Spinal
MB Enthusiast
- Joined
- Sep 14, 2004
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Rant warning!
So I went to the cinema tonight.... The first thing I saw was a rat on the screen that told me not to watch pirated movies - that the sound would be tinny, the visual quality bad and I would see people going to the toilet in front of me...
After finding my seat, I realised that there was chewing gum on the floor, meaning my shoes were getting stuck to the floor - I also realised that there was some strange red goop on the left handrest which meant that I couldn't put my arm down.
So after, coving the handrest with the advertising I was handed at the entrance, sat down with my shoes firmly glued to the floor I realised that at 6'2" I had a hard time sitting comfortably without being a nuisance to the fellow sitting in front of me. I closed my eyes, thought of a go-kart and made myself a bit smaller.
After sitting through a further 30 minutes of adverts while playing solitaire on my mobile, I was not-so-kindly told that unless I turned off my (silent) mobile, I would get thrown out and the police called. Why I would want to make a video of an advert, I would not know - but I duly complied and turned my attention the to the screen.
I soon realised that the left front speaker wasn't working; nay, I'm wrong it did work - intermittently! There is one thing more annoying than hearing only one side of a conversation, its hearing bits and pieces of one side of the conversation!
So, trying to avoid to pay too much attention to the speakers, I turned to the action on the screen. That was when I noticed that all the brighter things on screen were "bleeding" downwards if they were on a black background!
No problem I thought, being in the middle of the row, I would wait until the end when everyone moved and complain to someone working there. After the movie, I walked out and looked for a member of staff - when I finally found some depressed college kid closing up, he wasn't too interested in my complaints and was told to mail my complaint to the head office...
Don't you love going to the cinema? The quality of the video, the sounds, the experience! Ah...
If it makes a difference, the movie was Attonement, which although I felt was badly adapted from the novel; was still a pretty good movie (one I would definetly watch again - but NOT in a cinema!)
So, I have reached the end of my rant - I will refuse to go back to that cinema; which will mean that my complaint will fall on deaf ears. At most, I will get a few more free tickets to a cinema that I refuse to allow to ruin another movie for me!
Michele
So I went to the cinema tonight.... The first thing I saw was a rat on the screen that told me not to watch pirated movies - that the sound would be tinny, the visual quality bad and I would see people going to the toilet in front of me...
After finding my seat, I realised that there was chewing gum on the floor, meaning my shoes were getting stuck to the floor - I also realised that there was some strange red goop on the left handrest which meant that I couldn't put my arm down.
So after, coving the handrest with the advertising I was handed at the entrance, sat down with my shoes firmly glued to the floor I realised that at 6'2" I had a hard time sitting comfortably without being a nuisance to the fellow sitting in front of me. I closed my eyes, thought of a go-kart and made myself a bit smaller.
After sitting through a further 30 minutes of adverts while playing solitaire on my mobile, I was not-so-kindly told that unless I turned off my (silent) mobile, I would get thrown out and the police called. Why I would want to make a video of an advert, I would not know - but I duly complied and turned my attention the to the screen.
I soon realised that the left front speaker wasn't working; nay, I'm wrong it did work - intermittently! There is one thing more annoying than hearing only one side of a conversation, its hearing bits and pieces of one side of the conversation!
So, trying to avoid to pay too much attention to the speakers, I turned to the action on the screen. That was when I noticed that all the brighter things on screen were "bleeding" downwards if they were on a black background!
No problem I thought, being in the middle of the row, I would wait until the end when everyone moved and complain to someone working there. After the movie, I walked out and looked for a member of staff - when I finally found some depressed college kid closing up, he wasn't too interested in my complaints and was told to mail my complaint to the head office...
Don't you love going to the cinema? The quality of the video, the sounds, the experience! Ah...
If it makes a difference, the movie was Attonement, which although I felt was badly adapted from the novel; was still a pretty good movie (one I would definetly watch again - but NOT in a cinema!)
So, I have reached the end of my rant - I will refuse to go back to that cinema; which will mean that my complaint will fall on deaf ears. At most, I will get a few more free tickets to a cinema that I refuse to allow to ruin another movie for me!
Michele