Article Contributed on: 12/15/2007 8:17:19 AM
Here's a departure from the postings of late, but I need to vent.
Last night Christina, Kelly, Jeff and I went to see the Golden Compass at the Belmar Theaters. I've heard mixed reviews about the film, but it looked like it was right up my alley.
About an hour or so into the movie, the projector stops. It starts right up again, but then the sounds goes away. The sound comes back, but it's the radio-like music they play before the previews/commercials start. At first everyone in the theater laughs because there's a giant polar beer that looks like he's doing karaoke to some pop star's voice.
But then it becomes apparent that no one is going to fix it and we're all stuck watching the movie without any sound except for crappy music. The kid in front of me said he went out and couldn't find anyone. So, I went out to the Guest Services desk, as did some other people from our theater. We stood there for about 5 minutes trying to get the attention of the people at Guest Services to no avail. Finally someone told the woman taking tickets that the movie was broken and she yelled across the crowded lobby to the people in the booth, who got on the phone and called someone.
So we all head back into the theater and the audio track starts again. But, even though we asked the people to rewind the film, they didn't. So we lost about 15 minutes of the storyline. Ugh.
As we were leaving the theater, one of the employees told us that they have been having projection issues in that theater. So they knew there were problems and still showed movies in the theater. I can understand that they have a schedule and all that, but the least they could have done was have someone check in on the movie every five minutes or so.
I was pretty annoyed and we went back up to the desk and asked where we could find a manager. Even though the manager looked like he didn't want to talk to us (or the half-dozen people behind us), he was nice enough to give us guest passes.
I really did enjoy the movie (at least the parts that I saw). And after reading several reviews, which say the movie wasn't true to the books, I want to read them as well.
Anyone else had any bad movie experiences lately?