[auld argonian]

Inspired by Canuck of NI's reference to the drive-in in another thread, my mind drifted back to the good ol' days when my buddies and I and a couple of our dates would cram ourselves and several cases of beer in the car and partake of one of the great pleasures of life, the all night drive-in.

So, if we had the all-night drive in kilt program, what movies would we pick and in what order? Remember that this would be a program that would most likely happen in the Northern Hemisphere, Western Segment months of July or August so we'd be looking at a program that would start at twilight and end at dawn...sundown at about 8PM, sunrise at about 6AM.

Which movies, what order and how much of which beer to get you through...let's assume a designated driver...and what's for breakfast when you get to Denny's? I'm goin' with the "Moons Over My Hammie"!

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....for those in other countries (where you are most certainly thinner and have lower cholesterol), Denny's is a chain of family-style restaurants that specializes in large breakfasts...when you get over here, do try it...biscuits with sausage gravy.....mmmmm.

[Frank McGrath]

Airplane, Airplane 2. Spinal tap 1 & 2. The whole group of Police Story movies. The Van. With Danny Devito
In the 70's and 80's, I belonged to a van club. We used to take all of our vans to the drive in and park in the last row, against the trees. Several of our group would pull sofas out of the vans, end tables and small refrigerators. Adult beverages abounded. the management didn't like it, but we were keeping him open. Occaisionally we "turned off" the lights in the parking lot so we could see the movie. We made all the noise we wanted. Some nights we had as few as 10 vans. One night in particular, we had at least 40 vans. Other moviegoers would come back to our group because they thought it was a van show. Those were the days. I was divorced in the early 80's and fatbroad got custody of the van. I bought another one, but it was never the same.


A little off topic, but memories took over at the mention of Drive in Movies.





I just like the offbeat comedies.

[wildrover]

Blazing Saddles! And whatever beer is handy. If you have a van and a date, you might want to try and catch the showing of Night of the Huge Beaver.

Other good ones would be Rock & Roll Wrestling Women vs the Aztec Mummy, anything filmed in Smell-O-Rama, Pitch Black, and any random good chop socky flick. You mean Police Academy? How about Supertroopers? Teen Wolf? Lost Boys? Superbad?

[auld argonian]

...I was kinda thinking suggesting movies with kilts in them...Scottish themes...actors...


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[starbkjrus]

Originally Posted by auld argonian

...I was kinda thinking suggesting movies with kilts in them...Scottish themes...actors...


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Well then of course - Brigadoon!



Oh, and Moons over my hammy with hash browns!

[Canuck of NI]

Rob Roy, Ivanhoe (to mix things up a bit- no kilts but written by SWS), Bonnie Scotland (Laurel & Hardy), Carry On Up The Khyber, and Highlander. In about that order.

I would leave famous Mel off the program I'm afraid- no offense to fans of his but he rather made my namesake The Bruce, and himself, look bad. Not that I didn't enjoy the movie but twice was enough.

No beer in Canada- they have snipers for that.

[Bigkahuna]

"gunga din"!!!

[cajunscot]

Originally Posted by Canuck of NI

Rob Roy, Ivanhoe (to mix things up a bit- no kilts but written by SWS), Bonnie Scotland (Laurel & Hardy), Carry On Up The Khyber, and Highlander. In about that order.

I would leave famous Mel off the program I'm afraid- no offense to fans of his but he rather made my namesake The Bruce, and himself, look bad. Not that I didn't enjoy the movie but twice was enough.

No beer in Canada- they have snipers for that.

Actually, the Bruce's character was one of the few things the movie got right. See Alan Young's "Robert the Bruce's Rivals".

T.

[Canuck of NI]

Bruce won the war, that's the main thing. I haven't made a close study of the period but at the time of the film it struck me that the Gibbon I mean Gibson was taking a lot of Bruce's traditional achievements and giving them to Wallace- and rightly or wrongly it didn't strike me that Braveheart was very well researched in its revisionist fervour. No matter, both men were heroes.

And no matter what his faults, I don't think Bruce should be judged too harshly for shifting positions and so on- look for instance at what happened to Wallace. Hard to achieve much after you've been disembowled just once.

[cajunscot]

Originally Posted by Canuck of NI

Bruce won the war, that's the main thing. I haven't made a close study of the period but at the time of the film it struck me that the Gibbon I mean Gibson was taking a lot of Bruce's traditional achievements and giving them to Wallace- and rightly or wrongly it didn't strike me that Braveheart was very well researched in its revisionist fervour. No matter, both men were heroes.

And no matter what his faults, I don't think Bruce should be judged too harshly for shifting positions and so on- look for instance at what happened to Wallace. Hard to achieve much after you've been disembowled just once.

That's easy to say when you're not a Comyn.

Seriously though, read Alan Young's book. Young really does an excellent job in setting the record straight about how the Comyns were not the blackhearted villians that the Bruce propaganda machine (and he discusses that as well) would have us believe. If anything, the Bruce and John Comyn were very similiar -- both had fought the English and cooperated with them when need be.

For example, few people today are aware of the Comyn's defeat of the English at the Battle of Roslin in 1303:

http://www.laird.org.uk/Scots/The_Battle_of_Roslin.htm

It's a pity they couldn't have worked together. I won't take anything away from Bruce in terms of his military achievements, but I won't necessarily paint him as a Scottish super-patriot either. He knew when to cozy up to the English when it was to his advantage.

Of course, being a Comyn descendant, I am just a wee bit biased.

T.