Gangweed Galleon Drive-Ins

The Gang Weed Drive-In is a common event where 0215MADman hosts his own movie night intended to show good movies (or good to 0215MADman) as opposed to what's regularly shown on the Friday Movie Nights.

Intended to be an alternative to the Friday Movie Nights, the Gang Weed Drive-In is usually hosted on any day of the week except for Sunday or Thursday. This is to allow people who are unable to attend Friday Movie Nights due to things like work or school an opportunity to join in on the fun. If there's a day of the week you want to have a Drive-In hosted on, get in contact with 0215MADman and he'll keep your suggestion in mind. Don't suggest a movie though, he already has several movie night ideas.

## History

### - Development

On May 7th 2022, the Gangweeders discussed the prospect of doing a weekly movie night. Being the resident cinephile, 0215MADman chimed in because he's got a laundry list of movies he'd be willing to show people. Around the time that the entire chat went "YOOOOO WE GOTTA DO GOOBY", 0215MADman quickly realized that there was a divide between people that wanted to watch good movies and those who strictly wanted to invoke chaos.

`CharMayCry: "What is the point of movie night if we don't watch the most deranged movies possible"`

`0215MADman: "There's a gotta be a BALANCE. There's gotta be good shit as *well* as deranged shit"`

Six days later, the first Gangweed Galleon Movie Night was hosted: Neil Breen's ‎I Am Here....Now. Before the movie started, benben suggested putting on 15 minutes of Drive-In ads while people waited. This reminded 0215MADman of something he found out about the previous month: Shocker Internet Drive In. The aesthetic these gave off stuck with 0215MADman, so he decided to completely rip them off while adding his own spin to it. He downloaded a bunch of vintage Drive-In movie theater intermissions, and the next day he made and sent CharMayCry a pitch pilot for a Drive-In Double Feature series of movie nights. As soon as he got Char's approval to make it a reality, and a definitive 5 hour max runtime, 0215MADman spent 2 hours jotting down 36 different double feature ideas. CharMayCry trusted the plan and the development of the Gang Weed Drive-In began.

## Season 1

Two weeks later on May 27th 2022, 0215MADman decided that, despite his intention of putting on good movies, the first Drive-In would be all 33 chapters of R. Kelly's Hiphopera Trapped in the Closet. With this in mind, he began developing the files for the first Drive-In, with a production title of the Hubbell Drive-In but later changed to the Gang Weed Drive-In. Later that day, after Char finished the groupwatch of Barnyard, she asked 0215MADman to make Trapped in the Closet the next week's Friday Movie Night.

### - Volume 1: This Man Is Going To Prison, Let's Laugh At His Magnum Opus

The intro/intermission/outro are identical to the pitch pilot 0215MADman made with four noteworthy differences:

* Completely different Welcome intro for the pitch pilot
* The pitch pilot had lower quality files for the clips in-between the hot dog and Rocky & Bullwinkle
* The pitch pilot had a pairing of Beavis & Butt-Head and Coonskin, both of which had their ratings play before the movie. These ratings were removed as Trapped in the Closet was not rated by the MPAA.
* The pitch pilot had an extra 2 minutes of intermission ads (including a mistake 0215MADman hadn't noticed) in-between Jackass and the "It's Intermission Time". These 2 minutes were cut from Volume 1 for time but would later be used in the Volume 2 intermission.

The Volume 1 Drive-In was a "first stream" in several aspects. On one hand, it was praised for its aesthetic as well as the edits that 0215MADman had put into Trapped in the Closet. On the other hand, the stream crashed multiple times during the night and it failed to communicate that the Drive-In would be focused on showing movies that wouldn't normally be watched in the normal Gangweed Galleon Movie Nights. The crashes led to 0215MADman setting up a 5 strike rule, in which if 0215MADman's Internet shut down 5 times during a movie, 0215MADman would forfeit the stream over to someone else to finish the movie. If this happened during Movie A, 0215MADman would pick back up with the intermission. If this happened during Movie B, whoever was now hosting would subsequently play the outro. This rule was later revised to 5 times per stream, as after Volume 1 the number of crashes decreased dramatically.

