The True Lizard King

Son Of Godzilla-Palooza
Mahoning Drive-In Theater - Lehighton, PA
We have gotten to see a heck of a lot of Godzilla flicks at various events held at the Mahoning Drive-In Theater over the past few years.  Most of these took place one year ago at a four day weekend event called Godzilla-Palooza Raids Again, which was the second kaiju weekend held on the lot.  It was such a big hit that it's came back for a third time this weekend for a four day event called Son Of Godzilla-Palooza.

Show banner designed by Andrew Kern

Show poster designed by Jason Cortez

The third chapter in the Godzilla-Palooza saga was eight movies across the last four nights of June 2024.  The only night we didn't go to this year was Thursday night's screening of Godzilla 1985, but only because we had already watched it at the Mahoning not too long ago when it was screened during Schlock-O-Rama VI.

The 14 foot tall Godzilla statue was just as big of a hit this year as it was last season.  It's an extremely sturdy kaiju that has survived for a full year on the lot.  Thanks to some touch-up work done over the past few weeks by Jason, Zeneca, Riggz, and Cheryl, it looked and sounded just as amazing as it did when they first unveiled their creation last year.

So... about that weird expression on my face.  I was trying to make a face like I was scared of Godzilla, and I thought that's what Angie was going to do too. Instead, she just smiled like a normal human being and I look like a weirdo who's mesmerized by her chest.

Dave created a lot of fun Godzilla-themed slides that were shown on the screen before the start of the first movie and during the intermissions.  I didn't get pictures of all of them, but I hope someone on the staff is keeping the original images somewhere safe and sound.  It would be pretty awesome to see all of them compiled in a photo book with the awesome banner, t-shirt, and poster art.

 

My favorite bonus of the weekend were the incredible stop-motion animation films that were created and provided by Cressa Maeve Áine.

I believe she provided four different videos to the Mahoning, but this is the only one of the four that was available to stream on her YouTube channel as I am writing this.

One of the guest vendors was selling toys and statues of Godzilla and other kaiju characters.  I'm not much of a collector of that sort of thing, but I'm a sucker for a good mystery bag, so I picked up one to share with some of our friends.

The item out of the grab bag that I kept for myself was a CD of Akira Ifukube's music.  He composed over a hundred movie scores including many Godzilla films.  His work includes the iconic Godzilla theme that first appeared in the original 1954 film and in nearly every Godzilla film that followed, including the ones that were filmed after his death in 2006.

I also kept this little blue guy because nobody else wanted him.  After doing a Google Image search, I learned that his name is SolBraver from a Japanese series from the early 90's called Super Rescue Solbrain.  Now he lives on my bookshelf.

Night Two - Friday, June 28

Ghidrah The Three Headed Monster / Monster Zero / Son Of Godzilla

The Friday night Son Of Godzilla-Palooza lineup was a triple feature of the fifth, sixth, and eighth movies in the Godzilla universe which were shown in order of their original Japanese release dates.

Friday night's first movie was the 1964 film Ghidrah The Three Headed Monster.  It was the only one that was presented this weekend in its original Japanese language with English subtitled.  All of the other movies were either dubbed, or released in the United States in English in the first place.  I typically prefer subtitles to dubbed movies when it comes to foreign films, but when it comes to Godzilla flicks, it really doesn't matter to much to me one way or the other.  Whether the voices are in English or in Japanese, it's going to be fun!

 

Next up on Friday night was Monster Zero.  It was originally released in Japan in 1965 and is the next film in the franchise after Ghidrah The Three Headed Monster.  We saw this movie for the first time at the Mahoning during a Tunnel Vision Tuesday screening in August 2022, but I was happy to see it included in the lineup because it's one of my favorite Godzilla films.  If you ever wanted to see the big guy dance a happy jig on another planet, this is the movie for you!

The final movie of Friday night was the 1967 film Son Of Godzilla.  As the title suggests, this is the movie that introduced Minilla, the son of Godzilla who hatched from an egg and looks a bit like a sentient potato.  He helped his father defeat a bunch of giant mantises and a giant spider before the humans inadvertently used their weather machine to freeze them on the island.

Night Three - Saturday, June 29

Godzilla vs The Smog Monster / Godzilla vs Gigan / Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla

Saturday night's triple feature was the eleventh, twelfth, and fourteenth Godzilla films to be released in Japan.

