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Post by fangirl1975 on Mar 18, 2017 19:19:07 GMT
Anyone here ever been to a drive in movie theater? If so please share your first experience at one on this thread. I'll begin. On September 8, 2001 my best friend and I went to Bengie's Drive In in the Baltimore suburbs. The three movies were The Animal, The Others, and Jay And Silent Bob Strike Back. The extras included an Inspector Willoughby cartoon, a Barney Bear cartoon, a live action comedy short, retro trailers, and concession stand ads.
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Post by President Ackbar™ on Mar 19, 2017 3:26:48 GMT
Anyone here ever been to a drive in movie theater? If so please share your first experience at one on this thread. I'll begin. On September 8, 2001 my best friend and I went to Bengie's Drive In in the Baltimore suburbs. The three movies were The Animal, The Others, and Jay And Silent Bob Strike Back. The extras included an Inspector Willoughby cartoon, a Barney Bear cartoon, a live action comedy short, retro trailers, and concession stand ads. I saw Rollerball in 1975. Also saw The Empire Strikes Back / Oh Heavenly Dog in 1980. Then Cobra / Runaway in 1986. I'm sure there were others, but those I remember very clearly. |
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Post by Johnny-Come-Lately on Mar 19, 2017 3:31:57 GMT
The first movie I ever saw at the drive-in was "The Wizard". I remember we couldn't get the sound to work and missed the previews, but we got the movie to work. It was a place in Oakville, Ontario, I'm not sure if it's still there.
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Post by bowilly on Mar 19, 2017 3:47:45 GMT
I went with my parents to see a Clint Eastwood double feature. They were having a special showing of The Good, The Bad and The Ugly followed by Hang Em High. My mother made some sandwiches and snacks, iced down some drinks and it was a very good night
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Post by number1212 on Mar 19, 2017 21:31:16 GMT
I have been there twice. My local drive in closed a few years back, but honestly I don't think it was great. The first was in 2001 when my family saw Planet of the Apes/Dr.Dolittle 2. I remember getting bored and looking over at another screen that was playing Osmosis Jones. The other time in 2007 when I saw the third PotC movie with my friend and his family. The second movie was Wild Hogs but we left because my friend's younger siblings were getting tired (and I already saw Wild Hogs and had no interest in seeing it again).
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Post by xystophoros on Mar 19, 2017 21:36:36 GMT
There are two drive-in theaters in New York's Hudson Valley.
I took a girl I was dating to one of them, in Hyde Park NY, which was unfortunately playing Gone In 60 Seconds at the time...terrible movie, but whatever, you don't generally go to a drive-in for the movie.
Saw the Planet of the Apes reboot at the same drive-in with some of my friends. We brought chairs, sat outside, and drank beers during the movie. It was awesome.
And I took another girl to a different drive in, in Poughkeepsie NY. We had been dating for a few months. This was back in 2010.
I really like drive-ins. They've got that old-time Americana feel. You drive up, park, and just tune your radio to a local station that pipes the audio in to your car. Which means you can also turn it down if the movie kind of sucks but you just want to hang out with your girl.
Also, both of the ones I've been to had those central concession stands, and both of them were the old-school original concessions that had been restored.
But most of all I like the feeling of watching movies under an open sky on warm summer nights...to me, that's fun, and an excuse to get out.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2017 21:39:17 GMT
Summer of 1974 my buddies and I were getting our drivers licenses. Sunday nights we would curse over the Triangle Drive-In to watch soft porn movies . 5 bucks a car load. Good times
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Post by Flynn on Mar 19, 2017 22:38:59 GMT
My mom and her friends went to the drive-in sometimes when I was a kid (late '70s), and they would bring some of us kids with them. Although I went several times, the only time I remember was a double bill of Superman and Walking Tall.
About a decade later, some friends took me to a drive-in double bill of Commando and Back to School.
Good times. The only other thing I remember is loving the pizza.
