i can’t believe i hadn’t written about this earlier. the number of times i’ve been to a malaysian multiplex can be counted on one hand, so forgive me if some of these below still exists!
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things that i won’t be experiencing at the movies anymore:
- crap parking in the cinema foreground, with or without the jaga kereta
- air tebu stalls and the like at the cinema entrance
- the fact that movies do matinees, followed by four or five screenings of the main feature, plus an additional midnight screening of an upcoming film if it was the weekend
- ticket booths with grilles
- tickets that are of toilet paper quality with D-17 scrawled in thick coloured pencil
- checking out stills of films in the foyer
- the terms coming soon, next change and now showing
- kuaci
- those beautiful softly-lit velveteen festooning curtains that covers the screen, as you are being greeted (nicely/gruffly – take your pick) by the usher
- the smell. i’ve smelt substances from the likes of kerosene to urine.
- pre-feature slide ads of the nearby hair salon and shops selling bak kut teh
- pearl and dean’s pap pah pap pah pap pah pap pah pappap pah before the ads
- ads for alcoholic beverages, namely guiness stout (pokok tumbang, kilang machinery rosak etc), hennesey and the one for anglia shandy that had malaysians playing a cowboy, a bartender and a bargirl
- the shaw brothers montage* (like the one in kill bill) with the exact tune that you’d get in the p. ramlee films [* i am unsure what you call it, if you know drop a note in the comments below!]
- the malaysian heat and the blinding sun as you come out from the cinema hall
oh god, you bring back much memories with this post and the previous one.
oh god, you bring back much memories with this post and the previous one.
I think ads for alcoholic beverages are still shown before the main feature.
But they’re much more err..”modern” and highly erotic, IMHO. 🙂
I think ads for alcoholic beverages are still shown before the main feature.
But they’re much more err..”modern” and highly erotic, IMHO. 🙂
many of the features are still here, GSC Kk is a prime example. It still hangs those hand painted billboards of movies instead of the new print kind. It seats are still multilevelled, smelly and toilets are horrendous. But it’s nostalgic:) To my opinion the new cineplexes are a whole world of improvement.
many of the features are still here, GSC Kk is a prime example. It still hangs those hand painted billboards of movies instead of the new print kind. It seats are still multilevelled, smelly and toilets are horrendous. But it’s nostalgic:) To my opinion the new cineplexes are a whole world of improvement.
Montage is right. I make a living out of doing those things…. 🙂
Montage is right. I make a living out of doing those things…. 🙂