I asked in the video for your favorite movie theater snack, but what about movie theater drink?? I usually go with a classic Coke or Pepsi, but in some theaters back in the states I actually prefer a Coke flavored Icee! Start learning languages with Busuu here: 💻 Web: bit.ly/passporttwo-busuu 📱 Mobile: bit.ly/passporttwo-busuu-app
Sweet Popcorn and Fritz Cola Zero (German Cola from Hamburg without sugar and high coffein). And I never saw a movie which was better than the books. I am glad if the movies are close to the books.
Hey there, I'm a huge Movie-Theater-Fan from the South of Lower Saxony, at the Border to Northrhine Westfalia and pretty close to Hessen. I've been at many different Cinemas in a Range up to 2 Hours by Car. I've seen a Theater having a Bar opposite to the Screen, I also often go to the larger Cinemaxx or Cineplex-Theater-Chains. But my Favorit is a Cinema in a small Village about 40 Minutes from my Home-Town. It has every Feature like 3D or Surround-Sound, but one of the 3 Screens is in an old Barn. The Family running it also owns a small Pub and they are Farmer! So sometimes it happens in Summer you drive to the Cinema, a Group of People is waiting outside and suddenly a Tractor rushes in and the Theater Operater is selling you sweet Popcorn (never saw salty before, but i'm not a Fan of Popcorn because of the Crunsh-Noises during Movies) in his Rubber-Boots... I just wanted to give you the Hint that "OmU" at some Homepages of a Cinema is "Original mit Untertitel" - "Original with Subtitle". You also displayed a Cover of the german Anti-War-Movie "Das Boot" - "The Boat" which is one of my Favorit. There are different Cuts and Lengths of it, look out for the 282-Minutes-Version and watch it with german Audio and english Subtitles, the english Audio is badly translated or censored at many Scenes! Keep going on doing your awesome Videos, i posted some of them at a Discord of Friends from the US. Oh, you forgot to talk about preordering Seats at a Cinema: I many Movie-Theaters you have the Possibility to choose a Seat while preordering or buying the Tickets. So you don't need to get there too early huntihg for a good Seat ;-)
As a movie theatre manager I can add quite something to all this: the business has been encouraged (and many theatre owners are green enough themselves) to avoid the tons of waste by switching from cups to reusable bottles. The easiest way is the way you've experienced: you get a .33l or .5l bottle of whatever, and the bottles are put back into their crates by the visitors upon leaving the premises. This intracts our margins as we cannot add more water to the syrup as many (especially franchised or multiplex) cinema owners do, but what don't you do for saving the planet? In our cinema, you even get your popcorn in a reusable bowl and only if you demand it, we'll fill it in a paper bag for you. The adds have to start at showtime, it's stipulated in the booking contracts. German cinema goers know that - depending on how commercially oriented your cinema is, you can make an educated guess on how much time you have until the main feature will actually start. (As a rule of thumb: small arthouse and/or communal cinemas: 5 minutes, no or or little sommercials, only movie trailers; major arthouse cinemas: 10-15 minutes; franchised/multiplex cinemas: 20-30 minutes.) I strongly advise you to seek out other cinemas than the Broadway which is mostly a place where Disney and Marvel make more money. If you are really interested in GOOD films, especially European/German/international cinema, try the Union Kino in Kaiserslautern, or the Provinzkino in Enkenbach-Alsenborn. Depending on how far you are prepared to drive, I can provide you with a plethora of venues that will give you a way more pleasant cinema experience in German or English.
Thanks for jumping in to give us a fuller picture. Have never been there, but was sure there must be greener and healthier alternatives in Germany. After all, is that not the home of the Green Party? And, I had just read the BBC Travel article about the 2 German towns beginning to develop a workable strategy for fast food packaging/serving waste. I believe that's a first anywhere in the world. Alas! Canada is a mixed bag when it comes to separating garbage for recycling. Our biggest city, the Toronto region, was the last place to catch on ... and only when there was no place left within 200 km to dump everything. Here, in Western Canada, it's been the norm for at least 25 years. Most of us here would have guessed why moviegoers in Germany put their empty bottles in a crate as they exit, even though no bottled drinks are sold at the movies here. On the question of fast food, it seemed like we were off to a good start about 10 years ago when our young prime minister Trudeau easily put through legislation banning trans fats in restaurant food. Then, it just seemed to stop there I like the way Great Britain is doing it. The idea of controlling the percentages of fat, salt and sugar in prepared foods is working because of the way they've initiated it. For the last 5 years or so, supermarkets and food manufacturers have been obliged to cut each of those ingredients by 3%. And it's working! Maybe you can best answer the question I posed in this section where I mention PALM OIL. I asked about the availability of healthy snacks in German movie theaters. Here it would happen only in an Art Cinéma showing foreign films or vintage Hollywood. Among the snacks would be some healthy sandwiches, a fruit cup or homemade desert like a fruit crumble. Auf ...
You missed 2 other major differences: assigned seating, and pricing. Most German cinemas (multiplex and "Programmkino") will usually have assigned seating (and in Covid-times that has nearly become mandatory to ensure social-distancing). You will often recognize the newbie non-German customers as the ones who sit down anywhere they want, only to be displaced when the true ticket holders arrive. Furthermore, these assigned seats are priced differently: closer to the screen (Parkett) at a lower price and middle/rear section (Loge) a few Euro higher (although not all cinemas). Also different pricing weekdays/weekends (vs. matinee/evening in the US), plus a really big rip-off, the "Überlängenzuschlag" (long-movie-penalty-fee). Generally for movies over 125, 130 minutes (depending on the cinema, but never being fully transparent exactly at what length). Anywhere from 1.50 to 3 Euro, supposedly due to fewer showtimes per day. But yet I've had to pay it at a cinema that only had a single showing anyway. Thankfully some local cinemas have dropped it. A big complaint for both countries: charging a "convenience fee" to purchase your tickets online, even though they save on labor costs at the box office ticket sales. Pre-movies ads are definitely too long in Germany, 20-30 minutes. At least with Covid the pre-movie Eispause to buy ice cream from a seller has been dropped, saving a few minutes. OV has definitely increased in my area.
Keep in mind that the previews and ads are deliberately this long to accomodate people getting their drinks and snacks from the counter during busier days and showings, as the lines can get QUITE long. If they were shorter you'd be annoyed in the cinema at the amount of people shuffling around looking for their seats and talking in the dark while the movie has already started. I know this because my town did have a cinema where the previews were short and this happened every single time for a busy showing, to the point we always ended up waiting a few days to see a movie, because that way the cinema would be fairly empty.
Pff believe me Germans won’t sit in their assigned seats either Of course when the movie is full it is important to sit in ur seat but most of the time when their aren’t many people u just sit wherever and no one cares
@@viis374 yes one time the movie was full due to reduced prices (4,50 € instead of approx. 12 €) so i tried the new luxurious seats with an table . my girlfriend hates coming too late for the movie even though the premovie ads started ...
Last time I went to the cinema in Berlin, the large coke was a comically large 2L "cup" that looked like a freakin' bucket, so I'd say this depends on the company that operates the cinema.
@@redshirt49 Movie theatres have one problem: They can only make one sale per customer and showing. Unlike a restaurant, where you order a second (third, fourth, ...) drink when you sit for a couple of hours, or a fast food restaurant where you vacate the table and make space for the next customer quickly. So they try to make the biggest possible sale, also trying to play on the angst of people to run out of coke during the movie.
@@HenryLoenwind Well yeah, I'd say that regular drink sizes aren't smart in a cinema for that reason. Most of the time a regular medium drink would be empty before previews are over. And having a lot of people get up mid-movie to go get more drinks and food is annoying, so having larger portions makes perfect sense, which is probably why larger chain cinema franchises do it this way. Their cinemas are busy and you don't want that kind of commotion during the movie. The cup holders between seats will also typically accomodate multiple drinks for folks who buy a few beers (which would be served in 0.33l or 0.5l standards) and such in advance.
I am not really a fan of the big movie theater brands here in Germany. You should visit a small private movie theater for the full German experience. :) I love the one in my home town because it's the oldest municipal movie theater in Germany.
Well we have both. The big, 8-screen Cineplex which is the "standart" cinema and the "Theater" wich just have two or three screens. The Cineplex itself run the major movies and blockbusters and the "Metropolitan" which means operas and ballet shows. The Theater (its run by the Town in cooparation with Cineplex) shows movies that are underrated and not big enough for big screens or have ben out for too long and dont get that much attention anymore or films that usualy would be in "spartenkinos".
Unlike most Germans, I actually prefer my popcorn salty. This created a funny moment once, when I was going to the movies with some friends and one of them nicked a bit of my popcorn, then shouted "What is wrong with you?"
I love those. We have one in my home town. It mostly shows older movies or independent films, and even has small pull out tables at the back of the seats (like in airplanes). Is a completely different experience.
Hi, You mentioned "OV", but there's also an option "OmU" sometimes (also in your screen shot) which stands for "Original mit Untertiteln", so this will also be an original version, but with german subtitles. The cup sizes are really ridiculous, our cinema serves 0.5l as small (which would be large in a restaurant), 0.75l as medium and 1l as large. The large cups don't even fit in the cup holders of the new chairs they recently installed. it's just so stupid. When it comes to the pop corn, I like sweet and salty equally I'd say. But I usually go for tortilla chips with cheese dip. All movie theaters I've been to in Germany sold soda in aforementioned ridiculous large cups. But I think it's normal for beer to be sold in bottles. Also, I'm equally annoyed and impressed by people who show up 10 to 15 minutes late so they don't have to watch the ads before the movie. Oh, and I don't read that much books, but when I do, they are usually better or at least as good as the movie. [Edit:] I actually remembered the sizes wrong, a medium size cup is 0.75l and large is 1l, but that's still quite big.
@@HenryLoenwind that would require you to leave the theater to go to the snack bar and get another one. with movies being mostly digital, those extra long ones also seem to have dropped the break in between which in the past was sometimes needed as they had to switch between spools. Other than that, I have even seen "large" sizes up to 1.5 l for soft drinks. Problem is, are you able to sit through the movie if you gulped that one down or would you have to take a leak in between? I guess most times pairs or families share those humongous portions, which also are quite unwieldy and a task to manage when seated.
Okay...I guess I have to explain something: There are two types of cinemas in Germany: The Multiplex and the so called "Spartenkinos". Your experience sounds like you went to a multiplex. Those are usually part of a chain and are "american Inspired", plus, they make most of their money over the snacks, not over the movies they show, hence the overseized portions and the nearly half an hour advertising. The "Spartenkinos" on the other hand are more like the "traditional" German cinema experience. Those usually don't have multiple screens (two at most), tend to be supported by the city and show more than just hollywood movies (though they might do that, too). There the snacks are smaller and affordable, and before corona, there might even an ice cream seller turn up shortly before the movie starts - also, the advertising time is lower, more 10 to 15 minutes. Regarding movies based on books: Yeah, I have, and chances are, you have too. Because a LOT of movies are based on not that successful books. "Jaws", "Die Hard", "Rambo", "Who framed Roger Rabbit" just to mention a few highly successful movies which are actually based on books only a few people read. And there are even some movie based on successful books, which surpassed the source material imho: Shawshanks Redemption for example or Mary Poppins. There are also movies which are just as good as the book they are based on or which are good movies but not really good adaptation. Thing is, we tend to remember the bad adaptations of popular books the most.
