Unfortunately I never had a chance to see the movie in theaters when it first came out. I saw it for the first time on video in 1990. Did it look wild seeing it on a huge screen like that? I can imagine the beans and chocolate scene taking on a different dimension like that.
shareI saw it in 1980 or 81 at a midnight show in East Meadow, NY. For a while every night they would play a different rock show at midnight. Tommy, The Wall, Heavy Metal, Rocky Horror.
shareI saw it when I was 13 at the movies. I would love to see this on the big screen again. This was meant to be seen BIG.
shareI saw it when it came out. I was 11. Loudest movie ever.
But it did make an impression on me. It was odd and it didn't really match up musically to the album, but visually it was, and still is, was of the most interesting things I ever saw on a big screen.
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in an English-language cinema in Barcelona in 2004 - it was WILD
"In your eyes, the light, the heat; in your eyes, I am complete"- Peter Gabriel
i got this book at home called Box Office Hits, it made the top 20 films of both 1975 AND 1976, also spending 14 weeks at number 1, so must have been huge!
shareI was in junior high when this came out. It WAS huge! It played for months in Boston, got good reviews from the critics AND Ann-Margret won a Golden Globe AND was nominated for an Academy award for this! In never saw it back then (I wasn't into the Who at that point) but it caught it multiple times on a HUGE screen at a repertory theatre in Boston. No stereo but the screen was enormous and the visuals blew u away:) I had my baby sister watch it on TV when she was only 8 or 9 (I wasn't corrupting her--it has a PG rating) and she was wiped out. For days afterwards she wouldn't stop talking about it:)
shareI saw it on the big screen in Canada in October of 1975. I don't think I really understood it, though. I actually think I just went to see it because it was the cool thing to do at the time if you were a teenager growing up in my suburb.
shareYep, was 15 in 75, it was awesome, saw it twice, then bought the album....Smoked my first joint the second time I went, and it was even better...Me, and my buddys wore that album out..I still know the words to almost every song in the show...
You Have a Hard Lip, Herbert..
Better Living Thru Chemistry
I was 20 when I saw it in '75 and was already a big fan of the
'Who'. Tommy is great, "Who's Next" is a benchmark album.
I have a feeling I may have seen this more than once back in 1975. You know how obsessive kids can be, I was 15. The one thing that sticks out in my head the most was that the crowd cheered when Elton John came on the screen. He was huge at the time.
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