{"id":182,"date":"2008-06-20T18:57:30","date_gmt":"2008-06-21T02:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/driph.com\/words\/?p=182"},"modified":"2008-06-20T18:57:30","modified_gmt":"2008-06-21T02:57:30","slug":"them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/2008\/06\/them\/","title":{"rendered":"Them!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The last time I saw <em>Them!<\/em> was over 20 years ago, so heading into this I wasn&#8217;t expecting much more than 50&#8217;s camp. But after last night, I&#8217;ve gotta admit: for a movie about giant ants invading LA, <em>Them!<\/em> was surprisingly solid.<\/p>\n<div class=\"medtext\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3138\/2596922064_17b9548a25.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"376\" alt=\"Cinevegas Them! screening setup\" \/><br \/>\nSetup, just beyond the Fremont Street Experience on 3rd Street. Behind the first cluster of chairs were a handful of Cadillacs, followed by more chairs, Red Bull cars and free refreshments. Not really a drive-in at all, but still fun.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3026\/2596922400_bd42c10d91.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"376\" alt=\"Cinevegas Them! screening\" \/><br \/>\nAttendance was great and all the seats were full. It attracted quite a bit of attention; people would wander over from Fremont and watch the movie from the sidelines for a few minutes at a time until shooed away by security guards.\n<\/div>\n<p>Here&#8217;s hoping that the show was enough of a success to carry the idea beyond Cinevegas. I&#8217;d love to see them continue this monthly, either here or better yet, in collaboration with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yelp.com\/biz\/vegas-4-drive-in-theatre-north-las-vegas\">Las Vegas Drive-In<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last time I saw Them! was over 20 years ago, so heading into this I wasn&#8217;t expecting much more than 50&#8217;s camp. But after last night, I&#8217;ve gotta admit: for a movie about giant ants invading LA, Them! was surprisingly solid. Setup, just beyond the Fremont Street Experience on 3rd Street. Behind the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-las-vegas","category-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}