Very good explanation, though I think "two at most" for Spartenkinos is not correct. There can be more. But the point stands that it's just a few and in the big ones there is more of them.
@@silkwesir1444 Well, that's what I said "usually", though I admit, I am also speaking from the experience in my city, which still has a number of "old" cinemas. The experience might be slightly different elsewhere...in fact, the experience is slightly different from cinema to cinema anyway. In my city is one which regularly shows "old" (but successful) movies, complete with an explanation why they influenced movie history. With old I mean a few decades old, not black and white era old.
And approx 80% of Disney Classics are based on books, The little Mermaid (Hans Christian Andersen) aka Arielle, Pinoccio, Cinderella, Rapunzel and many more from the Grimms Brothers collection.
@@dirkspatz3692 ...well, I wouldn't really count most of those, because the Grimms didn't write stories, they just collected them. Oral lore is a category in itself, imho, because it is timeless and so basic that it can be reinterpreted again and again and again.
@@swanpride That's why i called it Grimms Brothers Collection. But the Bible also is a collection of writen down oral lore - but knowbody would say it isn't a book.
The only movie i can think of that is "better than the book" ist The Shawshank Redemption/Die Verurteilten...but the book itself is only a short story itself. But i just love that movie!!!
Hello. I'm actually from the area you are living right now. I highly recommend you the Broadway Kino in Landstuhl. They show OV movies and it is such a beautiful theater. My favorite snack at the cinema is salty popcorn or nacho with chees dip. You should try the "Langnese Konfekt". These are small vanilla icecream cubes with a chocolat glaze. Delicious! Wishing you a good time in germany. Enjoy it!
Hey! That is actually where the clip from me placing the glass bottle into the crate is from 😅 Great theater! 😊 Will try your recommendations next time we are there 😊
We have a cinema in my hometown, so for us there's no need to drive to Ramstein-Miesenbach. It's like the only one in the county (Landkreis) which is good for business.
that reminds me back in the day you'd have the Langnese commercial with "Like Ice in the Sunshine" as the music and the lights would turn on again and somebody actually selling the stuff would come in and do a round. Is that still a thin i wonder?
Sweet popcorn for sure! I think it really just depends on what type of popcorn u grew up with. I tried salty popcorn but it just tasted wrong and i don't even want to imagine what buttery popcorn tastes like. Sorry, no offence 😅 Anyway, i love your videos! Your channel is one of my favorite "Americans-in-Germany-themed" channels. Keep up the good work 👍🏽
Is there a reason why you didn't comment on the OmU option at the beginning? Or did I somehow miss it? It's original language as well, but with subtitles. OV is without subtitles. If you include OmU in your search for original language films, you may get more results. Funny thing, I went to watch the batman OV in a local privately owned theater and the movie started with subtitles - staff guy came in and asked if anyone was bothered by it and since none answered, we watched OmU instead. As for snacks and drinks, we had medium popcorn which was definitely not bigger than your small portion 😅 Drinks vary on occasion, this time it was a Bionade in a bottle, sometimes it's a soft drink in a paper cup
When I lived in Prague all movies were in the original language with subtitles EXCEPT children's movies. They were dubbed. When I was in Berlin I was very surprised that all movies were dubbed.
Given that in larger cities, the population that may speak, say, English, fluently enough to enjoy a movie in the OV, it's natural that theaters in agglomerations will show OVs more frequently - they can actually fill those. Whereas a small town cinema in a low density area would likely fill all the demand with a single show, if it is able to recruit enough viewers to make it worthwhile to begin with. Frankly, when I moved to the US, the thing that struck me was that butter sauce they put on popcorn. Not only did the smell not appeal to me, why you'd take a low-fat snack and pour tons of fat over it was beyond me. If I want to have fatty stuff at the theater, nachos and cheese sauce will do the trick...
In my hometown it’s common to serve some drinks in bottles that you put into a crate after the movie. They also sell soft drinks in cups. The smaller movie theaters sometimes have a bar where you can get any kind of drink served in a normal glass. There is always an ice cream commercial before the movie and someone comes in to sell ice cream. Then the lights are dimmed and the movie starts or movie previews and than the movie. A typical movie theater sweet is Eis-Konfekt. When there is ladies night in the theater in my town they sell Eis-Konfekt with Prosecco. Sometimes I go to the Netherlands to watch movies (they always have the OmU but with dutch subtitles… of course). I think a lot is the same as in Germany. At least in the region I live. They also serve soft drinks in cups as-well as glass bottles and Nachos with dips.
Do not come the movie theater too late or just on time the Film should start. first you don't want to disturb others while looking for your seat in the dark room, second you never know if there are shown commercials or movie trailers. It happens they start Films with no or only a few minutes of commercials. The more people the the film, the more commercials you will see.
I think glass bottles are standard everywhere in German cinemas. Even at the multiplexes with Soft drinks in big cups, at least beer will be sold in glass bottles.
I've been to quite a number of cinemas in Germany and what you described is pretty much standard everywhere. One minor thing you missed is the few-minutes-long break between the commercials and the start of the movie itself. Usually you see a still-frame ice commercial in that time and sometimes (not always) there's a staff member asking if anyone'd like to buy an ice. You know, Magnum, Cornetto etc. The break is also long enough for a quick visit to the toilets.
Our small cinema even has a small table where you can put your beer in front of the seats. Germany typically has many flavors, but popcorn is almost always sweet. I am a salty person. I wish you could get cheddar popcorn in germany. It is popcorn with almost cheetos taste. (Estrella indian popcorn).
In my home town, Freiburg, the oldest movie theatre is the "Friedrichsbau" they shows special films. For examle "Ziemlich beste Freunde" long bevore it cames to normal movie theatres. And an alternative movie theatre named "Kandelhof". We had movie theatres named "Kamera" and "Kurbel". Now our movie Theaters named "Harmonie" and "Cinemaxx" and of course "Friedrichsbau" and "Kandelhof"
Popcorn! I feel you 😁But to be honest, I was so shocked when I ordered popcorn in the US for the first time and they asked me if I want butter on top! What? Just for the fun, I tried it. I am not sure if I would do it again, because it was so messy 😅
Suprised about alcohol in Europe cinemas? Did you not watch "Pulp Fuction"? ;) I am also a no "ice in drink"-type. Sadly places starts to put ice into the drinks also in Germany. So I need to start ask for no ice nowadays too.
let´s call it a standard menu: one bag of Harribo Saure Colaflaschen, a medium sized sweet Popcorn and a Coke or two and Ice-cream. sometimes some Nachoas or Chips
Where you live, English is a foreign language. The first time you saw a German movie was the first time you did NOT see a movie in a foreign language. You need a little help with your German pronunciation. I think you woudl find "Deutsch mit Benjamin" a particularly good RUclips channel for that. He is a particularly good at teaching German vowels. That's a dandy skill to have, so you don't say "schwul" (queer) when you mean to say "schwül" (stuffy). Germans are super polite, so don't expect people to correct you in casual conversation. When I first went there, I was aware that my German wasn't very good, but they smothered me with compliments about my "excellent' German to encourage me.
Looks like Landstuhl, Broadway. Presumably the MOST AMERICAN cinema in all of Germany (at least when it comes to customers and OVs shown). :-D Except for the bottle thing perhaps...
As a German from Baden-Württemberg, I'd say it's normal to get you drink in a glass bottle. Smaller business or drink stalls on festivals don't have soda or beer dispensers because that would be to expensive, so they sell drinks in glass bottles with a straw. There even is a new trend to sell pre mixed cocktails with ice in bottles (invented by the company "kukki").
I’m surprised by the snack size. My local theatre I have been going to since childhood has much smaller popcorn boxes. They have six screens. Two very small ones, one large one and the rest is medium. For the longest time it was a family owned business. I still remember when the old granny was selling the tickets in a very old-fashioned ticket booth. It has new owners now and has been renovated, but still has the charm of the olden times. By the way, a movie better than a book, Lord of the Rings, of course. A suggestion, maybe you can also make a movie about coffee shops, Starbucks and how it competes with German ideas of coffee shops. I love coffee shops and would be curious to know about your view on the differences.
After World War II, the German equivalent of Hollywood was in the DDR. They had to import movies and dub them, which is why so many of the movies are dubbed even today. They have a lot of voice actors.. You may not even be able to detect that the movie is dubbed, because English and German are so closely related that the mouth movements often match.
i live in a small town in lower saxony. and we have a really little cinema. but it is a service cinema. while watching the movie, i can push a button in front of me, and then a waitress comes and takes my order for another drink or snack. so, even if one beer wont last the whole movie, i can order more if i want. i really like that.
About the bottles that is done everywhere in germany. By the way... I belive that selling beer in cups would create a revolt. If beer is served in a plastic or paper cup you have to drink it fast... otherwise the taste is gone and gets warm... but you want to drink it through the 1,5h+ movie. So what we do is, by some bottles and let them close. We open them with lighters or else during the movie. That way we keep having fresh tasting beer.
You must have been to a americanised Kino, in the north, you dont get those big portions or get asked for sweet or salty, there is only sweet popcorn. But it has been some years since I went to the cinema, so maybe some things changed. *Edit And yes, there is a movie that is; imo; better than the book: The Perfume. The book was so dry and boring, but the movie was fun to watch.
Don't you live in Ramstein? At Broadway Kino in Landstuhl you will find a higher number of movies in English. There are always lots of Americans (for obvious reasons). Today they will have four different movies in English. (The Batman even twice.) Except Jackass that's all the American movies they show in German language, too.
Hi Donnie, watching a German movie in the movie theatre is of course the hardest way... What would you think about the following idea to get more training in comprehension of the German language: buy here in Germany a couple of DVDs of American or English movies that you are familiar with. Usually the original sound (English) and the German dubbed verion (and subtitles in both languages) are offered on the DVD. When you watch the movie at home you can select German without subtitles (which I would recommend since the spoken words often differ from the subtitles). And when you do not understand something you can go a bit back and listen again or switch to English and compare etc...
This video made me realize how long I have not been to the movies: About 20 years I guess. At that time, popcorn was neither salted nor sugared, it was "sugar coated" - looked just like the one we all know as "caramel pop corn", but lighter. That was the one I really loved, but it is rare to find nowadays. Anyway, most of the time I watched the movies without having a snack, because I never had much money and even the ticket was not easy to afford. 😉
That's quite easy to make yourself, actually. Get a popcorn maker that's not hot-air but "heated plate with a stirrer". Then just add sugar to the oil at about a 1:1 ratio. Flavoured/dyed sugar that's intended for cotton candy machines also works nicely. Those machines just get hot enough to melt the sugar and the popcorn finishes popping before the sugar gets too dark. Cleaning is a bit of a PITA, I do have to admit...