### - Volume 2: it's funny

Although Animarathon I was the more popular choice for the second Drive-In, 0215MADman decided instead to do Madagascar + Bee Movie as he was unsure if the Gangweeders were ready for a stream as long as Animarathon I would be. Once the stream files were ready, 0215MADman discussed potential dates with CharMayCry and decided to do it that Saturday as CharMayCry had been threatening to put on a significantly bad movie on that Friday (said movie turned out to be Norbit).

The stream was overall a success. It featured the first, and so far only time, that 0215MADman put on the subtitles for a movie *after* the movie had already started. 12 minutes into Bee Movie, he realized the audience was far too rowdy and annoying and was unable to understand what the characters were saying despite already turning the volume up. Since it's Bee Movie, he admitted defeat and turned the subtitles on.

### - Volume 3: Willem Dafoe and Willem Dafriend

Still unsure whether or not the Gangweeders would be able to handle the 4+ hour long Animarathon I stream, 0215MADman decided to do one more stream to test the Gangweeders endurance with a double feature of Spider-Man and Mississippi Burning. Spider-Man was presented using the open matte Full Screen DVD as 0215MADman wanted to experience the film in a new way.

The stream was a success, praised for showing good movies though criticized for the tonal whiplash from Spider-Man to Mississippi Burning. After the stream ended, 0215MADman made an official announcement that he planned on the next stream to be the much-anticipated Animarathon I.

### - Volume 4: Animarathon I: Katsuhiro Otomo Makes You His Bitch

Since it was a triple feature rather than a double feature, the stream started a half-hour earlier than usual at 7:00 PM ET.

Though highly anticipated, 0215MADman considers the stream to be a failure. Turnout was low, due to its Wednesday date and the controversial decision to air all three films in their English dubs (the dub for Memories was however praised by the Gangweeders who attended). The stream also featured the first "strike" during a movie post-Trapped in the Closet, though it was during the credits of Neo Tokyo so no harm no foul.

### - Volume 5: Fellas You Ever Parody a Movie By Completely Remaking It?

0215MADman originally planned on having Volume 5 be Robert Pattinson Meets A24 but akasinan suggested the Airplane! double feature as he was on vacation and wanted to be in for Good Time. The stream was originally announced to be for August 9th 2022, but on August 7th 2022 the date was moved up a day when 0215MADman learned that he would not be able to stream on the 9th.

The stream was a success, raking in a decent number of people for Airplane! The choice to play Airplane! on the Drive-In led to CharMayCry to show Airplane Mode on the next Friday Movie Night.

### - Volume 6: Abandoned By the Studio

0215MADman decided that the next Drive-In should be Idiocracy + Under the Silver Lake, after the HBO Max Slaughter of August 2022 convinced him to move it up in his plans. To ensure a higher-than-average amount of people showing up, 0215MADman requested that it be apart of the Friday Movie Nights, to which CharMayCry gave 0215MADman the August 26th date.

The stream polarized gangweeders. Under the Silver Lake was received very well but Idiocracy's reception was mixed to negative. CharMayCry thought it was the worst movie shown in the Gangweed Galleon so far. Under the Silver Lake also featured two Internet outtage strikes. Idiocracy played perfectly fine.

### - Volume 7: Robert Pattinson Meets A24

Though practically guaranteed regardless, the negative reception on Idiocracy is what made 0215MADman officially decide that the next Drive-In should be the much anticipated pairing of The Lighthouse + Good Time. 0215MADman hinted at this by saying the name of the stream at the end of Volume 6, but everyone knew what he was referring to because 0215MADman doesn't care for The Rover and the only other option was High Life, which he has not seen as if this writing. The Lighthouse was played with subtitles in the Black Adder font and the Death Grips song Birds played during the intermission.

The stream was received very well, though 0215MADman considers it a failure due to a lower turnout than expected.

