First time I ever saw the movie DIE HARD was at this theater. I expected nothing. Bruce Willis the comedian in an action movie? And I was in a bad mood because we were a little late and my friend I was seeing it with decided to bring a date without telling me. And I had a headache. So I walk into this massive auditorium and Bruce Willis is already in the limosine with Argyle heading to the building. And I sit down, 3rd row center. And this place … the layout, the screen, the sound system. It was like nothing I’ve ever experienced in a theater. I start to become enveloped, like I’m really there. by the time the first guns go off in the other room while Willis is by himself, I’m completely into the film. From that second on, I litterally was on the edge of my seat. And I … was … BLOWN … AWAY. It was easily the greatest film experience of my life. From then on, if I wanted to see a big summer movie, I would settle for NOTHING accept the Northpark screen number 1 … 3rd row, center. I went to the very last screening before they closed the building. A screening not open to the public, but only held at midnight for all the film geeks the theater had come to know and recognize over the years. They put on a double feature of The Empire Strikes Back and for the closing … my favorite film of all time which I had never seen there … Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Afterwards, the guy who ran the sound system took us back stage and showed us everything. And this guy was about to cry. He said he calibrated the sound for EVERY movie that came through, and I asked him what he was going to do now. He laughed and said “what do you mean, what theater? Please. Anything else in the country is a toy compared to this. I’ll just have to move on.”
If I remember correctly, the guy said he helped create the whole system from the beginning. And later I saw a picture of TOMLINSON HARLON and it might be the guy. But I wouldn’t think so, because he created THX and is now a professor at USC. If it’s not him though, I always wanted to track that guy down so if I became powerful enough to build my own theater some day, I’d see if this guy could help me build the sound system. Because quite frankly. I’ve been to LA, NY and all around, and I’ve NEVER been in a theater like this one.
Would anyone happen to remember who the “sound technician” for this theater was in the final years of 95-98? Write me at
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P.S.
Yes, destroying this thing for a Foleys was one of the worst tradgedies in history.
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First time I ever saw the movie DIE HARD was at this theater. I expected nothing. Bruce Willis the comedian in an action movie? And I was in a bad mood because we were a little late and my friend I was seeing it with decided to bring a date without telling me. And I had a headache. So I walk into this massive auditorium and Bruce Willis is already in the limosine with Argyle heading to the building. And I sit down, 3rd row center. And this place … the layout, the screen, the sound system. It was like nothing I’ve ever experienced in a theater. I start to become enveloped, like I’m really there. by the time the first guns go off in the other room while Willis is by himself, I’m completely into the film. From that second on, I litterally was on the edge of my seat. And I … was … BLOWN … AWAY. It was easily the greatest film experience of my life. From then on, if I wanted to see a big summer movie, I would settle for NOTHING accept the Northpark screen number 1 … 3rd row, center. I went to the very last screening before they closed the building. A screening not open to the public, but only held at midnight for all the film geeks the theater had come to know and recognize over the years. They put on a double feature of The Empire Strikes Back and for the closing … my favorite film of all time which I had never seen there … Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Afterwards, the guy who ran the sound system took us back stage and showed us everything. And this guy was about to cry. He said he calibrated the sound for EVERY movie that came through, and I asked him what he was going to do now. He laughed and said “what do you mean, what theater? Please. Anything else in the country is a toy compared to this. I’ll just have to move on.”
If I remember correctly, the guy said he helped create the whole system from the beginning. And later I saw a picture of TOMLINSON HARLON and it might be the guy. But I wouldn’t think so, because he created THX and is now a professor at USC. If it’s not him though, I always wanted to track that guy down so if I became powerful enough to build my own theater some day, I’d see if this guy could help me build the sound system. Because quite frankly. I’ve been to LA, NY and all around, and I’ve NEVER been in a theater like this one.
Would anyone happen to remember who the “sound technician” for this theater was in the final years of 95-98? Write me at
Thanks
P.S.
Yes, destroying this thing for a Foleys was one of the worst tradgedies in history.