@@HenryLoenwind hm. thank you Henry, sounds great. But I am not sure if all this stuff is available in Germany. Yes we have Popcorn Makers but I am afraid the market for those isn't very big around here. Nearly nobody makes it at home, we buy it or we buy microwave popcorn. :)
regarding alcohol: when I was young (1980ies) there were theaters which showed hardcore porn movies.They were obliged by law to hand out a little bottle of hard liquor to all visitors. So, when you received your ticket, you also received a little bottle of "Schnaps". This was due to the fact that porn movies were only allowed in bars by law. So, for that one night, the movie theater declared themselves a "bar"... and by handing out alcohol to the clients they fulfilled this legal requirement. Of course you needed to be 18 to have access to these shows...but no-one really checked your ID.
In Germany there are different Movie theaters.Thwre are big ones with only one screen, then some with multiple screens under one roof (in most cases with different sizes, we had one in Hamburg with over ten screens ranging from a really small one with 50 places to really big ones with a few hundred seats) and spezial movie theaters called "Programm´-Kino". I think, this are mostly old movie theaters The big movie theaters got the new releases, the Programm-Kino showed older movies, had themed events (Star Wars night, LotR-Night etc.), meaning all the movies would be shown in one sitting. On top of that they showed movies for a smaller or spezial audience, like "Dead men don't wear plaid" (one of the best movies of all time. Period.) or Rocky Horror Picture Show (with people in costume, throwing rice, singing AND dancing along etc. Regarding the ads ... the companys that pay for them want people to watch them. SO if they are shown when half the crowd is still on its way, getting food or searching for their seat... the y pay for nothing.
Small theaters use bottled drinks because (I guess) getting the whole station would be pretty expensive and limiting (you can't pour Fritz Cola from a Pepsi machine :) Also, NOBODY considers theater drinks/popcorn sizes to be small, they just call the smallest choice "small" because starting at "humongous" would be weird :) Oh, big difference: Germans don't clap when the movie ends, there's nobody relevant to hear it anyway... (tho people clap when a pilot successfully lands a plane, as if that is not expected to happen most of the time ;=)
i also think the bottles in small cinemas stay because the cupholders wouldnt fit larher beverages. the crate thing is like in eg mcd.. you can leave your bottles in the holder after the movie and the bag on the floor but it is bad manners and why inconvinence someone if there is literally almost no extra effort since you pass bins and crates anyway when leavin.. but with cups .. maybe they arent completely empty so where to put them and collecting them aftereards might be quite more of a hassle. then you have to clean tje soda fountain and since smaller cinrmas dont have as much visitors its more efficient. if you have 2000 vieweers and 400 buy drinks that would be more than 15 crates.. that requires quite a some stockroom whereas you could eaily store several sirups and cO kegs there are propably a lot more reasons like cost efficiency i personally prefer bottles.. clean and easy to handle not like some flimsy cup wich you might acidenallty squeeze and spill and it tastes bettet
From my experience, movies based on books by Philip K. Dick have tendency to be better than the written fiction itself. In addition I noticed that the slower pacing of older books (amongst other things) throws some modern readers off and hence, conveys the feeling that a movie based on such an old book is better.
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OV stands for Originalversion, not for "original version". Spelling identical (except for the minor detail of the German being one compound word, natch), pronunciation different. Note the "OmU" next to it on the website. That would be "OwS" in English: Original(version) with Subtitles, in German: Original mit Untertiteln. OV is without subtitles.
My local mega-multiplex cinema does the drinks-in-paper-cups thing, the smaller theatres have glass bottles and crates to collect the empties. I find that the film of "American Psycho" is superior to the book.
I can agree subtitles are definetly extremly helpfull when watching videos in foreign language. But i can tell it gets better the more you speak the language. Especially for the people having to speak english all day at work it becomes second nature. It took me about 4 years after is started working in an international company to be able to watch videos/or Theater movies without subtitles.
If you want to learn German, NEVER use subtitles. And don't even go to the movies. Get a DVD, switch the language to German and watch it a hundred times in a row. I'm not even kidding. That's how I learned German. Okay, it was back in 1989, no DVDs yet, but I recorded The Neverending Story off of German TV. And I watched it EVERY DAY, sometimes two or three times a day... I don't think my grandparents were even able to use their TV as long as I was there, because my learning German was top priority, and this is the method my Mom used to learn English when my Dad brought her to the States. And with every viewing of the movie, I understood things a little bit better, until I got it all. Just watch LOTS of German TV and movies over and over and over again until you practically know them by heart. It's very effective! I was fluent in no time and even started quickly getting better grades in German at school than the actual German kids. (I was 14 and had also come from Oklahoma. 😊) As far as movies and books: I once read Forrest Gump. It was awful. The movie was supposedly based on the book, but I felt the movie hardly resembled the book AT ALL. And the movie was FAR superior. But other than that, I've always liked the books better.
Popcorn sizes: Until some years ago, cinemas were actually selling small portions (about half the size of the one you were showing). Then they stopped selling that size (you sometimes still get it as part of a package deal or as a groupon "rebate") and started forcing the huge (and obviously more expensive) servings on their customers, if they wanted popcorn. I personally have stoped buying popcorn at the cinema and bring ("smuggle in") my own small pack of a snack. Not because I am cheap, I would happily pay for the small serving which I regularly bought in the past. But I do not believe paying big bucks for an oversized portion half of which I would have to throw away, because it is simply too much. Popcorn is not the healthiest thing to eat but in the end it still is food. And believe me, you will find a lot of half full popcorn bags in the trash cans after a movie. This said, what always makes me shake my head is the half full "supersize me" popcorn buckets in the trash. The people who buy those are often enough the same that you hear bitching about how expensive going to the movies has become. Go figure Oh, by the way, definitly salty!
Visit the German city Lich, in Hesse. There is one of the best German so called Programmkinos. The cinema is called Traumstern. That is the real German movie experience.
In Finland all foreign films are showed at the original language and are subtitled for Finnish. Only children movies are dubbed for Finnish and they usually run also few times original version with Finnish subtitles.
Salty popcorn for me any time. I enjoy watch movies in their original language . For non English ones with English or German subs. When I met my husband I forced him to watch a Korean gangster movie in Korean with English subs -- now he is used to it.
I vividly remember going to a movie theater in Brazil as a teenager, my friend got Popcorn and I was shocked when trying it because I had expected it to be sweet XD by now I have learned that the Germans are pretty much the only ones serving (mostly) sweet Popcorn in the cinemas! I have tried kettle corn in the US and that‘s yummy but still very different than the popcorn I grew up with. With the glass bottles it is in my experience more common in smaller independent cinemas in Germany (like on of my favorites that only has one show room). The hunt for OV movies can sometimes be a bit annoying…I am from Dortmund which is definitely not a small city but still it is more likely to find these once-a-week screenings you mentioned. BUT I think that this might be about to change with a rising demand for OV movies. Btw a few years back I would sometimes like to go to „sneak previews“ where they would show a movie that was only about to be published in the next weeks. Big gamble because you are not told which movie it would be but a lot of fun! Do you have events like that in the US? Sorry, but I can‘t think of an answer to your question…
Most favorite movie theatre candy: Eiskonfekt ... mhhh so delicious. Popcorn flavor: sweet Random question: no, most movies are worse than the books they are adapted from. There are some movies that did a good job in adapting like Gone with the Wind, Ben Hur, Quo Vadis, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (though I prefer the Swedish TV movie to David Fincher's version), or the Harry Potter movies (though they had to skip a lot of content because of the sheer volume of the source material).
Ah yes the movie theaters. Its been a long time since I was in one, but I always smile when I remember about the first time I was in another theater then the one I was used to. You see the one I was used to had a long tradition as a movie theater. I had one big show room and several smaller ones. In the big one you have a lot of space for your feet and in there it is even a bar (yes inside the show room) and you can click on a button on a little table in front of you to get a waiter to your seat. That was the kind of movie theater experience I grew up with and was used to. I was kind of irritated when I got to a movie theater in a big city and there weren't such services inside.
At least in the cinemas I know (Munich and surrounding areas) the drink and popcorn sizes /are/ small, when you ask for small... (Though they /do/ have rather large sizes as well) Yes, there are more cinemas in Germany that sell drinks in glass bottles, so I wouldn't be surprised at all here. 😅 Be careful though: some cinemas have begun to drop the ad time before the movie starts. 😉 I haven't read the books of all movie adaptions I've watched, but the only one where the movie and the book were roughly equal is 2001 - A Space Oddyssey, mainly because both were created more or less in parallel and thus have slight differences. 🤔
My fav cinema is Broadway Kino in Ramstein. I would advice you to go there because it is still a family run cinema and not like all the other franchise cinemas.
Usually I don’t see a movie if I already read the book as usually it is a letdown as it is almost never as good as the book. But certainly there are some advantages that filmmaking has in depicting things. But it’s hard for me to give a specific example for the final question.
I see, you went to a UCI. Those are a lot more americanized, I feel like. You should visit Union Kino in Kaiserslautern, that's a smaller one for sure, compared to big chain cinemas like the UCI. Lot more indie stuff and non-blockbusters in general there. Also a lot more international stuff. I mean I've seen Parasite there for example, long before there was even any Oscars buzz around it.
Having a movie start directly after the announced time sounds SO great! In Germany, you never know how long the ads will be, so you have to sit through most of them. Especially annoying for really big blockbusters where I sometimes got 45 minutes or even ONE HOUR of advertisement before the movie even started! And then the movies get longer and longer and cinemas erase the break (which was much more common once) for having more time for paying customers. I hate it, because now, I always miss parts of the movie for going to the bathroom - I just can't sit there for 1 hour of ads plus 3 hours of movie without a break :(
in frannce it is mostly the same, as I have never remarked big diffs. Only drinks are not in Bottles normaly. And in Paris for VO you find specific cinemas. But, in some cinemas in germany, all drinks are in bottle. And I think for env. Reason it will become normal in future in germany. - And as explained already, there is a diff. between the Multiplex and Spart ones. Same in France, where you find many films in VO, from all over the world. Or the small budget "art" films etc.
My favorite theater snack: when I was a kid there were Bon Bons. They were domes of chocolate filled with vanilla ice cream, only available in theaters. Recently I found them at Aldi, called Eiskonfekt, and they have dark chocolate and wonderful German vanila ice cream so even better!
Actually - yes. Even if I do not remember anymore right now what movie it was. Difference was that I read the book after liking the movie whereas usually you somehow first read the book or book series and then see the film. But - you already get your own image of the characters of the book in your head so the film can never be as good as the book especially as usually a lot of what happens is cut out in the movie version. I actually think that there is no general way for the cinema experience in Germany - it differs from cinema to cinema and just might have resemblance at chain cinemas like Kinopolis etc.
I don't get the whole snack thing. I go to the cinema to watch a movie and not to have a snack. So I don't snack at all and rarely purchase a drink in order to avoid having to visit the john.
