i might watch spaced invaders. not scary in any way, but it takes place during halloween

I think I'll watch The Haunting (1963), Carnival of Souls (1962) and The Innocents (1961) for Halloween.

50/60's Twilight Zone, the 80's, millennium and recent ones also, all are in The Twilight Zone.

Twilight zone. Duh.

Um.... what did I log in on...

have they actually gotten worse than the one where Homer gets paralyzed by a spider and has to learn to communicate through his farts?

It's only fitting that SImpsons have halloween specials since it's been a shambling corpse of its former self since its teens.

No I caught one of the latest one with parodies of Stranger Things which admittedly is horror series but Heaven Can Wait and The Shape of Water are Fantasy films. Plus implications of the characters being sociopaths or twisted has become a norm these days.

Which probably adds to the "reasons they should just stop making more of The Simpsons" pile.

You make it sound like The Simpsons becoming less repetitive is a bad thing.

Remember when Simpsons Halloween specials parodied horror movies and would have the characters make off out of character remarks like "we chucked donuts at a old man for kicks."? they don't and can't do that any more.

Tired of the same old Halloween stuff? Check out Tubi. The depths of the schlock available is astounding.

Not sure if it's news or not, but I'm at Ross right now and they have Masterpiece Movie Ironhide for $24.99

Final Fantasy 7 Remake’s Best Buy exclusive deluxe version is available for $10 as one of today’s daily deals

We can play the "Is it a real headline or an Onion headline" game.

It's weird to see how much of Larry Hama's "satire" from the old GI Joe comic has no longer become satire in the past few years.

Funny how 2020 gave me new appreciation for Dawn of the Dead 1978.

@Fenix Twilight Sure. Just not a good one.

@Sukoshiko Well his clothes left an impression on you didn't they?

I just read "Tesla Cybertruck" like AC/DC's "Thunderstruck", now it won't get out of my head, so I inflict it on all of you as well.

Tesla Cybertruck: amazing or just silly looking? I can't decide.

Weird question: I had to deal with a guy today... I'm not exactly up on modern fashions... or even archaic fashions... But this guy... Tuxedo Jacket and shirt, studs in all the button holes except the bottom one, blue jeans, and cowboy boots... Take a moment to imagine that get up. And this was to a business meeting, trying to impress someone. What look is that? Who on earth would dress that way? (I mean on purpose)

I think the few up here were lost to bad placement, poor weather, and the usual language trap.

There are 5 spread around southwestern Ontario, all run by the same company. I've only been to the one in my area, but it seems to do good business even in non-pandemic times. On long weekends, when they do triple features, there's a normally a lineup to get in Friday and Saturday nights

there been one outside of my town for as long as ive been alive at least. its gone through its share of owners and periods of being closed down, but its been open for the past decade at least

Bias from personal experience, but drive-in theaters are nearly extinct.  I grew up near one but it went out of business in the late 80s, and was torn down and replaced with some other business by the early 90s.

Out here, I mean. Couldn't comment on their popularity in place where they actually exist.

I wouldn't know. They've only come back into vogue with the social distancing from the plague, and while some places have made an effort to shoestring the places together, it's all largely too distant to be accessible.

I'd hate to see ours replaced by condos. They're a great way to spend an evening, whether with family or on a date. And they've never been as common in Canada as the US, so we cna't afford to lose as many

Largely they were either poorly placed or bought out and torn down to be replaced by something other than over priced short term parking. Mostly condos.

I guess your winters are worse, so they have a shorter operating season. Drive-ins in the Toronto area can usually operate until early or mid-December; maybe even into early January if there's no real snowfall, and open up again sometime in March.

THere's really only 1 left in the entire province?

Ha! It's probably faster for me to drive to your drive in than to make my way to the only one left in quebec.

Fortunately we still have a drive-in theatre that's exempt from the closures about a 10 minute drive away

Theatres around here are closed again for at least another couple weeks (wouldn't be surprised if it's extended by another month or so, either), but that's what they've been doing here as well. Playing the old classics

I got Earthrise Megatron, he's better then I thought he'd be though Netflix Megatron is still tops.

The original Rocky movie is also showing. May go next weekend. That’s how you get people back in the theatres - show the old classics every adult loves.

They did a limited run showing of it up here too, back when the theaters were open... red zones suck.

The original Back To The Future is showing in the Odeon in the UK now. I think I will go see it tomorrow.

It was either the Bumblebee or Cliffjumper. Can't remember the colors.

What did it look like?

I swear I remember getting the Happymeal G1 minibot as a child, but I live 2.5 hours from St. Louis, which is the only place they apparently came out. It's possible that I got it on a family vacation, though, as we went to Six Flags pretty often.

Conversely, I had the Gobot helicopter from Wendy's and I was absolutely convinced it was an actual Transformer.

I used to rubber-band Hot-Wheels style construction vehicles together and pretend it was Devestator.

When I was about four years old, my parents bought me Bugbite and tried to tell me it was Bumblebee. I was not yet a fan of Transformers, but I knew that wasn't Bumblebee. I didn't even have the real Bumblebee at that time.

It would come with two soundtracks: the eighties classic and one featuring dubstep and the VAs are popular Youtubers.

But yeah, reading it: I came off as a bit of an ass.

I just couldn't think of worse music than disco...

What were you trying to imply with the mocking sarcasm, though? Nobody suggested that '80s music was any more "of it's time" than '70s music.

I said that disco wouldn't fare much better with the same context: media is property of it's time; biases, culture and limitations are all inherent in that. Some stuff can be brought forward because of an inherently timeless nature or the simplicity with which it was made but lots of media is a time capsule of the period of when it was made.