The first movie of Saturday night was originally released in Japan in 1971 under the title Godzilla vs Hedorah.  It came out in the United States one year later as Godzilla vs The Smog Monster, which was the title on the banner and in the advertisements for Son Of Godzilla-Palooza, so I was kind of shocked to see it on the big screen under its original title.

This is an odd duck in the Godzilla filmography.  It kind of plays out like a Captain Planet episode mixed with late 60's rock, psychedelic imagery, and the occasional animated exposition which reminded me of the Mr. DNA scene from Jurassic Park.  It also has some of the goriest human deaths in any Godzilla film that I've ever seen.  Hedorah (aka "the Smog Monster") is a giant blob who dissolves the skin of whatever it touches down to the bone, and secretes a gas that kills entire cities of people.

The second movie of Saturday night, and the sixth movie of the weekend overall, was Godzilla vs Gigan.  This was released in the United States as Godzilla on Monster Island, which was on the title card of the print that was shown.  This is another movie that we had seen previously at a Tunnel Vision Tuesday screening at the Mahoning back in July 2021.

This is the movie in which both Godzilla and Anguirus speak to each other, and I don't mean in roars and grunts.  I'm not sure if it's like this in the original Japanese language version, but the one that's dubbed in English has the two monsters speaking actual lines of dialogue to each other before battling Gigan, King Ghidorah, and the intergalactic cockroaches disguised as human beings who are using them to do their bidding. 

The final movie shown on Saturday night was the 1971 film Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla, which was released in the United States six years later as Godzilla vs The Cosmic Monster.  This one has a special place in my heart because I'm almost positive that it was the first Godzilla movie that I ever watched when I was a kid.  I was seven years old and living with my mother in a half-double on First Street in Hazleton at the time.  We spent a lot of time hanging out with the family who lived in the other half of the building.  The father of that family, who we called Zap, was a big Godzilla fan who had a bunch of the English dubbed released on VHS.  Those tapes were my introduction to the world of kaiju movies, and I'm pretty sure this was the first of those that I got to see.

Night Four - Sunday, June 30

Godzilla (1998)

Sunday night was, for me, a reminder to never allow public sentiment to sway your opinion of something before you've had the opportunity to experience it for yourself.

The only real exposure that I had to Roland Emmerich's 1998 Godzilla prior to tonight was when I briefly worked at Taco Bell when I was a teenager.  The management and my co-workers weren't bad, but I didn't get many hours and the ones I did get were miserable because there were way too many people in too small of a space, so I ended up leaving after just a couple of months to go work at a department store called Value City.  One of the only things I can remember about my time working at Taco Bell was the fact that it coincided with their Godzilla promotion.  My uniform shirt was the one you see in the photo above.  I probably still have it in a box buried somewhere in my garage.

All I ever heard about this movie is that it was terrible.  There were all sorts of different reasons given for this, including the fact that the character's backstory didn't hold true to its Japanese origins, to the size of the monster, to complaints that the story didn't make sense (as if any kaiju movie prior to this ever did).  It was so universally hated that I had just written it off as something that I wasn't interested in.  I didn't go to see it in theaters, and I never rented it on home video.  Frankly, if it wasn't for the couple of months that I worked at Taco Bell, I might have forgotten that this movie existed altogether.

 

I originally bought tickets to Friday and Saturday night of Son Of Godzilla-Palooza and wrote off Sunday because that's the night that they were showing the "terrible" movie in the series, but I had a change of heart.  After all, when was I ever going to get a better opportunity to give this movie a fair shot?  Nothing short of a private screening with Matthew Broderick would live up to this opportunity to see it.  And you know what... it wasn't bad at all!  In fact, I'd go as far as to say it's in my top five favorite Godzilla flicks of the 20th century.

Godzilla '98 is the first movie in the franchise that was produced in the United States for a North American audience, so you have to go into it expecting a film that has a very different style and tone from movies produced decades earlier for a Japanese audience.  If you can get past the fact that it's meant to be an Americanized kaiju film, it's a hell of a lot of fun!

And that's a wrap on the Mahoning Drive-In Theater's third Godzilla weekend.  Coming up next is Easy Rider on Thursday, the AGFA Triple Ripper on Friday, Big and 13 Going On 30 on Saturday, and A Hard Day's Night on Sunday.

