We went to go see the new Harry Potter today with D's mom and Auntie JJ. About half an hour into it, there's a scene where Harry uses a crystal purchased from Ron's brothers to make it dark on the train to Hogwarts....all of a sudden, it's pitch black so that Harry can sneak into Draco's train car. The cloud slowly clears, and we can see.
Then, pitch black again. The movie and all of the low-level lighting in the theater suddenly went out. The theater lights came on about five seconds later, and a couple of employees came in to tell us that the power was out. We soon came to find out that it was affecting not just the theater, or even the shopping center, but the entire city (Mira Mesa). It was an undetermined problem with the electrical grid, and the initial estimate was over an hour to fix it. We sat there for a while, then decided to take a rain check and head out. After waiting over half an hour in a line of cars just to get out of the parking lot, we headed home unsatisfied. Boooooo.
PS-There have been a lot of terrible disaster movies on TV recently. While Impact was bad, Meteor is far worse. I don't know who wrote this piece of trash, but they obviously think that given the slightest bit of hardship or natural disaster, every person in America will turn into either a rapist, a murderer, a price gouger, a gun-toting lunatic, or all of the above. Also, the International Space Station is filled with unlabeled rows of useless lights, complex asteroid trajectories can be calculated on a disconnected laptop with no recent data, and the President doesn't need to be consulted before planning a combined Russian/Chinese/American nuclear missile launch. Pure crap.
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PPS- On Meteor, they've spent the last 20 minutes pointing a blatantly-stoppered shotgun at people. I've never seen a more obvious prop.
Holy cow that was a depressing ending. And next week we have The Storm to look forward to.
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