As this post is hitting the site, a film is being projected onto a whitewashed wall in a parking lot on the corner of 35th and Phinney ^[1] for a “suggested donation” of $5.00. All the details ^[2] and schedule of upcoming movies ^[3] are on the Seattle Outdoor Cinema ^[3] site. There will be different movies each Saturday starting tonight, all the way until the end of August.

It is a bring your own bean bags to sit in kinda event, and there are some movies where it looks like they are going to do a Mystery Science Theatre 3000 and/or Rocky Horror thing with real actors from Jet City Improv ^[4] mocking or commenting on the on-screen activity.

Tonight’s inagural film for the 2005 season is Napoleon Dynamite ^[5], which results in the most “Oh my god, you have not seen that! You have to see that!” responses from people when I tell them I have not actually seen it out of any movie I have not seen in a long time. Then I get some line about a mexican appetizer but pronounced incorrectly. I dont get that part, but the film certainly has its fans.

Beats sitting in a giganto-plex watching Batman’s Teenage Years Part 3 .