{"id":10340,"date":"2020-06-25T01:21:44","date_gmt":"2020-06-25T06:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=10340"},"modified":"2020-06-25T04:45:34","modified_gmt":"2020-06-25T09:45:34","slug":"quintessential-summer-viewing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=10340","title":{"rendered":"quintessential summer viewing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since moving to D.C., each summer has brought outdoor summer films. It used to be a handful of movies shown on the Mall and then, as inflatable screens and other tech became cheaper, you could spend five nights out of seven somewhere in the area watching a movie. I literally built it into my annual movie plans — “Oh, there’s no need to see that at the theater; everyone will be showing Jumanji: The Next Level<\/em> this summer, and it will be fun to watch it under the stars.”<\/p>\n

But despite setting summer movie schedules way back in February and early March, the only places I hear about still doing outdoor movies this summer are out in the ‘burbs, where they can run them as literal drive-in’s, but charge $40 a car. I’d be willing to throw something in the kitty, but not $20 a person.<\/p>\n

So, now I’m thinking Rudi and I should do our own weekly summer movie festival this summer and watch some seasonal favorites (in addition to whatever new releases come our way).<\/p>\n

Here are some of the movies I associate with summer:<\/p>\n