Posted by Justin on 10/24/05 19:39

Cat_in_awe wrote on [Mon, 24 Oct 2005 19:27:34 GMT]:
> Justin wrote:
>> Jim Reid wrote on [23 Oct 2005 23:20:53 -0700]:
>>> There's another possiblilty. There's a theater chain here in Dallas
>>> that I have caught turning the lamp power down on the projector when
>>> it's not a full house. The picture looks dark and has what appears to
>>> be lag in it. I go get the mangager and yell at him and a few minutes
>>> later it brightens up.
>>
>> The problem here is that, why should I pay my 8 bucks to then leave
>> the movie for 5 minutes and find someone who will listen to the
>> problem and then come fix it?
>>
>> They should restart the thing from the start.
>
> If you're in a good theatre chain they should give you a free ticket for
> another show. We we watching In Her Shoes last weekend, the image started
> flicking up and down on the screen for about 3-4 minutes. They stopped it,
> fixed it and an usher came through the theater giving every patron a free
> pass to see the next movie.

Yes, we tried that tact with the last star wars movie. The amplifier had
blown, on the SECOND free ticket we had tried to use to see it. When
you're in a large group and the sound fizzles or whatever and you feel
you need to see it again, just try convincing everyone else to come
back. Or, you leave for those few minutes and miss a critical piece of
the story and are unable to comment on it later, or whatever.

> BTW, I highly recommend AMC. At least in Atlanta, their theatres are
> head-and-shoulders above any other chain in all aspects, including precise
> sound and bright images.

Ah, this assumes you're in an area that isn't monopolised by Kerasotes.

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