filmmusic 2,194 Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 Also, describe the situation..I'm not entirely sure but i think the first one was E.T. (if it isn't then it's Raiders, but I'm fairly sure that it is).I maybe was 7-8 at the time and we rented the VHS.My father had obviously seen the movie and from the talks of him, I was looking forward to it!The funny thing is that I remember more of the movie the opening of the VHS with the warning about the original VHS with the hologram sticker!You can see it here, starting at 1.22: It made a huge impression on me, and hightened my anticipation of what I was about to see... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aj_vader 568 Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 Hook on VHS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mstrox 6,915 Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 I'm not sure - I have fairly early memories of the Star Wars trilogy on VHS, and the Indiana Jones movies, and E.T. The first one I saw in theaters was Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arpy 4,159 Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 A New Hope when I was five or five years old on VHS.I vividly remember the duel between Obi-Wan and Vader.The first in theaters was Phantom Menace when I was six in 1999.The first time I enjoyed/noticed the music was two years later in Philosopher's Stone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilbo 3,828 Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 A New Hope or Jurassic Park on VHS. I suppose Phantom Menace would have been the first in a theater. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arpy 4,159 Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 Shit, Bilbo you just reminded me of Jurassic Park. Back in 96/97 I watched it on tv whilst eating Salada's and a lime milkshake! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor 8,344 Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 Nope, I can't remember.Could be some STAR WARS on VHS in the mid 80s. Could be CLOSE ENCOUNTERS on TV. The most likely candidate, however, is SUPERMAN: THE MOVIE, which I saw at my grandparents' place when I was, maybe, 6-7 years old. The film was on quite late, and my parents' initially declined my desperate pleas. I went to bed in a rage, crying and yelling, and eventually my parents caved in and allowed me to stay up for it. Of course, I had no idea who John Williams was at the time, nor did I have any relationship to film music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joni Wiljami 1,212 Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 Star Wars or CE3K , the one which was first in theaters here in Finland. Probably SW. I liked the music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stempel 136 Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 Jaws1975 in a Cinema and I was only seven! karelm and bespinGPT 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 9,036 Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 Must have been E.T., on TV, sometime in the mid 80s. I then couldn't sleep because I was afraid that E.T. might be sitting next to my bed. I saw Hook and Jurassic Park in the theatre. I never saw Star Wars or the Indy movies until after I'd become a Williams fan (i.e. after 1994), but I think I watched CE3K several times before that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bespinGPT 8,766 Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 A long time ago... in a galaxy where we could only watch movies in cinema or on live TV... I feel old, suddently!So it was Star Wars, but not on the big screen, surely on TV.First movie I saw in a cinema was E.T. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hlao-roo 389 Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 Must have been E.T., on TV, sometime in the mid 80s. I then couldn't sleep because I was afraid that E.T. might be sitting next to my bed."I'll...be...right...here." Marian Schedenig 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,448 Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 It was probably ET for me too, I saw it at the cinema apparently, but I have no memory of appreciating the music back then, although I probably did enjoy the sound of it and the melody. I'd say Superman was my first acknowledgement of movie music, although even then I didn't realise it was John Williams. It took till Jurassic Park for me to finally join the dots, when I was 16. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indy4 155 Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 Probably Star Wars Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 39,409 Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 No idea. It was most likely Star Wars / TESB / Jedi / ET / Raiders on TV or VHS tape some time in the early 80s. Who knows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,541 Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 Who knows.Your parents, most likely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricard 2,257 Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 I'm sure this has been asked a few times before....Fiddler on the Roof in the theater, age 6, then The Towering Inferno, age 9. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Train Station 8,672 Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade when I was four. It was also the first movie I saw in a cinema. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrbellamy 6,749 Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 I have no clue which was first, but I think I had seen at least the Star Wars and Indiana Jones trilogies, ET, Home Alone 1 and 2, Hook, and The Phantom Menace by the time the first Harry Potter rolled around, which was more or less the perfect storm. I'm pretty sure that I had already heard of John Williams and a vague idea that he had done all those scores, but that's when I started looking up his name at the library and in a way discovering for myself that it was all one guy.I remember he also conducted the Oscars that year which was probably when I became aware of him as a person, so that winter season was kind of my introduction to the man himself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balahkay 629 Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 Star Wars (not A New Hope) on VHS. Then shortly thereafter, in my music class in elementary school in the 90s, we watch a video about film scores and John Williams music was prominently featured, especially Jaws. I got hooked at a very young age. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datameister 2,279 Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 The first complete Williams-scored film I saw was almost definitely ANH on a borrowed VHS tape. But before that, I had seen bits and pieces of all three existing Star Wars films on TV. And even before that, I had been exposed to music from those films as well as Raiders and Superman on compilation albums. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Code 000. Destruct. 0. 4,260 Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 Tintin, when I was 3. