Sunday, 27 June 2004

Lumos!

Just saw Harry Potter and the Prizoner of Azkaban in Shibuya after my morning shift (no good cinemas in the burbs!).

It as really strange as Harry Potter is popular as heck here and there have been commercials and posters everywhere but there was only one cinema in Shibuya screening it! It was a wierd one too. I bought the movie ticket and the guy gave me two tickets. One with a number and the admission ticket. He said to come back at a certain time to prepare for the movie!

40mins later I came back and was forced ti line up down 5 floors of stairs with over one hundred other people with one man running up and down the stairs SCREAMING instructions at us! I don't care is he's screaming complements... I don't like being screamed at PERIOD. I don't think anyone else did either. It was random and impersonal screaming even if you did understand what he was saying (and I did for the most part!).

Anyway, eventually they let us in in order of the numbers on our tickets (really pointless really as it only took 5mins to let everyone in and that was nowhere near enough timeto find a seat. For the next 20mins people were still trying to find a good spot to sit.

Lots more announcements and people screaming instrauctions and telling us the condement bar is open (really?) and a digital ring tone to let us know the movie was starting (in case we couldn't tell with the doors closed and lights off) and a woman screaming that the bar was closed.

Needless to say it was a very stressful experience. However the film was GREAT! And I really enjoyed it! Definitly won't be going here again though!