Majestic City Theatre Kinda Sucks
View over Majestic City, old photo as they were building the 3D cinema there.
I went to see Batman Rises last week, which was OK. It’s 2D (which is good) so it played at Majestic City, in the old theatre, which is fine, you can get beer, all good. The only thing that marred the experience, and badly, was the sheer incompetence of MC Theatres. They really messed it up.
The show started at 1:15. We’d bought tickets online, printed them out and were there at 1. There was no one at the ticket counter. And there was a line. We were just waiting around and more and more people came, and it got hotter and hotter. No one from MC even showed up there till around 1:45. It was so hot, so bothersome, and so dumb.
They obviously didn’t time the movie correctly and it was running over. I found the odd, I mean, it’s not like Christian Bale did a Billy Clint and decided to run over his prepared remarks. They just couldn’t do math. Which is dumb in itself, but not irredeemable. What I didn’t get was why they had no one at the ticket counter and kept a hundred people in the un-air-conditioned hall. And I don’t mean for our sake, I mean for theirs.
The show is running late, fine, why not process people as they come in at a reasonable rate rather than as a heated, sweaty mob? Then let them in to the concessions areas, where they’ll buy a bunch of stuff for them and the people they’re with. MC could have earned from their incompetence, but instead they just doubled down on stupid.
Really badly run theatre, and it’s not like the quality is that great either. Someone with Blu-Ray and a big TV should just sell tickets to their house.
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Batman Rises?
Whatever, I didn’t think it was very good
Blaphemy!
oops! blasphemy.
hey indi, do you suggest any good theatre in Colombo where they show indipendent or european movies? I am not from srilanka and kind of miss going to the theater to watch some good quality film.
thanks for the info!
Sorry Tana, nothing like that in SL…maybe if you get cable tv they have…nope sorry you’re on your own. But check out some of the embassies (Gothe and American Center come to mind) as they have movie exhibitions where they’ll show movies from their country for a week or so the Iranian Embassy and I think the French one has something as well
ok great, thanks to all, will check at the embassies…but I was looking for the new movies, not the classics..for example the movies that are shown right now at Venice international festival or Cannes, or Berlin…Impossible, right?? :-(
In general Sri Lanka isn’t known for customer service.
Exactly, you can’t expect 1st world service from a 3rd world shithole. All Sri Lankan theaters suck. The other biggest problem with SL theaters is that, our people do not know how to watch and enjoy the movie without disturbing the people around you. The last time I went to see a film was that useless sci-fi joke of a film called Avatar at the Liberty. People were talking and giving comments to their friends, children were also talking and people were eating making noises and top of that a woman had apparently bought here 2 year old kid also. She was crying most of the time during the end of the movie. It was fucking annoying. 90% of Sri Lankans are uncivilized retards. To think that this shithole can “develop” to the level of Singapore or Japan is just sheer nonsense.
Dont embassies have regular screenings of classic movies? Maybe YAMU could list them.
On top of that local cinemas are so unbelievably dirty that the thought of going to them is nauseating. This is a. due to the management not using enough staff to clean up the place regularly, thus cutting down on costs and b. the spectators generally being uncivilised and messsing up the place like pigs! Why can;t each person take his / her garbage and put it into the dustbin outside without leaving a mess behind them for someone else to clean after!?? Culture, culture and rotten culture!! That’s what it is! Leave someone else to pick up the mess after you!!
The Majestic’s always had this crap attitude. They just don’t give a damn about people.