Went to see a screening of Moulin Rouge last night. It was a strange experience — stranger than watching it with a small group of friends — though that was largely due to the problem with the theater sound system.
The picture was perfect throughout the whole movie, but the sound would occasionally cut out or become distorted. If you’ve ever tried renaming a non-sound file as a .wav and trying to play it, that’s kind of what it sounded like. “Fortunately,” the largely late-teen-early-20s female audience knew all the words and sang Nicole Kidman’s part while a smaller group ran back to tell the manager that yes, the sound was out again.
Then there was “Spectacular, Spectacular,” which unfolded with a mental overlay of the AMV…