Right now I’m royally pissed off. After getting a ticket to the Transformers movie this afternoon, for the 8pm showing. Then showing up at 7pm just to get a seat, we were able to sit through just under an hour of one of the best movies of the summer, when something horrible happened.

About 55 minutes in, during a reel change the movie started going backwards and upside down! The audio was in reverse along with the movie, and it was starting about 20 minutes ahead of where we left off even! OMG, we were all gasping in horror. About 2 minutes later they finally shut it down and tell us that the reel is toast, and cannot be re-used! So what do they say they can do? They say that they are going to replace the reel with the NEXT reel and start the movie, having us lose 20 minutes of the movie in the process. Oh….and they’d throw in a free pass to come see the movie again.

I mean WTF? Why the hell would I want to watch the end missing 20 mins of the movie? I mean I could miss Optimus Prime coming down, or Megatron’s debut. Uhm, NO. I don’t THINK SO! So we hurried out of the theater and grabbed our pass and grumbled all the way home. It wouldn’t have been so bad if the damn movie was actually bad, but it was really really good! Grrrrr.

I still think the Decepticons hacked into the projection booth and took over the controls, all the while gleefully chuckling, “Silly humans!” to themselves.