That's it. I'm never watching a movie in a theater in India again. Nope. Not gonna happen. I'll just see if I can get some pirated copy somewhere if I REALLLLY want to see a new movie, or I'll just stick to some classics. The problem of course is that even the 'classics' are sometimes prints of some jackass with a videocamera in a theatre. Movie piracy (and horrible quality piracy) is VERY popular in Asia.

Anyway, to the reason why I will never go... first off, the movie is supposed to start at 9:45 pm. Surprisingly, the theater actually had it start on time, with the previews and stuff being done before the movie started. Good good. Nice. But since there's assigned seating here, people show up after 9:45. You know, INDIAN time. I mean, there were people strolling in 20 minutes into the movie! And I'm not talking about one or two. I'm talking about groups of people!

Next: No one really pays attention to that whole rule about keeping silent during the movie. Nope. You can talk in a regular conversational voice to ANYONE during the movie, with no probs. Oh yeah. And cell phones? No need to put them on silent! Keep 'em ringing during the movie, and talk even when others are trying to watch.

All this led to a horrific movie-going experience. It was kinda cute/interesting when people started cheering when Keanu Reaves first enters the scene, but the negative aspects definitely outweighed any positives. Oh yeah. And regardless of the raised levels of seats behind each other, it's still done horribly and you have some guy's head blocking your view the entire time.

Have I vented long enough? I think so. Alright, I'm out.