About 20 minutes into a 3-D press screening of The Avengers Monday night in Los Angeles, one member of the audience interrupted the superhero theatrics to make it known that all was not right with his viewing experience. ?Fix the projector!? the exasperated gentleman bellowed during a conspicuously quiet moment, as Mark Ruffalo?s contemplative face filled the screen. Something was very off, giving the complainant and others in attendance a less-than-ideal, even disastrous presentation. The only problem? There was nothing wrong with the projector.
The issue that led this particular fed up gentleman — who may or may not have been a film critic on assignment, I?m not sure ? to shout out in irritated frustration wasn?t any fault of shoddy projection, or texting teens, or (forbid!) an accidental digital file deletion up in the booth, or any of the common complaints audiences have in the age of modern moviegoing. It was a case of faulty 3-D glasses mucking up the picture for the poor guy, giving Joss Whedon?s ZOMG epic 3-D adventure an unsolicited layer of blurriness, blackouts, green tint and/or other visual muck — only he didn?t realize that it was because of the cumbersome contraption on his face and not the projection itself.
I know this because about 10 seconds into The Avengers, I realized my pair of theater-provided 3-D glasses were also inoperable — and then spent 15 minutes running back and forth from lobby to darkened theater aisle, sorting through literally dozens of pairs in a frantic attempt to find ones that worked so I could get back to watching Hulk and Co. smash, already.
Now, a brief techie aside: The Arclight theaters, which hosted the screening in Hollywood, employ the XpandD active-shutter…
Source: http://www.celebrities.com/celebrities-gossip/the-avengers-and-the-case-of-the-near-disastrous-3-d/
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