It… boggles the mind!!! The curtains wouldnt open, and after a half hour of the ushers staring at the mechanism, they decided that the machine probably knew more about them. They told us to get out, refunds in the lobby. I could spit!! Really furious right now. This has never happened. Just needed to let off some steam.
What movie were you there to see?
Was it a multi-plex? If so, couldn’t you have just gone to see another movie staring soon or maybe even gone to see the next showing of that mov
MOVIE? (And I even previewed it)
When I went to see “Star Trek V” in the theater a bunch of years ago, the film broke about 5 min. before the climax and they didn’t even bother to fix it. They just turned on the lights and told us to leave.
Not that we missed anything!!! (grin)
Same thing happened to me when I saw IV.
It was… a movie that shall remain unnamed. We couldnt go into anything else because the ushers had been rooting with the motor for a half hour, so everything film was well on. So we just had to leave. I couldnt sleep last night with bad temper; not that i really cared about the movie I missed, but… Its the cinema! My last fuck-up free refuge from the cruel world. I’d go there to see flys crawling up the screen. I even had my popcorn and coke and the popcorn had that bacon/cheese shakey stuff all over it, just right, perfect! And i had to throw it in the goddamn bin! Jesus, its a wonder that i didnt start a riot!!
My wife and i went to a movie last year—can’t remember which one now—and there was something up with the projector, because the film was really dark and the sound was awful. After messing around with it for a while, they told us that the film couldn’t go ahead.
On the way out, each of us was given a free ticket to make up for the one we’d already bought.
I told the person handing out the tickets that i wanted two for me and two for my wife. He couldn’t authorise that, so i asked him to get the manager.
When the manager arrived, i explained that one ticket was not sufficient compensation. The manager said: “But you only bought one ticket each.”
I explained: “Yes, that’s true. But we also spent considerable time and effort driving up here, getting a parking spot, and waiting in the theater for the movie to start, only to be told that we’d have to turn around and leave. For all that trouble, i don’t think one free ticket—which simply amounts to a refund of the money that i’ve already paid—is sufficient.”
He realised i wasn’t going to budge, so we got our two tickets each.
Your movie theater still has curtains? I don’t think I’ve been in a movie theater with actual real curtains that open and close in at least 20 years, and probably longer.
It doesn’t look like the OP was in a movie theater with curtains that open and close either
When I saw Fellowship of the Ring, the film apparently broke during the opening battle with Sauron’s forces of eeeevil. They dug up another copy from somewhere and started over, and they still handed out free tickets as people left. That was pretty cool, considering.
I use to run a movie theatre that had a curtain. In the three years I was there the curtain, by itself, closed in the middle of a show. Nobody was up in the booth and that is the only place you could operate the curtain.
Film breaks can be a pretty big deal. Remember that the film is moving at about 2 feet a second and sometimes, when it breaks, it just starts dumping the film on the floor at that speed. If the projectionist isn’t there, and it takes a bit for someone from the audience to come out and say something, it can be pretty nasty.
Though I never had to cancel a show due to a break.