So I’ve been begging my husband to go to a drive-in movie for a couple years now, and we finally went! I’d never been to one before, I think they had all been torn down where I grew up, but there’s one left in the Denver Metro area. It’s the 88th Ave Drive-In Theater (http://www.88drivein.com/88_Drive-In_Theatre/Welcome.html). They do 3 moview for $8 a person, and kids under 12 are free. This weekend’s showings were 1-Despicable Me 2, 2-World War Z, and 3-Man of Steel. They don’t start till around 8:45, so you have to stay up pretty late in order to make it through all 3, but if you can it’s quite the deal.
It was a cool experience and I had a lot of fun, but there are a couple caveats to that. First, it’s not in the best part of town. It’s in a very industrial area, and quite a drive from where I live. I wouldn’t go there by myself, but with my husband it felt okay. Second, it’s very hard to follow certain types of movies at a drive-in. Despicable Me 2 was great, World War Z (which we didn’t make it all the way through) was pretty difficult. The sound at the theater is done by tuning your car radio into a certain channel, so it’s okay, but not great. The screen was smaller than I expected as well, had this huge screen in my mind, but it wasn’t all that big really. Those were my downsides as a first time drive-in theater goer, but sitting on the tailgate of the SUV, eating dinner and watching a movie while the baby played in on a pile of blankets was overall pretty cool.