### - Volume 8: Teen Wolf + Doc Hollywood

After the well received but poor turnout of the last few Drive-Ins, 0215MADman decided to make a Drive-In with the intention of it being a small turnout with some lowkey Michael J. Fox films.

Given the lower expectations, the stream was moderately successful. Doc Hollywood ended up being more liked that Teen Wolf.

### - Volume 9: Clerks + Dogma

To celebrate the VOD release of Clerks III, 0215MADman decided to prepare a Kevin Smith double feature of Clerks and his favorite Kevin Smith film Dogma. This began a short arc at the end of the Drive-In's first season called the CharMayCry arc as it involved 0215MADman trying to get CharMarCry to watch movies she wasn't going to watch on her own.

At the time of this writing, this remains the most successful Drive-In stream to date. Turnout was strong, much higher than 0215MADman anticipated, and people loved both movies.

### - Volume 10: In Bruges + The Killing of a Sacred Deer

To celebrate the release of The Banshees of Inisherin, 0215MADman decided to have a Colin Farrell double feature, including a film from the director of The Banshees of Inisherin. As part of the CharMayCry arc, 0215MADman tried using the film In Bruges as a way to introduce her to Martin McDonagh, but in actuality the film wasn't for her and it ended up turning her away from The Banshees of Inisherin (0215MADman would later claim the film is more light-hearted in tone than In Bruges, which he still believes, but he is no longer in a rush to show the film). This was also the first stream with a repeat trailer for Red Rocket, which was justified by it being included in the next Drive-In.

The stream had mixed but overall positive reception. To this day no one really knows how to feel about The Killing of a Sacred Deer.

### - Volume 11: Scary Movie 3 + Red Rocket

In the penultimate stream of the first season of the Drive-In, 0215MADman did a Simon Rex stream showing his origins as a Scary Movie actor before showing what would become his biggest role, Red Rocket.

Like previously, the stream had mixed but overall positive reception. Everyone seemed to like Red Rocket, but Scary Movie 3 was divisive in whether or not it was even good. The stream had an Internet outtage right before the credits.

### - Volume 12: Whiplash + First Man

*Author's note: The result of this stream is arguably worthy of its own article, considering it resulted in the creation of a private mod-discussion channel. No, the Gangweed Galleon did not have one prior. But because all involved parties want to move on, and this is only included because history should be remembered to learn from rather than ignored like it never happened, full details will be spared to explain an abridged version of the events.*

To celebrate the release of Babylon, 0215MADman decided to stream the two Damien Chazelle movies he liked: Whiplash & First Man. This is both a finale to the first season of the Drive-In and the end of the CharMayCry arc.

Whiplash is 0215MADman's third favorite movie. His first is The Truman Show, a film already beloved by the Gangweed Galleon, and his second is Tropic Thunder, which was streamed earlier that year. 0215MADman was insistent on getting people to watch Whiplash and tried to orchestrate it to get as many people in as possible, even convincing CharMayCry to join, failing to heed her warnings that she probably wouldn't like it because 0215MADman was convinced the ending would make up for it. And the ending DID make up for it. For everyone else.

Technical hiccups aside (one related to the Blu-ray player and the other due to an Internet outtage), the stream went well until the credits for Whiplash where CharMayCry lashed out at 0215MADman for putting on a movie that reminded her of past trauma. After she left, the call was dead silent for the rest of the credits. Once the credits finished, 0215MADman closed the stream, said "I don't think it would feel right to keep going after that", and left. This is the first and hopefully last time a Drive-In stream has abruptly ended voluntarily.

The rest of that day was spent by the Gangweed Galleon members who were *not* in the stream trying to figure out what the hell happened to cause such an abrupt end, made even worse when 0215MADman, unsure how severe his actions were, posted a distressing response an hour later implying he might leave the server and/or end the Drive-In for good. The next day, 0215MADman and CharMayCry forgave each other (publicly and privately) for what happened. CharMayCry apologized for lashing out with words she didn't mean considering the reason the film triggered her was a personal reason 0215MADman wouldn't have known, and 0215MADman apologized for giving a trigger warning for "the F slur" and not the overall abusive tone (something CharMayCry perfectly described as missing the forest for the trees) and unintentionally giving off the impression that CharMayCry had to sit through the entire movie even if it was triggering her to such a harsh degree.

