Fun plans yesterday. Happy hour with friends, then an outdoor viewing of Batman Begins at Movies on the Pedestal at Rainier Square, then THE DARK KNIGHT at midnight. I’d been looking forward to the Dark Knight for a while (totally bought into the media hype), and despite my friend Fil’s admonishment that he’d never looked forward to a movie without being disappointed, I was excited about it. We actually had to leave Batman Begins early in order to get to the Dark Knight on time, but we ended up in an almost empty overflow theater and the movie was great. The part I saw, at least.
I was watching the movie, thinking, “this is great, finally a movie I looked forward to that didn’t disappoint me” when, in the middle of the climactic scene between Batman and the Joker, the reel caught fire. Thanks, Pacific Place. The manager said there was nothing he could do, the damage was too extensive, so we got some free movie passes and went home at 3am without seeing how the movie ended.
Aargh!
(Semi-happy ending: I caught the end of the next showing at 10am, saw the conclusion, and even got a refund on my ticket. Not a bad result to very frustrating evening.)
