The last blog post was about Central Festival in Pattaya.
It really only came to mind because i was there the other day with my wife. We hadn't seen a movie in a while and a friend of hers had recommended Arnold Schwarzenegger's new movie "The Last Stand". As i walked into Central Festival i realized how much i had missed the old days of seeing movies at Big C North Pattaya, or Royal Garden which does not even have a movie theatre anymore and just how much times and things have changed here.
SFX Cinema is definitely a 5 star theatre as i mentioned in yesterdays blog post. Movies, though, are still relatively cheap, especially compared to the west. 140 baht per ticket and another 280 baht for 2 boxes of popcorn and 2 pepsi's is still very reasonable. Seating is very comfortable with seats that recline back almost as much as a business class seat on most airlines! The sound system is excellent, good enough for me to ignore the group behind me which felt the need to talk through most of the flick.
The movie itself was a pretty entertaining...not too realistic but then again it is an "Arnold flick"! "The Last Stand" combines a good amount of action and a lot of humor. Parts of it were so funny you didn't really care how unrealistic it actually was.
For those that haven't seen it yet, Arnold plays an old sheriff in a very small quiet town in Southern Arizona just a few miles away from the Mexican Border. Meanwhile back up in Las Vegas an extremely dangerous drug cartel boss has just been broken out of prison while being transferred to death row. The cartel boss has hired a rogue mercenary group to break him out of prison and get him across the border back into Mexico. This high speed chase goes through Arnolds town of Sommerville Arizona, leading to a bridge that this mercenary group has specially constructed for him to escape the U.S.
Overall the film offers plenty of bullets, explosions, high speed car chases, drama and some very funny moments. If you're bored one of these many rainy days we seem to be unseasonably experiencing here in Pattaya, this definitely would be a good way to kill a couple of hours. Check out the preview clip below.
It really only came to mind because i was there the other day with my wife. We hadn't seen a movie in a while and a friend of hers had recommended Arnold Schwarzenegger's new movie "The Last Stand". As i walked into Central Festival i realized how much i had missed the old days of seeing movies at Big C North Pattaya, or Royal Garden which does not even have a movie theatre anymore and just how much times and things have changed here.SFX Cinema is definitely a 5 star theatre as i mentioned in yesterdays blog post. Movies, though, are still relatively cheap, especially compared to the west. 140 baht per ticket and another 280 baht for 2 boxes of popcorn and 2 pepsi's is still very reasonable. Seating is very comfortable with seats that recline back almost as much as a business class seat on most airlines! The sound system is excellent, good enough for me to ignore the group behind me which felt the need to talk through most of the flick.
The movie itself was a pretty entertaining...not too realistic but then again it is an "Arnold flick"! "The Last Stand" combines a good amount of action and a lot of humor. Parts of it were so funny you didn't really care how unrealistic it actually was.
For those that haven't seen it yet, Arnold plays an old sheriff in a very small quiet town in Southern Arizona just a few miles away from the Mexican Border. Meanwhile back up in Las Vegas an extremely dangerous drug cartel boss has just been broken out of prison while being transferred to death row. The cartel boss has hired a rogue mercenary group to break him out of prison and get him across the border back into Mexico. This high speed chase goes through Arnolds town of Sommerville Arizona, leading to a bridge that this mercenary group has specially constructed for him to escape the U.S.
Overall the film offers plenty of bullets, explosions, high speed car chases, drama and some very funny moments. If you're bored one of these many rainy days we seem to be unseasonably experiencing here in Pattaya, this definitely would be a good way to kill a couple of hours. Check out the preview clip below.
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