View of Majestic City from Unity Plaza
If Sri Lanka had a revolution, it’s tagline would be Liberty, Unity, Majestic. That’s a joke. Those are all names of shopping malls. Majestic City was showing Harry Potter and a friend had tickets. The movie is OK, but the theatre is horrid.
Majestic Cinema
Majestic City is run like a government office. They only sell tickets there from 2-5. Movies, inexplicably, run late. Whether you have tickets, booked online, or are buying tickets, they make everyone wait in a hot, sweaty hall until five minutes before showtime. We booked one ticket online at tickets.lk, a good service BTW. Their ads show online bookers jumping the movie queue, but it’s gotten so popular that the online queue is longer than the one to buy tickets.
Of course, they didn’t even start selling tickets till after the scheduled showtime, and only after my friend went and asked if they were crazy. Quite badly run. It’s not a good theatre either, silent moments in the film are marred by the audible whirring of the projector. They’re all owned by the same people, but I prefer Liberty Lite, or piracy.
Harry Potter: The Deathly Hallows
OK, on to the movie. I’m not really a Harry Potter fan. I haven’t seen any of the other movies or read the books. Harry seems like a nice enough guy. Voldermort isn’t very scary, seems like a lot of posturing and messing up. The trouble with sequels is that relationships don’t develop, they’re just hinted at in knowing glances. This can be the cinematic equivalent of married sex.
There was also the requisite massive, charging battle scene, which was striking largely in terms of its irrelevance to the actual hide and seek motions of the plot. All in all I wasn’t that engaged by the story and don’t get what the fuss is about. That said, it’s certainly not bad and generally well done. I didn’t like Lord Of The Rings either and my idea of a cinematic opus is Anchorman, so take my opinion for what it is.
well i watched the movie on a cam copy a day after it was released to the world and it was much better than watching a movie at majestic cinema.. they seriously need to get those new theaters they r building completed soon… the existing one is crappy as ever!!!! i always thought that HP wud b put in the newly built theater..
The books are absolutely lovely. The movies I’ve seen don’t do justice to them though I haven’t seen part 6 and the two parts of 7. The comical parallels in the books, between the magical world and the real world don’t come out in the movies. . The casting’s nice.
antima film eka niyameta tibba. aparaade shrediya ivarai.
Well..Liberty lite is quite good actually…better seats and space…than the other two…
Liberty Lite is new. That is why it is better. When they redid Savoy it was good. After a year it back to being bad and people resumed having sex in the booths during movies.
The one thing a cinema has that a camera copy doesn’t is surround sound. You may have a 5.1 surround sound system. But if its a camera copy its stereo.
Plus I saw you there! :D
The online ticketing system was initially supposed to be for limited seats but now they’ve decided to sell the whole seating plan to reduce the lines of people waiting to buy tickets at the counter before show time (Fail). Also at the same time they want to make it fixed seats.
So imagine if you standing in the line before the movie wanting to get a ticket and the guy in front of u is having a dilemma where he and his girlfriend and her 4 giggling friends can sit. And realize you can’t find 6 seats together. etc etc. So many conflicting issues.
nt a gd thing thn.was hopin go there nxt week. any 1 can suggest a time where there will b lest crowd (any time, any day). am goin alone by de way, so needed 2 hav wry abt finding a multiple seats together…
feels kinnf f sad since this wld b de end of potter entertainment…
ps: seriously hope JKR wld continue writing…