Man, I remember just graduating from high school and thinking abou college. I remember all the commercials for the this movie and not knowing what to expect since I had never seen Prince live.

I was blown away by that movie right from the opening cords to Let's Go Crazy.! I still get chills everytime I hear that part. I had to see that movie 4 times that week and my friends and I were really into everything going on that year.

All that purple year...I was in college, working as a bartender, see a couple of girls, hangin with my friends and jammin to Prince.

What was your experince?




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I saw the movie the weekend it came out.There was a long line to see it.For weeks,I had been playing the 'Purple Rain' soundtrack to death and I was ready to finally see the film.In the months leading up to it,there were all types of stories,rumors and speculation.It was possibly the most eagerly awaited movie of the summer of '84!

I do! I do! I remember being all geeked up to see it on my birthday, August 7, but my uncle cancelled on taking me to see it and I cried like a baby. He ended up taking me to see it a week later. I will never forget that date. I will also never forget hearing all the songs for the first time, with the exception of When Doves Cry and Purple Rain that got a lot of airplay. I will also never forget hearing Darlin' Nikki for the first time. That was a jaw dropper.

I remember seeing it here in Sydney Australia.

I was 8 years old at the time. Never forget it. In the "Let's Go Crazy" intro, all the girls in the cinema were screaming, it was wild. I think it was at that point i realised, "Gee, Listening 2 Prince is going 2 pull in the chicks 4 me" LOL


It was everywhere, one crazy time, great memories!

I do!! I sawed it 5 times while it was at the theatre.I went by myself the first time because I didn't want anyone talking to me.i was smart to do that,too because the other times I went my friends talked my ear off and I really couldn't enjoy the film.

i do.
i was in the 8th grade.
it was a saturday.
my mom was going shopping that day so i asked her if we could go. the line was damn near around the block it was so long. so we wait in line. of course i finally get to the window and the old witch ticket agent disses me by throwing up the old "sold out" sign in the window. i damn near start crying.

my mom was like "look i gotta go to the store you'll have to see it later."

i was like "nooo". luckily this woman that my mom knew was waiting in line to go the the next show after the one that was sold out so my mom asked her if i could wait in line with her and go in with her and she said yes. it was a purple miracle for me. i was able to get in a see it and man was i blown away. i remember going to school on monday and being "the man" because i was pretty much the only person who had seen it at my school at that point.

ahhh..the good ole days
[This message was edited Fri Aug 8 7:04:56 PDT 2003 by djdredd]

DavidEye said:

The same happened here.

I was in the 4th or 5th grade and I remember getting a little uncomfortable when the word "motherfucker" was used and when Appolonia went topless and the sex scene in general because I was sittin next to my mom.

It was the first "R" rated movie I ever saw

Me and my best friend worked at Wendy's that year and we walked about 20 min after work to the movies and sat through it twice.

I love these stories. Ahhh, the good old days..

Keep these stories comming.


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Being a Prince fan since the Contoversy album I knew it would be good. I watched it at the local Mall and remember people clapping & getting their groove on during the 1st Avenue scenes like it was an actual live concert. Afterwards I saw the same people head straight for the record store and buy the album. I had already bought it.
[This message was edited Fri Aug 8 9:37:23 PDT 2003 by PhilG]

readin all the testimonials...wow. all this, and i wuz only 3, man!!!

lovemachine said:

I know how you felt.I was only 8 years old when my mother took me to go see 'Saturday Night Fever'.That's a VERY racy film,filled with non-stop profanity,love scenes,etc.

Well my experience was quite different to all yours. I went with my mother and besides her and me there were only 2 or 3 other people there (one of them was an old man) and I remember that 1 person left shortly after the movie had started. None of them seemed to be impressed at all. I must admit that I didn't go to see it immediately after it came to the movies, but maybe 1 month after that, but still it shows that there was no real hype about this movie in some parts of Europe

I was 17 yrs. old. I went with my cousins to a REALLY skanky theater on the old 42 street in N.Y.!!! Back when the hookers & drug dealers ruled 42 St. day or night. It was hot & it smelled like death & old popcorn:-( The place was packed with loud trash talking teenagers!!! The place went CRAZY when the movie started. We were all singing & yelling our ass off! The more we yelled the hotter it got. The more we sang the smellier it got.

