Has a Technical Glitch Ever Ruined You Enjoying Film/TV?

[KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!!]

I mean more longterm than just a momentary stop of enjoyment? Like you now associate the annoyance with the film/TV show, so it takes away from your enjoyment.

I was just reminded of how Disenchantment debuted on Netflix for me. This was the first show for what I found out was a reoccurring problem for me on Netflix. For some strange reason, starting one fateful day after years of no similar problems, whenever I played an animated show on Netflix with the default audio the audio would just suddenly cut in and out about 10 minutes into the show. It took me a while to even figure this out and have no idea why it did that.

Anyway, since Disenchantment was the very first show this happened with it really took my enjoyment out of the first episode. Bundled with the fact that I didn’t know it was animated shows my Netflix had this problem with, but I knew Disenchantment it definitely had this problem with I stayed clear of that show. If the first episode hit it out of the park, I’d probably be more inclined to revisit it, but that technical issue just gave me an association of annoyance with it so I didn’t give it a chance like I usually would.

Then of course going back to the pre-streaming days there’s that aged old skipping/scratched disc problem. I know I had skipping discs for the original Evil Dead and Mallrats. Evil Dead was particularly annoying because it was that cool edition with the case designed to look like the Necronomicon and the skip didn’t happen until really late in the movie when Ash is all alone in the house and the finale goes down.

[tirtefaa]

I misinterpreted what you meant, but I did have an issue a few years ago.

Rented Detective Pikachu, somehow the movie started with the last couple minutes of the movie left...which spoiled the mystery of the movie.

[Urn Anderson]

A lot of the time, my cable stutters and glitches like Max Headroom, so pretty much constantly.

[Mr PONYMANIA Mr Jenzie]

license to kill in the cinema ... the picture wasn't vertically aligned, as a slither of the top was at the bottom ... no one got a refund ... went to see it again though

a few dvds i have glitch ... godzilla, kingdom of the crystal skull (shut up) and idiocracy

the changeover from cable analogue tv to cable digital tv in the uk was fun, lasted a few days

the re-released now 7 cd1 skipped three times ... thankfully not at any important part

[KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!!]

Nov 10, 2023 12:06:44 GMT -5 Mr PONYMANIA Mr Jenzie said:

license to kill in the cinema ... the picture wasn't vertically aligned, as a slither of the top was at the bottom ... no one got a refund ... went to see it again though

a few dvds i have glitch ... godzilla, kingdom of the crystal skull (shut up) and idiocracy

the changeover from cable analogue tv to cable digital tv in the uk was fun, lasted a few days

the re-released now 7 cd1 skipped three times ... thankfully not at any important part

I actually just bought Idiocracy on DVD. It’s been a while since I’ve seen it and Amazon had it for $6.99 so I figured why not. Hopefully mine doesn’t skip

[Natural Born Farmer]

Hulu does this thing sometimes where it starts moving through the subtitles much faster than the dialogue catches up.

Stopping the program and restarting it doesn't fix it, so I'm assuming it's genuinely a problem on their end.

Prefer to watch stuff with subtitles, and if they don't align with the dialogue my brain can't take it, so it's a problem.

[Zombie Mod]

bought the starship troopers box set (hadn't seen 2 or 3 at the time.) during the third film the it just freezes at one spot near the middle of the film, only paid like £5 for it so didnt bother taking it back as i figured i could just skip ahead to the following bit and rewind to just after it froze.

outside of that I've been lucky with dvd's/bluray's where I've not really had a problem outside of damage to the middle of the discs

[darbus alan]

We went to see Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers and a thunderstorm came in and knocked out the power right before the Battle of Helm's Deep started. I didn't see how the movie ended until it came out on DVD.

[Cranjis McBasketball]

Nope. Kind of the opposite. Full versions are odd to me. Let me explain.

I taped Simpsons episodes, a lot of the the syndicated cuts, most of you will remember, some won't, the hassle of cutting out commercials. Stopping the tape would "rewind" it a second or so. So I would switch over to play, try to time it, also coming back from commercials wasn't always easy to predict. Also also, I used to watch on an old C-Band satellite dish on what was called a backhaul feed. So a lot of the time, I was just staring at a black screen, waiting to press record again.

All of this is a long way of saying, I had tons of episodes I clipped seconds or sometimes 45 seconds off of, cutting endings, jokes. And I watched those tapes a lot. A lot. Every single night from 14 to about 24 or so when the DVDs finally became a decent replacement.

So the complete episodes, no syndication cuts, no me f***ing up the taping cuts, seem wrong.

[Ultimo Gallos]

Had a few.

Ang Lee's Hulk,the bulb in the projector was near dying. So that final battle between hulk and NOT Absorbing Man was a big black screen with noise. Hated the movie. Saw it months later on DVD and discovered it was a bad projection that caused the ending to look that bad.

Then whatever the first X Files Movie was. Went opening night and 15 minutes before the ending power goes out. Theater tells us to come back the next night see it free,free snacks,etc.

Go the next night 45 minutes into the movie something happens. Film stops and wee get told be an hour before it is fixed.

Still have never seen the end of that film.

[peaches1]

My cable went out at the climax to the Sopranos series finale.

[Hit Girl]

The battle of Winterfell was ruined because my TV apparently glitched and made the screen too dark. I couldn't see anything clearly except fire.

[Confused Mark Wahlberg]

Clicks 'resume' on a movie rental and it starts from the beginning anyway.