At The Drive In

So we made it to the Drive In before it closes for the season. It's just about an hour drive over to Newton, Iowa and the Valle Drive In. This time we saw The Martian with Matt Damon. It was pretty good. I liked it a lot more than I thought I would. The story moved along well. I thought it might get boring being stuck on Mars, but the movie makers made sure there are a few twists to keep it interesting. I'd see it again.
One great thing about the Valle Drive in is that it's always a double feature. The Intern with Robert DeNiro and Ann Hathaway was the 2nd feature. I had seen previews of this movie and thought it would be really good.

Honestly though, the story was too poorly edited to be a really great movie. I wanted to like it so much, Ann Hathaway's character was wonderful-such a great script, Robert Deniro was excellent playing the older wiser intern, but bottom line they edited out so much that the story was just disjointed. They mention doing things, but then never do them, I have no idea why they left a whole sub story about an email set to Ann Hathaway's Mom and the other characters go through a whole silly scene about it. It really served no purpose and was not in keeping with "wise" intern's character. And why did they even bother talking about her mom-we never see her and have no idea why she calls. Poor editing and poor story telling. Acting was good though!

Drive In Pilgrimage

 So we made our first pilgrimage to the Valle Drive In in Newton Iowa Saturday Night. Double feature as always, The Amazing Spiderman 2 and The Monuments men.

We drove througha little rain to get over to Newton, but it turned out to be a perfect clear, cool night.

 We paid our $7.50 each and found our favorite spot west of the concession stand.  We had stopped at the Hy Vee in newton and picked up a bucket of chicken and some beverages so we picnicked before the show started.

The amazing Spiderman 2 was not a great movie. The casting was good, the acting was good, but the story was just too long and convoluted. Too many characters that we really didn't need to see . It could have been 40 minutes shorter in my opinion. The beginning scenario could have been shorter and we didn't need to see that again at the end. (I'm avoiding a spoiler here!)
Now the Monuments Men! Loved it! What a great story! What a great cast of actors! This movie could have used a few more minutes to expand each character, but still a great movie.

The Dark Knight

SO since the weather cooled down a bit, we took our summer pilgrimage to the drive in in Newton Iowa. The Valle Drive In  is about an hour from our house and a good place to see a movie.There was a pretty large crowd to see The Dark Knight Rises with Dark Shadows for the double feature. Just so you don't think the drive in is a fancy schmancy place, it's likely the only place you'll see the pack & play baby crib nestled between a Jeep and a mini van.

It might also be the only place you'll see kids on the roof of their gown-ups work van.

We got there in plenty of time to secure a great location, next to a couple in a Ford Focus enjoying their Pizza Hut pizza,  to munch our KFC drive through chicken, purchased moments before heading in the drive in gate. Gotta love the town of Newton!

 

So at intermission Ben was checking his phone and we  agreed, it wasn't that good. Sorry Christian Bale.

Really I was so disappointed to see so few cool "toys"! Batman has a utility belt full of great toys, not this time though-oh sure a couple of bat-arangs, and one toss out the hospital window to see Commissioner Gorden. BA-not cool enough! The bat cycle was tired, and I could go with out Batman pummeling Bane over and over agian! It was so out of character! AND speaking of out of character...Batman has a quickie on the floor in front of the fireplace with...Oh I better not say...but Batman has a higher moral standard than that! No fooling around, Batman!! And as much as I love Ann Hathaway-and she did look very shapely in her cat suit, her character had such a horrible script.....she could have been ANYONE! Poor Ann, I say! I did like Micheal Caine as Alfred-even though he totally needed a mustache.  I really hated the villain guy- he made no sense, his voice was almost unintelligible, and while him and Batman were pounding on each other-for waaaay more time than necessary-, why didn't Batman just rip his weirdo face mask thingy right off and be done with it?And the worst thing of all.....BATMAN'S VOICE!! AGGHHWWGGGHHHHH!!! Please!!!!  he sounded like a pervert making an obscene phone call after smoking 27 packs of Camel non-filters. And don't even get me started with the story line...I can forgive a lot-it is a comic book after all, but really this was so not good.
At least the popcorn was delicious!

Drive in not in the rain

Not in the rain!
We saw Cars 2 again and Super 8. I really liked super 8-it was kind of E.T. ish. I liked Cars 2 better the second time-less distractions with no windsheild wipers and lightening!

Rainy night at the Drive in

http://s28.photobucket.com/albums/c201/knuckstermom/yu-gi-oh/?action=view&current=VIDEO0004.mp4
look I took a video of rain at the drive in! It ends because the movie actually stopped during the worst of the storm! Still gotta LOVE CARS!

At the Drive In

So you know how we like to go to the drive in? We went last weekend-I had a vacation day so we went on Thursday night. It had been so hot out I was thinking we'd sweat all night, but as the sun set it cooled down wonderfully!! 

     

We saw The Other Guys, and Salt. I'm not a big Will Farrell fan, but the movie was OK. Salt was very good, the story was excellent, I just wish they would have left out a couple of the less believable scenes. I can buy that a person jumps off a freeway bridge onto the top of a passing truck, and doesn't get hurt, but I can't buy that a person jumps down an elevator shaft and clings to the wall and descends by flinging herself from wall to wall in the shaft. Sorry-too stupid!   

  Anyways, it was nice to go on a week night when it was a lot less crowded

You can check out what's playing at the Valle Drive In located in Newton IA here

  http://www.valledrive-in.com/

Last Night....

We made the summer pilgrimage  to the drive in over at newton. We saw the new Shrek movie & Iron Man 2. Shrek was wonderful as always. That big green guy sure is a lot like certain humans I know!
Iron Man 2 well not so much. It was just really predictable and I just think they should have left it with 1. Here's the link to the drive in post from the last time we went.

http://bonnieblogyou.blogspot.com/search/label/drive%20in

Guess Where We Went....

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Yup you guessed it! We went to the drive in! We like to try to go at least once during the summer. We saw Wall-e & C of N- Prince Caspian was the double feature. There are a couple of drive ins left here in Iowa. This one, The Valle, is in Newton, only about an hour away, so not too much gas. The best part at this drive in is that you can choose to listen to the movie through the provided speakers on a pole-just like back in the day-or tune in your radio to listen through your car stereo. We stopped by the KFC for a bucket of original recipe and made a picnic out of it. Bring a comfy folding chair, and bug repellent & help keep the place in business by purchasing popcorn and you're all set!