Star Wars crowd goes 'crazy' when theatre glitch skips movie ahead

Audiences have been going nutsfor the new Star Wars film but one Hollywood crowd upped that hysteria for another reason,screaming and freaking out whenglitches with the movie theatre's projector skipped the movie ahead.

The technical troubles happened during a midnight screening of The Force Awakensat the ArcLightmultiplex in Hollywoodearly Friday morning.

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Erik Melendez, 20, who was in the audience,told CBC News that shortly after the screening started, it became plagued with issues involving the film's 3D effects. He saidthe theatre stopped the movietofix this.

"They promised to rewind it about fiveminutes. When it finally came back on, it came back about 15 minutes ahead. Because we had obviously never seen the movie before, everyone in the theater believed it to be a spoiler," he wrote to CBC News on Sunday.

"The audience went crazy.Everyone started yelling, throwing popcorn, running out of the theatre with their ears covered ... people were turning around flipping off the people working the projectorand running out of the theatresprinting."

Melendezsaid luckily the scene it skipped to was not a spoiler "per se,"despite his initial worries.

Capturing the commotion

He captured part of the crowd'scommotion on his cellphoneand posted it online, where ithas now gone viral. It isladen with audience members yelling "No, no, no!" over and over.

Melendez'scousin, Andy Pacheco, was also in the audience andposted a longer video of the crowd reaction toYouTubethat has been watched almost 100,000 times.

In Pacheco's video, audiencemembers can be heard yelling at the theatre's projectionists, trying to instructthem to rewind the movie even farther.

"They don't want us to watch Star Wars. They turned it off," one crowd member can be heard saying.

Melendezsays the theatre was apologetic,providing a full refund and vouchers to return to a future screening. He says he wants to go againin order to catch the"little details that connect back to the previous films."

He says his experience going viral has been fun.

"I just wanted to watch my favourite movie, the night took a funny turn and all of a sudden I wake up to the world wanting to use my video."