Just as a quick follow-up to my previous post, I took notice of something this weekend. A friend and I went to go see "La Red Social" in the Capitol Theater near Santo Domingo this past Friday. We made some very interesting observations:
1. Movie theaters aren't open here until 4:00pm. We wanted to go to a matinée or something of the sort (around maybe 1:30pm or 2:00pm), and ended up waiting at a Starbucks for two hours just for the theaters to open.
2. The Social Network is a recent release in Spain, and yet my friend and I were the only people attending the film! Is this because no one goes to movies, or because they wait until much later at night?
3. There are three different kinds of movie theaters here in Madrid: Hollywood film theaters (of which there are many), Spanish movie theaters (of which there are a few less), and mixed (of which there are very few).
4. Patrons are given assigned seats in these movie theaters. We were lucky that we were the only people in the theater and could pick our own seats, as the assigned seating had us almost right underneath the screen.
Also, we accidentally saw the movie in Spanish.
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