Well THAT was...interesting.

[captain_slinky]

Know who goes to the Drive-In Theater?

I had assumed it might be the Nostalgia Buffs in their meticulously restored '57 Ford T-Birds... elderly folks looking to relive a little bit of that old "Summer Lovin'", maybe bring along The Grandkids.

But the harsh reality hit me tonight at the Puget Park Drive-In. Besides myself (the only average, upright citizen in the entire park) there were THREE kinds of people

• People with babies
• People who couldn't possibly sit through an entire 90-minute movie without a cigarette
• People who couldn't possibly sit through an entire 90-minute movie without a 6-pack of Schlitz

The movies I got to see (Fantastic Four 2: Rise Of The Silver Surfer and Ocean's 13, giving me a grand total of 19 by the end of the title sequences) were both sufficient but enfuriating due to the crappy FM radio in my car going in and out all night long. F42:RotSS was every bit as good as the first movie (take that as you will), but I still think that the Fantastic Four needs to be a TV Series rather than a series of movies. It's always been more of a soap-opera than a comic book, they just happen to have Super Powers. Ocean's 13 was the BIG SUPRISE of the eveing, though, and I absolutely loved it! I always enjoy a good "Con" movie :)

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[bjorker.livejournal.com]

Well that's slightly re-assuring for me, though. Dan is SET on taking Aurelia with us to Puget Park, and I just can't imagine that working out so well. He desperately wants to try it, though. I won't feel as bad about what mayhem might occur if lots of other people have babies with them. :P

Combined with the tobacco and booze though, that's a bit scary. Then again, as I always say, "it IS Everett ..."

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

I think it's actually pronounced "Evurt". As in "Ah was burn in evurt an ahl dah in Evurt".

:)

[greenpear.livejournal.com]

I'll probably see FF2 the same way I saw FF1. When it hits TV.

I usually don't go to movie theatres cause I have problems with crowds. Maybe that could be a fourth type of people...

Drive-ins!

[bghsmith.livejournal.com]

Here abouts locally (where booze has been banned at Drive-Ins, so they attempt to be sly) it's people with a hundred-gazillion children who they don't want to make sit still and people who don't get that once the movie starts headlights = BAD.

The babies I don't mind so much, it's the 5-17 years olds who run up and down the isles screaming and standing in large groups in front of people sitting in lawn chairs that piss me off. Oh, and the dick-heads in giant SUV's/trucks (And this is the Midwest so everyone has a pick-up) who park in the first few rows. These must be the same dick-heads who park said SUV's/trucks in the 'small cars only' spots.

You have to go during the week to have a decent experience at our local Drive-In.

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[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah! i forogt about *those* groups of people! We gots all them, too :)

Mind you, I still think it's a fabulous idea/experience and I won't be detered from letting Molly's first movie experience be at our Drive-In!

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[bghsmith.livejournal.com]

Monkey saw Cars at the Drive-In last summer. We went on a Wednesday, so the place was pretty empty. It worked out great!

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[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

I don't think our Drive-In is open any days other that Friday and Saturday... I think that'll change once school lets out, though!

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[supernovame.livejournal.com]

i believe ours is open all week right now. Oh and you forgot the teens who can't find a place to hang out away from their parents. And the parents with kids thing I don't mind so much, because it is a lot harder for the parents to pretend it is not their kid in a walk in theater.

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[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm totaly cool with all the kids! Just not cool with all the kids around all the smoking and all the booze.

[michaelbailey.livejournal.com]

It's interesting that you say that the FF should be a television series. I really enjoyed the first one and thought that it captured the spirit of the FF perfectly. When the credits started rolling though I looked at my wife and two friends and said, "Well, that's the best television pilot that has ever come out of a Marvel property."

But I am looking forward to it.

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

It's worth seeing on The Big Screen, definately :)

Wouldn't it be nice if they could make a PG-rated HBO Original Series or something? 'Cuz THAT'S where the FF belong!

