As I settled into my fourth row center seat among a packed house of 90% women, I thought "hmmm... Gateway... what could go wrong?" My question was answered.After their obligatory video material sponsored by Sony, the film material started about 7 minutes behind schedule. An odd moment of darkness in the theater as the film projector started up was ended when the house lights came up briefly! And when they went back down, to my surprise the Gateway was running this film without any trailers - it went right into Julie & Julia. The film had a few breaks in it during the first few minutes... so I'm thinking they must have had some sort of projection accident with the film and torn it a couple of times.
The film was projected a couple of feet off-center to the right; the left edge was all blurry, and one could see the picture projected onto the right edge of the front wall. Come on Gateway, fix the projector!
The digital sound cut out a couple of times, pretty much in the middle of the film. The Gateway has Dolby Digital readers mounted in the basement position, where the film comes out of the bottom of the projector all hanky-janky before immediately going into the sound reader; not the best situation for getting a reliable data stream. (but hey, it's easy to thread!)
This movie does not tax any sound system, and I have no comments to make on the sound except that it was mediocre.
The rest of the audience enjoyed the film, which was I guess a sort of Ratatouille with real people instead of rats!
Evening ticket cost - $9.00
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