[Hold My Own]

Jim they got new lights a few years ago and they are much taller than the old ones.....in fact LU was going to try to buy them from the Hillcats but something went wrong


But guys....as we all know and sometimes I think you forget.....this wont be built until someone steps up....thats the reason they go public with these ideas...b/c this will touch someone who enjoys movies (Mel Gibson or someone, like Williams likes FB) if they didnt go public then nobody would even know about it....please believe me when I tell you this is a project that wont be funded by LU but rather someone

brokeback lounge anyone?????


heck it might be the left behind theater so they can do premieres at LU and stuff

[El Scorcho]

I think the secondary reason it leaves such a sour taste in my mouth is that if it happens, we'd have IMAX in a town that still doesn't have a decent first-run movie theater. Movies 10 is still a good deal, but the theaters at the mall and the plaza are just pitiful. We'll be able to watch 8-story tall documentaries and six month old movies for $2, but to see X-Men 3 in a stadium-seating theater, we have to drive an hour.

[Hold My Own]

I cant even go to movies 10 those durn kids are just so loud....not to mention the amount of cops that are needed there now, and for a good reason


a good movie theater would make BANK in the LBC

[TIMSCAR20]

Scorcho I couldn't agree with you more. We go to Roanoke to see any first run movie unless we are in DC or Richmond. I can't believe there is no theatre with stadium seating here in Lynchburg. Maybe soon? Who knows. The Plaza and the Mall are the worst theatres in America. While we are talking about worst in America, is our mall on the bottom 10 of everyone's list? Lynchburg has come a long way but still a way to go for sure.

[Brokeback Flamer]

Scorcho I couldn't agree with you more. We go to Roanoke to see any first run movie unless we are in DC or Richmond. I can't believe there is no theatre with stadium seating here in Lynchburg. Maybe soon? Who knows. The Plaza and the Mall are the worst theatres in America. While we are talking about worst in America, is our mall on the bottom 10 of everyone's list? Lynchburg has come a long way but still a way to go for sure.

I hear ya. X Men III in Richmond on Thursday!! Can't wait!

HMO Great Idea for Brokeback Lounge. Nothing beats a dark movie theatre!! Still not sure this would be anything but a boondoggle (as some would say the same of the ice rink) There is more to a project then just the capital investment.

[ATrain]

why not turn it into an indoor diving arena, or bring gymnastics to Liberty?

[givemethemic]

Very nice ATrain you are always putting the ladies first.......I am not a big fan of this, just another thing to distract the students from not going to games and all of the things that our athletic teams need give the money to them.. Besides any of the movies that show will all be disney movies anyway so what's the point....

[Sly Fox]

Wouldn't it be cheaper and more on target for potential/current students to build a huge rock wall?

[LUconn]

quit dissing the plaza theatre. I've been in much much worse than that. It's just in the 2nd worst part of town. Now the mall theatre, I don't think I have been in worse than that.

[A.G.]

I don't think anyone was dissing The Plaza, I think he was referring to all the rift-raft that shows up at the Movies 10 for the later shows on Friday and Saturday nights.

[Baldspot]

Here's the scenario that makes sense from a recruiting/business standpoint:

1) No one else in the area has an Imax
2) Every elementary and junior high school in Central Virginia would like to schedule a school trip to see the movies as they tend to be more educational in nature and therefore struggle in the retail market.
3) The theatre is also marketed to organizations as another reason to rent LU's facilities for their conferences.
4) Each movie opens with a five minute highlight film from LU's recruiting department.
5) A benefactor ponies up the money to hide it from the IRS just as what happened with the football stadium.

[Brokeback Flamer]

Here's the scenario that makes sense from a recruiting standpoint:

1) No one else in the area has an Imax
2) Every elementary and junior high school in Central Virginia would like to schedule a school trip to see the movies as they tend to be more educational in nature and therefore struggle in the retail market.
2) Each movie opens with a five minute highlight film from LU's recruiting department.
3) A benefactor ponies up the money to hide it from the IRS just like what happened with the football stadium.

