"The Hangover"... Alamo Drafthouse Lake Creek... Auditorium 5... Sunday June 14th 2009

This was an otherwise normal event at the Alamo Drafthouse Lake Creek, with reasonable picture and sound quality, but there was one stand-out issue... after a lot of Alamo Drafthouse company trailers, and then a couple of actual film trailers, the Hangover movie started up proper and about half a second into the Warner Brothers studio logo, the sound cut out completely! Like someone flipped the power switch accidentally. The film proceeded into its opening titles, and more and more patrons at this sold-out screening started to realise there was a problem (no sound whatsoever). Alamo wait staff did not appear to be behaving much differently, though it is hard to believe they were ignorant of the issue. Anyway, the sound came back on with a click about 30 seconds later, and seemed to become stronger about 10 seconds after that. A few minutes later, everyone had forgotten and were enjoying the movie.

I didn't notice anything particularly untoward about the picture or sound after that, no digital artifacting, scratches to speak of or other classic issues, even though the picture was on film.

Matinee ticket cost = $7.25.