Tropical Sundae In A Tropical Climate

Pineapple Coconut Sundae
Valley Hi Food Drive In - Hazleton, PA
We've been stuck in a heat wave for a few weeks.  It's starting to normalize a bit now, but it was over 100 degrees out when we stopped at Valley Hi for ice cream earlier this month.  I used to walk to this place with my grandfather when I was a kid.  It's one of the few places from my childhood in Hazleton that is still in business, and still largely unchanged from the way that I remember it.

Who's Your Poppy?

Big Poppy
Perch - Jim Thorpe, PA
This is a breakfast sandwich made with a fried egg topped with pastrami, buffalo pepperjack cheese, arugula, and dill pickle cream cheese on a poppyseed bagel.  Very tasty!

Listen As The Wind Blows From Across The Great Divide

Sarah McLachlan / Feist

Fumbling Towards Ecstasy: 30th Anniversary Tour

Mann Center For The Performing Arts - Philadelphia, PA
A lot of the music I listen to is forever linked in my mind to the person who introduced me to it for the first time, or who inspired me to take a deeper dive into the work of the artist.  For example, when I hear the Grateful Dead, Frank Zappa, Warren Zevon, and Renaissance, I think of my dad.  When I listen to Simon & Garfunkel, Jim Croce, or The Beatles, I think of my mother.  Aerosmith, Skid Row, and Queen will always remind me of Stephanie and the mixtapes she would make for me when we lived in Florida.  It is impossible for me to hear Cat Stevens and not think of Megan, and although the individual song list is much larger, I cannot listen to Stevie Nicks or Ozzy without thinking of Bree.

There are also songs that I've come to associate with different times in my life.  Roll To Me is a pop rock song by a band called Del Amitri who I know almost nothing about, but I can almost smell hamburgers when I hear it because it was huge on the radio when I was working at Burger King when I was in Junior High.  There's a few songs that will always remind me of when I worked at Carmen's Restaurant, but the one that has the strongest connection for me is Satellite by Dave Matthews Band because it was on one of the tapes of house music that played softly in the dining room every night that I was there.

Lots of songs and artists have become indivisible from people, places, and times in my life.  When it comes to Sarah McLachlan, and specifically the album Fumbling Towards Ecstasy, my mind immediately goes back to a girl who I never even met, but who helped me get through a rough patch in my life.  Her name was Keri and she lived in New Hampshire.  We started talking in an IRC chatroom (remember those!) during the dial-up internet days of the late 90's, and a lot of our conversations were about music.  She was a singer, and I had dreams of growing up and being a rock star someday, which I am embarrassed to admit, but what the hell... I was a dumb kid.  This was years before it was even possible to share music online, so she mailed me a cassette tape with a hand-drawn cover that was filled with a mix of her signing and playing guitar, along with copies of some songs that she liked.  I have no idea what ever happened to that tape.  For all I know, it's in a box in the garage somewhere with all of the things I cleaned out of my grandparents house after they passed away.  Keri and I lost touch after a few months of ridiculously higher-than-normal phone bills, but her love of Sarah McLachlan and her third studio album was passed onto me.  I bought it on her recommendation, and it spent the next several years in heavy rotation on the boombox in my bedroom.  At the time, it probably looked slightly out of place among all of the grunge rock, but I knew every word of every song on that record before my teens were over.

It's been 30 years since Fumbling Towards Ecstasy was released, and about 27 years since I listened to it for the first time.  I can't claim to know every last lyric from the album these days, but I still remembered enough to sing Ice Cream to my wife, along with several thousand others in the City of Brotherly Love at the concert we attended last night.  Well... they weren't all singing to my wife, but damn it, they should have been.

The opening act for Sunday night's show was Feist, who I'm sorry to say that I am not extremely familiar with.  I enjoy the songs of hers that I've heard though.  She kind of reminds me of Bjork if she was far more mellow and Canadian.  I'm not sure if that qualifies as a Canadian stereotype in this case.  There are drill sergeants with a cocaine habit who would probably be considered more toned down than Bjork.  Bjork, if you ever happen to find my humble little blog, please don't fly over here from Iceland and kill me.  I love your music too!

