A Drive-In Movie List Game:

The official start of this event isn't until tomorrow, but here's a preview.

 

 

In the Celebrate The Drive-In Week  I came up with the following, for those of you who may want to participate. Leave a link in the comments section below if you do post a list on your blog and you will get an entry in the prize giveaway happening at the end of the week. See the announcement page for the prizes.

 

 

As I have stated elsewhere, drive-in movies had a more "sensational" aspect than anything that typically got nominated for Oscars. In the profile I wrote for Classic Movie Blog Association (CMBA) I said that drive-in films typically could be distilled down to what I called "the three 'B's: Beasts, bikes and babes". There was a bit more than just that, of course. So in the interest of the celebration I am asking for your favorite films in several categories that typically cropped up in drive-in movies. Your choices don't necessarily have to be strictly low budget fare that was the essence of the typical drive-in flick, however. If Star Wars, for instance, is your "favorite science fiction movie featuring aliens", fine, list that one. You'll note that a few of my choices are closer to standard fare.  Have fun.

 

 

 

1. What is your favorite science fiction movie featuring aliens? 

Mine would be my #1 favorite movie: The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai. 

2. What is your favorite science fiction movie that has no aliens? 

Mine would be 12 Monkeys. 

3. What is your favorite movie featuring action heroes or superheroes?

Mine would have to be Flash Gordon.

4.  What is your favorite movie featuring outcasts or antiheroes?

Mine would be the first Rambo film, First Blood. 

5. What is your favorite horror movie featuring monsters?

Mine would be the original Japanese version of Godzilla. 

6. What is your favorite horror movie that has NO monster?

Mine is Jaws. (I don't consider a shark a "monster").  

7. What is your favorite movie featuring motorcycles or cars?

Mine would be the two Cannonball Run films.

8. What is your favorite movie featuring gangs or criminals?

No question here. My #2 all time favorite film: The Warriors. 

9. What is your favorite movie featuring war or war settings?

Mine would be The Great Escape.

10. What is your favorite movie featuring a mystery?

Mine would be The Maltese Falcon. 

11. What is your favorite movie western?

Mine would be El Dorado. 

12. What is your favorite adventure film? 

Mine would be any of the Indiana Jones films.

13. What is your favorite movie featuring a female lead?

How can you go wrong with Sigourney Weaver (Aliens) which I need to review... 

14. What is your favorite movie featuring beaches and rock and roll?

Mine is The Horror of Party Beach (which I also need to get around to reviewing)  

That list doesn't include all of the themes that cropped up in drive-in films, of course, and I could subdivide some of those categories even further. For instance, science fiction has numerous possibilities of esoteric topics; time travel, hidden worlds on Earth, robots and AI, mad scientists etc. Feel free to add more on your post if you wish. The important thing is to have fun.

Quiggy