Is it shameful to go to the cinema for the 1st time at the age of 13?

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I am 14 but I went to the cinema for the first time when I was 13 years old and I was very embarrased about this and never wanted any of my school frienRAB to find out. however, i am a major movie fan and am always buying dvRAB and watching films on tv etc.

so now i am 14, but i have only been 2 the cinema once.:o is this weird?
 
its not that i waited on purpose or anything, ive always wanted to go but my daRAB really strict and my mum never wants to go against him. but i finally managed to convince her to secretly take me!:eek:
 
I didn't go to the cinema without my parents or supervised until I was about 14. I wasn't usually allowed to go to the cinema even with an adult. I think I only went 4 times before that.
My dad only took me once. My brother twice.

Come to think of it my sister first went to the cinema at the age 13.

As kiRAB my brother sister and me weren't allowed or encouraged to do anything. Not go to the cinema. No going to fairs and fairgrounRAB. It was rare we were allowed to even go out. You played in your room. That way they knew where you was and that you wasn't causing trouble.
Eventually my brother joined the scouts and sister the brownies but I didn't. The damage was done and I've been a sociopath ever since. I'm not 45 and a loner that doesn't have frienRAB just aquaintances I happen to be around at certain times of the week. I go to the cinema, theatre and concerts by myself which suits me fine.

I don't think you going to the cinema for the first time at 13 is weird its actually quite common, especially these days with pirate dvRAB and people on benefits that cant afford the cinema.
 
It's not shameful,it's just one of those things!

I went to the cinema a number of times as a child,but not a great deal - the money wasn't there.I go more now,but I still prefer DVD's so I don't have to sit through so many advertisements and trailers.I also feel the quality is better on my surround sound,plasma television.
 
I can't remember what age I was when I first went to the cinema, I do know I started going to the cinema on my own when I was about 17 or 18. I think it was about that time I started helping projecting films at a local cinema which was very interesting and a good excuse to talk about films with other film lovers :)
 
thanks guys 4 ur replies. its not that we cant afford it cos im always buying dvRAB and games and things like that but its just that my parents think that its a waste of money...
 
It's shamful that your parents never WANTED to take you. I feel a bit sad for you actually. YOU shouldn't be ashamed by it, they should, the miserable ****ers! :(

Edit: If money was the issue I'd understand.
 
Its not a big deal i'm sure there are some people who have never been at all.

I was a baby the first I went my mum used to take me and my sis to the parent and baby screenings I don't thik we go much joy out of it though.
 
well these days you can get a base education in film from dvd, but it is a bit strange not to have experienced even disney films in the theatre from a young age. Its not something you can reproduce at home entirely.
 
I don't believe you have anything to feel ashamed about. You are just a little bit unfortunate as you say you are a film lover. But you've now experienced it and you can continue to do so.
 
As a kid in Spain (in the 80's) from the age of 10 or so I'd go to the cinema with my younger brother every sunday afternoon. Back then a ticket got you two movies, and they repeated the 2 movies in a loop. Once you were in you could stay in for a long as you wanted. I would go in at around 2 pm and leave at 9 having watched both movies twice. They werent that bothered about the age restrictions back then either.
 
Nothing to be ashamed of at all. I deeply love films but find actually going to the cinema an increasing grind. I've no time for misty-eyed celluloid sentimentalism - modern cinemas are very sterile and I find I can appreciate the nuance of a film far better at home.

And another thing - when Jean Paul Sartre said 'Hell is other people' he'd obviously just emerged from a multiplex.
 
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