Star Wars: The Force Awakens movie projector breaks during Thursday night screening.
A projector broke down at Hollywood’s Arclight Cinemas on Thursday night midway through a screening of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, according to reports. To make things worse, it then skipped towards the end of the movie.
Several videos posted online Friday show theatergoers seriously freaking out, and others not so much.
Erik Melendez posted a video to Facebook, where he claimed the film was “spoiled” by the glitch and “everyone in the theater went crazy.”
“The theater went into mayhem, people ran out, yelling ‘Stop the movie!’ [and] closing their eyes — anything to not witness a spoiler,” he later told LAist.
The issue was eventually fixed and the movie continued playing, according to CBS local news. It has not been revealed what caused the malfunction, and Arclight offered a full refund for all the views, according to Mediate.
Michael Melendez told reporters that “it kind of ruined our night,” adding, “But it’s better to tell these fun stories than the sad ones you hear about.”
Several moviegoers took to Twitter to complain about their ruined Star Wars night:
The movie theater we were at messed up our movie so they stopped it then started playing it again at the wrong part lmfaoooo
— erik (@ErikNoManches) December 18, 2015
When the projector breaks 3/4 of the way through Star Wars. Ahhh SERIOUSLY????? — Melissa Blades (@LissaLee94) December 18, 2015
Despite the malfunction, Marc Pattavina told GeekNation it was a “strangely fun experience”.
“But there’s people who were really hyped to see this and have been anticipating this for a very long time that had to be very let down,” he added.
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