[michaelbailey.livejournal.com]

It would give me a reason to subscribe to HBO. Then again they could release it on video, but I don't feel like paying $70-$80 for a set.

When they started the animated SPAWN series on HBO back in 1997 or so I became a firm believer in the fact that they should do a twelve part animated mini-series of the WATCHMEN.

We're getting a movie so let's see how that works out, but the mini-series would have been a better idea. More room to work with.

Since no one else said it....

[nani-ka.livejournal.com]

You? Average, upright citizen?

*cough*

Although its good to know I should wait until F42:RotSS comes out in the free section of VOD...

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[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

Oh no! Not at all! Fantastic Four is definately worth seing on The Big Screen!

[lynna12000.livejournal.com]

Your description of the other .......charming customers of the drive thru just cements my decision to not attend the drive thru. Maybe if a gun was held to my head, but even then, maybe not.

I agree with you on the soap opera thing with the FF. Personally, I'd have liked to see Namor rather than the Silver Surfer in this movie. But then again, I've never really seen what was so cool about Norrin Radd.

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

Norrin Radd was Comics' first Emo-Goth! Long before Sandman an his crew were inspiring the likes of Tori Amos and a bevy of black-clad poetry-spewing depressed kids, Norin was there with his super-long dialogues of inner conflict and turmoil. A hero for having saved his own planet, but at what cost? The obliteration of a million other worlds?

Plus, the characte LOOKS cooler than Namor. Shiney silver dude with a shiney silver surfoard makes a MUCH better toy than a dude in a speedo with wings on his ankles :)

[lynna12000.livejournal.com]

Namor was MUCH MUCH MUCH cooler than Norrin! Technically, Namor was angsting long before the Surfer!

He fought the Nazis in WWII with Captain Britain. He was a member of the Avengers. (and thereby saving his home planet many, many, many times.) Namor rules Atlantis; as such he is his own boss. Not someone elses' flunky.

Plus, he makes Reed very jealous. Bonus on the Soap Opera points for that!

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

Oh don't get me wrong... Namor is indeed the bette *character*, you just have to look through this with the eyes of a Hollywood Producer. Shiney dude w/surfboard V. Fishy dude in a speedo. No contest!

However, you ALSO have to remember that the current trend in Hollywood is to look at every property as a "Trillogy" potential. IF there are good people hinking this out on the back-end (and that's a mighty big "IF"), then the Movie FF just might break down like this: (1) Sue and Reed get together. (2) Sue and Reed get Married. (3) Sue & Reed come close to breaking up due to Namor's influence, only to be tearfully reunited and their relationship made all the stronger my the experiene by the end of the trillogy, giving us the all-american moral for our story "The Family Is What's Most Important"!

[supernovame.livejournal.com]

i bet though that if they have namor in the next movie, he won't be wearing just the speedos, they'll probably change it to some cool battle armor, sells better as an action figure, unless johnny depp plays namor, he may be willing to try it, but it still may end up looking like a shirtless peter pan anyways.

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

No no no... you have to THINK like Hollywood! Specifically, the Hollywood that decided Dr. Doom should be a New Yorker who goes on the space-mission with the rest of the FF. No, here's my vision for the movie version of Namor...

First of all, he'll be played by a young black-man cross-over artist, either na R&B singer or a rapper. Probably R&B. He'll be a well respected business magnate who's trying to take over Fantastic Four Enterprises with the help of Johny Storm, who really wants them to make more money off their image. Seeing that Reed is always burried in his work and neither Johnny nor Ben sem to be very business-minded, Namor goes after the company by trying to seduce Sue. Oh, but he has a deep, dark, deep-dark secret! For once every 12 hours he has to submerge himself completely in salt water or start dieing! He has little gills! And his entire corporate empire is financed with sunken treasure! His secret somehow gets revealed to all of New York, his financial empire crumbles, and he decides he must extract his revenge by having all the creatures of The Seven Seas attack New York. And for the very last scene, Sue announces that she's pregnant. BUT WHO'S CHILD IS IT?!?!?