movie sound track off

Went to the local IMAX today with the fam to see a movie about dolphins. It was creatively titled “Dolphins”. Wonder who made a mint by suggesting that title.

The kids are young enough that they can only make it through about an hour or so, so these nature ones on Imax are perfect. We decided to make a day of it and went early to have fun western food like fries and chicken burgers, onion rings and Diet Cokes, etc.

We splurged and got popcorn (at only 50 cents who can say no to that?) and settled in to our assigned seats. The movie began and about 15 seconds into it I could tell that the sound was somehow off. Later on we would figure it out to be about a minute and a half off at times. We would be watching someone talking on the screen and hearing a dolphin clicking and chirping away and then a few minutes later see a boat zooming across the water and hear the voice of the person whom we saw talking a minute ago. It was weird to try to split your mind to hear what you saw earlier. We figured since it was for the kids and they really could care less, we were not going to make a fuss about it.

The funniest part for me was about 75% of the way through one of our friends who was with us leaned over and said “I think the sound is off a little.” It took all my self-restraint to not look at him and say “And you are just now figuring that out? For the love of man, it is off by more than a minute!”

The kids left blissfully unaware of the technical glitch that could have marred their experience.