11 days after, 0215MADman streamed everything that was supposed to be shown after Whiplash: the intermission, First Man, and the special finale montage 0215MADman had created. This stream was successful, though the finale montage was received indifferently.

### - Volume 12.5: Urusei Yatsura 2: Beautiful Dreamer + One Piece: Baron Omatsuri and the Secret Island

Per a mutual agreement between 0215MADman and CharMayCry, in January 2023 0215MADman took over the main movie night streams while CharMayCry did her own Drive-In. 0215MADman considers it a non-canon spin-off to the Drive-Ins, as though he had input in its creation, he had no hand in the editing or presentation as that was all CharMayCry.

The stream was extremely successful, with a higher turnout than the regular Drive-Ins, though the more rowdy than usual crowd for Urusei Yatsura 2: Beautiful Dreamer had a mixed reception.

### - Future

0215MADman has over 50 double feature ideas for future streams, and plans to start the "second season" some time in March.

## The Posters

0215MADman wanted posters for the Drive-In announcements, and CharMayCry volunteered to make them for him. These posters are always the last thing made in the Drive-In process (though sometimes acquiring the movies themselves happens after), and the posters are usually finished a day or sometimes hours before the next Drive-In is announced.

## Trailers

Each Gang Weed Drive-In stream features four trailers, either for movies that will later appear in the Drive-In or just trailers that 0215MADman thinks are cool despite no intention to ever actually put the movie on. 0215MADman deliberately decides which trailers will be put in what streams, and will often times hold off on showing certain trailers in streams he believes very few people will show up for.

The following is a list of every trailer shown on the Drive-In:

#### - Trapped in the Closet Chapters 1-33

Mortal Kombat

A Scanner Darkly

Nightcrawler

Memories

#### - Madagascar + Bee Movie

Friday

The Lobster

Spider-Man

Cloverfield

#### - Spider-Man + Mississippi Burning

The Mask

Good Time

Dogma

Zathura

#### - Neo-Tokyo + Robot Carnival + Memories

National Lampoon's Senior Trip

Eagle Eye

12

Under the Silver Lake

#### - Zero Hour! + Airplane!

Beavis and Butt-Head Do America

A Separation

Night at the Museum

Red Rocket

#### - Idiocracy + Under the Silver Lake

Babe

Zodiac

Goat

9

### - The Lighthouse + Good Time

Spy Kids

The Triplets of Belleville

Little Miss Sunshine

The Killing of a Sacred Deer

### - Volume 8: Teen Wolf + Doc Hollywood

Idlewild

Iron Man

Sorry to Bother You

Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters

### - Volume 9: Clerks + Dogma

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

Shin Godzilla

Small Soldiers

Silence

### - Volume 10: In Bruges + The Killing of a Sacred Deer

Heavy Metal 2000

Red Rocket

Casualties of War

Paprika

The Banshees of Inisherin

### - Volume 11: Scary Movie 3 + Red Rocket

Mousehunt

Persepolis

Children of Men

First Man

### - Volume 12: Whiplash + First Man

Stuart Little

Hamlet 2

The Fly

Babylon

## Shorts

The Drive-In always plays an animated short before the first movie starts. Triple features are the exception, the animated short instead plays before the second movie. For Season 1 the only animated shorts that will be played are the 12-part Rocky & Bullwinkle story arc "The Box Top Robbery". Starting in Season 2, 0215MADman has plans to show a variety of different shorts in the future.

## Other Features

So far every Drive-In stream has featured a movie review from Siskel & Ebert. Originally 0215MADman thought about leaving out the Siskel & Ebert segments, fearing they might run too long and have little interest from Gangweeders, but the positive reception to the first segment led him to make it a mainstay.

Most Drive-In streams also include a segment the TV series Jackass, using the TURD rips. Volumes 4, 7, 9 and 12 did not include Jackass segments.