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Post by Utpe on Mar 19, 2017 22:58:24 GMT
I did once back in the 1980s when I was a kid. I was with my parents. According to them, I didn't sit still for a minute. I guess I was just really uncomfortable watching a movie in a car. They had the speaker on the driver's side, and you had to walk to the concession stand to purchase food and beverages during intermission. It also started to rain, so they decided to call it a night anyhow. I believe they only went because admission was dirt cheap.
Unfortunately, I don't remember the film. I wanna say it was some oddball B-movie. That might explain why the tickets were so inexpensive.
I decided to look them up and, sure enough, they're still in business. Though, their movie selection blows. They only show a maximum of three movies per day. It's $5.00 for admission, $7.00 for a double feature. Not too shabby.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2017 6:42:15 GMT
I saw Empire Strikes Back when it was re released in the 90s in a drive in theatre. There are some still around today, you just have to find them.
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Post by Sandman on Mar 20, 2017 17:31:16 GMT
Cannot remember the first time but your post sure brings back great memories. 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. If I can find it I will post the link here.  |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2017 17:48:02 GMT
I saw Contact in '97 at a drive in. Can't believe that was 20 years ago....
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Post by kimgoo on Mar 20, 2017 18:12:20 GMT
I've never even seen one in person. Always thought they looked really fun, though.
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Post by Sandman on Mar 20, 2017 23:50:17 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2017 1:58:08 GMT
That Chevy Chase movie Spies Like Us ruined them for me. Each time I went to a drive-in I half expected it to turn into a missile base. Suffice to say it sadly never happened.
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Post by lostinlimbo on Mar 22, 2017 3:27:37 GMT
The first-time was back in 1993 as a kid with my parents and sister. Jurassic Park was the main feature. Loved the atmosphere then. Strangely enough the last time I went to a drive-in was two years ago with my ex-girlfriend. The exact same one, though the place was going for more a 50-60s retro experience and Jurassic World was playing.
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Post by nitestocker372 on Mar 22, 2017 6:03:58 GMT
I've been to a couple when I was a kid, but they didn't seem fun to me. I only remember the bad things like not hearing the audio good or seeing the screen very well. Laying in the back of an uncomfortable truck on a hot and humid night while smelling the exhaust from the cars in front of us and getting bit by mosquitoes. The last time I went with my family right before our last drive-in closed down and the kids just whined the whole night. Strangely enough, I experienced the same things going camping all the time and loved it, but I guess drive-ins were just not my thing.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2017 7:56:09 GMT
The first-time was back in 1993 as a kid with my parents and sister. Jurassic Park was the main feature. Loved the atmosphere then. Strangely enough the last time I went to a drive-in was two years ago with my ex-girlfriend. The exact same one, though the place was going for more a 50-60s retro experience and Jurassic World was playing. Multi-level Déjà vu. |
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Post by NileQT87 on Mar 22, 2017 8:16:52 GMT
Mrs. Doubtfire is the only movie I've ever seen at a drive-in. I don't even know if the drive-in I went to still exists in San Diego. Obviously, that wasn't remotely recently. I was 6 1/2 years old when that movie was released.
R.I.P. Robin.
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Post by Spike Del Rey on Mar 22, 2017 14:12:20 GMT
I went too many times to remember during the 70s and 80s...the first movie I can vividly recall seeing at a drive-in was The Poseidon Adventure. Was always a good time, even if I did fall asleep by the end of the third movie (yeah, triple features back in the 70s). In the 80s when I was a teenager, the drive-in was more about the party going on, the movies shown were incidental. My best memory of that era was going to see a double bill of Raiders of the Lost Ark and Star Trek: TMP. My cheerleader date was so bored watching the Enterprise fly into a cloud for what seemed like half the movie that she put her head in my lap and told me to wake her up for Raiders. I jokingly said to her "Well, as long as you're down there"...next thing I knew, she unzipped my shorts and she spent the rest of the movie entertaining me. Damn I miss those days, kids today don't know what they're missing.
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