A friend recommended that I should read The Martian. Last Friday, I was feeling pretty lethargic after hearing about the Umpqua Community College shooting, so I downloaded the book and started reading. (Friday was an Indian holiday, so the office was closed and I could just stay home and read.) I really enjoyed the book and ended up finishing it before going to bed that night.
Then, last night, I went to a mall in town to see the movie. (I also checked out a grocery store in the mall and discovered that they were selling A&W Root Beer--Victory!!!) It's definitely a different experience than seeing a movie in a US theater. First off, there are no previews for movies. There are about ten minutes of commercials before the movie (things like jewelry, cologne, undershirts, leggings and rice). Then, during the movie they dubbed all of the f-bombs (Matt Damon swears quite a bit during the movie). Also, the movie had an intermission. This was not actually built into the reel, they just seemed to pick a moment about halfway through the movie and stop it so that people could buy concessions and so that they could play more ads (even though the movie was in English without subtitles, nearly all of the ads were in Hindi).
The most annoying part, however, was the assigned seating. This made it easy to get good seats by buying tickets early. However, there were people walking in 10 or 20 minutes after the movie started, shining the flashlights on their phones all over the theater to try to find their seats. That was rather distracting. Still, the movie had good picture quality (we watched it in 3D) and definitely good audio (aside from when the dialogue track was cut-off momentarily so that we couldn't hear Matt Damon swearing). And the ticket was about 300 rupees ($4.50), so that's a pretty good deal.
Then, last night, I went to a mall in town to see the movie. (I also checked out a grocery store in the mall and discovered that they were selling A&W Root Beer--Victory!!!) It's definitely a different experience than seeing a movie in a US theater. First off, there are no previews for movies. There are about ten minutes of commercials before the movie (things like jewelry, cologne, undershirts, leggings and rice). Then, during the movie they dubbed all of the f-bombs (Matt Damon swears quite a bit during the movie). Also, the movie had an intermission. This was not actually built into the reel, they just seemed to pick a moment about halfway through the movie and stop it so that people could buy concessions and so that they could play more ads (even though the movie was in English without subtitles, nearly all of the ads were in Hindi).
The most annoying part, however, was the assigned seating. This made it easy to get good seats by buying tickets early. However, there were people walking in 10 or 20 minutes after the movie started, shining the flashlights on their phones all over the theater to try to find their seats. That was rather distracting. Still, the movie had good picture quality (we watched it in 3D) and definitely good audio (aside from when the dialogue track was cut-off momentarily so that we couldn't hear Matt Damon swearing). And the ticket was about 300 rupees ($4.50), so that's a pretty good deal.
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