Drive In Movies Making A Big Comeback!

[EricJ]

Oh, you’re not enjoying it?

They closed the danged Sealabs, and they postponed the entire Rollerball season just before the big Tokyo vs. Houston finals...Makes you want to go shoot a tree!
And now Pan Am's slapped travel restrictions on the off-world colony flights, just because a few replicants tested positive!

Eh, I'm going to go back to the empty theater and put on "Woodstock".

[Ben]

On the other hand...

COVID-19

IN COLOR

[gaastra]

https://deadline.com/2020/08/sony-pictu ... 202993440/

[Daniel]

Not a single cartoon.

[EricJ]

Not a single cartoon.

Yeah, being Sony, you'd think they'd be showing Into the Spiderverse twice, instead of the live-action films!

In our area, where the local woodsy drive-in is an hour away, one of the shopping centers tried the new idea of "Why don't they have them in parking lots, and project them on the big white Wal-Mart?
One local group tried that, but most makeshift drive-ins today are for charity, and this was a benefit showing of live-action Aladdin for $25 per car. Which is not great if you're showing up solo.

[Daniel]

That is a bit pricey. $15 maybe, if just to be out and about!

[Farerb]

I saw that some places are doing something like this and that seems more special than seeing a movie in a car. I would have loved seeing Titanic that way.

[Ben]

A news item here about a month ago showed somewhere doing this with Jaws! They called it a "float in", which I thought was cool.

Looked pretty packed, too, though if they get any more popular...they’re gonna need a bigger boat!

[Daniel]

That's actually pretty cool, immersive in a way! You can pretend you're on lifeboat. Of course if I were to watch with someone, I would make sure to have ice cubes handy to throw when the ship hits the iceberg. Talk about a 4D experience.

[gaastra]

Disney plus teaming up with au drive ins.

https://whatsondisneyplus.com/disney-dr ... australia/

[Ben]

...but no Mulan...

[gaastra]

Queen of england is opening her own drive in! Huh?

https://www.cbr.com/queen-england-opens ... al-public/

[James]

Might have to check this out. It's only about 20-30 minutes away from me:

Daytime Drive-in Theater Debuts
https://deadline.com/2021/08/daytime-dr ... 234815033/

[Ben]

Days Of Thunder at a Drive-In could be quite fun!