Comments on: Movie Theatre forget turn Caption ON!

By: raikarma

raikarma — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 15:08:26 +0000

hola.. i decide to check out ur website to see what’s up on ur update.. what a horrible experience what did u/ur friend eddic went thru.. nope, it haven’t happen to me yet.. hope not! i know that can be frustrating for us, as Deafie viewers..

By: Sam

Sam — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 05:30:44 +0000

We think that we ask FCC and higher level orginzations to re-license for movies, TV brodcasts, etc… that they should learn and got good habits that they always make video, audio, Open/Closed Caption and AD ( for blind fans) before releasing the
product….

Therefore they will not forgot for us.

Sam

By: Bill

Bill — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 01:33:35 +0000

ok, I am trying not to be defensive.

I work for a different theatre chain, but the situations are the same. There are one or two projectionists for 14-20 screens. It’s hard for them to know what is going on, if nobody tells them. At some point there should be someone to do a theatre checks, to make sure that all are running correctly, but someone who is not sensitive to deaf issues might not notice the lack of captions.

OK, got the defensiveness out of the way.
You are doing the right thing to let them know as soon as possible, and they are doing all they can to make up for their mistakes.

And if it happens at one of our theatres, ….(shakes fist at projectionist)

By: deafscribbler

deafscribbler — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 22:20:25 +0000

worst screwup I ever saw was at seeing Terminator 3 about 2 years ago… first they showed the movie backwards– the computer reel was in backwards, then no captioning… so we had to wait until movie was completely over to watch the first 15 min with captions. And we also got free tickets to see another movie there. It was AMC movie theater before rvc started there.

By: The One and Only Ridor

The One and Only Ridor — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 15:22:28 +0000

It happened twice to me. And I made it clear to them that it is not acceptable. And of course, i got the refunds.

You gotta keep pressing on them from time to time when they botched it.

R-

By: Levi

Levi — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 03:05:04 +0000

Yes, it happened to me before when the movie end up without open caption for a whole movie, I got frustrated as well as other deaf viewers. And the manager made an apology about that and offered us the free ticket for next movie. It was back to Fall of 1998. Sad, eh?