The Departed

I just got back from seeing The Departed. I really enjoyed the movie. It was one that I wanted to see in Atlanta. But it opened a week or two before I moved so I didn't have the time. I found out today that The Departed just opened in Sweden this past Friday. I figured it had been in theaters for a while.

This was my first movie theather experience in Sweden. There were many things that were different.
- Just about everyone buys tickets ahead of time online. (Then, you swipe the credit card used to buy the tickets at a machine in the theater and you get your tickets from the machine.)
- It's assigned seating. You choose your seats when you buy your tickets online.
- The movie theater actually looks like a theater (stage, curtain, balcony seating, etc), which I'm told is typical. They pull the curtain back when the commercials and previews start (no trivia questions or local ads on screen before that).
- The tickets cost different prices depending on the movie you go to see. This is standardized throughout Stockholm (at least) so it doesn't vary from theater to theater. I have no idea how this is decided. However, I think The Departed was the most expensive one running at 100SEK (~$15).
- There also Swedish subtitles, of course. Those were kind of distracting at first because I felt like I should be reading them.

Changing topics almost completely....I'm disappointed that I'll be missing the 24 premiere tomorrow and Monday. Not only will I miss the premiere, but the 24 parties that we had in Atlanta almost every Monday night during the season. However, I suppose my fellow 24 watchers are all scattered now. I read an article (well, it was in Swedish, so I should say I picked up a few key words from an article) about 24 in a paper here. Apparently, one of the three channels I get on my tv will be showing 24 (yay!). I don't know when it starts, though. Hopefully, it'll be like Lost and I'll only be 3-4 weeks behind.