Pirates of the... eh? What did he say??

So... we are going to see Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End tonight, but unfortunately the movie has been bumped by Ocean's Thirteen out of the Rear Window Captioning theatre at the Scotiabank Theatre Vancouver(formerly the Paramount Vancouver). For a hideous diagram of Rear Window Captioning, see the Wikipedia article on RWC and for a real photo of the system in action, see the MoPix (Motion Picture Access) website.

I have moderate hearing loss in the range of some human voices so I strongly prefer captioning for movies. Otherwise, I just poke Brett when I didn't catch something, and he has to whisper it to me. This is obviously not a fantastic solution as it's distracting for both of us and other people around us. When we do go to the theatre, we try to position ourselves apart from other audience members. Once a guy sat right behind us before the movie started, so I warned him of our situation. He was grateful that I mentioned it, and he simply moved over a few seats.

Unfortunately things are not so simple in a crowded theatre, so I do my best to figure out what someone has said from context so I can keep the poking and whispering to a minimum. My long-standing hearing troubles have lead me to fill-in the gaps with many movies and severly underrate (Pulp Fiction) or overrate (Revenge of the Nerds) their quality. However, there are a bunch of other factors that affect the change in a person's enjoyment of a film over a decade or two. That's something for another post though.