An idea for reviving drive-in theaters (inspired by two articles from the Toronto Star)

RANDY QUAN/TORONTO STAR FILE PHOTO.

1. Instead of hiding bad movies from critics, why not celebrate them by launching a drive-in revival? says Peter Hall in "A call for drive-in revival."

2. They could create special screens and outfit the parking lots of shopping malls with the equipment and make shopping mall parking lots into nightly drive-in theater locations. (See "Giant malls lead in sales, draw shoppers from afar.") After all, the reason drive-ins have declined (other than people watching films at home) is the desire to "intensify the land use" of the large well-located plots of land that drive-ins normally occupy.

DAVID COOPER/TORONTO STAR. Shoppers are spurning the downtown and flocking to suburban malls, such as this one near Highways 400 and 407, according to a study by Ryerson University.

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