This is my favorite movie of all time. Unfortunately I can't remember my experience at the theater since I was only 6 years old. So please, share your story!
How was it on the big screen? How did the audience react? Tell me everything :D
I saw this with school as an end of year excursion. My memory of it is a bit foggy (I was 6 at the time) but it made me a lifelong fan of Elton John (LOL).
shareWell Linda, I wasn't much older than you. I was only 9.
What I remember most is the little cousin dropping our popcorn all over the floor. A lot of it too. And I kept eating said popcorn off the floor - true story.
I remember the girls making a cute noise when Simba sneezed in the opening when Rafiki put that dust on him. I remember laughing at Timon and Pumba a lot.
Then I remember walking out of the cinema to Elton John's "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" song, and thinking to myself, "I'm going to buy this movie when it's released!"
Well... my mother bought the movie for me instead for my birthday!
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I didn't see it when it came out, and it took me a while to like it, okay I liked the beginning song and then it went downhill to me. I then discovered that it was an excellent baby sitting tool and it worked wonders on kids at a birthday party. I finally watched it and liked it. I took some of my nephews and nieces to see the Lion King in 3D and it was funny because they keep trying to touch the 3D images. It was funny. But it was good.
shareSaw this in theaters when I was 7 years old, was able to see it at a premiere showing, it was the first disney film I fully remember, saw the trailer on VHS first and the very first disney film that "turned my head" to the point it became my favorite disney film. Even when I was in middle and high school the years where not many still liked the "kids films" I have always been open about loving "The Lion King".
Now in 2017 at 29 years old I still love the movie and hope they do a damn good job with the live action version.
Seen "The Lion King" broadway/stage show and plan on seeing it a second time when it comes back later this year.
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I had recently turned ten when the film was released. I remember seeing it trice theatrically as a kid. I remember the first time seeing it with my parents and a friend of mine, who is three years younger than me. We went to a theater that was the biggest in our city and the friend of mine revealed that he had never been on a cinema before (so my parents had to tell him to not be afraid when the lights went off). I remember there were even kids who had a Simba plushes in the theater.
Anyway. I remember the first screening was a pre-screening of the movie, a couple of weeks before it's actual release. I remember there being no trailers or commercials before the film. Of course I fell utterly in love with the film. I got goosebumps during "The Circle of Life" and I fell a tear when Mufasa fell to his death (and my friend actually asked me why I was crying). I remember my mother was disgusted by Simba, Timon and Pumbaa eating the bugs during "Hakuna Matata", exclaiming it to my dad. The sequence I loved the most was "Can You Feel the Love Tonight". Overall, I had a blast. When we went home, I remember an adult asking a kid what he thought of the movie while leaving the theater and the kid was obviously had not been spelled. And when we went home, I laughed by the "Que pasa" joke by the Hyenas.
Otherwise, I saw it twice afterwards when the movie actually premiered, the other with an acquaintance of mine who was like a big brother-type to me. I remember even liking and enjoying it more the second time and I begged him to take me (despite that he had his reservations, due to me having seen the movie before). In the same theater. What I remember, though, is that he told me what the word "stupid" was (of course this was the dubbed version, so that word was never translated). The third time I saw it in a regular theater, with a cousin of my father and his wife.