Things going wrong in the cinema

MooseJam

I go to the flics usually once a week - to movies at dundrum, 7 times in the last year things went wrong - there was a total power cut, the audiotrack was out of sink with the video and they couldn't fix it , most people left, the film was upside down for the first 5 minutes, another time everything just went dead 60 minutes in - took them a good 10 mins to get it going again and other stuff along those lines. I think thats quite a lot of fail really and am wondering if anybody has had frequent problems at other cinemas.

When something goes wrong everybody just sits there waiting for someone else to go out and tell them somethings up

Steoob

I doubt this could ever be a general problem man. Im guessing the cinema in Dundrum just has a shítty projectionist or something like that.

jaykhunter

Wow that's horribly unlucky. I usually go to Cineworld in town in Dublin and haven't had anything like that happen. Yes, Irish people don't want to cause a fuss! Most people avoid making a scene even if it's something trivial. Our (good) nature i guess!

krudler

I dont get why people just sit there when a problem happens, its the Irish mentality of "ah sure someone will say something soon" thing i guess, when i went to Spiderman 2 the sound cut out except for the rear speakers so you couldnt hear anything but the background noise, and nobody seemed to bat an eyelid! i went out and said it to an usher but it had been fixed by the time i got back in

Wrong aspect ratio is my biggest bugbear, Storm in Limerick is atrocious for it, many a time I've seen a movie where the Universal logo is an egg shape instead of a globe, or the movie is being projected onto the curtains instead of the screen

conorhal

I had a pretty freaky experience watching The Green Mile in a Westwood theatre in LA.
Just when the point in the film arrived when they threw the switch to fry Coffey in the chair, the film juddered, froze, and then melted on the screen! For a heartbeat I thought to myself, "gee, that's all a bit 'meta' for what has, so far, been a fairly traditionally shot movie..:)

Fortunately they must have had an old school projectionist that managed to edit out the burnt film on the fly and the film resumed about ten mins later.

norrie rugger

Was in UCI tallaght last week and a speaker was fuzzy as hell.

Mentioned it to the manager, just as a heads up but he walked straight to the till and gave me a refund for both tickets.

Been in places where the oncorrect movie would start rolling and again everyone would sit there looking at each other, instead of going out and saying something

bogmanfan

Went to the Nightmare Before Christmas in Dundrum last year and for the trailers and opening credits we had some Britney Spears CD blasting out of the speakers :rolleyes:

Outkast_IRE

worst thing that happened me was that there was a hair on the projector lens moving around and nobody else noticed it but me and it drove me mental , luckily i noticed it during the ads and told a staff member who sorted it quickly

ziedth

I think i might be in ftw here

Many years ago I went to see me myself and irene. Now what happend is it you imagine the film split into 4 parts they somehow showed the 3rd parr second and 2nd part first.

What really made it funny though the scene it cut in on if anyone remembers is when they are in the car with "whitey" and Jim Carrey says "who he hell are you" so for about 15 min I thought they had done like a clever memento type trick and we didn't seem JC meet him.

L31mr0d

frequently in movies@swords the projectionist has forgotten to correct the aspect ratio when the film starts... it usually takes them around 10 minutes to cop on and fix it.

Was in there once when the A/C was broken. They had these huge industrial A/C units down at the screen causing some racket trying to cool the place down. They had the decency at least to turn them off when the film started but after an hour the heat in there was close to unbearable.

Oh and remember when laser pens became popular? They ruined close to every film I seen in the cinema back then.

Klingon Hamlet

One was my fault:

Went to see Jurassic Park in the Adelphi (remember that???), but first, went to Supermacs, and they had balloons, and me being a kid, wanted one. Sat down for the film, halfway through balloon comes loose from the seat and floats right up in front of the projector. Whoops.

Second wasn't my fault:

Saw Star Wars Episode One in Liffey Valley and just as Maul showed off his double-saber, bing, 98FM fills the speakers. Utter shitty fail.

emeraldstar

I go to the cinema a lot a lot, but was actually never at a screening where anything went wrong.

senordingdong

Yeah, sounds bogey.
Never had those problems in Cineworld.

TheIrishGrover

Worst experience I had: Got dragged to UCI in Blanch to Bangkok Dangerous and nothing went wrong....... I had to sit through the whole f*cking thing....

IvySlayer

I went to see The Happening.

Well. You know the rest.

Mike Litoris

Klingon Hamlet wrote: »

Saw Star Wars Episode One in Liffey Valley and just as Maul showed off his double-saber, bing, 98FM fills the speakers. Utter shitty fail.

ROFL great post.

I dont go a lot but the state of the jacks in Liffey Valley is shocking.

johnny_ultimate

Couple of times I've gone to the cinema recently there have been aspect ratio problems. A number of times the bottom half of the film has dominated the top half of the screen and vice versa (most recently during...shudder... the Box in Dundrum). Also watching the Road in IMC Dun Laoghaire there was a noticable shift in colour tone at one point - from a dark grey to a more greenish tint. Myself and a friend noticed it, and I'm still not sure if it fixed itself or our eyes just adjusted to the new greenish tint (it was really distracting for a minute or two).

Victor

norrie rugger wrote: »

Mentioned it to the manager, just as a heads up but he walked straight to the till and gave me a refund for both tickets.

Similarly in Cineworld, the audio went for 2-3 minutes in a film where two of the characters were deaf, so we were left wondering was this a direction ploy or not until the sound came back rather abruptly.

chin_grin

One was Savoy cinema (Dublin). Was watching Team America and it somewhat irked me that I knew the image was slightly askew. Not much to ruin the flawless cinematography(!)....but just enough to notice and niggle at me.

The other was for the screening of District 9 in Cineworld (Dublin), about half an hour in we get no picture and just sound. So of course everyone is looking at everyone else going "WTF?" and waiting for someone else to get up. So a few people leave and notify those who need notifying. Silence, then the intro loads again. Queue a whole cinema going "Awwwwwwww", then the projectionist fast forwarding to the part where we lost video, and of course us all shouting "No. Forward, forward, forward, backward, back. BAAAACK!", good times.

John Ivory

I also go to Movies at Dundrum a lot with the children. It is convenient and cheaper than Vue or Tallaght. Having said that, I have had 3 or 4 bad experiences over time in several rooms downstairs, and especially more recently: The movie (2D) is blurry, and especially nearer to the corners.

This is particularly obvious when there is text appearing (ads and credits), and I found the experience so disappointing that I emailed them twice about it. The first time I got an answer saying that maybe a certain switch used for 3D movies may have been turned on by mistake.

The second time, after watching How To Train Your Dragon 2. I even took pictures of the credits at the end showing the letters duplicated. The manager emailed me back saying that they are aware of the issue and will try to resolve it. Unfortunately I noticed this issue for the first time nearly 2 years ago so I don't think we will have a solution soon.

He sent me free replacement tickets but this is not reassuring me. The point of going to the cinema is to experience a big and sharp screen.

Did anyone else have blurry screen issues at Dundrum Cinema?

Birneybau

4 year old thread dude.

Wellyd

I went to see 500 Days of Summer a few years ago. We watched all the ads and trailers but as soon as the film started there was no sound. For anyone whose seen the film the opening VoiceOver part is fairly important. Only when JGL came on did I realise that the lack of sound wasn't intentional! I made my OH go out to complain and they sorted the sound from where the film was. I decided to be a cow and go out and complain again until they started it again from the beginning! It was only a few minutes but I didn't care I wanted to hear it all!