tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21974251.post115421109626109752..comments2023-06-05T05:50:23.754-05:00Comments on LOST CINEMAS OF GREATER DES MOINES: Trek to the Hills, 1979Markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14757792406570021649noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21974251.post-76803982322104549842007-03-19T12:41:00.000-05:002007-03-19T12:41:00.000-05:00Mark and Janet, I was there the next night! (I mus...Mark and Janet, I was there the next night! (I must admit, it was the only Trek movie I missed opening night. What was I thinking?)<BR/><BR/>To this day, I always associate River Hills/Riviera with opening nights for blockbuster sci fi films... especially Star Trek XI, Alien, Aliens. The last two were especially noteworthy there!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21974251.post-1155269426822235832006-08-10T23:10:00.000-05:002006-08-10T23:10:00.000-05:00Hmmm, wasn't that a 90-foot screen? (That kinda s...Hmmm, wasn't that a 90-foot screen? (That kinda sticks in my mind because I wanted to see "The Poseidon Adventure" there in '73, because the tsunami in the film was 90 feet, which I could then scale against the screen!)<BR/><BR/>Funniest thing about "Rollercoaster": the group Sparks singing the same song for about 15 minutes!<BR/><BR/>And Sensurround--remember the warnings at the beginning of those films? "The management is not responsible for the personal and physical reactions of the viewers." And the hype at the time was that the River Hills walls would literally crumble if the Sensurround speakers were left on for about a year.Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14757792406570021649noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21974251.post-1154404123681360852006-07-31T22:48:00.000-05:002006-07-31T22:48:00.000-05:00Well speaking as the aforementioned girlfriend, I ...Well speaking as the aforementioned girlfriend, I can say that Mark's memory of the actual "Star Trek" movie experience is a lot better than mine. I do remember standing in line in the cold... and the movie itself was gorgeous to look at even if I did have a hard time following it. I mainly remember that long damn line... and freezing in it... and then not quite getting what "V-ger" was. <BR/><BR/>One of the other movies I remember seeing at the River Hills was an awful piece of crap called "Roller Coaster." It featured SENSURROUND - which hadn't been used this effectively since "Earthquake" three years earlier... and it starred George Segal who chased some young punk bomber through various amusement parks. The thing is, everything looked fabulous on that 70-foot curved screen. <BR/><BR/>As for Star Trek, I do remember that the whole thing was worth waiting in the cold and sitting through those detailed Enterprise shots to get to the final lines: <BR/><BR/>"Ahead warp one, Sulu"<BR/>"Heading, Sir?" <BR/>"Out there..." (thoughtful, wistful pause, then a wave of his hand toward space) "...Thataway!"Janet - Painted Piglet, BikerChickNewshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01380752138682750708noreply@blogger.com