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Author Topic: Worst Projection Screw-up of all time? Mike Lauber Film Handler Posts: 19 From: Fond du Lac, WI, USA Registered: Nov 2002 posted 12-04-2003 12:36 AM                     From theonering.net Lord of the Screwups 12/03/03, 5:27 pm EST - Xoanon Elisa Lipsky-Karasz writes: I hear that New Line Cinema is out for blood over Monday's catastrophic Washington screening of its Christmas blockbuster "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King." I'm told that the first full-dress battle scene, more than a hour into the 3-hour, 17-minute epic, was run upside-down for some 30 critics at the Loews Georgetown. "At first I thought, 'Wow, that's a totally cool camera angle, from the perspective of someone who was felled in the battle," one witness told me yesterday. Baltimore Sun movie critic Michael Sragow said: "It was the first massing of forces, and you got these elephant creatures coming on screen upside down. Obviously, it was about the worst way to see a movie." Worse still, the influential audience had to wait 45 minutes while the projectionist re-threaded the film, only to restart it after a huge gap in the action. In due course, an upside-down Frodo appeared, and the screening was halted again for another 45 minutes. "Obviously we're upset as anyone would be, and we're in discussions with Loews," a chagrined New Line spokeswoman told me. "We want to know if Gollum was in the projection booth." I can't even imagine a worse possible screwup as a projectionist. Seriously, you'd think if you were doing an advanced screening of one of the biggest movies of all time for a bunch of movie critics, you'd use a little more care.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 12-04-2003 12:41 AM                     Fascinating article. Wanna read one equally fascinating? Clickey clickey  |  IP: Logged

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