Backrooms? Not tonight
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All on Saturday, July 04, 2026 11:07:39
I took my son to see Backrooms. Movie timing is odd nowadays - you don't
need to get in line any more with advanced ticketing and seating, so
there's no stress about getting there on time - you know you have a
10-20 minutes of trailers before the movie starts and your seats are (hopefully) waiting for you.
We went to dinner beforehand and got there a few minutes early. The
theater was lit, and that annoying commercial/trivia quiz thing wasn't
running.
It got to 15 minutes past the movie time, still lit, still nothing on
the screen. People started getting up to check, and the manager came in
to announce that the "projector couldn't validate (sic) and they were
calling tech support". We ended up taking a refund, as they're planning
on re-releasing a director's cut next week with 16 more minutes added.
I'd heard about digital projection systems before with DRM and
authentication, heard about some 3D theaters leaving the projector in 3D
mode for 2D movies because they didn't want to risk locking out the
projector when they switched modes.
Not quite a dystopian nightmare of Gibsonian proportions, but still a
pain in the ass.
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