How Do You Say "Shut Up" in Chinese?

Me, Peter, Sean, and Sarah went to see the new 3-D James Camron movie Avatar the other day. Peter discovered that there was a theater in Changzhou that was showing it in 3-D and that they had an English showing as well. The theater was right down near Wal-Mart, though I've never gone to it before because it costs 55 RMB to see a movie there and no more than 10 to get a DVD. We got there about 20 minutes early but almost all the tickets were sold out. They have assigned seating and we had to sit pretty near the front. The screen was a bit back through so our seats weren't too bad. People showed up only right before it was to begin, I guess since they already knew where they where sitting. The 3-D for this movie isn't the old red and blue glasses type, but it still requires some glasses. I guess the glasses technology isn't as advanced in China sine whereas in the US you get clear 3-D glasses in this theater they were more like 3-D sun glasses which didn't do anything good for the nighttime scenes in the movie. The 3-D effects in the movie were good and a few times it was really stunning how life like some of the things looked. That being said I'm not really sold on this 3-D thing.

Besides having to wear the annoying glasses it's not really all that 3-D. It's more like there are two screens one in the background where the real screen is and one closer to the audience. There's no middle ground at all. Something is either flat in the background of flat in the foreground it's not really in both. What was truly bad about the movie though was that a great director like James Camron seems to have gone the Michael Bay route and abandoned storytelling for special effects. The story was awful. There wasn't one twist or turn in the whole thing, the bad guys were so laughably evil that I expected them to cackle during every speech, and the whole thing was just a mediocre version of Pocahontas. It just felt like no one even bothered to try to make a story to go with the 3-D. We also had a few Chinese interruptions to the movie. The whole thing takes place on an alien world and a number of times the aliens are speaking some weird language. Now in theory this would be subtitled, and it was, only into Chinese, though with a movie so predictable I could always guess what they were saying. Also during the movie I got another great example of how there is no place in China where you can't answer your cell phone. People didn't just let them ring either they would answer them and then have a conversation as the movie was going. I probably would have been more annoyed if the movie wasn't so boring. Finally when the movie ended they turned on the light. I don't mean after the credits had started, or when people began to get up. They turned on the lights the very moment the final shot faded to black, and then started telling people to get out. They must have had someone with a timer and their finger on the switch to make it so exact. So I guess what I'm saying is don't see Avatar, and if you do have to see it don't see it in China.