This past season we visited four drive-in cinemas, including one in another state. One of these is quite special: they’re not far from our house, have a super high resolution camera and an amazing sound system. They only play older films and we look forward to visiting them again next year. All the drive-ins are now closed for the season, and as with last year we kept a chronology of films we saw, each with a five-word review. Here now, let’s see what we thought…
The Super Mario Bros Movie – We smiled start to finish.
The Super Mario Bros Movie – Still smiling the second time.
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves – Entertaining enough to overlook imperfections.
Terminator 2: Judgement Day – Easily the best Terminator film.
Guardians of The Galaxy 3 – Tugs at the heart strings.
Ant Man 3: Quantumania – Only the villian was good.
Guardians of The Galaxy 3 – A top tier Marvel film!
The Flash – Insane enough to be fun.
Transformers: Rise of Beasts – Absolute trash with robot animals.
Elemental – We both slept through it.
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse – Best film of the year?
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny – A fitting farewell for Indy.
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One – I reckon this was great.
Barbie – Fun and has a heart.
Oppenheimer – Thought provoking and immensely watchable.
Barbie – This is a great film.
Insidious: The Red Door – We left due to boredom.
Meg 2: The Trench – Aggressively stupid and almost unwatchable.
Talk To Me – A dark and disturbing masterpiece.
Adventures in Babysitting – A lovely slice of nostalgia.
Haunted Mansion – You’ll forget it next week.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem – The best ever turtles film!
Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure – Its laugh out loud funny 🙂
The Equalizer 3 – A riveting portrait of sociopathy.
The Goonies – A near incoherent 80s classic.
The Lost Boys – Vampires that never bite anyone!
A Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors – Freddy’s a parody by now.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers – Creepy and unnerving horror classic.
The Nun 2 – Just another demon nun film.
Blue Beetle – Predictable and tedious superhero film.
The Creator – Visuals far exceed the story.
Hocus Pocus – Sarah Jessica Parker was cute!
(We only say this last one once, but we felt it deserved five reviews.)
The Exorcist: Believer – A sneaky little Jesus movie
The Exorcist: Believer – Too much Jesus; insufficient Satan
The Exorcist: Believer – I wanted Satan, not Jesus!
The Exorcist: Believer – Should be titled ‘The Excretist’.
The Exorcist: Believer – Worst Film Of The Year!
That’s a lot of movies! I recently read that the average American goes to the movies about twice a year, so I think we’re a bit above average. With a season pass we’ll see almost anything, and even bad films are good at the drive-in! We’re already looking forward to the 2024 season.
Did you see any of these films? If so, what did you think?