We went to the drive-in

So, Rob and I haven’t been to a movie in forever. There hasn’t been much we’ve been interested in seeing in the theater and Rob just doesn’t like the theater experience too much. The only things I’ve been interested in seeing have been at the new Landmark Arts, but Rob hasn’t been really into the movies enough to want to watch them outside of his home.

Anyway, we have agreed on two movies that we can see in the theater, and we went and saw one of them on Saturday. We went to the Tibbs Drive-In and saw Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby. Rob thought it was only OK and relied on the stereotypes of the French and gays too much. I thought it was fun to just sit back and let the stereotypes be poked fun at. It was all in good fun and there were some really good lines. PS- the other movie we’ll probably see in the theater is Idlewild, the Outkast movie

Anyway, it was my first time to the drive-in and I was really excited. I felt like I was in small town America back in 1965. It was great. i didn’t realize the concessions weren’t just movie concessions, but a snack bar too. We ended up getting the tradtional candy, soda, popcorn combo, but the carmel apple slices were calling me and you could get burgers and stuff too.

We went in my beautiful Harvest Moon Beige Beetle Convertible which people always stop me to admire, but that’s another post. We put the top down and Rob had to put his seat back so the top of the windshield wasn’t blocking his view. The popcorn was awesome, the temperature was perfect, and the FM radio sound was good, but a little static-y and very bass heavy. The Beetle has dyatime running lamps and you’re not supposed to have your lights on at the drive-in, so I couldn’t have the key turned to ACC for the radio, but someone at VW must have thought of this situation, because the Beetle radio doesn’t turn off until you take the key out of the ignition so we were able to enjoy the radio sound without shining our lights in people’s eyes.

So, I had a great time, and now we are planning on seeing as many movies as we can at the drive-in. I’ll only have the Beetle about 750 more miles, but I’m sure I will have something suitable in the future and we can make do with whatever I’m driving. I wish there were more of the classic intermission commercials played instead of Scion and Verizon Wireless ads, but Rob has like 12 hours of classic drive-in intermissions on DVD off of eBay if I want to see them though. It was also fun to laugh at the local commercials, like the lady from the 80’s with the claw hair in the Pet Island commercial.
—> Read Rob’s take on our drive-in trip here —>

Here are some pictures that I took as the movie was starting just after dusk, and also during the intermission, which for us was the end, since we didn’t want to stay for the Wayans Brothers’ Little Man.

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