Movie at Jack Trice on Saturday
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There was a pretty bad echo where we were sitting. However, I talked to a guy who has never been to the stadium who was blown away by the quality of the videoboard.
Awesome night. The athletic department has done a great job of cultivating a family atmosphere in Ames which will pay off in the long run as these kids are future season ticket holders and donors.
Anyone wish they still had drive in movie theaters? I know Ames had one how many years ago in west Ames, right?
There is still a drive-in theater in Newton. My wife and I were talking about this the other night because we caught the end of the drive-in era as young kids. We came to the conclusion that although the drive-in experience is a cool novelty you can't really compete with all of the state of the art theaters. Plus, dive-ins have to start later for darkness and are really dependent on the weather conditions.
One of my more vivid memories as a kid was going to a drive in movie when I was probably 8 or so. We saw Batman with Michael Keaton.
I was just remarking about this. Saw many movies as a kid at the west Ames drive in.
It was out past Cyclone Stereo, probably gone 15 years now
We took the kids a couple of summers ago to Newton's Valle Drive-In a couple of summers ago, it was a good time. Go early, it fills up fast! Usually runs a double feature (42 and IronMan 3 right now.) Get on their email list and get regular notice of what's showing.
West Lincoln Way, right at the Boone County line. There's an Anytime Fitness and some self-storage units there now.
They should be able to make the $$ back up in concessions, did you see those lines? It was at least a 30 min wait.
I remember going to the West Ames drive-in to see Terminator 2 and The Doors. The weather was OK for the first movie (Terminator), but a summer shower broke out halfway through The Doors, and we could barely see the screen for 5 or 10 minutes.
Still, it was a pretty cool experience.
Still, it was a pretty cool experience.
Great suggestions. I hope the ISU staff are reading this board and take your ideas under consideration. We went with my in-laws from Slater, and the kids had a great time. Moses and I had already seen the movie, but Mom hadn't seen it yet.
The lines for concessions were long, but considering that they had no idea how many people were going to show up, I thought it was pretty impressive that they had ANY concessions available. Next time, they'll have a better handle on how many stands to have open.
"Remember the Titans" would be a logical follow-up. My brother in law had a good idea: Have an animated movie like "Wreck it Ralph" first, then have another movie "for the parents". Not a Hard-R comedy like "Slap Shot" (no way in hell ANYONE should allow their kids to watch that movie, unless it's edited down to 40 minutes or so), but something more appealing to a post-elementary school crowd. Not that WIR had that problem, I thought it was a pretty good movie for animation, and the old video game references were pretty cool.
The concession lines were my one complaint (they ran out of popcorn one person before me after the looooong wait), but I'm sure they just didn't have any idea how many people to expect.
We took the grandkids and had a very good time. I think Kevin Jackson and family were a couple of blankets in front of us. It was a great idea and very fun - great way to get kids in Jack Trice. On a slightly different note - I wish my grass was half as nice as Jack Trice's grass.
What were the concession prices like? We went to Hickory Park first and were full so didn't have any. Great idea to have water available for everyone.
You don't know what you got till it's gone.
They (took away) paved (parked car movie) paradise, put up a self storage unit.
Had a fun time with a group of friends, was a great idea.
I'll second the idea for a more adult movie night as well in the future, even though this was still an enjoyable one to watch.
Next time they'll probably be prepared for more people, i dont think they were this time. Someone operating the traffic light at S16th wouldve gone a long, long way at the end of the night.
As for drive-ins, ive only ever been to one once, for Independence Day in 96. Kind of wish there was one in des moines still. On the plus side we have a sweet new dine-in brewery theater concept coming to merle hay mall. That could be awesome.
I'll second the idea for a more adult movie night as well in the future, even though this was still an enjoyable one to watch.
Next time they'll probably be prepared for more people, i dont think they were this time. Someone operating the traffic light at S16th wouldve gone a long, long way at the end of the night.
As for drive-ins, ive only ever been to one once, for Independence Day in 96. Kind of wish there was one in des moines still. On the plus side we have a sweet new dine-in brewery theater concept coming to merle hay mall. That could be awesome.
I watched quite a few as a kid...specifically remember happily watching a Star Trek movie out the back window with no sound while my parents watched The Natural out the front window. Funny now that The Natural is one of my favorite movies. The last one I watched was when a friend and I begged my parents to let us watch Total Recall successfully...that town now has a walmart where it used to be.
Since it was the first of it's kind, I would imagine they will plan accordingly for future events.
This is a great way to utilize unused space and get some revenue out of it! The possibilities are endless. If they can get it staffed properly, there could be movies every weekend, you could even have month-long themes; sci-fi month, animation month, suspense, horror, and in August, to fire us up for the season, football month, (besides Remember the Titans, you could watch Rudy, Any Given Sunday, or a number of others).
A couple-three decades ago, there used to be concerts at JTS, even a FarmAid show that went all day, (I worked security for that, what a day!). It's a great way to bring in a lot of talent and keep ticket prices low, 'cause of the ability to sell so many tix.