Purple Rain had everything a kid would want in a movie. Great music, Tits, Apollonia, Prince & the Revolution live,
Morris, great music, tits, Etc...
Yes, the movie ended & we gave the screen a standing ovation. We didn't care that we were giving a screen with credits a standing ovation. That movie made our F**KING summer:-)

WE all left the thearter singing our favorite songs. We did sound like shit. Who cares, right? We were young & for the first time felt comfortable in our own skin. Free to do, free to say & free to be anything we wanted! I guess that's what a great movie will do to you when you're young.


I'm 37 yrs. old now. Whenever I put on the PR soundtrack it's 1984. I'm back in that old SKANKY, smelly, loud, & dirty theater. It's been 2 years since I last listened to PR. I might go back tonight. You're ALL welcome to join me!

P.S. Sorry for the long post.

I remember seeing it at a theater in Manhattan with my sister. I also remember that actress Phoebe Cates (where is she now?) was in the theater too.
[This message was edited Fri Aug 8 15:18:31 PDT 2003 by UptownDeb]

YEP!!! I was 14 years old. Saw it opening night in NYC while visiting for the summer. I too had been listening to the soundtrack 'round the clock and knew every single word to every song. I had a ball!! We stayed and watched it again a second time that night and the theater was so packed folks were sitting in the ailes!!! I LOVED IT!!!

UptownDeb said:

now speaking of Tits...let's talk about Fast Times!



...does anyone know the release dates of PurpleRain to cinemas??

i was born july 22nd '84,i just wanna know if it was around my birthday.

Can anyone remember sitting with a date in an almost empty movie theater watching Graffiti Bridge ?

i was there

the theater was electric

the girlies were screaming

prince was on fire

i had already been

a few albums into

his music, so i was

proud 2 witness prince

as a movie star

i will never forget it

i remember...i was 5 years old and we went for my sisters b-day and i was just amazed by "lets go crazy" my father made me close my eyes often but i will never 4get the experience...

I was 17 and was still a little of a Prince-virgin, when
a friend asked if I wanted to check out this movie...we
both knew very little about the man, but the buzz was
great, so we went...

The first cords of Let's Go Crazy, and I was hooked.
It amazed me that ONE person could command so much
attention from everyone. I couldn't keep my eyes off
of Prince. It's been a wild ride, one that started on
that day in the movie theatre...

I was only 1 1/2, so I couldn't go to the theatre to see it. But I did catch it on Showtime about a year later. It was worth the wait. That movie kicks so much ass!

NWF said:

Ummm...you caught it on showtime when you were 2 1/2 after being forced to wait a year? I'm not sure I have ever met a 1 1/2 year old baby who really wanted to see a new movie Me thinks there is a typo or a lie involved.

I don't come on this site to bluff, kiddo. I swear I was 1 1/2 when P.R. came out. My Mother saw it, but, obviously I couldn't see it. But even at that age I was grooving to those tunes. I was born listening to Prince, and that album was just, like, the Holy Grail for me.


AND IT STILL IS!!!

NWF said:

Nice try buddy. At 1 1/2 you were not toilet trained and it's doubtful that you could even say more then 5 - 10 words and yet you were dying to go see Purple Rain ...check this from the Dr. Spock webpage




It's doubtful that at 2 1/2 you were even toilet trained yet, but you sat down and watched the hell out of Purple Rain in that dirty diaper.



Oh yeah: Also taken from the Dr. Spock website on childhood memories before the age of 3 or 3 1/2:



It seems more likely that your mom told you that you used to rock out in your crib to Purple Rain or something along those lines.

Correction: I have an excellent memory that goes as far back as that era. I may not remember every detail of that time, but I will tell you this: Purple Rain was big that year, so of course I was digging it. My Mother was HUGE into him (and still is) so she always had him playing and had me up & dancing. I did know that P.R. was a movie, but I never got to see it until the next year on cable.

Actually, I wanted to make a correction on that as well. I saw the movie for the first time on regular T.V. at my cousins' house in '85. I caught it on Showtime in '86 because I remember watching MTV after that doing a report on Peter Gabriel, or something.

Anyways, I learned how to "grow up" at a very early age. So just because you found a source that tries to prove me wrong, that don't mean a muuufugg'n thang. That doesn't account for every child on this earth. Just let my saying of this memory be, Lovemachine, "Ph.D", aiight?

It only played at the drive-in where I lived and it was horrible. The picture was very blurry. The sound and music, especially, was distorted. Terrible experience.
Of course, I had to make up for that and see it a gazillion times in the theatre. It was like an entirely different movie in the theatre.