The origin of the star lotus world

Chapter 2214 Text

Chapter 2137

When I walked to the mall that day, it was already past noon, but I still went according to the original plan and watched a movie first.

This time I didn’t take the escalator. Instead, I walked to the back area of ​​the mall and took the elevator for the night movie to the cinema floor.

While walking, my family said that after watching the movie in the afternoon, we could have dinner at the Boat Banquet restaurant on the same floor. It would cost 130 or 40 yuan for two people. In the group buying software, there are several discounted packages for that restaurant, both meat and vegetarian. I didn't go to the hotel restaurant, and I had to take a taxi there. I had just been there a while ago.

I have eaten Jiangsu and Zhejiang cuisine in that boat restaurant many times before. The restaurant environment is relatively quiet. There are several imitation boats. Each boat has a table and two rows of chairs. There are also wooden bridges and a small pool in the restaurant, which is quite unique. In addition to the boats, there are many tables and chairs with similar decoration styles. The restaurant's business is pretty good.

I said I would go to the hotel restaurant as planned. I still had the membership recharge amount in that restaurant, which I had not used up. During the Lantern Festival this year, I recharged 400 yuan in the Guanfu Restaurant, and the merchant gave me more than 60 yuan in bonus. After the meal, there was still more than 200 yuan left in my membership account. I used it this time and didn't have to spend any extra money. Don't keep the membership recharge money for a long time. You can recharge it after it is used up.

My family said it was okay, but they were worried about the hassle of having to go again, so we arranged it this way and used the money we had recharged. After the movie, we went to eat.

Before the Chinese New Year, the cinema had a promotion. My family spent three hundred yuan to buy coupons for ten movie tickets. Later, they could go to the service desk to exchange the tickets and then go to the viewing area to watch movies. The merchant also gave away a bottle of sunflower oil weighing about three kilograms, which was equivalent to a gift worth dozens of yuan.

At the end of last year, I had used up all the coupons for the ten movie tickets I bought. This time, I used the coupons for the movie tickets I bought before the Chinese New Year. I used them one after another, spending 300 yuan each time. The store gave me a bottle of cooking oil and a large bag of nuts as a gift, but I chose the cooking oil for cooking at home. I don’t eat many nuts in normal times, because some nuts are quite expensive, but I do eat peanuts, such as peanuts in restaurant appetizers and Kung Pao Chicken. Chocolate, ice cream, and snacks may have tiny pieces of nuts for flavoring and seasoning. Common nuts include walnuts, cashews, macadamia nuts, hazelnuts, peanuts, etc.

The price of a single movie at that cinema is not high. The original price is 40 or 50 yuan per time. If you recharge the movie card, you can get a discount, which is equivalent to more than 30 yuan per time. You can also use the money in the movie card to buy food at the service desk, and there are discounts. I have bought popcorn and ice cream there before. Some packages come with snacks and drinks, but it is still the most affordable to buy redemption coupons during the New Year activities. There are other grades to choose from. Some gift packages come with travel projects, and the prices are relatively higher.

According to the introduction on the billboard of the cinema, the Ruyi gift package costs more than 500 yuan, which includes 12 movie tickets, a bag of nuts, a three-night homestay experience voucher for a scenic spot in another province, and a month's traffic accident insurance. If you are not going to other places, the price of a regular movie gift package is still suitable. The original price of the gift package with travel items is one or two thousand, which is attractive to those who want to travel abroad.

Before the main film is played in the screening room, there will be a promotional short film on fire safety and precautions on the screen, followed by multiple advertisements, including seaside islands, wedding hotels, Jiuzhaigou Scenic Area, Forest Park, advertisements selling insurance, and promotional videos of other movies.

During the Chinese New Year this year, I watched several movies. Before the main film was shown, a movie star would welcome everyone to watch the movie. In the first few months of this year, I saw that advertisement many times when I watched movies.

