Labyrinth in concert

[psocoptera]

I thought the idea of Labyrinth in concert sounded fun - they show the movie, but a live band plays the instrumental part of the music along with the original vocals - but what I did not realize was that there would also be rock-concert-style stage light effects the whole time. At a music concert I can mostly listen with my eyes closed, or put my clip-on sunglasses onto my glasses, or give up on corrected vision and put on my darker/bigger sunglasses, but for this I wanted to be able to actually see the movie. So imagine trying to watch a movie while someone waves a flashlight in and out of your eyes, or sets off painfully bright strobe lights just above and below the screen - I watched a lot of it while trying to make a little viewing box with my two hands in front of my face, to block out everything but the screen itself, which was tiring. Not really unhampered enjoyment of one of my favorite movies. (And I had a headache this morning but luckily it medicated away easily.) The live music *was* fun though and it was neat to close my eyes for the end credits and just listen to "Underground" played loudly enough to reverb in my chest. I won't ever go to something like this again but I don't regret wanting to see what it was like. I don't really understand why people think lights like that are fun but there are so many, many things that people think are fun that I can't stand, I assume it's just another one of those things. :)