Well the drive-in anyway. I bought a ticket for my car. We’re going to see Trolls World Tour. Because that’s the only movie showing. I think my car and I will have a very nice time.
They haven’t allowed our drive-in to open yet. But this may change on Thursday when our governor decides what she our state is going to do about our covid-19 mandates.
Trolls World Tour was terrible, absolutely terrible. We had a ton of fun. Next week is a double feature-The Invisible Man and 1917. I saw and hated them both. Already bought tickets. AND THEY’RE OPENING THE SNACK BAR!
Coyote Drive-In near downtown is currently showing Sonic the Hedgehog
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
Troll’s World Tour
The Fast And The Furious
This theater usually has a simul mix of first run and classics, family and adult flix.
The best two films I’ve seen at the drive in were MASH
The Night of the Living Dead
Both were first run. Somehow, the drive in chain managed to lock up the exclusive release rights locally to both films for as long as they wanted.
I don’t have any idea how the drive in chain managed to accomplish that, but each time those theaters held onto their exclusives for months.
Which meant that every single night was a teenage- and hippy-fest of pot, booze, and sex, and some actual adults and their fancy wines and classy picnics, along with the films. We went to these over and over.
Damn, it was practically better than a rock concert.
Our drive-in never closed
Have fun!
Wish we had a reasonably close drive in. That sounds like so much fun!
@tinamarie1974 I would swing by and pick you up!
@sammydog01 oohh a Meh outing. That would be fun!
@sammydog01 @tinamarie1974
Me too!
I’m jelly. The closest drive-in is over an hour away from me.
still waiting for ours to open… then need to get some weekend days off…
http://van-del.com/
The last drive-in that I knew of near here closed maybe 20 years ago. I wonder if this pandemic will cause them to come back.
Drive-in? Those still exist? I would totally go, haven’t been to one since I’ve been a little kid.
AMC theaters (US’s largest chain) has announced that (when they open) they will no longer show films from Universal Studios. It’s backlash from comments from the NBCUniversal CEO , made, coincidentally, in the wake of Trolls World Tour. In a nutshell, he said that Universal is going to release movies to streaming formats the same day they release them to the theaters.
@DrWorm
I suspect this will be settled soon, to take things back to normal.
Big bucks revenues for a full year’s slate of film releases thru primary streaming or downloadable 1st release is an unproven strategy.
And film theaters have everything to lose if they press this too far.
So I expect them all to kiss and make up.
This will bring Drive-ins back, baby!!
They haven’t allowed our drive-in to open yet. But this may change on Thursday when our governor decides what
sheour state is going to do about our covid-19 mandates.Our last/only drive-in closed, maybe, 25 years ago? 30? So I’m super jealous on multiple levels, although it is mostly the flea market I miss.
Trolls World Tour was terrible, absolutely terrible. We had a ton of fun. Next week is a double feature-The Invisible Man and 1917. I saw and hated them both. Already bought tickets. AND THEY’RE OPENING THE SNACK BAR!
@sammydog01 you didn’t like 1917?
@RiotDemon Nope.
@RiotDemon @sammydog01
You only have one nearby drive in? Ouch.
For some cultural resources, Texas is awesome..
Coyote Drive-In near downtown is currently showing
Sonic the Hedgehog
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
Troll’s World Tour
The Fast And The Furious
This theater usually has a simul mix of first run and classics, family and adult flix.
The best two films I’ve seen at the drive in were
MASH
The Night of the Living Dead
Both were first run. Somehow, the drive in chain managed to lock up the exclusive release rights locally to both films for as long as they wanted.
I don’t have any idea how the drive in chain managed to accomplish that, but each time those theaters held onto their exclusives for months.
Which meant that every single night was a teenage- and hippy-fest of pot, booze, and sex, and some actual adults and their fancy wines and classy picnics, along with the films. We went to these over and over.
Damn, it was practically better than a rock concert.
VAN GOGH! MANGO! TANGO! AWESOME!
I drove past the Galaxy Drive-In Theater on I45 near Ennis (just s of Dallas) about at sunset this evening.
More than a mile of vehicles waited in line for entry. (on the service road) Weather is fine; great night for it.
Looks like fun.
They have adjusted their rules for the pandemic situation, to ensure distancing. And the snack bar is closed.
(The snark bar is prob open)
http://www.galaxydriveintheatre.com/
I didn’t check out what’s playing tho. I’m not sure that matters so much.
@f00l The Starlite Drive-In is still closed here.
I cant help but think of Pedro and the Man when I think of a drive-in movie theater.
@mike808 “Fuchi Capesta!”
@macromeh
“We’re just here together, man. … I mean like we’re not ‘together’, like that way.”