If no one buys a ticket to a movie, do they still show it?
You can credit that three-week drought to my general laziness and a lack of any Grand Blogging Ideas. Incidentally, there seems to be a real drought waiting to happen, thanks to the monsoon’s complete refusal to making its presence felt. Perhaps somebody should get hold of that Rain God chap from Hitchhiker’s. Heat, of course, means power cuts, and power cuts mean heat, which in turn exponentially increases my inertia of rest. We got a new inverter recently since the old one was on its deathbed. Unfortunately, the new one is more like a power-crazy megalomaniac — it seizes every opportunity to switch itself on and pretends it can’t tell the difference between the electricity fluctuating and actually going away. Or at least, it did, until the repairguy came, gave it a look that probably turned the acid in its batteries to water and then walked off. It’s been most well-behaved since then.
Have you ever had an embarrassing conversation on the phone? Like the other day, one of my relatives called up and said ‘Hi Sahil’ in exactly the same way as one of my teacher’s (I’d been expecting that teacher’s call) and I began blabbering to him and he just pretended and didn’t even correct me! Or this time when I called Shayeri in the middle of her medical exams and we spoke for like five minutes before I slowly realised that something was wrong (she thought I was somebody else, which made me wonder if I’d actually dialed the right number and if I should just slam the receiver down and pretend nothing happened and what the heck was going on?!) Caller ID, I ask you.
I finally got my Tata Sky repaired. It’s been giving trouble for a very long time — I even had to watch the French Open final in a friend’s house (Federer WON, zomgwoohoo!). Anyway, it’s working loads better than it did even the day it was fixed so yay! And it took this repairguy also only about 4 minutes to fix it! (Incidentally, resetting the DigiComp thing is the Most Complicated Resetting-thing ever; it requires at least 4 hands. They also don’t tell you beforehand that it’s not actually going to make any difference, other than conveniently erasing all your Favourites). Anyway, it’s interesting how there always used to be interesting programs on all the channels that didn’t work, but now that rarely seems to happen. So I’ve been watching all these movies — Zodiac (pretty cool detective thriller), Flyboys (I wanna learn how to fly!), How to Lose Friends and Alienate People (lame, really), Wall-E (kind of cute, although the day robots begin to emote, I’ll probably run as fast as I can), X-Men Origins: Wolverine (another good one worth watching, even though I’m not much of an X-Men fan) and … Flight 666! (like finally, after the stupid PVR fiasco). It’s quite awesome too, although I doubt non-metalheads will dig.
Michael Jackson just died today. OMG. I’ve never been a fan, but still. He was only 50, too. MTV and Vh1 seem to be doing a marathon tribute. (English music on MTV?!)
As for the title, do they? I suppose it never really happens in the big cinemas?
P.S. Don’t eat McDonald’s new Chicken McNuggets. They’re yuck.
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They don't show the movie. If very few people buy tickets then they even cancel shows.
A friend of mine bought a ticket for 'Sweeny Todd' at PVR. He turned out to be the ONLY person to turn up for that show, so PVR canceled it.
Well, once upon a time, my parents, my brother n I had gone to some morning show of Indiana Jones 4 and they ran it just for the 4 of us. :D
And .. that McD Chicken Nugget warning came a little too late. Although I didn't really mind it that much. But the mustard sauce is horrible. It smells. And not mustard-y either.
Oh, power cuts happen in Delhi too? I thought you guys were immune to that kind of shit. Can't beat us though, we don't have electricity half the time. Like literally. We just get electricity for around 12 hours everyday. So if somebody manages to find the Rain God guy, please give him a big kick in the ass and direct him towards us. K thx.
Embarrassing phone conversations happen all the time. I always fail to recognise people on the phone. But my grandmother beat me hollow this one time she called my Taiji. They kept talking, then granny asks her how she's doing and supposed Taiji says that she's on the bed. And Granny was like, "Kya ho gaya?!" and the other lady is like, "Hona kya tha, kitne saal hi ho gaye bed pe". It was hilarious, I tell you!
Oh yea, I noticed MTV doing English too. I thought they stopped doing that after vh1 managed a fair bit of viewership. Anyway, RIP him. There were photos of dance class workshops paying respect to him and I found that kinda weird. He was a singer waise, not a dancer. But then again, his moonwalk was probably more famous than most of his songs.
When we went to see Angels and Demons, there were 4 people and they ran the show.
Dude, I mentioned how those Chicken McNuggets suck in my last 2 posts or something. Would've been better off if you'd read that. :P
The conclusion that can be drawn is that it takes a minimum of four (4) people for a show to break even.
Damn. Those bastards are earning a lot of profit.
Lmao. I don't know why. But yeah.
WHEN DID YOU WATCH ALL THOSE MOVIES? Traitor. Freak. Mudbrain. Hmph.
Oh, and sneak.
@ankur: Oooh, that sucks. What do they do in the intervening time?
@espera: Really? Well, the barbecue sauce sucks too, they never gave us any mustard :)
@ish: Lol, yeah we do, but it's not too bad in our area *fingers crossed*. Some parts of Delhi don't get power for 8-12 hours, just like you guys. How do you survive?!
And dude, that is so weird. I read that post. I even remember the part you said about going to McDonald's and KFC for the ACs. But I don't remember the Chicken Nuggets part?! Anyway, technically, I wrote that part about the nuggets much earlier ^_^
@kriti: Oh, I remembered, I saw How to Lose Friends in Arjun's house :) And Zodiac and Flyboys I watched on the PSP. I told you! And didn't you hear Flight 666? Maybe it's because you get up so late :P
Flight 666 friggin rocked:P
It was nice to see all the nervous energy and adrian's nonchalance
P:S- It's even nicer to come across a blogger into maiden!!
Haha yeah ... Remember those chants of "You're shit and you know you are" on the flight :D! And Adrian makes playing solos look SO easy =D
And thanks for commenting :)
Best parts- The BRuce close up during number of the beast.
Also Chile:) Everyone's friggin jumping around during transylvania.
Here, they mosh to maiden. wtf!
I know! So weird! Maiden isn't the kind of band you mosh to! *eyeroll*