Man #3 is HARSH!!! I have always wondered about those that followed the "invest the rest" strategy? Hmmmmm. Maybe the Enron Dome? Martha Stewart Cinema? TycoMax?
As for your other points, no one else in the area has an ice rink, does not that make us unique enough? I always thought a Chip and Dale's would do well here, what with Soul Force based here, but can't see that happening either! Also not sure the occasional MS/Elem field trip would help sustain it. Two words: Pipe Dream

[Baldspot]

My guess is there isn't much need to understand commerce in Montana. Sorry about bringing up Williams jail time done over the football stadium donation. Don't know what got into me.

[Sly Fox]

Careful, you can diss Brokeback but take it easy on Montana because I'm down with that state. I'd live there if the winters weren't so brutal.

[PAmedic]

q***rs and steers, or so I hear

[SuperJon]

I thought that's what was in Texas...

[Sly Fox]

This coming from a guy who calls the "City of Brotherly Love" home.

[ATrain]

Maybe Brokeback can shed some light on the whole locations thing...and Sly, you don't look like a steer to me

[LUconn]

isn't brokeback in Wyoming? I thought I read a story about Wyoming cowboys being upset about the movie.

[TallyW]

This thread has lost it's way.

It's funny to me how most threads on this board turn into a "If I was in charge" thread that talks about everything except the topic at hand. The other stuff is nice but the question was about the IMAX.

I'm also surprised at how little thought and vision is still being put in when talking about FUTURE use. When you speak of IMAX you have to remember that every movie today is being filmed in HD. In addition, movie theaters are moving away from the reel-based movie and going to a hard-drive digital version. An IMAX theater would be able to show regular movies in great quality IF that was a desired goal.

Personally I agree that it's more novelty than necessity but novelty works when you're talking about uniqueness. Most of the time when you hear lists of what makes a place unique... you don't take time to pick apart each part of the list... you take the totality of that same list and end up with "wow... I'm impressed"

Students may hardly use the thing and truthfully it may not be worth it to a student (although I think a good argument could be made for it's usefulness) but the point is that to parents and family, to the local community, to businesses who want to use LU's facilities for training... it does matter. These are ALL potential revenue streams for the FUTURE Liberty.

If you look at this short-sighted it doesn't look very attractive but if you take time to look at it over the long haul I believe it is very appealing for what it can do to our business relations and community presence. Not to mention where the COMS department may go one day if they had access to this equipment. I can see the day when LU students are leading the way in IMAX development thanks to a few dollars being dropped in the LU coffers.

[LUconn]

In addition, movie theaters are moving away from the reel-based movie and going to a hard-drive digital version.

I haven't heard of this but I have to say, I've been asking for this for years. I've always thought how ridiculous it is to watch a movie in 2006 on a projector that is from like 1930. The quality is terrible.

[PAmedic]

great diametric (?) point of view, Talley- good to see the other side of an argument. Well put.

[TDDance234]

Now the mall theatre, I don't think I have been in worse than that

Now that is the stinkin' truth. My girlfriend and I went and I left about 10 mins in and got my money back.

[Sly Fox]

Back when I was in school, we used to drive down to this dumpy little theatre in "downtown" Altavista to avoid the RAs(at least until the deans called off the dogs at the Fort). Now THAT was the world's worst theatre.

[Libertine]

Back when I was in school, we used to drive down to this dumpy little theatre in "downtown" Altavista to avoid the RAs(at least until the deans called off the dogs at the Fort). Now THAT was the world's worst theatre.

Nothing can top the last days of the old Fort Theatre. By 1994, it was a dollar theatre only it was in really bad shapeand had no chance of competing with Cinemark. Seats were broken and missing, there were holes in the screen and the ceiling tiles had so much water damage that they would fall in the middle of a showing. Fortunately, there were never more than a dozen people in any theater at one time so no one got hurt and, unless you wanted to spend the night praying to the porcelain gods, you brought your own snacks. To entice people to come, they made the arcade free of charge with purchase of admission except that the games were all from the early 80's and -- I kid you not -- several were in Spanish. I'll never forget passing the time while waiting to see 'The Crow' and playing Asteroid in espanol:
"Jugador Uno...Fuego!"