Feist has one song that I know especially well, and it's probably the song that everybody knows: 1234.  It was a massive hit back in 2007, and I was disappointed that she didn't play it at this show, but the reason became clear during the night.  The Mann Center is an outdoor venue, and there was a severe thunderstorm warning for eastern Pennsylvania throughout most of the day on Wednesday.  My dad called when we were in line to get in and told us that the storms had already hit the Northeast.  Feist only performed about five songs, which is half of what she's done on shows from earlier in the tour.  Sarah McLachlan took the stage at about twenty after 8, which is a full 40 minutes earlier than her 9:00 pm start time for the previous shows on the tour, so it was pretty obvious; they wanted to get moving so that they could get as much of the show in as possible before the storm hit.

 

I looked up the setlist for the previous stops on the tour, and while they weren't identical, they followed a similar structure.  The first half of the show was a compilation of Sarah's greatest hits, followed by a brief intermission, and then a performance of the Fumbling Towards Ecstasy album in its entirety to celebrate its 30th anniversary.  Quick side note: thank god for spellcheck, because I have misspelled the word "ecstasy" every single time I've written it so far.  I keep wanting it to end in "cy" instead of "sy" for some reason.  You'd think I'd get it right by now, but I'm sure that I'll do it again.

The show began with Sweet Surrender, Building A Mystery, and I Will Remember You... all massive hits that I still know every word to... so the set was going the way that I expected based on my 20 seconds of pre-show research.  The next song was Possession, which is a song that I absolutely love and that I instantly recognized as the first track off of Fumbling Towards Ecstasy.  Damn it, I did it again!  E-c-s-t-a-S-y!  I thought for a second that maybe I had misread the prior show's setlists.  Possession was the first single off of the album, so I thought maybe it was included in the "greatest hits" half of the show, but the next song put that idea to rest.  She was performing the full album starting now.

Before I go any further, please know that I am not at all complaining.  They weren't calling for a little bit of rain here.  This ended up being 60 mph winds with rain, hail, and downed trees and power lines.  The poor Japanese Maple in my backyard has shed enough sticks to keep Harvey busy until the 40th anniversary tour.  They did what they had to do.  The show was advertised to be a complete performance of Fumbling Towards Ecstasy (yay, I got it right that time!) from front to back, and she delivered.  In addition to the three hits that started off the night, she came out to do an encore which included an absolutely beautiful new song called Gravity that she wrote for her oldest daughter about the challenges they've overcome in their relationship, as well as Adia, and Answer (off of her 2003 album Afterglow), before closing out the night with Angel.  It ended up being about five or six songs shorter than the rest of the shows on the tour, but the songs that were performed were absolutely incredible.  Nothing felt rushed in the slightest.  Sarah talked to the crowd between each song, including a story about the inspiration of Adia that I hadn't known before last night, and every song sounded absolutely perfect.

Whoever mapped out the start time and progression of this show is an absolute genius because it could not possibly have been timed any better.  Our seats were in the Terrace which is uncovered, and there wasn't a drop of rain that fell on us during the entire show... not one.  It didn't rain at all as we walked out of the venue and to the parking lot.  We got in the car and buckled up, and before I could even start the engine, the first drops of rain fell on the windshield.  It started off kind of slow, but it was a torrential downpour by the time we got to the turnpike.  Driving through Jim Thorpe and over the Broad Mountain was an adventure through all of the rain and lightning, but we made it home with no trouble, and as I laid in bed last night, I wondered how the hell they managed to play this concert and completely avoid the storm.  Everybody who worked at The Mann last night, from the artists to their crew to the crew who works for the venue deserves a lot of credit.  That could not have been easy to pull off, but they did it, and it ended up being one of the best shows I've ever seen.

Unfortunately, no one has uploaded Feist's setlist from this show, and I don't know her music well enough to remember what songs she played.  However, here is Sarah McLachlan's setlist.

Just Listen To The Music Of The Traffic In The City

Hazleton Shopping Center
Broad Street - Hazleton, PA  (1960)

The ground broke on this retail center in downtown Hazleton on September 11th, 1956 and was completed and open the following year.  By the time this photo was taken in the 1960's, the businesses in this strip mall included Sears, McCrory's, Acme Supermarket, Hazleton National Bank, J.S. Raub Shoes, Jacob's Candy Store, and Rea & Derrick Drugstore where my grandmother worked when I was a kid.  Most of these places were still in business when I was growing up in the 80's.  The shopping center is still there, but it doesn't look too much like this these days. [source: Rotogravure: A Hazleton History]

Yes, It's Another Reuben

Reuben Melt
Leiby's Ice Cream House & Restaurant - Tamaqua, PA
At this point, I could probably start a spinoff blog called Reasonably Priced Reubens Within Driving Distance.  It's my go-to meal any time that I see it on a menu, and while some are better than others, it's never been a disappointing choice.

