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Tickets are now on sale for the Dirty Dancing live cinema experience coming to Sydney and Melbourne in 2019. Learn to salsa. Carry a watermelon. Avoid putting Baby in the corner. It’s the perfect film to enjoy in an immersive environment beyond the big screen. So it got us thinking: what other classic ’80s films would we like to see given the same treatment?
FOOTLOOSE
Cinemagoers would enter a recreation of the town of Bomont, where dancing is prohibited. There they’d find a disused warehouse in which they can really cut loose, just like Kevin Bacon’s Ren. People with two left feet could be covertly taught to dance to the strains of “Let’s Hear It for the Boy”, while the more adventurous could partake in a bit of tractor chicken. What could possibly go wrong?
THE GOONIES
Forget Tough Mudder, this is the only obstacle course-meets-giant waterslide we want to take on. As you arrive at the venue, you and a bunch of friends will be handed a treasure map to One Eyed Willy’s stash. Sure, it would cost a bit to recreate the underground tunnels and pirate ship – meaning tickets would probably be quite steep – but it’d be worth it to live out a childhood fantasy. And everyone knows at least one friend who can perform the truffle shuffle after a couple of drinks.
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GHOSTBUSTERS
Strap on your power pack – but don’t cross the streams – to take out all the poltergeists and spirits swirling around a mock-up of Columbia University library. Then, after the movie, a real-life Stay Puft Marshmallow Man could blow up and provide everyone with dessert.
THE BREAKFAST CLUB
Get locked in a room with an assortment of personality types; be visited every so often by someone in charge who yells abuse at you; squabble, bond, occasionally break out into choreography … Actually, that just sound like most people’s offices. Maybe we should leave the live cinema ideas to the experts!
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