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LIR: As much as I love movies, I'm having a hard time reconciling wanting to sit in a chair that a few minutes before someone sat in for 2 hours while

Posted by oblique (aka kkuphal) Apr 21 '20, 11:51

eating and touching everything...

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I am trying not to think about it because I am actually heartbroken over this. Growing up at the drive-in, movies are such a huge part of my life. - Spawn Apr 21, 12:23
As we have said, time for drive-ins to enter the 21st century. -- nm - Spawn Apr 21, 12:07 15
- How do drive-ins handle piracy? -- nm - David Apr 21, 12:13 6
  - Quality of picture at drive-ins makes piracy a minimal factor, imo. -- nm - Inigo Apr 21, 13:08 1
    - Y'all clearly don't work for movie studios. -- nm - David Apr 21, 13:19
  - Aren't cam bootlegs looked upon as the lowest of the low? I'm not sure that it is considered an issue. -- (edited) - JD Apr 21, 12:57
  - a plank and a pool of water -- nm - decline Apr 21, 12:15
  - Yeah, that is one of the bigger questions. Spotters with binoculars? - Spawn Apr 21, 12:14 1
    - You could just mount a camera. -- nm - loosilu Apr 21, 12:35
- We have one of the last 10 or so drive-in's in IL just a short drive from our house. It is tentatively planning to open May 1st. -- nm - oblique Apr 21, 12:09 7
  - Our drive-in never closed but they're running out of first run movies -- (link) - JD Apr 21, 12:51
  - Yeah, I am close to three or four. Just saying they need to up their game and take on all the new viewers. -- nm - Spawn Apr 21, 12:09 5
    - heh, I just checked and the closest to me is over 100 miles away -- nm - decline Apr 21, 12:13
    - I expect it will be packed. The owner seems to have a solid understanding of what they need to do. They're starting with The Flintstones and - oblique Apr 21, 12:11
    - Who imagined a drive-in rebirth in 2020? -- nm - loosilu Apr 21, 12:11 2
      - Spawn -- nm - mud Apr 21, 12:13 1
        
        Eh, think it was just over a month ago when I said it. But having grown up on one, I have always wanted it. -- nm - Spawn Apr 21, 12:15
You can't allow businesses like that and gyms to reopen without strict cleaning and health protocols (restaurants too) -- nm - JackDawson Apr 21, 11:56 11
- I trust my gym to do it way before I trust AMC... - oblique Apr 21, 12:08 3
  - In the before times, people were already acquiring the habit of bringing their own wipeys and such. Is there something stopping you from doing that? - con_carne Apr 21, 12:49
  - I feel the same -- nm - JackDawson Apr 21, 12:12
  - Theater workers are going to need to be a *lot* better paid. -- nm - Spawn Apr 21, 12:09
- I was just reading a bit about how casinos are basically screwed. -- nm - VMan Apr 21, 11:58 6
  - Yup. Seems impossible with slot machines -- nm - JackDawson Apr 21, 12:00 5
    - I guess they could get creative. Machine blocks the moment someone cashed out until a casino attendant verifies a full clean? But chips and cards? -- nm - JackDawson Apr 21, 12:01 4
      - This is when you get the federal poker stuff going and get those guys licenses. - Will Hunting Apr 21, 12:06
      - The buffets. They were talking about shields for dealers, no touch card deals (where possible), chip cleaners, block-out slot sections, etc. - VMan Apr 21, 12:05 2
        
        Oh, and the shows essentially all cancelled. -- nm - VMan Apr 21, 12:05 1
        
        Sorry to run on. The gist was that social distancing is anathema for casinos. -- nm - VMan Apr 21, 12:07
surrounded by people breathing for two hours...masks just disperse, slow trajectory, they don't trap and kill it -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 21, 11:53
It's kind of frightening to list the number of things that will never be the same again. I wrote a piece yesterday about buffets. - David Apr 21, 11:52 1
- counties that open up too early will be petri dishes of democracy (phase from fb) -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 21, 11:55

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