Ok, I had my arm twisted and, under protest, I went to see this show today.
While waiting for the movie to start, I'm checking out the 3D glasses and they appear to use circular polarisation, the same as my LG passive 3D TV.
When the movie starts, I'm having trouble "locking on" to the 3D effect. I can force one part of the screen to be in focus, but then I'm seeing double in other parts. This is unusual because I watch a bit of 3D at home and this is not normally a problem.
After a few minutes I'm still having problems, so I've had enough and decide to take the glasses off.
Then I think: "Maybe they've messed up the projection", so I try my glasses on upside-down, effectively swapping the left/right eye filters. Bingo! The image snaps into 3D exactly as I am used to.
I look at the other two in my group and suggest that they do the same. They comment that "Hey! Now the 3D looks much better".
Unfortunately, this did not improve the subject matter of the "film".
So, either my group had 3 out of 3 faulty sets of glasses with the lenses swapped, or the movie was projected with the left/right images swapped. Has anyone else ever encountered such a thing? It is possible to mess up the projection in this way?
I informed a staff member of the issue on the way out but whether they would (a) believe me, and ( take any action, will remain a mystery...
