Unlucky Fenway 13
Last night cavedwellers, D.K. and I went to see Breach at the General Cinemas AMC Regal Fenway 13. The movie was pretty good, but not great; it left me wanting to know more about what actually happened, and not in a good way. Anyway, in one of the most important scenes in the movie -- if you've seen it, I'm talking about the scene in the car at the end -- one of those "did you know?" trivia slides appeared onscreen on top of the film. And they kept it up, one colorful slide replacing another with elaborate wipes, for the whole scene. The slides may pacify an audience before a film, but they don't have that effect during the film; at first I couldn't hear the dialogue out of shock, then I couldn't hear it over the shouts of "refund!"
And refund they did, tearing courtesy tickets off a giant spool for any and all who lined up for them. But it got us to thinking: every time we've seen a theater screw-up it's been at Fenway. Just a couple weeks ago we saw Children of Men there, which was periodically out of focus, had the wrong trailers, and started out with bad vertical hold. It was also the Fenway where we saw the White Chicks trailer upside-down and backwards (which was, admittedly, fantastic). We have weirdly bad luck with audiences there, too; at one movie a child walked around talking to people the whole time, and at another a man physically threatened me because he wanted seats I was saving.
This is a 7-year-old celebrated theater with $10 tickets and $6 popcorn. Is it badly run? Does it have to start over after each time it changes chains? Or is it just us? Do other people have bad luck at the Fenway 13?
And refund they did, tearing courtesy tickets off a giant spool for any and all who lined up for them. But it got us to thinking: every time we've seen a theater screw-up it's been at Fenway. Just a couple weeks ago we saw Children of Men there, which was periodically out of focus, had the wrong trailers, and started out with bad vertical hold. It was also the Fenway where we saw the White Chicks trailer upside-down and backwards (which was, admittedly, fantastic). We have weirdly bad luck with audiences there, too; at one movie a child walked around talking to people the whole time, and at another a man physically threatened me because he wanted seats I was saving.
This is a 7-year-old celebrated theater with $10 tickets and $6 popcorn. Is it badly run? Does it have to start over after each time it changes chains? Or is it just us? Do other people have bad luck at the Fenway 13?