Book it!
In two lamenting parts: The Da Vinci Code
Part one: Why reading the book is better
While reading the book, you do not experience:
1. Kuyakoy or someone shaking their legs (they say involuntarily but I suspect some people do it consciously to irritate people like myself) to the beat of 1/10 per second. This shaking creates a vibration affecting two or more seats from the source, making those affected think of intensity two earthquakes
2. Seat kicking by someone behind who cannot sit still
3. Feet up on the seat
4. People’s unwanted and unnecessary reactions
All of these have the effect of irritation leading to concentration loss.
The excitement of watching movies in a wide screen, with dolby stereo sound system just dissipates with the presence of numbers 1 to 4. I realized that watching films at home is a much better option.
Though reading has the risk of unwelcome interruptions from the kids, these interruptions are bearable because they are my kids after all. One can always find the most comfortable position, ensure that numbers 1 to 4 will never happen, or all hell will break loose.
Part one: Why reading the book is better
While reading the book, you do not experience:
1. Kuyakoy or someone shaking their legs (they say involuntarily but I suspect some people do it consciously to irritate people like myself) to the beat of 1/10 per second. This shaking creates a vibration affecting two or more seats from the source, making those affected think of intensity two earthquakes
2. Seat kicking by someone behind who cannot sit still
3. Feet up on the seat
4. People’s unwanted and unnecessary reactions
All of these have the effect of irritation leading to concentration loss.
The excitement of watching movies in a wide screen, with dolby stereo sound system just dissipates with the presence of numbers 1 to 4. I realized that watching films at home is a much better option.
Though reading has the risk of unwelcome interruptions from the kids, these interruptions are bearable because they are my kids after all. One can always find the most comfortable position, ensure that numbers 1 to 4 will never happen, or all hell will break loose.
Comments
I go to these theatres because these are rarely crowded (especially with the kind of movies I watch) and I think this is largely because movie tickets here cost an arm and a leg.
We would normally think that people who can afford to pay this much money for movie tickets would at least have a bit of decency, social etiquette, etc. but judging by my encounters, this is definitely not true.
Sample encounters - a well-known singer-comedianne who was sitting behind me in a Powerplant movie theatre obsessively popping bubble wrap (would you believe?) while watching; a preppie looking kid in an Eastwood City theatre who sat behind us and almost killed us with the bad smell of his feet (yuck!); and a stupid guy in a Shangrila theatre who was sitting in the row in front of us, explaining every scene to his girlfriend as if she's so dumb she couldn't understand the movie by herself (ok lang sana kung tama naman sinasabi nya).
This just proves that even among the moneyed class, there are stupid, gross and annoying moviegoers. Well, money can't buy everything.
I watched Da Vinci Code last Monday in Shangrila and thankfully, there were no annoying people around.
well, there's just the occasional annoying black cat who likes to sit between me & my partner nggr...