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Well.
On the bright side, I'm reasonably certain that the nice lady at Norton didn't charge me for my call. On the not-so-bright... Er, one never wants to hear the phrase 'probably an underlying motherboard problem' before breakfast. Mrg.
On the other other hand: it's after eleven and I haven't had breakfast yet, because I didn't go to work today, because, dude. Matrix: Reloaded opened last night.
Somehow we got tickets to a 10:15pm show. So, apparently, did about twenty more people than there were seats for in the theater which resulted in much delay, and checking of tickets, and shouting of and at theater employees, and more delay, and the distribution of free drink coupons, and then some more delay. I was there with my best friend, her boyfriend, and her boyfriend's younger brother. I had a headache, and when the delay started getting really long I started humming "Lord, I Have Made You a Place in My Heart" (I got the Cry Cry Cry cd! Wow!) and didn't stop until the previews started, roughly. My best friend may well have wanted to strangle me after the third or fourth repetition, but was kind enough to give no sign. She and her boyfriend - especially the boyfriend - started getting impatient after a while, which... I dunno. Not going to make them put the movie on any faster if you pop a vein in your forehead, and it's really not the fault of the individuals running around trying to fix things, if it were me I'd be panicked and inefficient too.
So they finally start the reel, and we applaud, and they start up the obligatory Marines recruiting commercial - the one with the guy climbing a cliff - and then all of a sudden the sound goes to slo-mo and before our very eyes the film melts and bubbles on the projector. I just started laughing - I mean, how often do you actually see that happen?
They got the film restarted in reasonably short order, and we watched some previews (when did Tom Cruise get to the point in his career where the first reaction to seeing his face in a preview is giggles from the entire theater? Or maybe we were all just punchy from sitting there for an hour...)
And then we watched this movie. And. Woah. Headache? Delay? What? No. Nothing.
Again, this may have been the especial experience of my theater, but we laughed a *lot* - not necessarily humor, but, for me at least, sheer delight at what I was seeing. Just. Wow. Wanna see it again. Now.
On the other other hand: it's after eleven and I haven't had breakfast yet, because I didn't go to work today, because, dude. Matrix: Reloaded opened last night.
Somehow we got tickets to a 10:15pm show. So, apparently, did about twenty more people than there were seats for in the theater which resulted in much delay, and checking of tickets, and shouting of and at theater employees, and more delay, and the distribution of free drink coupons, and then some more delay. I was there with my best friend, her boyfriend, and her boyfriend's younger brother. I had a headache, and when the delay started getting really long I started humming "Lord, I Have Made You a Place in My Heart" (I got the Cry Cry Cry cd! Wow!) and didn't stop until the previews started, roughly. My best friend may well have wanted to strangle me after the third or fourth repetition, but was kind enough to give no sign. She and her boyfriend - especially the boyfriend - started getting impatient after a while, which... I dunno. Not going to make them put the movie on any faster if you pop a vein in your forehead, and it's really not the fault of the individuals running around trying to fix things, if it were me I'd be panicked and inefficient too.
So they finally start the reel, and we applaud, and they start up the obligatory Marines recruiting commercial - the one with the guy climbing a cliff - and then all of a sudden the sound goes to slo-mo and before our very eyes the film melts and bubbles on the projector. I just started laughing - I mean, how often do you actually see that happen?
They got the film restarted in reasonably short order, and we watched some previews (when did Tom Cruise get to the point in his career where the first reaction to seeing his face in a preview is giggles from the entire theater? Or maybe we were all just punchy from sitting there for an hour...)
And then we watched this movie. And. Woah. Headache? Delay? What? No. Nothing.
Again, this may have been the especial experience of my theater, but we laughed a *lot* - not necessarily humor, but, for me at least, sheer delight at what I was seeing. Just. Wow. Wanna see it again. Now.