Here (Northern Germany) are beverage crates in all the cinemas I know. My favorite snack in the cinema is M&Ms. But mostly I don't eat anything because it's way too expensive. What movie did you see? How could you stand the dubbing? Since Netflix has made it so easy to watch movies in the original, I find German dubbing harder and harder to bear. You asked about German movies in the last video and I had already put together a little list: - Good Bye, Lenin! (a mother falls into a coma just before the fall of the wall and her son fools her into thinking the GDR still exists, very funny). - "Das Leben der Anderen", also GDR-themed, it's about an artist and a Stasi-captain, even won an Oscar - Fack ju Göthe, funny comedy about a crook who pretends to be a teacher (because he buried his loot in the gym) - Der Schuh des Manitou, parody of Winnetou movies (they're only known in Germany, though), super-funny - Pappa ante Portas: typical German humor with the unforgotten Loriot - Run Lola Run: movie with three different very surprising storylines - Knockin' on heaven's door: German road movie
The Popcorn thing got me as well, when I first visited an american movie theatre. I've never encountered salty popcorn before. And I think everyone knows the feeling, when you expect something to taste a special way, and then it tastes completely different :-D I came to like it though.
In Germany there are two types of cinemas; Big Chains like Cinemaxx or Astor and smaller, independent Cinemas which you will find regularly in small cities. Small cinemas often feel the need to stand out in comparison to the big chains. While the lines are quite blurred out, visiting an independent cinema has just a very different feel than visiting a chain, so you kind of expect something fancy like bottled drinks etc.
The remake better than the original film or book? Maybe the movie 'Chicago' or 'The Thomas Crown Affair'. But yes, it is rare, and those are both film remakes. For comprehension, maybe initially try movies that have OmU classification, which means they have sub-titles (U = Untertitel). It also depends on the movie. I am quite fluent in English, but there are some movies where I still miss things language-wise, just because it is either spoken so fast that I am not sure anyone can work it out, but I surely could not understand what was being said. Or there are scenes where the slang is still throwing me off. It is the same with rap music, which I often cannot understand. It is just not the type of English you can 'learn', and if you don't focus on specifically picking up this stuff, well, then you will be out of luck when it is used in a movie. Native-like language skills are something that may remain elusive all your life, even if you are completely fluent. So don't feel bad if you cannot understand a movie, if you are still at a B1 or B2 level, it is totally normal.
I lived in Germany from 1988-92 and I made the bottles experience too. That's all I remember from back then, because I only went to the cinema once or twice. I sincerely Anna severely dislike dubbing and back then OV wasn't a topic yet at all in the German cinema's that I could visit. Virtually the entire rest of my life I spent in Belgium. Here only children's films are dubbed. All the rest is original language with subtitles. So much better!!! The drink topic: definitely depends on the cinema here. The big cinema chains are quite American in style (as far as I can imagine) while the small, body ones aren't at all. In small cinema's it might even be that they pour out your drinks in real glasses. The snack question: I don't like popcorn at all at. I'm a big fan of chips. Here in Belgium we've got a rather unique variety of chips that are very common and popular: pickles, or, as it is called in English: piccalilli, though our pickles are a little more sour. The chips are quite spicy and just plain delicious. Here the schedule also includes all commercials. Mind you, though, that it's kind of frowned upon if you come in later. What film is better than the book? All biblical films for certain. But in a more interesting note: it's not an entire film, but I like the Pietro "Quicksilver" Maximoff rendition of the X-Men films better than the original one in the comics books. There. I think I said all that I wanted to. Rests me just one tiny thing to ask: is it a coincidence that I haven't seen a video with your Missus for a while? Or did I miss some announcement about it?
Interview with the vampire. I liked the movie so I read the book and was so disappointed I actually threw it away - which I have never done before or after...
I think I would prefer kettle corn then, I do like a combination of sweet and sugary. Normally I would go for Nachos or M&M's, so. But when I was in Cape Town this year I was served popcorn there which was just salty, which is the preferred South African way. When I mentioned that you could get salty popcorn in Germany both in supermarkets and movie theaters they where pleasently shocked by this statement.
I think my favorite candy there is sweet popcorn 🙃 But of course I also love nachos 😋 but I know that's not a candy, it's a snack.. I really love to go to a movie theater and watch films there. It always have these amazing vibes during the movie. Sadly I don't get the chance to go there often, but when, I enjoy it so much. Great video Now you have another follower(:
As an alternative to OV, there's also OmU (Original mit Untertitel = original version with german subtitles) if you want to watch the original version but still want to have german subtitles for better understanding. The reason why there are so many OV screenings btw is because we have a lot of people who prefer the original versions instead of a dubbed version because of several reasons (maybe cuz the dub sucks or the voices sound way differently).
I prefer salty popcorn and some kind of special flavor beer-mix drink like Radler or maybe a Desperados if they have it. But during Covid I outfitted my own cinema room at home, huge screen plus full surround sound plus bar. I've never been to a real cinema ever since 🤷🏻♂️
In terms of drinking containers, I've seen both but I generally prefer drinking from bottles. I just don't like plastic (or is it actually paper or sth?) cups and how unstable they feel.
I'm a bit shocked that only 20% are bilingual. In Germany you can't get your Abitur (degree) if you have only 1 language in school. Your native tongue, if you have a different ethnicity at home doesn't count. I checked it, and in Germany 20% of all children are raised bilingual. So the number for bilingual are estimated 60-70% are bilingual. So I wonder how many people in Germany speak more than 2,3,or 4 languages. I speak 3 languages on a pretty good level, German, English, Russian and am able to understand and speak a bit French. Enough to make holidays there in the past. And I had Spanish for 1 year at school too.. But don't you have a lot of Spanish speaking people in the US? I mean you probably have to learn a second language in higher schools too, don't you?
My cinema offers Chardonnay, so I go with that, or a "Radler" (a Sprite/Beer-Mix). Except if taking potato chips, then it'll be a Coke as well. And once in a while Popcorn (sweet) or "Langnese Eiskonfekt". Nuf said :o) PS. being allowed to show blockbusters you've to show them over several weeks, something a tiny traditional "Kino" won't do for the reason that there are not enough people around to watch it (in rural areas). Therefore they are showing movies that aren't shown on @ multiplex/cinema centers until a blockbuster has served all 'early adopters' in a city and will end up in smaller towns/cinemas. One of our cinemas is even showing "silent movies" once a year with a real piano player doing his job.
Beer doesn't count as alcohol, so there's no sale of alcohol in german theatres xD I lived in 4 different states of Germany and was in movie theatres in about 6 different states and they don't really differ except of size and the selection of "OV-movies", depending on if you're in a big city like Berlin or a small one. E.G. in a theatre at a very small city nobody cares about movies in other language but in Berlin you really have to look out or you suddenly get into arabic, turkish or english movie xD It was much more easier during the occupation: you had german movie theatres and those only showed movies in french, english or russian and often you didn't even got access to those as a german - very easy 😅😅 Yes, it's not unusual to buy your drinks in glass bottles but the mentioned size of the cups aren't usually. In general you have a small drink: 250-333ml, medium: 500ml and big/large: 750-1000ml (sometimes aven 500-600 is already large) like at BK or McD. Yes, you don't have to arrived before at least 15min after showtime. Nobody needs those ads ^^
About movie snacks, that isn't butter on American popcorn, it's PALM OIL colored & flavored like butter. What about Germany on that one? Also, did you notice any healthy alternatives on offer at the snack counter in Germany? Not that I can suggest any. But, in countries like Germany with national health care, they are trying to steer people away from the bad stuff. In Europe, junk food isn't yet as pervasive as in the US. But, it's rapidly gaining popularity, as you've described. There is a worry that rising rates of obesity and diabetes could bankrupt any universal healthcare system. This is an interesting and informative website. The description of the public use of alcohol in Germany and the US is a real eye opener (that they sell beer at the movies ANYWHERE, in the US, including Utah, or in Germany is a complete surprise). Good summary of a complex issue, without the usual judgments and emotional baggage.
I don't like Popcorn, so i usually just go for a bag of sweets or something like that. But since the ones in cinemas or usually very overpriced, I just smuggle in one I bought at a grocery store xD
I don't buy candy at movie theaters. They are overpriced. I prefer plain popcorn with no butter and no sugar. • • Random question: I rarely read novels. Therefore I can't compare a movie to a book.
The only movie I watched based on a book was Twillight and I think the book is meh... I didn't liked the book for reasons as like they needed 1 entire page to describe the opening scene where Bella stands at an airport in Las Vegas with a small cactus in her hands ... 1 freaking page for something that takes less than 2 minutes in the movie. I didn't liked how detailed the entire info in the first chapter was compared to what you see in the movie so I stoped reading the book and just kept watching the movies instead
I guess the only reason for iced soda pops is that the ice is (or originally was to be) cheaper than the soda pop. They just filled the cups up with cheap ice cubes to save money on the flavoured sirup. Maybe the price difference changed over time, but the "American taste" had gotten used to iced soda pops. The big advantage with 'watered down soda pops' is the lower input of calories. - just consider it as a "low carbon diet"😂. And regarding snacks and drinks: I HATE people making disguisting noises while watching movies, so I stopped watching movies at public cinemas years ago. People chatting, eating, slurping and scrolling through their social media accounts all time makes me cringe. But one of our local 'art' cinemas went to offer 'private shows': you bring your own movie or make a wish and book the whole place for you and your friends. So you have a wholly cinema experience plus a 'netflix-like' selection of movies and audience.👍
IT has to be sweet Popcorn and a Coke for the movie. at my favourite Cinema you can also get a big bucket Popcorn and a 1 Litre Soda. but better Checkout, before the movie Starts, the Location of the restrooms or it will be a very long movie. you have to Checkout the Cinecitta in nuremberg Bavaria. It is a Cinema where the Auditoriums are located at the Underground and the quality of the technique is great. the cinemagnum Auditorium is roundabout 30 or 40 m under the ground. Always an exciting Event going to the Theaters there. the are 23 Auditoriums and IT IS the biggest multiplex Theater in Germany
For me one example of a movie that is better than the book its based on is the original "Blade Runner" from 1982. While the movie is a true masterpiece, the book " Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick is a somehow weird and tiresome read. At least I felt that way.
Oh, and lest I forget, my recently deceased mother wrote a book about the history of the cinema in this city, _Wiltrud Henningsen, Die Entstehung des Kinos in Münster Versuch einer Historiographie_ ... given that I have whole unsold boxes of that in the house, and I've seen it sold for 60€ or more (which I'm pretty certain is more than mom asked for it) ... my email is in my channel info; don't expect fast replies.
Fun fact: if you are disabled in Germany and have disabilitie license wich says that you need someone with you and you show it at the register were you buy the tickets only the person who comes with you has to pay for their ticket while you can go in for free ( I had that experience with my brother. For anyone who’s curious I have autism)
Popcorn sweet or mixed, coke zero and Nachos. Big sweet tooth! You are next to a small cinema I guess^^ You are shocked about beer in the cinema? You should check the next swimming pool.. They sell their alcohol too. While I never expirienced any alcohol induced misbehavings in cinemas, it is another story for pools. How can people think it is a good idea to comb swimming and alcohol?
I asked in the video for your favorite movie theater snack, but what about movie theater drink?? I usually go with a classic Coke or Pepsi, but in some theaters back in the states I actually prefer a Coke flavored Icee!
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Sweet Popcorn and Fritz Cola Zero (German Cola from Hamburg without sugar and high coffein).
And I never saw a movie which was better than the books.
I am glad if the movies are close to the books.
