Bad cinema experiences
Well Friday the 13th was last week and while it's very much a superstition, people still hold the date at arms length, scared of what might go wrong.
I was thinking about Friday the 13th and how to tie this into a feature. My first thought was to discuss slasher films and horror, but then I pondered what the date really means, and that's bad luck. If things can go wrong then they will go wrong, and they inevitably do.
So what's happened to you, and not just on that fateful day, but what's gone wrong for you in the cinema? Or what have you seen happen to someone else?
Now before you say I know this is almost a week late but I felt that the discussion of the erosion of society through film might have provoked more debate so that ran first. So on with the feature.
There's the usual dropping of something, and while that's never too bad, it is when the person behind you drops an entire large carton of juice and it begins to pour down the steps beneath the seats. That's bad luck.
Luckily I've never had an experience ruined by the film going wrong, a power cut, or something equally as devastating. The one time that the projection was messed up was thankfully fixed pretty quickly. The bottom of the picture was showing at the top of the screen and the top of the picture at the bottom, luckily that was remedied as soon as the titles were cleared.
My favourite story is something that happened to me. I sometimes get tongue tied and mix up words, you'll have noticed it even in my typing! Twice now I've gone up to the food counter and instead of asking for Popcorn I've asked for Cockporn, and believe me, that's embarrassing!
So what disastrous things have happened to you at the cinema or because of the movies? Has something gone wrong for someone in the audience? The film been ruined? Been dumped in the cinema even? How has Friday the 13th affected your trip to the cinema?
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