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Ever watch a movie at the Drive-in?


I posted this on the Film General board. Someone suggested I post it here.

Sure brings brings back great memories thinking about going to the drive-ins. First my parents taking us and some friends. Then when I got my drivers license taking my girlfriend. Getting a Designated driver and the rest of us drinking beer at the drive-in. Sometimes we would take blankets and/or lawn chairs and sit under the stars watching the movies. Great fun! I have a neat web site about drive-ins and it lists every drive-in still open in every state. The link is at the bottom. Just click on your state.

http://cdn.ultraswank.net/uploads/drive-in-cinema-utah-1958-the-ten-commandments-1000x800.jpg

http://www.driveinmovie.com/mainmenu.htm

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Much of my youth and teenage years I spent going to drive-ins and loved it! As you say, it brings back so many wonderful memories. I remember as a kid in the Arizona desert seeing THE MOLE PEOPLE at a drive-in. A huge dust storm blew in and made the film even scarier. I don't remember the last time I saw a film at a drive-in, but I think it was probably CARRIE in 1976. Those were the days!

Related to this, there's a wonderful scene in Spielberg's first feature, THE SUGARLAND EXPRESS (1974), that takes place near a drive-in. And the remarkable way that Spielberg directed it to bring the film right into the scene, close-up, was the first sign of his genius that I remember seeing. Echoes of Orson Welles.

Btw, thanks for the links.

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Funny you should ask! A friend of mine and I watched the original The Fly movie a long time ago. We were so drunk we cried at the end!

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Once the whole family went on July 4. The idea was that parents could watch the movie while the kids could watch the fireworks that were going on out the side of the car. Only problem was that the movie the The Graduate and one kid just happened to be looking at the screen when a nude scene came on!

Years later went with a date to see the Maxwell Smart movie. About halfway through it seemed very boring so we switched to the back seat to make out instead. To this day I don't know how that movie turned out, but doubt I missed much!

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There's nothing better than the drive-in on a summer evening. I went last month to the Tiki Drive-In in Montclaire, California.

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In 1968, when I was 8 years old, I watched 2001, A Space Odyssey in a sleeping bag on top of our 1967, Chevrolet station wagon!

Greatest movie experience ever! Weiss Drive Inn on Hwy 25 in Augusta Georgia!

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Yes. When I was little, a baby-sitter took my brother and I to a drive-in movie theater to watch Disney's "Peter Pan." It was the 80s, so they were having a 30th anniversary thing going on with all their classic 1950s animated films. I remember being in the baby-sitter's car and watching it play on a big screen through the windshield.

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Many, many, many times in the early 1960s at, mainly, the Fredericksburg Rd Drive-in and the Bandera Rd Drive-in, both northside San Antonio, Texas.

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Good old days!

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