Favorite cinema drink: Dark & Stormy (yes, our cinema mixes cocktails to take inside). 🍸🍹
Nachos and a Sprite or Cola. Snacks and drinks are often sold combined as a menu.
Hey there,
I'm a huge Movie-Theater-Fan from the South of Lower Saxony, at the Border to Northrhine Westfalia and pretty close to Hessen. I've been at many different Cinemas in a Range up to 2 Hours by Car. I've seen a Theater having a Bar opposite to the Screen, I also often go to the larger Cinemaxx or Cineplex-Theater-Chains. But my Favorit is a Cinema in a small Village about 40 Minutes from my Home-Town. It has every Feature like 3D or Surround-Sound, but one of the 3 Screens is in an old Barn. The Family running it also owns a small Pub and they are Farmer! So sometimes it happens in Summer you drive to the Cinema, a Group of People is waiting outside and suddenly a Tractor rushes in and the Theater Operater is selling you sweet Popcorn (never saw salty before, but i'm not a Fan of Popcorn because of the Crunsh-Noises during Movies) in his Rubber-Boots... I just wanted to give you the Hint that "OmU" at some Homepages of a Cinema is "Original mit Untertitel" - "Original with Subtitle".
You also displayed a Cover of the german Anti-War-Movie "Das Boot" - "The Boat" which is one of my Favorit. There are different Cuts and Lengths of it, look out for the 282-Minutes-Version and watch it with german Audio and english Subtitles, the english Audio is badly translated or censored at many Scenes!
Keep going on doing your awesome Videos, i posted some of them at a Discord of Friends from the US.
Oh, you forgot to talk about preordering Seats at a Cinema: I many Movie-Theaters you have the Possibility to choose a Seat while preordering or buying the Tickets. So you don't need to get there too early huntihg for a good Seat ;-)
Favorite Drink: rosé wine.
As a movie theatre manager I can add quite something to all this: the business has been encouraged (and many theatre owners are green enough themselves) to avoid the tons of waste by switching from cups to reusable bottles. The easiest way is the way you've experienced: you get a .33l or .5l bottle of whatever, and the bottles are put back into their crates by the visitors upon leaving the premises. This intracts our margins as we cannot add more water to the syrup as many (especially franchised or multiplex) cinema owners do, but what don't you do for saving the planet? In our cinema, you even get your popcorn in a reusable bowl and only if you demand it, we'll fill it in a paper bag for you.
The adds have to start at showtime, it's stipulated in the booking contracts. German cinema goers know that - depending on how commercially oriented your cinema is, you can make an educated guess on how much time you have until the main feature will actually start. (As a rule of thumb: small arthouse and/or communal cinemas: 5 minutes, no or or little sommercials, only movie trailers; major arthouse cinemas: 10-15 minutes; franchised/multiplex cinemas: 20-30 minutes.)
I strongly advise you to seek out other cinemas than the Broadway which is mostly a place where Disney and Marvel make more money. If you are really interested in GOOD films, especially European/German/international cinema, try the Union Kino in Kaiserslautern, or the Provinzkino in Enkenbach-Alsenborn. Depending on how far you are prepared to drive, I can provide you with a plethora of venues that will give you a way more pleasant cinema experience in German or English.
Thanks for jumping in to give us a fuller picture. Have never been there, but was sure there must be greener and healthier alternatives in Germany. After all, is that not the home of the Green Party? And, I had just read the BBC Travel article about the 2 German towns beginning to develop a workable strategy for fast food packaging/serving waste. I believe that's a first anywhere in the world.
Alas! Canada is a mixed bag when it comes to separating garbage for recycling. Our biggest city, the Toronto region, was the last place to catch on ... and only when there was no place left within 200 km to dump everything. Here, in Western Canada, it's been the norm for at least 25 years. Most of us here would have guessed why moviegoers in Germany put their empty bottles in a crate as they exit, even though no bottled drinks are sold at the movies here.
On the question of fast food, it seemed like we were off to a good start about 10 years ago when our young prime minister Trudeau easily put through legislation banning trans fats in restaurant food. Then, it just seemed to stop there
I like the way Great Britain is doing it. The idea of controlling the percentages of fat, salt and sugar in prepared foods is working because of the way they've initiated it. For the last 5 years or so, supermarkets and food manufacturers have been obliged to cut each of those ingredients by 3%. And it's working!
Maybe you can best answer the question I posed in this section where I mention PALM OIL. I asked about the availability of healthy snacks in German movie theaters. Here it would happen only in an Art Cinéma showing foreign films or vintage Hollywood. Among the snacks would be some healthy sandwiches, a fruit cup or homemade desert like a fruit crumble.
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You missed 2 other major differences: assigned seating, and pricing. Most German cinemas (multiplex and "Programmkino") will usually have assigned seating (and in Covid-times that has nearly become mandatory to ensure social-distancing). You will often recognize the newbie non-German customers as the ones who sit down anywhere they want, only to be displaced when the true ticket holders arrive. Furthermore, these assigned seats are priced differently: closer to the screen (Parkett) at a lower price and middle/rear section (Loge) a few Euro higher (although not all cinemas). Also different pricing weekdays/weekends (vs. matinee/evening in the US), plus a really big rip-off, the "Überlängenzuschlag" (long-movie-penalty-fee). Generally for movies over 125, 130 minutes (depending on the cinema, but never being fully transparent exactly at what length). Anywhere from 1.50 to 3 Euro, supposedly due to fewer showtimes per day. But yet I've had to pay it at a cinema that only had a single showing anyway. Thankfully some local cinemas have dropped it. A big complaint for both countries: charging a "convenience fee" to purchase your tickets online, even though they save on labor costs at the box office ticket sales. Pre-movies ads are definitely too long in Germany, 20-30 minutes. At least with Covid the pre-movie Eispause to buy ice cream from a seller has been dropped, saving a few minutes. OV has definitely increased in my area.
and you'll recognize the veterans by them standing up and moving to a different seat just when the movie is about to actually start ;)
We have assigned seats in Atlanta GA
Keep in mind that the previews and ads are deliberately this long to accomodate people getting their drinks and snacks from the counter during busier days and showings, as the lines can get QUITE long.
If they were shorter you'd be annoyed in the cinema at the amount of people shuffling around looking for their seats and talking in the dark while the movie has already started. I know this because my town did have a cinema where the previews were short and this happened every single time for a busy showing, to the point we always ended up waiting a few days to see a movie, because that way the cinema would be fairly empty.
Pff believe me Germans won’t sit in their assigned seats either
Of course when the movie is full it is important to sit in ur seat but most of the time when their aren’t many people u just sit wherever and no one cares
@@viis374 yes one time the movie was full due to reduced prices (4,50 € instead of approx. 12 €) so i tried the new luxurious seats with an table . my girlfriend hates coming too late for the movie even though the premovie ads started ...
The sizes are actually quite unusual for Germany. Normally a small drink is like 250 ml at McDonald’s or restaurants
The drinks and popcorn are quite expensive - so to sweaten the deal, no pun intended, the portions are quite big regarding softdrinks I suppose...
Last time I went to the cinema in Berlin, the large coke was a comically large 2L "cup" that looked like a freakin' bucket, so I'd say this depends on the company that operates the cinema.
I wanna say the sizes are typical for movie theatres specificly, but not other places.
@@redshirt49 Movie theatres have one problem: They can only make one sale per customer and showing. Unlike a restaurant, where you order a second (third, fourth, ...) drink when you sit for a couple of hours, or a fast food restaurant where you vacate the table and make space for the next customer quickly. So they try to make the biggest possible sale, also trying to play on the angst of people to run out of coke during the movie.
@@HenryLoenwind Well yeah, I'd say that regular drink sizes aren't smart in a cinema for that reason. Most of the time a regular medium drink would be empty before previews are over. And having a lot of people get up mid-movie to go get more drinks and food is annoying, so having larger portions makes perfect sense, which is probably why larger chain cinema franchises do it this way. Their cinemas are busy and you don't want that kind of commotion during the movie. The cup holders between seats will also typically accomodate multiple drinks for folks who buy a few beers (which would be served in 0.33l or 0.5l standards) and such in advance.
I am not really a fan of the big movie theater brands here in Germany. You should visit a small private movie theater for the full German experience. :)
I love the one in my home town because it's the oldest municipal movie theater in Germany.
Das Metropol in Bilk? I love it💗
Well we have both. The big, 8-screen Cineplex which is the "standart" cinema and the "Theater" wich just have two or three screens. The Cineplex itself run the major movies and blockbusters and the "Metropolitan" which means operas and ballet shows. The Theater (its run by the Town in cooparation with Cineplex) shows movies that are underrated and not big enough for big screens or have ben out for too long and dont get that much attention anymore or films that usualy would be in "spartenkinos".
Unlike most Germans, I actually prefer my popcorn salty. This created a funny moment once, when I was going to the movies with some friends and one of them nicked a bit of my popcorn, then shouted "What is wrong with you?"
Yea, what IS wrong with you???!!!
*Snacks sweet popcorn, just the way it's supposed to be.
In small theaters they sometimes serve the drinks in glasses, like drinking glasses. There also sometimes is a bar in the back.
I love those.
We have one in my home town. It mostly shows older movies or independent films, and even has small pull out tables at the back of the seats (like in airplanes).
Is a completely different experience.
Hi,
You mentioned "OV", but there's also an option "OmU" sometimes (also in your screen shot) which stands for "Original mit Untertiteln", so this will also be an original version, but with german subtitles.
The cup sizes are really ridiculous, our cinema serves 0.5l as small (which would be large in a restaurant), 0.75l as medium and 1l as large. The large cups don't even fit in the cup holders of the new chairs they recently installed. it's just so stupid. When it comes to the pop corn, I like sweet and salty equally I'd say. But I usually go for tortilla chips with cheese dip.
All movie theaters I've been to in Germany sold soda in aforementioned ridiculous large cups. But I think it's normal for beer to be sold in bottles.
Also, I'm equally annoyed and impressed by people who show up 10 to 15 minutes late so they don't have to watch the ads before the movie.
Oh, and I don't read that much books, but when I do, they are usually better or at least as good as the movie.
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I actually remembered the sizes wrong, a medium size cup is 0.75l and large is 1l, but that's still quite big.
"stupid" as in "why not just order a second one with the waiter when you run out"? ;)
@@HenryLoenwind that would require you to leave the theater to go to the snack bar and get another one. with movies being mostly digital, those extra long ones also seem to have dropped the break in between which in the past was sometimes needed as they had to switch between spools.
Other than that, I have even seen "large" sizes up to 1.5 l for soft drinks. Problem is, are you able to sit through the movie if you gulped that one down or would you have to take a leak in between?
I guess most times pairs or families share those humongous portions, which also are quite unwieldy and a task to manage when seated.
Okay...I guess I have to explain something: There are two types of cinemas in Germany: The Multiplex and the so called "Spartenkinos". Your experience sounds like you went to a multiplex. Those are usually part of a chain and are "american Inspired", plus, they make most of their money over the snacks, not over the movies they show, hence the overseized portions and the nearly half an hour advertising. The "Spartenkinos" on the other hand are more like the "traditional" German cinema experience. Those usually don't have multiple screens (two at most), tend to be supported by the city and show more than just hollywood movies (though they might do that, too). There the snacks are smaller and affordable, and before corona, there might even an ice cream seller turn up shortly before the movie starts - also, the advertising time is lower, more 10 to 15 minutes.
