Only in Kentucky.....

EP3 Screening Problem Turns Ugly in Kentucky

Posted By Britany on May 19, 2005
So far we've been reading about some (relatively) light-hearted reactions to problems in theaters, but a midnight screening in Kentucky didn't go so well. Darth Nate writes:

I had a small bit of news from the midnight screening of Episode III at the AMC Newport On The Levee 20, which is directly across from Cincinnati, Ohio.

My wife and I left with mixed feelings about the screening. The movie was showing on all of the theater's twenty screens. They did a good job of making it an event, offering popcorn, hot dogs, and sodas at $1.00 each, and letting people duel with lightsabers and so on, as another person has said.

However, as soon as the lights went down and the AMC advertisement was displayed the film rolled so that the bottom half of the film was at the top of the screen and the top half was at the bottom of the screen. The crowd was very unhappy, one person covering up the projector window so that we would not see the movie incorrectly. The error lasted through the opening crawl and a couple of minutes into the space battle at the beginning of the movie. The crowd seemed on the verge of riot, and two policemen came in to accompany the manager who nearly pulled a guy out who was screaming obscenities. As the manager left, I stopped him and asked if they were able to restart the movie and he told me that was not possible due to the way the projectors work. He apologized profusely, and said that they would have free passes to give out after the movie was over. Following the movie, people were positioned at the exits distributing the passes.

Finally, they got the problem corrected about halfway through the opening space fight and people settled down. Unfortunately it ruined the beginning of the movie and gave it a bit of a negative feeling.

All in all, I think they handled it relatively well. They made it a very festive event and offered passes to everyone when it was all over.

The same thing happened to the theater beside us as well, where the same free passes were offered.

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People who take fantasy movies so seriously are losers.

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Originally posted by UWM People who take fantasy movies so seriously are losers.

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wow...that's lame. what went wrong exactly? 2 mins of the movie were "ruined" by a projector mistake? better that happened in the beginning and that they caught it rather than have it happen somewhere in the middle. now THAT would have caused a riot...of course i think police batons > toy light sabers

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I know some people get real hyped up about movies like that but they gotta understand that mistakes like that are going to happen...I've heard of stuff like this happening before and almost always the movie goers are compensated with free movie passes.

I feel let down, I thought "turned ugly" would mean a riot, and all that heppened is someone swearin...most disappointed

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Originally posted by Boomer187

wow...fucking quality!

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Originally posted by UWM People who take fantasy movies so seriously are losers.

Seriously. These people are f***ed.
"GET A LIFE, IT'S NOT REAL"

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Originally posted by George Smiley I feel let down, I thought "turned ugly" would mean a riot, and all that heppened is someone swearin...most disappointed

Can't do public disorder right in the US LA riots was about it.... we had people fighting over sofas at Ikea....

I bet if they offered free kentucky fried chicken dinners that would have settled the crowd down.