Yeah, the Drive-in.
Watered-down cordial drinks, expensive fast-food, forgetting where you were parked and spending most of the second movie trying to find the car, the 'Cool crowd' in their P Vans reversed in with the matress in the back, idiots who put their foot on the brake when smooching the girlfriend and got tooted by the cars behind, the ones who forgot to remove the speaker before driving off, the end-of-movie Grand Prix to get out the gate first.
Great times!
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I go to the pictures once every few years now and do prefer the "gold class" with a shared cheese platter and a glass of red. If I'm going that infrequently it's nice to make a comfy occasion / date-night out of it but there are not enough movies I want to see in 2D or 3D to go more often.
We did Mad Max Fury Road in 3D, big effects, fun in 3D but (spoiler alert) it was just a car chase in one direction for half the movie and then they turned around a came back. I still don't know what the story was and not entirely sure the 3D made it more immersive but it was a night out.
My kids go (normal, not gold) a handful of times a year but I expect that's more about eating popcorn with their mates than actually "needing" to see a movie.
We used to go to the drive-in every Sunday night (when I was 18ish) didn't matter what was on or if we had seen it, it was just something we all did. I miss those times!Leave a comment:
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3D is dead, again.
Had a smile at this, I recall as a kid in the 1950's how 3D took the world by storm and was going to revolutionise the film industry, lasted for a while then quietly died, like most things it's recently been given another outing with a (predictable) similar result.
https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/movies/3d-is-dead-almost-long-live-the-food-to-your-seat-luxury-cinema-20190607-p51vh6.html
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