Andre

I had a chance opportunity to watch the latest Batman movie The Dark Knight in a Philippines shopping mall theatre. Happy about this and excited to see what everyone's talking about, the afternoon turned into a nightmare to the point of ruining the movie experience. I shall never set foot into a local cinema again, given I was assured there's nothing unusual about all that I experienced.

In short, throughout the movie I had to endure:

• Most of the audience were children aged anywhere from 5-10, having a blast like it would be their own McDonald's birthday party (forget about any movie rating whatsoever);
• People chatting like at a bar on a weekend evening;
• People coming and going like in a train station;
• Mobile phone lights like in a disco (surprisingly no ringtones though);
• The couple next to me was exclusively playing for the first 2/3 of the movie with their mobile phone and then left, not looking once at the big screen;
• People standing up for no reason;
• It was a lot colder than even the freezing Hong Kong theatres with occasional wind blows matching a typhoon.

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