,with my dad and a couple of his buddies. I was 10.
Unforgettably cool.
Im sure many older locals here witnessed just how cool that theatre was. 800+ capacity,a 70 ft widescreen,incredible sound,the huge curtains,the fantastic films that showed there....they ran "Star Wars" for 2 straight years there. I must have bugged my dad once a month for more Star Wars @ the Cine Capri. He obliged quite a few times too. Wow,good times

As far as late-night cable behind my parents back,who knows? I had ALOT of freedom.

 

[AzStevenCal]

(Theatre-wise)
"Alien" at the old CineCapri,with my dad and a couple of his buddies. I was 10.
Unforgettably cool.
Im sure many older locals here witnessed just how cool that theatre was. 800+ capacity,a 70 ft widescreen,incredible sound,the huge curtains,the fantastic films that showed there....they ran "Star Wars" for 2 straight years there. I must have bugged my dad once a month for more Star Wars @ the Cine Capri. He obliged quite a few times too. Wow,good times

As far as late-night cable behind my parents back,who knows? I had ALOT of freedom.

I saw a lot of great movies there. It was my second favorite theater. I had a soft spot for the Kachina Theater in Scottsdale. First public kiss, first public grope (both ways) and a great place to watch movies also. The fact you could smoke in the Loge was a big draw also. It was even my babysitter one summer as we went every Saturday for 3 months and watched It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World. I don't think I ever saw a "restricted" movie there but as I recall, the nearby Portofino ran it's share of adult films back then and I snuck into more than one of them.

Steve

 

[Gaddabout]

I also saw Star Wars at the Cine Capri. I couldn't believe how big it was.

 

[AsUdUdE]

I grew up in a family where rated R movies were not allowed to be seen.. so I snuck into a theater at Arrowhead 14 and saw The Devils Advocate when I was 12...

That movie was strange in so many ways but it was just the fact that I made the descision and went for it...

I was a late bloomer, but it made the expierence all the more memorable..

 

[DemsMyBoys]

It was even my babysitter one summer as we went every Saturday for 3 months and watched It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World.

I saw that movie when I was a kid the weekend it premiered at the Cinerama Dome in Hollywood. Huge deal as the theater was brand new too. Great experience because the audience kept recognizing places where it was shot. "That's the YMCA building in Long Beach!" When Spencer Tracy was tracing their route on the map my dad said, "They just went past your Uncle Bob's house."

 

[jefftheshark]

I saw a lot of great movies there. It was my second favorite theater. I had a soft spot for the Kachina Theater in Scottsdale. First public kiss, first public grope (both ways) and a great place to watch movies also. The fact you could smoke in the Loge was a big draw also. It was even my babysitter one summer as we went every Saturday for 3 months and watched It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World. I don't think I ever saw a "restricted" movie there but as I recall, the nearby Portofino ran it's share of adult films back then and I snuck into more than one of them.

Steve

It sounds like you were around in Scottsdale to remember this place, but when I was 13, we used to sneak under the chain link fence which surrounded the old Round-Up Drive In at 68th & Thomas and rather than watch the movie for boobs and stuff, we'd just walk around looking into the cars to see the real thing.

JTS

 

[Rivercard]

I'm guessing/hoping that horse was already dead.

 

[Cheesebeef]

Cine Capri was amazing. Loved seeing the biggest of big movies there, the line wrapping around the theater outside, the mammoth screen inside.

Then getting dessert at Caf Casino next to it.

I'm a little younger than the folks who remember seeing Star Wars there, but I remember seeing Raising Arizona (starring my friend's mom Lynne Keitei as Mrs. Arizona) Temple Of Doom, Last Crusade, Batman Returns, Silence Of The Lambs, Robin Hood and the they replayed Star Wars for like three weeks when I was a junior in high school. As much as I love Mann's Chinese and the Fox Theater in Westwood, Cine Capri will always be my first love for theaters.

 

[Shane]

Cine Capri was amazing. Loved seeing the biggest of big movies there, the line wrapping around the theater outside, the mammoth screen inside.

Then getting dessert at that restaurant next to it... what was that place called?

I'm a little younger than the folks who remember seeing Star Wars there, but I remember seeing Temple Of Doom, Last Crusade, Batman Returns, Silence Of The Lambs, Robin Hood and the they replayed Star Wars for like three weeks when I was a junior in high school. As much as I love Mann's Chinese and the Fox Theater in Westwood, Cine Capri will always be my first love for theaters.

Was the Cine Capri even that "big" compared to the theaters of today? All my years in AZ and growing up there I never saw a movie there.

 

[jefftheshark]

Cine Capri was amazing. Loved seeing the biggest of big movies there, the line wrapping around the theater outside, the mammoth screen inside.

Then getting dessert at Caf Casino next to it.

I'm a little younger than the folks who remember seeing Star Wars there, but I remember seeing Raising Arizona (starring my friend's mom Lynne Keitei as Mrs. Arizona) Temple Of Doom, Last Crusade, Batman Returns, Silence Of The Lambs, Robin Hood and the they replayed Star Wars for like three weeks when I was a junior in high school. As much as I love Mann's Chinese and the Fox Theater in Westwood, Cine Capri will always be my first love for theaters.

I was going to post "Caf Casino" but I see you beat me to it. One of my friends was the manager there and they had an awesome french onion soup as I recall.

JTS

 

[Cheesebeef]

Was the Cine Capri even that "big" compared to the theaters of today? All my years in AZ and growing up there I never saw a movie there.

dude, that theater was HUGE. it dwarfed pretty much ANY theater that I know of today. The
"new" Cine Capri holds 588 seats, while the old one held 800 and even from way in the back, the screen was redonculously big. how the hell did you never see a movie there? what side of town did you live in? it was like THE event movie theater. where

 

[Cheesebeef]

I was going to post "Caf Casino" but I see you beat me to it. One of my friends was the manager there and they had an awesome french onion soup as I recall.

JTS

I remember being afraid of that soup because i hated onions and now i'm sad i never had it because my tastes have changed and that soup always smelled amazing.

 

[Shane]

dude, that theater was HUGE. how the hell did you never see a movie there? what side of town did you live in? it was like THE event movie theater. where

Grew up in Mesa Alma School/Broadway till about 12 then Alma School/Southern till I left at 19 for the Air Force.

Don't really know how I never went. I had been to the Scottsdale Kachina Theater (saw Dances With Wolves there.)

Probably never went because I worked in a Movie Theater from the time I was 16 till I left at 19. Saw ALL movies free at any AMC for 3+ years. Plus I didn't get a drivers License till I was 18 and even then I didn't own my first car till I was 21 long gone from AZ.