On this day: 7/13/1994

[whitetail]

OTD 30 years ago - right this very minute, in fact - I was watching The Lion King for the very first time. And I would go again to the second afternoon matinee at 3PM! The tickets are kind of faded now, but you can see the times on them if you really squint. 🙂

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[gremy]

I refused the opportunity to watch the film around the time it came out when my family and I visited my late maternal grandparents in Oklahoma then. I recently watched it in full on Disney+ and wrote this review. I think I might have posted it here on LJ, but for some reason my journal won't load, for some reason.

[c_eagle]

Oooo, I love fond mementos like this!

I had a similar experience with the Little Mermaid film, at a pre-opening screening of "Under the Sea" and "Kiss the Girl" ... the audience reacted with overwhelming jubilation!

Lion King was certainly (and IS) still an enduring sensation!

[allaboutweather]

Funny coicidence, I was born that day. XD

[whitetail]

Well, belated happy birthday! Congrats!

[allaboutweather]

Thanks pal! I hope you're doing alright. *hugs* :)

[whitetail]

Doing great, actually! Stopped drinking a little over a year ago, I walk 3-5 miles every morning before dawn, and I haven't even had a cold in over 6 years. Not bad for someone who's going to be 70 in a couple months, if I do say so myself. ^^

[hastka]

Historic moments. :)

I remember that I for whatever reason deliberately didn't go to see it, I guess because I was in my cynical hipster phase of "eww, disney is for kids, I'm not buying into their hype." And to be fair, a lot of press at the time was not super flattering about the storyline.

Not to mention I don't even know where a movie theater was during that time in my life.

That said, I did come to love it when I did watch it, and I have the laserdisc box set now, among other things, and I think may've signed up at one point with the First Church of Nala. ;-P