Regarding movies based on books: Yeah, I have, and chances are, you have too. Because a LOT of movies are based on not that successful books. "Jaws", "Die Hard", "Rambo", "Who framed Roger Rabbit" just to mention a few highly successful movies which are actually based on books only a few people read. And there are even some movie based on successful books, which surpassed the source material imho: Shawshanks Redemption for example or Mary Poppins. There are also movies which are just as good as the book they are based on or which are good movies but not really good adaptation. Thing is, we tend to remember the bad adaptations of popular books the most.
Very good explanation, though I think "two at most" for Spartenkinos is not correct. There can be more. But the point stands that it's just a few and in the big ones there is more of them.
@@silkwesir1444 Well, that's what I said "usually", though I admit, I am also speaking from the experience in my city, which still has a number of "old" cinemas. The experience might be slightly different elsewhere...in fact, the experience is slightly different from cinema to cinema anyway. In my city is one which regularly shows "old" (but successful) movies, complete with an explanation why they influenced movie history. With old I mean a few decades old, not black and white era old.
And approx 80% of Disney Classics are based on books, The little Mermaid (Hans Christian Andersen) aka Arielle, Pinoccio, Cinderella, Rapunzel and many more from the Grimms Brothers collection.
@@dirkspatz3692 ...well, I wouldn't really count most of those, because the Grimms didn't write stories, they just collected them. Oral lore is a category in itself, imho, because it is timeless and so basic that it can be reinterpreted again and again and again.
@@swanpride That's why i called it Grimms Brothers Collection.
But the Bible also is a collection of writen down oral lore - but knowbody would say it isn't a book.
Love seeing your Videos each friday. Sending my greetings to Aubrey 🙂
I actually love to watch the commercials before the movie. Oftentimes, they are ads that don't run on German TV , and they are FREAKIN' FUNNY. 🤣🤣🤣
The only movie i can think of that is "better than the book" ist The Shawshank Redemption/Die Verurteilten...but the book itself is only a short story itself.
But i just love that movie!!!
I would add two other Stephen King adaptions: "The Green Mile" and "Stand By Me".
Wow, your thumbnail design is friggin awesome. you really outdone yourself with this one. well done
Really appreciate you noticing 😊
Hello. I'm actually from the area you are living right now. I highly recommend you the Broadway Kino in Landstuhl. They show OV movies and it is such a beautiful theater. My favorite snack at the cinema is salty popcorn or nacho with chees dip. You should try the "Langnese Konfekt". These are small vanilla icecream cubes with a chocolat glaze. Delicious! Wishing you a good time in germany. Enjoy it!
Hey! That is actually where the clip from me placing the glass bottle into the crate is from 😅 Great theater! 😊 Will try your recommendations next time we are there 😊
We have a cinema in my hometown, so for us there's no need to drive to Ramstein-Miesenbach. It's like the only one in the county (Landkreis) which is good for business.
that reminds me back in the day you'd have the Langnese commercial with "Like Ice in the Sunshine" as the music and the lights would turn on again and somebody actually selling the stuff would come in and do a round. Is that still a thin i wonder?
Sweet popcorn for sure! I think it really just depends on what type of popcorn u grew up with. I tried salty popcorn but it just tasted wrong and i don't even want to imagine what buttery popcorn tastes like. Sorry, no offence 😅 Anyway, i love your videos! Your channel is one of my favorite "Americans-in-Germany-themed" channels. Keep up the good work 👍🏽
Thanks so much for those kind words! I am glad you enjoy our channel 😊
Ich mag salziges Popcorn lieber.
Das beste ist buttrig süßes popcorn 🤤. Auch wenn dann erst mal ein paar tage fasten angesagt ist 😂
Is there a reason why you didn't comment on the OmU option at the beginning? Or did I somehow miss it?
It's original language as well, but with subtitles. OV is without subtitles.
If you include OmU in your search for original language films, you may get more results.
Funny thing, I went to watch the batman OV in a local privately owned theater and the movie started with subtitles - staff guy came in and asked if anyone was bothered by it and since none answered, we watched OmU instead.
As for snacks and drinks, we had medium popcorn which was definitely not bigger than your small portion 😅
Drinks vary on occasion, this time it was a Bionade in a bottle, sometimes it's a soft drink in a paper cup
When I lived in Prague all movies were in the original language with subtitles EXCEPT children's movies. They were dubbed. When I was in Berlin I was very surprised that all movies were dubbed.
Given that in larger cities, the population that may speak, say, English, fluently enough to enjoy a movie in the OV, it's natural that theaters in agglomerations will show OVs more frequently - they can actually fill those. Whereas a small town cinema in a low density area would likely fill all the demand with a single show, if it is able to recruit enough viewers to make it worthwhile to begin with.
Frankly, when I moved to the US, the thing that struck me was that butter sauce they put on popcorn. Not only did the smell not appeal to me, why you'd take a low-fat snack and pour tons of fat over it was beyond me.
If I want to have fatty stuff at the theater, nachos and cheese sauce will do the trick...
In my hometown it’s common to serve some drinks in bottles that you put into a crate after the movie. They also sell soft drinks in cups. The smaller movie theaters sometimes have a bar where you can get any kind of drink served in a normal glass. There is always an ice cream commercial before the movie and someone comes in to sell ice cream. Then the lights are dimmed and the movie starts or movie previews and than the movie. A typical movie theater sweet is Eis-Konfekt. When there is ladies night in the theater in my town they sell Eis-Konfekt with Prosecco. Sometimes I go to the Netherlands to watch movies (they always have the OmU but with dutch subtitles… of course). I think a lot is the same as in Germany. At least in the region I live. They also serve soft drinks in cups as-well as glass bottles and Nachos with dips.
Do not come the movie theater too late or just on time the Film should start. first you don't want to disturb others while looking for your seat in the dark room, second you never know if there are shown commercials or movie trailers. It happens they start Films with no or only a few minutes of commercials.
The more people the the film, the more commercials you will see.
Few minutes of commercials? Sounds like heaven😕.
But the workers always know how long the commercials will last, you can ask at the ticket counter.
Recommendation: Go see a movie you have already seen - in German. That experience would be better, because you know the context.
I think glass bottles are standard everywhere in German cinemas. Even at the multiplexes with Soft drinks in big cups, at least beer will be sold in glass bottles.
I've been to quite a number of cinemas in Germany and what you described is pretty much standard everywhere.
One minor thing you missed is the few-minutes-long break between the commercials and the start of the movie itself. Usually you see a still-frame ice commercial in that time and sometimes (not always) there's a staff member asking if anyone'd like to buy an ice. You know, Magnum, Cornetto etc. The break is also long enough for a quick visit to the toilets.
Whattt I‘ve never heard of such a thing 😂 at least where I live (south of Germany) that’s not common at all
Our small cinema even has a small table where you can put your beer in front of the seats. Germany typically has many flavors, but popcorn is almost always sweet. I am a salty person. I wish you could get cheddar popcorn in germany. It is popcorn with almost cheetos taste. (Estrella indian popcorn).
In my home town, Freiburg, the oldest movie theatre is the "Friedrichsbau" they shows special films. For examle "Ziemlich beste Freunde" long bevore it cames to normal movie theatres. And an alternative movie theatre named "Kandelhof". We had movie theatres named "Kamera" and "Kurbel". Now our movie Theaters named "Harmonie" and "Cinemaxx" and of course "Friedrichsbau" and "Kandelhof"
Popcorn! I feel you 😁But to be honest, I was so shocked when I ordered popcorn in the US for the first time and they asked me if I want butter on top! What? Just for the fun, I tried it. I am not sure if I would do it again, because it was so messy 😅
Suprised about alcohol in Europe cinemas? Did you not watch "Pulp Fuction"? ;)
I am also a no "ice in drink"-type. Sadly places starts to put ice into the drinks also in Germany. So I need to start ask for no ice nowadays too.
Haha my first thought as well
To be fair, with the prices they charge for those drinks in movie theatres they better be big :D
let´s call it a standard menu: one bag of Harribo Saure Colaflaschen, a medium sized sweet Popcorn and a Coke or two and Ice-cream. sometimes some Nachoas or Chips
Wow! You go all out 😅
Where you live, English is a foreign language. The first time you saw a German movie was the first time you did NOT see a movie in a foreign language. You need a little help with your German pronunciation. I think you woudl find "Deutsch mit Benjamin" a particularly good RUclips channel for that. He is a particularly good at teaching German vowels. That's a dandy skill to have, so you don't say "schwul" (queer) when you mean to say "schwül" (stuffy). Germans are super polite, so don't expect people to correct you in casual conversation. When I first went there, I was aware that my German wasn't very good, but they smothered me with compliments about my "excellent' German to encourage me.
Looks like Landstuhl, Broadway. Presumably the MOST AMERICAN cinema in all of Germany (at least when it comes to customers and OVs shown). :-D Except for the bottle thing perhaps...
You mean "süss," not "sus". Also, in Germany, beer is more of a grocery than an alcoholic drink.
As a German from Baden-Württemberg, I'd say it's normal to get you drink in a glass bottle. Smaller business or drink stalls on festivals don't have soda or beer dispensers because that would be to expensive, so they sell drinks in glass bottles with a straw. There even is a new trend to sell pre mixed cocktails with ice in bottles (invented by the company "kukki").
I’m surprised by the snack size. My local theatre I have been going to since childhood has much smaller popcorn boxes. They have six screens. Two very small ones, one large one and the rest is medium. For the longest time it was a family owned business. I still remember when the old granny was selling the tickets in a very old-fashioned ticket booth. It has new owners now and has been renovated, but still has the charm of the olden times.
By the way, a movie better than a book, Lord of the Rings, of course.
A suggestion, maybe you can also make a movie about coffee shops, Starbucks and how it competes with German ideas of coffee shops. I love coffee shops and would be curious to know about your view on the differences.
RUclips is full of german high class movies. Especially from the 50s and 60s. The movies of today are just crap anyway.
After World War II, the German equivalent of Hollywood was in the DDR. They had to import movies and dub them, which is why so many of the movies are dubbed even today. They have a lot of voice actors.. You may not even be able to detect that the movie is dubbed, because English and German are so closely related that the mouth movements often match.
i live in a small town in lower saxony. and we have a really little cinema. but it is a service cinema. while watching the movie, i can push a button in front of me, and then a waitress comes and takes my order for another drink or snack. so, even if one beer wont last the whole movie, i can order more if i want. i really like that.
Buttery, salty popcorn!
Any kind of pop will do!
Yes, books are usually better!
Another awesome video! You’re excellent at your craft!
About the bottles that is done everywhere in germany.
By the way... I belive that selling beer in cups would create a revolt. If beer is served in a plastic or paper cup you have to drink it fast... otherwise the taste is gone and gets warm... but you want to drink it through the 1,5h+ movie. So what we do is, by some bottles and let them close. We open them with lighters or else during the movie. That way we keep having fresh tasting beer.
