Oh yes, I remember it well. Yor's cheesy badness stayed with me the way a mole or other unsightly defect might hang around for 26 years. Finally, recently, I broke down and located a DVD.
Now all I need is the soundtrack.
wow, did you see it in 1983? i love drive ins. i wish they were still around...
that would be cool to see yor on a big screen
Probably 83, yeah. 84 at the latest. It depends on exactly when it was released. In the northeast where I grew up, the drive-ins were closed during the winter because, you know, you would have frozen to death out there. So a movie released during the winter months wouldn't play outdoors until things had thawed out and the drive-ins had opened back up.
I do kind of miss them, although there's no substitute for a good indoor theater. It's not the picture but the audio that was the problem. I remember those tinny, mono speakers attached by wire to a pole in each parking spot. You'd sit the speaker on your open window and voila; you could now watch the movie with truly awful sound. Later, the speakers were replaced with low-power radio transmissions. You would just tune into a specific station and hear the audio over your car stereo. But in both cases there were often slight synch problems, so every movie was a little like a dubbed Kung Fu flick.
Still, all those problems aside there was something cool about watching a movie outdoors on those hot summer nights. I still remember seeing Raiders of the Lost Ark at the drive in, along with a host of other movies. Good times.
We still have at least 2 Drive Ins around the Middle Tennessee area that I know of. Lafayette and Franklin Ky which is just a few minutes outside of Portland. I think one of the last things that was shown at our Gallatin Drive In was the finale of Seinfeld.
shareThat's awesome, I would have loved to have seen this baby at a drive in.
"Hey, look at that! She's not crazy, she's being chased by a cheetah!"
I saw it in a box theater with my group of sci-fi friends opening night. Looking at the poster, we expected something cheesy, but cool. When the titles began with, as I recall, using the Dom Casual typeface (best known back then as the titles for Barney Miller) and that stupid song, I knew we had been had. $4 for this crap? I must have blocked out so much, don't remember Corinne Cléry being in it and I should have remembered her. Though I love the cheesy Space movies this director did in the 60's.
shareThat's awesome. I can't think of a better drive-in movie than YOR. There's still a drive-in near by me http://dixietwin.com/, but I haven't seen a movie there since ALIEN 3, which is a shame really. Drive-ins are a slice of Americana and I hate that they're dying off. The one here actually plays first run movies, though. It would be cool if they played classic B-movies and exploitation flicks.
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