This one is from Leiby's Ice Cream House & Restaurant.  We pass this place every time we go to the Mahoning Drive-In Theater, but we haven't eaten here in three years.  I remember that the last time we visited was the middle of the pandemic when you still had to wear masks at restaurants and sit at a table that's away from any of the other customers.  I certainly don't miss the masks, but the peace and quiet of not being sat next to a loud family with a screaming baby was kind of nice back in those days.

The reuben sandwich has gone up in price by about three bucks since 2021, but it's still very tasty.  Their peach ice cream is pretty darn good too!

A Tribute To The Master

X: The Man With The X-Ray Eyes

Mahoning Drive-In Theater - Lehighton, PA
Sunday night at the drive-in was a tribute to one of the most accomplished and influential directors in the history of motion pictures; the one and only Roger Corman, who passed away six week ago at the age of 98.

Show banner designed by Andrew Kern

Roger Corman directed 55 films from 1954 to 2008, and he was the producer or executive producer for over 300 others.  Most of his filmography is comprised of B movies.  I doubt that I've even seen 10 percent of his work, but I've enjoyed everything of his that I have seen, including It Conquered The World, A Bucket Of Blood, Little Shop Of Horrors, The Masque Of The Red Death, Rock N' Roll High School, Slumber Party Massacre II and III, and one of my all-time favorite movies, Death Race 2000.

Last night was an opportunity to check another of his films off of my watch list: the 1963 science fiction classic, X - The Man With The X-Ray Eyes.

I was flying solo at the drive-in last night, so my pre-show was spent listening to Cy's DJ set and playing Tetris Effect on Switch, and I finally managed to complete Journey Mode at the Expert level.

Prior to showtime, there was a nice introduction to the film that was provided by author and film critic Tim Lucas.  He is the author of a 2022 novel that is based on Roger Corman, The Man With Kaleidoscope Eyes.  There was also a curated pre-show trailer reel that included The Terror, A Bucket Of Blood, and The Haunted Palace.

 

This was my first time seeing X - The Man With The X-Ray Eyes and it's a damn good movie!  It's about a scientist who has developed eyedrops that allow people to see beyond the electromagnetic spectrum that is visible to the human eye.  He tests the drops on himself, and they produce positive results at first, but the effects go well beyond his control.  I don't want to say too much more so that I don't spoil it for anyone who hasn't seen it yet, but I will say that the ending is intense.

B-movies tend to get labeled as "so bad they're good", but that's not at all what's going on here.  This is a movie that I'd recommend to anyone.  You can stream it for free on Pluto.

And that's a wrap on another awesome weekend at the Mahoning Drive-In Theater.  Next weekend is Son Of Godzilla-palooza.

One, Two, Freddy's Coming For Cake

Lordy Lordy Freddy's 40: A Nightmare On Elm Street / New Nightmare

Mahoning Drive-In Theater - Lehighton, PA
Last night was a celebration of the 40th birthday of arguably the most iconic and well-known horror movie villain in history, Freddy Kreuger.

Show banner designed by Andrew Kern

Show poster and t-shirt designed by Tom Bifulco

Darryl Mayeski was in attendance with a merch table set up inside of the concession building.  He is the publisher and editor of Screem Magazine from Wilkes-Barre, PA.  One of the items that he had available for sale was a special edition of Issue #37 which had an alternate cover to commemorate the Freddy's 40th Birthday event at the Mahoning.  The issue also included a DVD of classic slasher movie trailers.

The special concession item for the show was Freddy's Burnt Fingers, which were cut up hot dogs marinated in chipotle barbecue sauce and served alongside tater tots.  It was something different, and a tasty pre-show snack.

Prior to showtime, there was a celebration of Freddy Krueger's birthday on the photo op stage outside of the concession building, with a birthday cake and all.  Freddy was also on hand to take photos with fans in attendance.

