Sunday, February 18, 2007
Going to the movies
I've had the chance now to go to the movies a few times now. Although its basically the same as in the U.S. , there are a few differences. Aside from the Japanese subtitles, the major one is assigned seating. When you buy your tickets, they show you a seating chart of what seats are available. It actually seems to work pretty good, you just have to buy your tickets in advanced. Another difference is the pricing. The price of admission runs a bit higher here. At first this was a little displeasing, but then I found out that the price for snacks and drinks is much lower. So it pretty much evens out. You don't have to pay 4 dollars for a bottle of water. One other difference, which I admire and try to always do myself, is that at the end of the movie nobody leaves until the credits are finished rolling. Even the lights stay off until then. A lot of work went into that film dam it! So watch those credits!
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Hi Earl!
your blog idea is great, now we can know what you are doing in Tokyo :)
Also Jacopo has a blog but he never writes on it.
About movie theaters... also in Italy they give you a seat number, but it's a computer to decide which one, and it's always a crapy one. You can imagine: all the room is empty and your seat is in the top left corner... why??!! So, everybody moves everywhere trying to find a better seat. But at least if you buy your ticket from Internet, then you can choose your seat.
Staying in the room to read the credits it's a good idea, we always try to do that also because maybe there are some nice outtakes to see.
Cool, this is the FIRST comment in your blog :D
Have a good time!
Sba & Pako
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