Avatar in Trincity

I've been spoilt by being taken to Movie Towne over the last few years since they opened. But today, the dusty memories of the old Globe Cinema, before the was a Movie Towne, emerged from their spots along with my other childhood memories. What caused this? A visit to the cinema in Trincity Mall. You see, for some odd reason, Movie Towne (the most modern and well designed cinema in the country), was not showing Avatar in 3-D and in our desperation to see the movie as it was meant to be seen, my father bought tickets in the next most popular cinema, in Trincity Mall.
Now after being in Movie Towne, in the massive, steeply graded theaters with well padded seats, large screens, alert ushers and an unnaturally polite audience, Trincity was a joke. Not that I didn't enjoy the movie. After a while, your surroundings fade away anyway, like reading a book. But still at first it was a bit of a culture shock to see how the other half of the country watches movies; in obscenely flat, small theaters and with the screen above you (so you have to look up at it). There was barely any space between your seat and the one in front of you and the aisle runs straight down the center of the theater with seats on either sides so that no one gets the perfect middle seat - unlike Movie Towne where the aisles are on the sides.
Apparently we weren't the only people who decided to go there only for the 3-D as one guy said when he walked in, "This place realll shitty boy!" (Pardon my language)
But the odd comments during previews are always fun. There is this KFC advertisement, where a guy holding  a box of chicken, walks up to a girl trying to change a tyre. Just watch...


As this commercial was finishing up - a woman's comment flies above the audience from somewhere behind me. "I woulda' hit him with that spanner!!" *entire crowd laughs*
Yup those are the things that you don't experience in Movie Towne with all the posh, quiet type people. :D
Nevertheless, we enjoyed the movie. Avatar was great! I love the way they used the 3-D effects, not to throw things at you, but to make you aware of the subtle details in the forest, like a passing branch or falling sparkly things from the magical brain tree-thing. You can tell I paid attention to names. Not only were the effects and animation very well done but the story was quite good too. The idea behind the show seemed quite original and the story progresses nicely without getting lost in The People's world too much. A lot of effort was obviously put into the making of this film and that wasn't lost on me.
I definitely recommend seeing this, whether for the 3-D, story or action (which was quite good by the way).