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Q: Do you watch movies in the theater?
A poll:
- A.You catch all the block busters.
- B. sometimes go to the cinema
- C.watch on DVD
- D.watch on Baidu/Youku/Youtube
- E.download from torrent
- I choose B&D!
And I feel it's difficult for expat to buy movie tickets online in china.If we need a English website to buy movie tickets？!Necessary？any other opinions？
10 years 21 weeks ago in Arts & Entertainment - China
B if someone has gotten cheap tickets /anything more than 50 rmb is too much just to sit in a room with 100 people yelling in their phones)
F Use Netflix or similar services that allows to watch new stuff legally.
Scandinavian:
you can get netflix anywhere in the world if you have a VPN connection to one of the countries netflix has service in
I'm going to the cinema tonight to see Gravity.
At least that's the communication....but will we really be watching Gravity?
I'll know in a few hours.
Last month we went to see an English language film with Chinese subs. But it wasn't English, it was French.
And earlier in the year we saw The Life of Pi. They'd dubbed it into Chinese and offered no subtitles. I think that wins the prize for braindead act of the year.
Gravity is in 3D, so the tickets will be upwards of Y70. Outrageous.
And as as usual the popcorn won't be real.
However, I'll be holding my honey's hand and be content.
If it does indeed turn out to be Gravity I'll also be on the edge of my seat.
As an aside, does anyone live in a city where the cinema personnel know anything...about anything?
royceH:
Went to see Gravity last night and I recommended it.
As it's a fast start, suggest you yell out "please don't make any noise" in the first minute or so. As I did, much to my wife's embarrassment/delight.
If in a 3rd tier town, I will go because if you go in the afternoon you can have the whole cinema to yourself and in the evening there's maybe 20 people max.
In a 2nd tier city, I will go sometimes but strategically avoid Friday, Saturday, Sunday night because they can fill up.
In a 1st tier city, I just don't go anymore because a) every time someone's already sitting in my ticket assigned seat b) Chinese always have to talk and explain to their partner what's going on c) ridiculous amount of phones ringing and being answered.
Been to the cinema twice in almost 5 years here and both times were comped by employer, i.e. free tickets. And both flicks were 3-D animated films. One about a pet dragon and the other about a comical Stone Age family. Good stuff.
Most cinemas here don't run the kind of films (noir, film fest stuff, certain directors) I enjoy so I just buy the occasional bootlegged DVD or download it.
No, for a long time... I always watch it on my computer.
I don't think that theater is not better but I just don't have time and energy, and they usually don't have what I want to watch.
I love the audience conversations, phone usage and chair kicking while I try to watch the movie. The the staff tells us to stop eating sunflower seeds because of the noises caused by seed cracking