During the Chinese New Year, the cinema's business is the busiest. There are a lot of moviegoers, far more than the number of moviegoers on ordinary holidays. It's incomparable.

At about 12 noon that day, I went to the service desk of the cinema and said what movie I wanted to watch, but I didn't check the information in advance. After arriving at the cinema, I watched whatever I saw. My family said they didn't want to wait any longer and wanted to eat after watching the movie.

There was a movie that was shot in a certain region. It was going to be shown after a while, so I chose that movie. My family said that there were not many people that day, unlike during the Chinese New Year, when the entire corridor was full of customers and we had to wait for the ticket check. They were worried that the movie would start before everyone else had entered the theater, and there would be too many people who wanted to watch a certain movie. Some of the seats in the theater were all occupied. It was really packed. It was rare to see such a dense crowd in a movie theater.

The female staff at the service desk said yes, many people have seen some of the movies. The New Year holidays are over and everyone has gone to work, so there are not so many moviegoers. The movie we want to watch this time is about to start, and only a few seats have been selected. The other hundreds of seats can be selected. Customers can look at the location diagram on the display at the service desk and tell the clerk to choose the seat they want.

I chose two seats in the front row of the theater, but they were not in the same row. I chose them in different rows, not next to each other. I always choose them like this when I watch a movie.

The staff took the exchange voucher and gave two paper movie tickets. After waiting for a while, you can go to the screening area. Ten minutes before the movie starts, there will be staff to check the tickets and then let you in. When you get to the inside of the cinema, enter the screening room with the corresponding number, take your seat, and wait for the movie to start.

Two middle-aged women came to the service desk to choose which movie to watch. One woman said she wanted to watch a movie starring a certain star, while the other woman said it was not that star and she said the wrong name. They were discussing which movie to choose.

That cinema still had afternoon and evening movies for the day. Some movies had a long interval between showings, so you had to wait. The number of movies shown that day was small, far less than during the Chinese New Year. During peak hours, the cinema would show dozens of movies a day, and some shows had a large number of viewers. Cumulatively, there would be thousands of viewers who watched movies that day, which was really spectacular. During normal times, there were not many movie shows, and some screening halls would not be used or used less. On weekends, there would be more movie shows, especially on weekend nights, when more viewers would go to the movies. On weekdays, there were fewer viewers, and there were relatively fewer customers dining on the same floor. When dining, you didn't have to queue up, but on holidays, you might have to queue up and wait for a seat in the restaurant.

The author remembers reading a news report some time ago that some cinemas had so many people lining up to watch some movies because they were so popular that the theater owners had to hire more employees and were unable to cope with the workload.

This year's Chinese New Year period is one of the golden periods for domestic films, and the total box office revenue has attracted international attention.

When I got to the theater, the trailer hadn't started yet. I gave the bag of crab meat floss rice crackers, fragrant soft candies, mineral water, soy meat, and butter chocolate to my family, and wished my mother a happy Women's Day, health and beauty, and kept the remaining food for myself.

After I sat down, without looking at my phone, the promotional video started playing, followed by a few short films and commercials, and then the main movie.

There were only about ten people in the theater, including two young women who sat in the back row. They seemed to be fans. At the beginning of the movie, some of them went to the service counter outside to buy popcorn. After they came back, they talked a little while watching the movie, showing their interest in the stars of the movie and laughed when they saw some scenes.

The staff at that cinema were pretty good. They allowed customers to bring their own drinks and snacks into the theater without having to buy anything at the service counter. At the service counter, popcorn was sold for 30 or 40 yuan per bucket, which was a bit high. If you top up your membership and buy food, you can get a little more savings. There are also discounted food and drink packages to choose from. Some meal packages come with snacks and bottled drinks, with multiple flavors to choose from.

The theme of the movie I watched this time was dark and weird, but the plot style was funny, which broke and alleviated the horror atmosphere. Some scenes created scenes of horror movies, with exaggerated makeup, but most of them were still relaxed and funny. Some of the control was okay, with appropriate control and not too tense.