You must have been to a americanised Kino, in the north, you dont get those big portions or get asked for sweet or salty, there is only sweet popcorn. But it has been some years since I went to the cinema, so maybe some things changed.
*Edit And yes, there is a movie that is; imo; better than the book: The Perfume. The book was so dry and boring, but the movie was fun to watch.
In south Germany we have sweet and salty popcorn and the sizes are quite big as well. Sometimes you also get cinnamon popcorn.
Don't you live in Ramstein? At Broadway Kino in Landstuhl you will find a higher number of movies in English. There are always lots of Americans (for obvious reasons).
Today they will have four different movies in English. (The Batman even twice.) Except Jackass that's all the American movies they show in German language, too.
Hi Donnie,
watching a German movie in the movie theatre is of course the hardest way...
What would you think about the following idea to get more training in comprehension of the German language: buy here in Germany a couple of DVDs of American or English movies that you are familiar with. Usually the original sound (English) and the German dubbed verion (and subtitles in both languages) are offered on the DVD. When you watch the movie at home you can select German without subtitles (which I would recommend since the spoken words often differ from the subtitles). And when you do not understand something you can go a bit back and listen again or switch to English and compare etc...
Better film than the book? Sure, every bible film with Charlton Heston!
This video made me realize how long I have not been to the movies: About 20 years I guess.
At that time, popcorn was neither salted nor sugared, it was "sugar coated" - looked just like the one we all know as "caramel pop corn", but lighter. That was the one I really loved, but it is rare to find nowadays.
Anyway, most of the time I watched the movies without having a snack, because I never had much money and even the ticket was not easy to afford. 😉
That's quite easy to make yourself, actually. Get a popcorn maker that's not hot-air but "heated plate with a stirrer". Then just add sugar to the oil at about a 1:1 ratio. Flavoured/dyed sugar that's intended for cotton candy machines also works nicely. Those machines just get hot enough to melt the sugar and the popcorn finishes popping before the sugar gets too dark.
Cleaning is a bit of a PITA, I do have to admit...
@@HenryLoenwind hm. thank you Henry, sounds great. But I am not sure if all this stuff is available in Germany. Yes we have Popcorn Makers but I am afraid the market for those isn't very big around here. Nearly nobody makes it at home, we buy it or we buy microwave popcorn. :)
regarding alcohol: when I was young (1980ies) there were theaters which showed hardcore porn movies.They were obliged by law to hand out a little bottle of hard liquor to all visitors. So, when you received your ticket, you also received a little bottle of "Schnaps". This was due to the fact that porn movies were only allowed in bars by law. So, for that one night, the movie theater declared themselves a "bar"... and by handing out alcohol to the clients they fulfilled this legal requirement. Of course you needed to be 18 to have access to these shows...but no-one really checked your ID.
In germany or the US?
@@fridadanke9076 In Germany.
Whatever rule they invent, people find a way to get around or tu use it for another purpose then intended.
I thought Americans would know about Salty & Sweet popcorn since they did a splatfest about it in Splatoon 2.
In Germany there are different Movie theaters.Thwre are big ones with only one screen, then some with multiple screens under one roof (in most cases with different sizes, we had one in Hamburg with over ten screens ranging from a really small one with 50 places to really big ones with a few hundred seats) and spezial movie theaters called "Programm´-Kino". I think, this are mostly old movie theaters
The big movie theaters got the new releases, the Programm-Kino showed older movies, had themed events (Star Wars night, LotR-Night etc.), meaning all the movies would be shown in one sitting.
On top of that they showed movies for a smaller or spezial audience, like "Dead men don't wear plaid" (one of the best movies of all time. Period.) or Rocky Horror Picture Show (with people in costume, throwing rice, singing AND dancing along etc.
Regarding the ads ... the companys that pay for them want people to watch them. SO if they are shown when half the crowd is still on its way, getting food or searching for their seat... the y pay for nothing.
Small theaters use bottled drinks because (I guess) getting the whole station would be pretty expensive and limiting (you can't pour Fritz Cola from a Pepsi machine :)
Also, NOBODY considers theater drinks/popcorn sizes to be small, they just call the smallest choice "small" because starting at "humongous" would be weird :)
Oh, big difference: Germans don't clap when the movie ends, there's nobody relevant to hear it anyway... (tho people clap when a pilot successfully lands a plane, as if that is not expected to happen most of the time ;=)
i also think the bottles in small cinemas stay because the cupholders wouldnt fit larher beverages. the crate thing is like in eg mcd.. you can leave your bottles in the holder after the movie and the bag on the floor but it is bad manners and why inconvinence someone if there is literally almost no extra effort since you pass bins and crates anyway when leavin.. but with cups .. maybe they arent completely empty so where to put them and collecting them aftereards might be quite more of a hassle. then you have to clean tje soda fountain and since smaller cinrmas dont have as much visitors its more efficient. if you have 2000 vieweers and 400 buy drinks that would be more than 15 crates.. that requires quite a some stockroom whereas you could eaily store several sirups and cO kegs
there are propably a lot more reasons like cost efficiency
i personally prefer bottles.. clean and easy to handle not like some flimsy cup wich you might acidenallty squeeze and spill and it tastes bettet
From my experience, movies based on books by Philip K. Dick have tendency to be better than the written fiction itself.
In addition I noticed that the slower pacing of older books (amongst other things) throws some modern readers off and hence, conveys the feeling that a movie based on such an old book is better.
OV stands for Originalversion, not for "original version". Spelling identical (except for the minor detail of the German being one compound word, natch), pronunciation different. Note the "OmU" next to it on the website. That would be "OwS" in English: Original(version) with Subtitles, in German: Original mit Untertiteln. OV is without subtitles.
I was giving the English for it which just so happens to be the exact same as the German plus a space 😊
My local mega-multiplex cinema does the drinks-in-paper-cups thing, the smaller theatres have glass bottles and crates to collect the empties. I find that the film of "American Psycho" is superior to the book.
Ah! Maybe that is the breakdown, large theaters=cups? Small theaters=glass?
@@PassportTwo Probably! It's most likely economically unwise for a small theatre to invest in a soda machine...
I can agree subtitles are definetly extremly helpfull when watching videos in foreign language. But i can tell it gets better the more you speak the language. Especially for the people having to speak english all day at work it becomes second nature. It took me about 4 years after is started working in an international company to be able to watch videos/or Theater movies without subtitles.
If you want to learn German, NEVER use subtitles. And don't even go to the movies. Get a DVD, switch the language to German and watch it a hundred times in a row. I'm not even kidding. That's how I learned German. Okay, it was back in 1989, no DVDs yet, but I recorded The Neverending Story off of German TV. And I watched it EVERY DAY, sometimes two or three times a day... I don't think my grandparents were even able to use their TV as long as I was there, because my learning German was top priority, and this is the method my Mom used to learn English when my Dad brought her to the States.
And with every viewing of the movie, I understood things a little bit better, until I got it all.
Just watch LOTS of German TV and movies over and over and over again until you practically know them by heart. It's very effective! I was fluent in no time and even started quickly getting better grades in German at school than the actual German kids. (I was 14 and had also come from Oklahoma. 😊)
As far as movies and books: I once read Forrest Gump. It was awful. The movie was supposedly based on the book, but I felt the movie hardly resembled the book AT ALL. And the movie was FAR superior.
But other than that, I've always liked the books better.
I love my popcorn mixed. Sweet and salty/butter in the same patch. Sadly most of the movie theaters in austria only have salty popcorn.
Popcorn sizes: Until some years ago, cinemas were actually selling small portions (about half the size of the one you were showing). Then they stopped selling that size (you sometimes still get it as part of a package deal or as a groupon "rebate") and started forcing the huge (and obviously more expensive) servings on their customers, if they wanted popcorn.
I personally have stoped buying popcorn at the cinema and bring ("smuggle in") my own small pack of a snack. Not because I am cheap, I would happily pay for the small serving which I regularly bought in the past. But I do not believe paying big bucks for an oversized portion half of which I would have to throw away, because it is simply too much. Popcorn is not the healthiest thing to eat but in the end it still is food. And believe me, you will find a lot of half full popcorn bags in the trash cans after a movie. This said, what always makes me shake my head is the half full "supersize me" popcorn buckets in the trash. The people who buy those are often enough the same that you hear bitching about how expensive going to the movies has become. Go figure
Oh, by the way, definitly salty!
Visit the German city Lich, in Hesse. There is one of the best German so called Programmkinos. The cinema is called Traumstern. That is the real German movie experience.
Seconded! The Traumstern is lovely!
And that reminds me that I have to find a way to go back soon!
In Finland all foreign films are showed at the original language and are subtitled for Finnish. Only children movies are dubbed for Finnish and they usually run also few times original version with Finnish subtitles.
Will watch Hytti nro 6 with OmU soon
Salty popcorn for me any time. I enjoy watch movies in their original language . For non English ones with English or German subs.
When I met my husband I forced him to watch a Korean gangster movie in Korean with English subs -- now he is used to it.
I vividly remember going to a movie theater in Brazil as a teenager, my friend got Popcorn and I was shocked when trying it because I had expected it to be sweet XD by now I have learned that the Germans are pretty much the only ones serving (mostly) sweet Popcorn in the cinemas! I have tried kettle corn in the US and that‘s yummy but still very different than the popcorn I grew up with.
With the glass bottles it is in my experience more common in smaller independent cinemas in Germany (like on of my favorites that only has one show room).
The hunt for OV movies can sometimes be a bit annoying…I am from Dortmund which is definitely not a small city but still it is more likely to find these once-a-week screenings you mentioned. BUT I think that this might be about to change with a rising demand for OV movies.
Btw a few years back I would sometimes like to go to „sneak previews“ where they would show a movie that was only about to be published in the next weeks. Big gamble because you are not told which movie it would be but a lot of fun! Do you have events like that in the US?
Sorry, but I can‘t think of an answer to your question…
A difference? The temperature inside......😉
Most favorite movie theatre candy: Eiskonfekt ... mhhh so delicious.
Popcorn flavor: sweet
Random question: no, most movies are worse than the books they are adapted from. There are some movies that did a good job in adapting like Gone with the Wind, Ben Hur, Quo Vadis, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (though I prefer the Swedish TV movie to David Fincher's version), or the Harry Potter movies (though they had to skip a lot of content because of the sheer volume of the source material).
"show time" = "this is when the showroom's doors open and you can go to your seat" = "meet up time with friend at the cinema"
Ah yes the movie theaters. Its been a long time since I was in one, but I always smile when I remember about the first time I was in another theater then the one I was used to. You see the one I was used to had a long tradition as a movie theater. I had one big show room and several smaller ones. In the big one you have a lot of space for your feet and in there it is even a bar (yes inside the show room) and you can click on a button on a little table in front of you to get a waiter to your seat. That was the kind of movie theater experience I grew up with and was used to. I was kind of irritated when I got to a movie theater in a big city and there weren't such services inside.
