# What, exactly, is the appeal of going to a drive-in movie?

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**Created:** [September 2, 2023, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-is-the-appeal-of-going-to-a-drive-in-movie/989518 "2023-09-02T17:31:20Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 3, 2023, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-is-the-appeal-of-going-to-a-drive-in-movie/989518/89 "2023-09-03T20:07:29Z")

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While we’re reminiscing, here’s a thread from 8 years ago about drive-ins and memories thereof:

> [@Most Mundane, and probably pointless](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-mundane-and-probably-pointless/734989):
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> So here it is, 530ish in the am. Mrs. Guest and I took my fosterling to his first drive-in theater movies last night. Minions smiley and Jurassic World :dubious::rolleyes:slight_smile:rolleyes::dubious: and heh! fosterling was more fun to watch than the movies almost. Anyway, I’ve been up for a while now with the fosterling because we allowed him to have too much popcorn and soda:smack:. totally mundane(ish) part of life So that got me wondering, how in the hell are drive-in theaters a fading thing …

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