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bespinGPT 8,766 Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 Tintin, when I was 3.The Tintin movie of 1947? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightscape94 965 Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 No idea, but I'm sure it was probably either a Star Wars movie, Raiders, or Superman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not Mr. Big 4,739 Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 No. I've been watching John Williams scored movies since birth but I do remember the first JW scored movie I saw in the theaters which was The Phantom Menace at age four. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 39,409 Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 Hmmm, the first one I saw in theater would have definitely been Jurassic Park. I could have seen Indiana Jones 3 in the theater in the summer of 89, but chose to see Honey I Shrunk The Kids instead!... Actually, it's very likely I saw Home Alone in the theater, that was before JP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trent B 340 Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 It might have been Home Alone. I do remember seeing Hook in theaters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Code 000. Destruct. 0. 4,260 Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 Tintin, when I was 3.The Tintin movie of 1947? Yep!But actually, it was Close Encounters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,516 Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 It's either Hook or Jurassic Park, probably the former. Might be Jaws as well.Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balahkay 629 Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 Is Ricard the only one whose first Williams score heard wasn't one of his more popular scores? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 39,409 Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 Well he's older than most posters here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricard 2,257 Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 I think Joe first heard Williams in Lost in Space. bespinGPT 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doo_liss 6,418 Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 Star Wars Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bespinGPT 8,766 Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 Stemple, Ricard... Jaws at 7... Tower Inferno at 9... Good parents! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miguel Andrade 1,361 Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 A long time ago... in a galaxy where we could only watch movies in cinema or on live TV... I feel old, suddently!So it was Star Wars, but not on the big screen, surely on TV.First movie I saw in a cinema was E.T.Same here... On the cinema it was probably E.T.But before that I think I saw Superman on the television and maybe Jaws and 1941 too. bespinGPT 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 9,036 Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 ... Actually, it's very likely I saw Home Alone in the theater, that was before JP. True, I actually saw that theatrically as well. That must have been my first Williams score at a cinema. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romão 2,319 Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 E.TIt's the earliest recollection of watching a movie that I have Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Mark 3,710 Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 I think Joe first heard Williams in Lost in Space.Me too, but it was TV re-runs. And I only found out he scored it years laterIn cinema it was Star Wars. And the music hit me instantly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hlao-roo 389 Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 Daddy-O in the theater, age 26. bespinGPT 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,801 Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 Probably Hook or one of the Indiana Jones films. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor 8,344 Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 A few years after I saw SUPERMAN, I occasionally watched series like THE TIME TUNNEL and LAND OF THE GIANTS on our cable television (this was the mid to late 80s), again without having any clue about film music or John Williams.So....that would count as the earliest Williams I saw the earliest! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Mark 3,710 Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 The thing is I DID notice the music in Lost in Space and it left an impression on meso it has to count as making me a JWfan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisAfonso 200 Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 I can't be sure, but I'd wager on Home Alone sometime on TV. I'm pretty sure my first theatrical Williams movie was The Lost World. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,308 Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 It's a toss-up between Jaws 2 or Jurassic Park. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Train Station 8,672 Posted September 12, 2014 Share Posted September 12, 2014 I remember watching Lost In Space when it was running on FX in 1997-98 and I noticed the end credits always listed one Johnny Williams. I thought it couldn't be the same bloke, could it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Dutton 7,376 Posted September 12, 2014 Share Posted September 12, 2014 I'm unsure, but one of the earliest films I remember seeing in the cinema is Hook and I distinctly remember the sword fight and John Williams' music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeinAR 1,953 Posted September 12, 2014 Share Posted September 12, 2014 Film was Valley of the Dolls, don't remember the music but I remember seeing John's name. Mom had the soundtrack.But I read at a very young age and remember Johnny Williams on Gilligan's Island and then all the Irwin Allen Shows. Very early on I realized there was a great relationship between music and visuals. bespinGPT and John Dutton 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red 75 Posted September 12, 2014 Share Posted September 12, 2014 Hook. First movie I ever remember seeing. Must've been around two years of age and watched it on VHS or TV. Star Wars and Indy couldn't have been that far behind, though I can't really place when I was first acquainted with them. It's like they were always there in some way or another. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonesy 55 Posted September 12, 2014 Share Posted September 12, 2014 Home Alone, Hook, Jurassic Park on TV. I also remember seeing E,T., Jaws and Superman, though.The Phantom Menace at the cinema. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeH 787 Posted September 12, 2014 Share Posted September 12, 2014 It had to have been The Towering Inferno or Jaws. Both on TV, of course. I'm instantly jealous of anyone who got to see Inferno in theaters on a huge screen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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