What it was like
The bench under you is wooden, and it vibrates. That is the detail nobody warns you about — an orchestra playing this score inside a natural amphitheater does not merely get loud, it moves the furniture you are sitting on.
The film runs on the giant screen while the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra plays Faltermeyer, Zimmer, and Lady Gaga live underneath it, Lorne Balfe conducting. This is a film that won an Academy Award for Best Sound, being performed by people standing in front of you, which is about as close to the cockpit as anyone gets without a flight suit. Then the summer air goes dark over the hillside, Danger Zone lands, and seventeen thousand adults briefly forget they are adults.
An evening show at the Bowl, with tickets through the box office.
Take the parent who has watched the original more times than they will ever admit to you.