# When was the last time you went to a drive-in movie? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 7, 2010, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-went-to-a-drive-in-movie/556408 "2010-10-07T20:33:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2010, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-went-to-a-drive-in-movie/556408/1 "2010-10-07T20:33:18Z")
There’s one within an hour’s drive of my house but I’ve never been there. In fact, I can’t remember the last one I went to. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2010, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-went-to-a-drive-in-movie/556408/2 "2010-10-07T20:35:35Z")
Two years ago- there’s a great theater near where we stay on Cape Cod. We go every summer (except last year) and drive-in is a ritual! ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2010, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-went-to-a-drive-in-movie/556408/3 "2010-10-07T20:37:01Z")
Wow, so long ago I don’t even remember what the movie was (and I’m usually very good at remembering stuff like that) ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2010, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-went-to-a-drive-in-movie/556408/4 "2010-10-07T20:37:26Z")
The one and only time I’ve been to a drive-in theater was in the Seattle area during the 2001 Seattle International Film Festival. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2010, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-went-to-a-drive-in-movie/556408/5 "2010-10-07T20:49:15Z")
If you count art installations, I was at the [Empire Drive-In](http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/u0JVldTMvL6dE5LnOkDaew?feat=directlink) a couple of weeks ago. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2010, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-went-to-a-drive-in-movie/556408/6 "2010-10-07T20:58:09Z")
> [@ArchiveGuy](#): > > Wow, so long ago I don’t even remember what the movie was (and I’m usually very good at remembering stuff like that) I have the same problem. It was around the time of _The Boston Strangler_ and/or _Fathom_ with Raquel Welch. 1967-8? ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2010, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-went-to-a-drive-in-movie/556408/7 "2010-10-07T21:03:23Z")
At any discussion about drive-in movie theaters and I have to mention that I’ve been to an X Rated drive in theater! It closed in '95. The Capri Drive-In in Sand Springs, OK. I think back and I’m just amazed that anyone could get away with showing a porno movie at an outdoor theater. I still remember the feature oddly enough… John Holmes flick called (I think) Prisoner of Paradise. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2010, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-went-to-a-drive-in-movie/556408/8 "2010-10-07T21:05:40Z")
The Dark Knight. When was that, 2008? ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2010, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-went-to-a-drive-in-movie/556408/9 "2010-10-07T21:06:11Z")
It was a double feature of Gremlins and the Terminator, so…a long time ago. ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2010, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-went-to-a-drive-in-movie/556408/10 "2010-10-07T21:06:17Z")
Just last year. Saw Inglourious Basterds at a local drive-in. It started pouring toward the end of the movie, about when David Bowie’s “Cat People” starts playing. I had to turn on the defrost, but the wind blowing, lightning crashing and rain streaking across the windshield somehow just added to the awesomeness of the climax, and it turned out to be one of the coolest movie-going experiences I’ve ever had. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2010, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-went-to-a-drive-in-movie/556408/11 "2010-10-07T21:07:14Z")
_Star Wars_, 1977. ---
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2010, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-went-to-a-drive-in-movie/556408/12 "2010-10-07T21:09:26Z")
> [@Enright3](#): > > At any discussion about drive-in movie theaters and I have to mention that I’ve been to an X Rated drive in theater! It closed in '95. The Capri Drive-In in Sand Springs, OK. I think back and I’m just amazed that anyone could get away with showing a porno movie at an outdoor theater. I still remember the feature oddly enough… John Holmes flick called (I think) Prisoner of Paradise. I remember the Capri! I went once back around 1981. I don’t remember the movie but I do remember being vaguely disappointed. Did you ever go to the Dewey Dirties? ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2010, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-went-to-a-drive-in-movie/556408/13 "2010-10-07T21:15:12Z")
There’s one about 40 minutes from here that we went to twice, about five years ago. We stopped going because we had an infant who refused to sleep, and spend the whole time crying in the back seat. So we rolled up the windows so as not to annoy the other patrons, but then it got _hot_. And we could not turn on the A/C because we were in a car that had daytime running lights, and there was no way to run the car in idle without having the headlights on. So we were sweating like pigs in a stuffy car with a crying baby in the back seat. Now that our kids are older, maybe we’ll try again. Or get a babsitter. ETA: If it’s still there; I’m not sure it is. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2010, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-went-to-a-drive-in-movie/556408/14 "2010-10-07T21:18:44Z")
The last movie I saw at the drive in was \*Bridget Jones’s Diary. \* Back in the 70s I was sharing a house. One Sunday night one of the women was cooking a roast for all of us. Looking at the paper I discovered that the drive in nearby had a great double feature on but we wouldn’t have time to eat our meal and get there. So we packaged up the whole meal in an Esky, packed plates, cutlery, glasses, wine, the whole works and rushed off to the drive in. The four of us sat around in the car eating the Sunday roast while watching the movie. It was so much fun that we did it pretty regularly for a few years. ---
**Author:** ![AllShookDown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d9b06d/32.png) [@AllShookDown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AllShookDown)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2010, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-went-to-a-drive-in-movie/556408/15 "2010-10-07T21:25:16Z")
Animal House - 1978. ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2010, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-went-to-a-drive-in-movie/556408/16 "2010-10-07T21:27:24Z")
It’s at least thirty five years since I last went to a drive-in movie. I don’t even know whether there are any still operating in Sydney. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2010, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-went-to-a-drive-in-movie/556408/17 "2010-10-07T21:28:36Z")
“Red Dawn”; 1984; Escondido, California. ---
**Author:** ![PSXer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/48db29/32.png) [@PSXer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PSXer)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2010, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-went-to-a-drive-in-movie/556408/18 "2010-10-07T21:34:40Z")
never been to a movie at a drive-in or seen a drive-in ---
**Author:** ![MyFootsZZZ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/myfootszzz/32/12580_2.png) [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2010, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-went-to-a-drive-in-movie/556408/19 "2010-10-07T21:39:08Z")
Within the last month here, love the drive-in near us. You can bring food, turn the volume to your liking. If the movie sucks, you can talk, or make out. I got some once… but they probably don’t condone that there. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Sensitive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/58956e/32.png) [@Darth\_Sensitive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Sensitive)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2010, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-went-to-a-drive-in-movie/556408/20 "2010-10-07T21:41:22Z")
This summer with the girlfriend. Double feature of Iron Man 2 and something that I saw the first 10 minutes of. 😃 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-went-to-a-drive-in-movie/556408.md?page=2)