 

The first screening of Saturday night marks my first film that I saw on three separate occasions on 35mm at the Mahoning Drive-In Theater; the original 1984 classic - A Nightmare On Elm Street.

We saw this movie at the Mahoning for the first time in October 2021 for Freddy Fest III.  We caught it again the following year for Freddy Fest IV when the first six films in the franchise were shown.  Now, we've seen it here again for its 40th anniversary.  Man, it's hard to believe that this movie came out four decades ago.  I don't really think of it as an old movie, but to put that amount of time into perspective, Casablanca won Best Picture forty years before A Nightmare On Elm Street premiered in theaters.  Time really flies, man.

The second half of the Freddy's 40'th Birthday double feature is a movie that is turning 30 years old later this year: Wes Craven's New Nightmare.  This was my first time seeing it, and I've got to be honest, I really didn't dig it all that much.  I suppose that part of it could be the fact that it has been ridiculously hot out this weekend, even after the sun went down.  I was also pretty tired and had to stand up next to the car to stay awake for the entire film, which now that I come to think of it is a pretty immersive experience for a movie about a dream demon who the protagonists struggle to stay awake to avoid.  I'm probably going to give it a second watch sometime this winter.  There were some interesting ideas at work here, but it just kind of dragged for me and I never really found myself getting into it the way that I usually do for a horror flick.

And that's a wrap on Lordy Lordy Freddy's 40.  I have it on good authority that the Mahoning will soon be announcing a celebration of another horror icon from the 1980's that will take place later this year, so keep an eye on their social media for that one.  If you were in attendance for this show, or if you wanted to be, it is a weekend that you're absolutely not going to want to miss.

A Donut With No Hole Is A Danish

Heavy On Chevy: Three Amigos / Caddyshack
Mahoning Drive-In Theater - Lehighton, PA

Friday night at the Mahoning was a double feature of two of the greatest comedies of all time, both of which feature the great Chevy Chase in a starring role.

Show banner designed by Andrew Kern

Both of the Heavy On Chevy movies were comedies from the 80's: Three Amigos (1986) and Caddyshack (1980).  I've watched both of these movies countless times before, but this was my first opportunity to see them screened from a 35mm print on the big screen.

Three Amigos premiered in theaters during the 1986 holiday season.  I didn't discover it until about ten years later when I rented it on VHS and watched it in the living room of my grandparents house with my grandfather.  The two of us laughed our heads off like a couple of maniacs for pretty much its entire runtime.  It's not a movie that I've seen too many times over the years, so a lot of the jokes still land with me as hard as they did the first time, and judging by the laughs that echoed around the lot, I am not alone.

 

The 35mm print that the Mahoning received for Three Amigos had Spanish subtitles.  This sort of thing doesn't happen too often.  The last time it happened at a screening that I was in attendance for was three years ago when the Death Race 2000 print that was shown during Drive-In Apocalypse Weekend had Swedish subtitles.

Whereas I've only watched Three Amigos maybe a half dozen times before, it would be impossible to count the number of times that I've watched Caddyshack.  It's got to be in the hundreds at this point.  Caddyshack is not only among my favorite comedy films of all time, but it's become kind of a lullaby that helps me get to sleep.  We have a recording from when it was broadcast as the CBS Tuesday Night Movie on February 8th, 1983 (with the commercials), and there have been many nights over the years when we'll throw it on the television when we just kind of want to lay back and zone out, but we're not quite tired enough to fall asleep right away.

The lines from this movie are burned into my brain so deeply that some of them have just become a part of my speech.  I made so many references to it when I trained my first new hire class at Nestle that a few of them chipped in and gave me this t-shirt as a present when the training was over.  I've put on some weight since then so it doesn't fit as well as it once did, but I still have it, and damn it, I'll fit into it again one day!

Needless to say, I was incredibly happy to have had the opportunity to see a 35mm print of Caddyshack on the big screen at my favorite place in the world to watch movies.  Despite the fact that I've seen this movie a frankly unbelievable number of times, I saw things happening in the background of certain shots that I've never noticed before.  I don't care how big your television is or how much you spent on your surround sound speakers, there is no substitute for seeing a movie in a theatrical setting.  It's a difference on par with listening to your favorite band in the car to seeing them live in concert.  I can't even begin to quantify how much joy this drive-in has brought into my life for giving us the opportunity to see these movies in a way that I never thought that I'd get to experience them.