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« on: March 31, 2023, 06:09:58 AM »
Ya know- theater. Not a hot dog and root beer stand.

I seen 2001: A SPACE ODESSEY back in 1968. I fell asleep after the monkeys.
Saw BAMBI too, when I was a kid.
Saw RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD in Shirley, LI!
There's one about 15 miles from here in Hartford. But they don't show anything good. Mostly kiddie fare.
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« Reply #1 on: March 31, 2023, 06:22:24 AM »
The first time I visited the US, we did catch a double bill. The only things that were showing though were double bills of Snow Night (the one with her from the Twilight movies), and Battleships. Neither were particularly good movies, but we had fun together.
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« Reply #2 on: March 31, 2023, 07:58:01 AM »
There was a drive-in in the small town I was from.  I remember watching Batman and Ghostbusters II there.  I probabaly saw a few other movies, but those are the only two I can remember. 

I remember my little brother (who was six at the time) crying when Joker died in Batman.
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« Reply #3 on: March 31, 2023, 08:17:30 AM »
When I was a kid we went several times. The movie I remember seeing there best was YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN.  Thumbup
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« Reply #4 on: March 31, 2023, 08:52:57 AM »
^ I saw that at the Strand (not a drive in) when it came out!
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« Reply #5 on: March 31, 2023, 01:05:01 PM »
In my hometown we had one called The Flamingo, sadly long gone.
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« Reply #6 on: March 31, 2023, 01:26:53 PM »
This town had several back in the 1970s... Some are still standing, even though they're out of service...

The two I remember mostly, are the Bellwood, which is now a flea market, & the Southside Plaza, which is now an impound lot...
There's a tiny one in Goochland that's still standing, but it's a Christmas Tree farm now... I forget the name...

The Goochland Drive in was built in in the Gum Spring/Hadensville area in 2009, & is still up & running, But I've never been to it, because it's a pretty long way from me...
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« Reply #7 on: March 31, 2023, 02:58:55 PM »
I looked it up- there are only 11 drive-ins left in Michigan. Besides the Sunset in Hatford, there's one in Dowajac (about 30 miles from here) and one in Three Rivers (also about 30 miles from here.)  Bluesad
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« Reply #8 on: March 31, 2023, 04:12:18 PM »
I have, but not to see a movie.

My oldest son graduated high school in 2020, smack in the middle of the pandemic. So since they couldn't pack the school auditorium with family members/etc. for the graduation ceremony they video taped it, and it was shown on the big screen a few nights later at a drive-in theater just over the state line in upstate New York.

I thought it was a creative solution to a unique problem.
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« Reply #9 on: March 31, 2023, 04:34:12 PM »
Yes. 3 or 4 times to the Goochland Drive-In in Virginia.


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« Reply #10 on: March 31, 2023, 05:32:44 PM »
I remember seeing when they were new LT. ROBIN CRUSOE (1966 which means I was about 4.5) CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG and about a year later COLD TURKEY ... at Drive Ins.  In the '80s, lots of crap like SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT III, METALSTORM THE DESTRUCTION OF JAROD SIN ( Lookingup) even STAR WARS (in re-release) and MESSIAH OF EVIL... and best of all, GREMLINS in 1984.  It opens with Christmas Baby Please Come Home and the entire Drive In started cheering whistling and pounding approval that HOT July night...
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« Reply #11 on: March 31, 2023, 05:42:08 PM »
Quote from: Cult_Moody_Movies on March 31, 2023, 04:34:12 PM
Yes. 3 or 4 times to the Goochland Drive-In in Virginia.




Nice!  Thumbup

Quote from: Allhallowsday on March 31, 2023, 05:32:44 PM
I remember seeing when they were new LT. ROBIN CRUSOE (1966 which means I was about 4.5) CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG and about a year later COLD TURKEY ... at Drive Ins.  In the '80s, lots of crap like SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT III, METALSTORM THE DESTRUCTION OF JAROD SIN ( Lookingup) even STAR WARS (in re-release) and MESSIAH OF EVIL... and best of all, GREMLINS in 1984.  It opens with Christmas Baby Please Come Home and the entire Drive In started cheering whistling and pounding approval that HOT July night...

I've only seen 3 movies at drive ins. I would have loved to see MESSIAH OF EVIL at one, though! Fun movie!
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« Reply #12 on: March 31, 2023, 06:16:39 PM »
I've never seen one in person
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« Reply #13 on: March 31, 2023, 06:57:40 PM »
Seems like it was almost a drive-in ritual to loudly tease the projectionist for any little thing that went wrong.

Went to the Family Dri-Vin (that's the spelling; no joke!) in Tigard, OR to see STAR WARS, WIZARDS and DAMNATION ALLEY-- the latter 2 on a double bill.  Replaced by a cinema in the mid to late 80s that just went defunct.

Saw the awful MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE and EXPLORERS somewhere around Seattle, as well as CREEPSHOW 2 with my mom.

Still got a few drive ins in Oregon; one probably 15 miles away or so in Newberg.
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« Reply #14 on: March 31, 2023, 07:00:26 PM »
Quote from: retrorussell on March 31, 2023, 06:57:40 PM


Saw the awful MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE

I LOVE that movie!
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