Wanted

I went to see Wanted tonight. It was in English w/ Turkish subtitles. I ordered my tickets outside the theater using a touchscreen and it didn't surprise me when it prompted me to choose my seat. That's the way the ones in England work. I picked what I thought would be close to the spot that Michelle and I would normally sit but it turns out the seating chart was upside down so I sat way in the back near the last row. They take their seat assignments really serious. The usher made three people move up a row because they were in someone else's seats. I actually say about 10 seconds of the end of the movie because I walked in the theater 10 minutes before 1900 and the last one was still playing. Once the movie was over and everyone cleared out they had about 5 minutes to clean up and let the our group in. Turns out the receipt was my ticket and had a bar code on it. Before they let you in the theater, the ushers would scan your ticket with a bar code reader on the wall and then hold the curtains open for you to enter. That's right...curtains. When you're out in the waiting area, you can hear all the movies playing in the hallway because the only doors to each theater is curtains. When you go in the theater, ushers point you to the location of your seat. I figured maybe they just did it for me because I didn't speak the language but no, even for the ones that had probably been there hundreds of times, they treated you like it was your first. The popcorn tasted like air pop popcorn with no butter or seasoning and all the drinks were can or glass bottle. At prompty 1900, the commercials started. After about 15-20 minutes of commercials, the previews started. After the previews, a couple more commercials, then the movie.

The Turkish subtitles didn't bother me TOO much...who knows, maybe it even helped me learn a few Turkish words. They flashed the Turkish word for the "F" word several times. :) About halfway through the movie, they start playing commercials and a lot of people leave for intermission to get popcorn. I forgot that they did that in Europe. After about 10 minutes, they played a few more commercials and then started the movie again. I thought the love seats on the last row behind me were a nice touch. It was weird how the majority of people sat near the back rows (the seat I picked was the last one near the back) and the seats in the first 6 rows only had a few left in them. On the mile walk back to the apartment, I snapped a cool pic of a Turkish Navy ship in dock.