This is certainly not a horrible movie viewing experience per-say, not did anything bad really happen to me, but its quite interesting. I was at a viewing of The Fellowship of The Ring at the old civic mom and pop civic theatre in my town.. probably the last screening of the film in the state by this point. This film started doing some funky things, skipping a bit, making pops through the speakers, then about half way through the Shire you could see the burn rings forming on the screen as the projector clearly burned straight through the film, haha.
I also went to a viewing of The Hobbit (different theatre) and about the first half hour of the movie the stereo projection was off so it made a weird blurred image between the background and the foreground.
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