Just for the sake of the drive-in in Mid-Town, and the mis-print of the Roane County news, I wanted to post here that they are not in fact closed now, after the 1st of Aug. They will be open as long as attendance permits (which I am sorry to say was very low for a Friday night and a new release movie), however they will at least stay open until Labor Day. Anyone in the area, I highly recommend checking out the theater if you haven’t already, two movies for $6 a person cannot possibly be beat in this day and age, and while the restaurant is closed, the concessions stand is still open with burgers etc. If you have a child you would like to take to the movies, but they are too inattentive or whatnot to sit for 4 hours, this is the perfect venue. Bring a blanket, a cooler full of your favorite beverage and have a night out at the drive-in. Vans or pick-up trucks are perfect for these theaters which are a dying breed. Unfortunately, after speaking to the ticket clerk / owners family, we found TVA spill that made national headlines has hurt tourism / out-of-town income to the local business’s more than I originally thought it had. Yes the spill was completely awful, but I hadn’t realized just how hard it had hurt local business’s like the drive-in until speaking with them personally. Unfortunately the local paper used this issue plus the drive-in’s closing to spin some ratings on their paper and were inaccurate, and didn’t make an effort to correct themselves. It is a small county, and my friend loves the drive-in, so I wanted to post this here for anyone that happened upon it through any search engines. Help save it by attending if you can, or at least enjoy it before it’s gone, or buy it if you have the money (it is available for purchase for $275,000) 
Anyway….about the movie reviews.
We just went tonight to see the new Harry Potter 6 (& the Half-Blood Prince) and Public Enemies.
Public Enemies was the first one up, and as far as movies go it was fairly decent, with me personally scoring it a 3/5, with as usual, great acting from Depp. Christian Bale, who plays the supporting role as the FBI agent Melvin Purvis, gives a so-so performance equal to his performances in the Batman franchise, which just could have used more emotion, unless both characters were fairly bland, emotionless people. Depp was his usual self, who played outstandingly as the charismatic Dillinger. While there were several other gangsters from this era portrayed, the emphasis was most certainly on Dillinger and the exploits he went through. Most of the movie deviates from historical accounts to make the plot flow more smoothly, and give the sequences more action, for which even I noticed (even though I am far from a buff of this time), but didn’t mind. The plot moves along quite nicely with nothing that detracts from the main storyline, or other scenes that would otherwise detract from the movie. While the supporting role of Purvis seemed rather bland and emotionless, nonetheless, his performance was convincing, and for anyone that enjoys depression era gang stories, or is facinated by such, I think would find this movie enjoyable. I would certainly recommend to anyone that enjoys action/drama movies to go see it, and in fact, it has enough romance in it with Depp’s girl in this movie to make it worth going to see with your girl if she just cannot decide on a flick, and you want to see something you can both enjoy. There are several gunfights, with, from my experience, have Very realistic gunfire sounds and wounds. Unfortunately, for those of you familiar with the Dirty Harry movies, or brains on the screen, you may be dissapointed, but fact is, real gunfire and wounds just don’t look like Hollywood. These gunfights however are very realistic (as far as Hollywood goes), with little (shooting without aiming), or (this magazine holds 2,500 rounds). All in all, this movie was worth paying to see, however it’s re-watchability (if that is a word), would be in the lower range. It’s just not a movie that I would enjoy seeing more than one time. For most of you that aren’t either in love with Depp (as my friend was), in love with gangster movies, or depression era films, you can probably wait till this hits video and save yourself the $50 bucks.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, was decent, as are all the Potter franchise movies, however with the 6th installment, being that the books increse in lenght as they go along, they had to seriously cut up the film in order to keep it’s time down. As is, I believe I remember it to be 154mins long. Almost every scene was chopped down to the point that my friend attending with me had trouble even following the story and would constantly ask what was going on. She is one of the ones that hasn’t read any books but has seen every film, and she still had trouble following what was going on. Maybe because I had read the book so recently, but I seemed to notice every mistake they made, which I didn’t do as much on previous films that only seemed to cut plot filler out. Unfortunately they either cut or re-wrote major plot points of this film, including a fairly long scene towards the end that didn’t even take place in the book at all (first time for a Potter movie I think), and it didn’t even make any sense nor move the plot forward in any way. Unfortunately, I give this movie the lowest marks of any of the Potter films, being chopped up to pieces the way it is, and that deviates from the book in too many points for anyone that reads the books to enjoy as much as the other movies before it. which is sad being that the five films before it stayed with the books plot enough to be almost straight on. 2/5, but I still recommend any Potter fan to see it in the theatres (which I am sure you already have as this is probably the two-thousandth review on this film.)