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Ernie Lowinger demonstrates his ‘upside-down’ approach to movie viewing |
Action man! Ernie is Lightyears ahead of 3D technology
“TO infinity and beyond!” proclaims Buzz Lightyear as he speeds off into the air to save the life of his toy-chest chum Woody the Cowboy.
But while the spaceman, who stars in a new 3-D version of the children’s classic Toy Story is meant to come flying out of the screen towards you, something was not quite right for cinema-goers who went to see the film at the Odeon’s Camden Town branch at the weekend.
The dazzling effects that have made this re-make of the popular children’s film a box-office hit were rather flat.
That is, until one cinema-goer, Ernie Lowinger, 67, started fooling around with his glasses and realised that if you wore them upside down, the 3-D effects kicked in.
Film buff Mr Lowinger stood up and announced to the rest of the cinema that there seemed to be some kind of glasses malfunction that could be solved by balancing them upside down on your nose.
He said: “I had put on the glasses and it was quite a terrible image.
“It was not really what you expect from a film billed as having the latest 3-D effects – it was totally unconvincing.
“I started farting about with them for fun, and put them upside down on my head as a joke – suddenly the screen transformed and it was totally amazing.”
Row by row the audience tried it out until all of them were sitting with their glasses upside down – and ducking as toys came flying towards them.
“People were thanking me,” said Mr Lowinger, adding: “Like Buzz, I like to think I saved the day.”
Odeon cinemas declined to comment, but Bob Mason, managing director of Real-D, the company who proved 3-D effects across Europe, said they had checked out the glasses and the system at the cinema and could find no fault with it. |
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