What was the last movie you saw in a drive-in?

[nvmbrsdoom5]

What I really remember was the second feature- Death Wish! My mom had no idea what the movie was and was, to say the least, a bit disturbed. For those of you who don't know, the movie opens with a violent rape scene of Charles Bronson's wife and daughter. I can clearly recall gravel flying all over, our faces pressed to the back window, as my mother was trying to peel out of the drive-in before our little minds were further warped. Too late, ma.

I experienced very similar instances. My parents would take me to see a movie like Close Encounters or somethng, and then they'd be showing another movie before it, like "Prophecy" (the late '70s horror film) or something like that, which would completely freak me out! My parents had a tendency to be a bit oblivious to stuff like that so I'd wind up sitting through movies like that or "Eyes Of Laura Mars" or something else that was just not really meant for kids. Worst part was, I'd sit through these movies that I didn't understand, or was scared by, and by the time the movie I'd wanted to see would come on, I'd fall asleep!!

My fondest drive-in memory was one time going to see "Star Wars" at a drive-in near Huntsville, Alabama while on vacation with family. My cousin and I brought sleeping bags and we camped out on top of the van and watched the movie, I was about 5 years old.

[jds1911a1]

Spiderman 2 was the last movie that I saw in a drive in.

Same here

[PCofmisfittoys]

we still have a couple around north alabama but i don't care for them. I hate people at theaters anyway because most are annoying. Bringing kids and cell phones. i wait until it almost is about to go off and go see it without many there...

[ramsey37]

Summer 1977: the movie was "Star Wars". Our local Drive-in limped along in those days showing R-rated movies like "Kinky Coaches and Naughty Cheerleaders". I remember they showed a bunch of previews for some pretty sleazy movies before I got to see Darth Vader in action
George

[Hulk]

Oddly one of the last Drive In movies I went to was Star Wars - Phantom Menace, back in 1999. I had a vacation cabin in North Georgia and the drive in was one of those few entertaining things to do in the area. We would go to that theatre regularly, and we saw a bunch of first run movies there in the late 90's.

I just checked to make sure it was still open and that they still show double features on the weekend. It also reminded me that they used FM radio for the speakers, which really made the sound pop for movies like Star Wars.

Swan Drive-In

Looks like they are showing Jumper and Semi-Pro this weekend. Not a bad double feature considering the crap that's out there right now.

[MegoMonk]

I'm suprised how many of you still have drive-ins nearby. The only one I ever went to was the Shirley Drive in Shirley Long Island. It has been closed for almost 20 years. I can't remember the last movie I saw. It might have been GhostBusters 2.
One time I went with my cousins to see Jaws 3-D. Apparently 3-D movies do not work at drive-ins. During the showing preceding ours, someone got upset by this. So they threw a large rock through the screen. When we paid to get in, the ticket booth warned us that 3-D does not work in a drive in and that there was a large hole in the screen.
Back in the 70s, the disney summer film festival double features would play at the Shirley every day in the summer. They had a movie marquee billboard out on the Sunrise Highway to advertise what was playing. One week they had Lady and the Tramp with Mary Poppins. Some local teenagers climbed up the sign and changed the letters to read:
"Now Playing; Mary Poppins, the Tramp"

[Thadiun Okona II]

The last drive-in I went to was the North Star Drive in, located in Thornton, CO. The movies were Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade, & Parenthood. My girlfriend and I at the time loved Indy, but for some reason I don't remember Parenthood all that well.

[Mego Milk]

Grease and Bronco Billy double feature.

[mego73]

My memory is hazy but I believed it was a double feature of The Terminator and The Concrete Jungle (with the Captain's woman from Star Trek's Mirror, Mirror Barbara Luna, can't remember if she took it off). I saw it with a group of friends.

My paper runs ads for a couple drive in that are still running but they are at least a 45 minute drive for me so even though I'd like to give a drive in a shot again that's too long a haul.