Serenity

I just got back from watching Serenity at a drive in movie theatre. Thats right. Old school, baby.

Anyway, I’ll spare you the review of the movie. Suffice to say, I thought it was freaking awesome. I’ve only ever seen a couple of episodes of Firefly, but they had one of the more memorable quotes that I’ve ever heard. By which I mean that I actually remembered it without having to go back and hear it again.

“No power in the ‘verse can stop me”.

As for the drive in movie theatre experience. Well, that I’ll review. Mainly because Alcarwen is going to want to know, and will likely read this tonight. Which is good, because as often as I actually blog, no one else will probably read it at all. :-)

Anyway. So, I arrived that the drive in, not knowing what to expect. The…parking lot? seating area? was completely dark, which made it a bit difficult to figure out where I was going. So I cruised around a bit until I found a spot where I could barely see the main screen behind the one Serenity was going to be on, then found my spot by a small white post and rolled my window down.

Low and behold, beside me there was no speaker. Instead, a small white placard read “101.9″.

So I turned my radio on and turned it to that station, then focused my attention on the screen.

What I saw, I believed at first was a commercial for something else. There was oldies music playing in the background while a girl was asking questions in a class. It became apparent that this was the beginning o f the movie (which, by my clock, started early, and since my clock is (according to the atomic clock) about thirty seconds fast, this is annoying.

What was more annoying was that the background music they had been playing before the movie started was still playing. Making it extremely difficult to tell what they were saying.

I was getting very irratated. Especially because I thought that I was just picking up a radio station and that it would continue throughout the movie.

Fortunately, it did not.

So then I settled in. At first I didn’t like the way the sound came through my speakers. And I really didn’t like the asshole behind me who didn’t turn his fucking lights off for about 15 minutes of the beginning.

But as I was drawn into the movie, the sound seemed to improve (I don’t know if I just got used to it or they whacked their transmitor), the asshole behind me shut off hist lights, and there in my own little world, I was able to watch the movie in comfort and happiness.

A lot of people had brought lawn chairs, which as it gets cooler (and the bugs die) would be freaking awesome. As long as you had a radio you could listen to the movie on from outside of the car. Car speakers just wouldn’t cut it.

And you couldn’t always see the movie so well, which was a bit annoying, especially with a special effects movie like this one.

But all in all, if I’m going to go see a movie by myself, this is the way to go. I’ll probably stick to the Lincoln when I’m not by myself, though. But then, this one also rocks becuase its so close to my house. Took me 3 minutes to get there. Hooah.

Anyway, thats all folks. Now I have to go make a new category to file this under.