At least in the cinemas I know (Munich and surrounding areas) the drink and popcorn sizes /are/ small, when you ask for small... (Though they /do/ have rather large sizes as well)
Yes, there are more cinemas in Germany that sell drinks in glass bottles, so I wouldn't be surprised at all here. 😅
Be careful though: some cinemas have begun to drop the ad time before the movie starts. 😉
I haven't read the books of all movie adaptions I've watched, but the only one where the movie and the book were roughly equal is 2001 - A Space Oddyssey, mainly because both were created more or less in parallel and thus have slight differences. 🤔
My fav cinema is Broadway Kino in Ramstein. I would advice you to go there because it is still a family run cinema and not like all the other franchise cinemas.
Hey! That is actually where the clip from me placing the glass bottle into the crate is from 😅 Great theater! 😊
Usually I don’t see a movie if I already read the book as usually it is a letdown as it is almost never as good as the book. But certainly there are some advantages that filmmaking has in depicting things. But it’s hard for me to give a specific example for the final question.
I see, you went to a UCI. Those are a lot more americanized, I feel like. You should visit Union Kino in Kaiserslautern, that's a smaller one for sure, compared to big chain cinemas like the UCI. Lot more indie stuff and non-blockbusters in general there. Also a lot more international stuff. I mean I've seen Parasite there for example, long before there was even any Oscars buzz around it.
Having a movie start directly after the announced time sounds SO great! In Germany, you never know how long the ads will be, so you have to sit through most of them. Especially annoying for really big blockbusters where I sometimes got 45 minutes or even ONE HOUR of advertisement before the movie even started! And then the movies get longer and longer and cinemas erase the break (which was much more common once) for having more time for paying customers. I hate it, because now, I always miss parts of the movie for going to the bathroom - I just can't sit there for 1 hour of ads plus 3 hours of movie without a break :(
in frannce it is mostly the same, as I have never remarked big diffs. Only drinks are not in Bottles normaly. And in Paris for VO you find specific cinemas.
But, in some cinemas in germany, all drinks are in bottle. And I think for env. Reason it will become normal in future in germany.
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And as explained already, there is a diff. between the Multiplex and Spart ones. Same in France, where you find many films in VO, from all over the world. Or the small budget "art" films etc.
My favorite theater snack: when I was a kid there were Bon Bons. They were domes of chocolate filled with vanilla ice cream, only available in theaters. Recently I found them at Aldi, called Eiskonfekt, and they have dark chocolate and wonderful German vanila ice cream so even better!
Actually - yes. Even if I do not remember anymore right now what movie it was. Difference was that I read the book after liking the movie whereas usually you somehow first read the book or book series and then see the film. But - you already get your own image of the characters of the book in your head so the film can never be as good as the book especially as usually a lot of what happens is cut out in the movie version.
I actually think that there is no general way for the cinema experience in Germany - it differs from cinema to cinema and just might have resemblance at chain cinemas like Kinopolis etc.
In the kinos I go to there are beer bottles and a crate at the exit.
If you really want small portions, go for the "Kinder" size at the movies.
I don't get the whole snack thing. I go to the cinema to watch a movie and not to have a snack. So I don't snack at all and rarely purchase a drink in order to avoid having to visit the john.
Here (Northern Germany) are beverage crates in all the cinemas I know.
My favorite snack in the cinema is M&Ms. But mostly I don't eat anything because it's way too expensive.
What movie did you see? How could you stand the dubbing? Since Netflix has made it so easy to watch movies in the original, I find German dubbing harder and harder to bear.
You asked about German movies in the last video and I had already put together a little list:
- Good Bye, Lenin! (a mother falls into a coma just before the fall of the wall and her son fools her into thinking the GDR still exists, very funny).
- "Das Leben der Anderen", also GDR-themed, it's about an artist and a Stasi-captain, even won an Oscar
- Fack ju Göthe, funny comedy about a crook who pretends to be a teacher (because he buried his loot in the gym)
- Der Schuh des Manitou, parody of Winnetou movies (they're only known in Germany, though), super-funny
- Pappa ante Portas: typical German humor with the unforgotten Loriot
- Run Lola Run: movie with three different very surprising storylines
- Knockin' on heaven's door: German road movie
The Popcorn thing got me as well, when I first visited an american movie theatre. I've never encountered salty popcorn before.
And I think everyone knows the feeling, when you expect something to taste a special way, and then it tastes completely different :-D
I came to like it though.
I feel the language discussion missed a point about subtitles. You don't need to understand the spoken language of a movie to enjoy the movie.
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In Germany there are two types of cinemas; Big Chains like Cinemaxx or Astor and smaller, independent Cinemas which you will find regularly in small cities.
Small cinemas often feel the need to stand out in comparison to the big chains. While the lines are quite blurred out, visiting an independent cinema has just a very different feel than visiting a chain, so you kind of expect something fancy like bottled drinks etc.
The remake better than the original film or book? Maybe the movie 'Chicago' or 'The Thomas Crown Affair'. But yes, it is rare, and those are both film remakes.
For comprehension, maybe initially try movies that have OmU classification, which means they have sub-titles (U = Untertitel). It also depends on the movie. I am quite fluent in English, but there are some movies where I still miss things language-wise, just because it is either spoken so fast that I am not sure anyone can work it out, but I surely could not understand what was being said. Or there are scenes where the slang is still throwing me off. It is the same with rap music, which I often cannot understand. It is just not the type of English you can 'learn', and if you don't focus on specifically picking up this stuff, well, then you will be out of luck when it is used in a movie. Native-like language skills are something that may remain elusive all your life, even if you are completely fluent. So don't feel bad if you cannot understand a movie, if you are still at a B1 or B2 level, it is totally normal.
I lived in Germany from 1988-92 and I made the bottles experience too. That's all I remember from back then, because I only went to the cinema once or twice. I sincerely Anna severely dislike dubbing and back then OV wasn't a topic yet at all in the German cinema's that I could visit.
Virtually the entire rest of my life I spent in Belgium. Here only children's films are dubbed. All the rest is original language with subtitles. So much better!!!
The drink topic: definitely depends on the cinema here. The big cinema chains are quite American in style (as far as I can imagine) while the small, body ones aren't at all. In small cinema's it might even be that they pour out your drinks in real glasses.
The snack question: I don't like popcorn at all at. I'm a big fan of chips. Here in Belgium we've got a rather unique variety of chips that are very common and popular: pickles, or, as it is called in English: piccalilli, though our pickles are a little more sour.
The chips are quite spicy and just plain delicious.
Here the schedule also includes all commercials. Mind you, though, that it's kind of frowned upon if you come in later.
What film is better than the book?
All biblical films for certain.
But in a more interesting note: it's not an entire film, but I like the Pietro "Quicksilver" Maximoff rendition of the X-Men films better than the original one in the comics books.
There. I think I said all that I wanted to.
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Interview with the vampire. I liked the movie so I read the book and was so disappointed I actually threw it away - which I have never done before or after...
I think I would prefer kettle corn then, I do like a combination of sweet and sugary. Normally I would go for Nachos or M&M's, so. But when I was in Cape Town this year I was served popcorn there which was just salty, which is the preferred South African way. When I mentioned that you could get salty popcorn in Germany both in supermarkets and movie theaters they where pleasently shocked by this statement.
I think my favorite candy there is sweet popcorn 🙃
But of course I also love nachos 😋 but I know that's not a candy, it's a snack..
I really love to go to a movie theater and watch films there. It always have these amazing vibes during the movie. Sadly I don't get the chance to go there often, but when, I enjoy it so much.
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As an alternative to OV, there's also OmU (Original mit Untertitel = original version with german subtitles) if you want to watch the original version but still want to have german subtitles for better understanding. The reason why there are so many OV screenings btw is because we have a lot of people who prefer the original versions instead of a dubbed version because of several reasons (maybe cuz the dub sucks or the voices sound way differently).
I prefer salty popcorn and some kind of special flavor beer-mix drink like Radler or maybe a Desperados if they have it. But during Covid I outfitted my own cinema room at home, huge screen plus full surround sound plus bar. I've never been to a real cinema ever since 🤷🏻♂️
In terms of drinking containers, I've seen both but I generally prefer drinking from bottles. I just don't like plastic (or is it actually paper or sth?) cups and how unstable they feel.
I'm a bit shocked that only 20% are bilingual. In Germany you can't get your Abitur (degree) if you have only 1 language in school. Your native tongue, if you have a different ethnicity at home doesn't count. I checked it, and in Germany 20% of all children are raised bilingual. So the number for bilingual are estimated 60-70% are bilingual. So I wonder how many people in Germany speak more than 2,3,or 4 languages. I speak 3 languages on a pretty good level, German, English, Russian and am able to understand and speak a bit French. Enough to make holidays there in the past. And I had Spanish for 1 year at school too..
But don't you have a lot of Spanish speaking people in the US? I mean you probably have to learn a second language in higher schools too, don't you?
My cinema offers Chardonnay, so I go with that, or a "Radler" (a Sprite/Beer-Mix). Except if taking potato chips, then it'll be a Coke as well. And once in a while Popcorn (sweet) or "Langnese Eiskonfekt". Nuf said :o)
PS. being allowed to show blockbusters you've to show them over several weeks, something a tiny traditional "Kino" won't do for the reason that there are not enough people around to watch it (in rural areas). Therefore they are showing movies that aren't shown on @ multiplex/cinema centers until a blockbuster has served all 'early adopters' in a city and will end up in smaller towns/cinemas.
One of our cinemas is even showing "silent movies" once a year with a real piano player doing his job.
Beer doesn't count as alcohol, so there's no sale of alcohol in german theatres xD
I lived in 4 different states of Germany and was in movie theatres in about 6 different states and they don't really differ except of size and the selection of "OV-movies", depending on if you're in a big city like Berlin or a small one. E.G. in a theatre at a very small city nobody cares about movies in other language but in Berlin you really have to look out or you suddenly get into arabic, turkish or english movie xD It was much more easier during the occupation: you had german movie theatres and those only showed movies in french, english or russian and often you didn't even got access to those as a german - very easy 😅😅
Yes, it's not unusual to buy your drinks in glass bottles but the mentioned size of the cups aren't usually. In general you have a small drink: 250-333ml, medium: 500ml and big/large: 750-1000ml (sometimes aven 500-600 is already large) like at BK or McD.
Yes, you don't have to arrived before at least 15min after showtime. Nobody needs those ads ^^
About movie snacks, that isn't butter on American popcorn, it's PALM OIL colored & flavored like butter. What about Germany on that one?
Also, did you notice any healthy alternatives on offer at the snack counter in Germany? Not that I can suggest any. But, in countries like Germany with national health care, they are trying to steer people away from the bad stuff. In Europe, junk food isn't yet as pervasive as in the US. But, it's rapidly gaining popularity, as you've described. There is a worry that rising rates of obesity and diabetes could bankrupt any universal healthcare system.
This is an interesting and informative website. The description of the public use of alcohol in Germany and the US is a real eye opener (that they sell beer at the movies ANYWHERE, in the US, including Utah, or in Germany is a complete surprise). Good summary of a complex issue, without the usual judgments and emotional baggage.
I don't like Popcorn, so i usually just go for a bag of sweets or something like that. But since the ones in cinemas or usually very overpriced, I just smuggle in one I bought at a grocery store xD
I don't buy candy at movie theaters. They are overpriced. I prefer plain popcorn with no butter and no sugar. • • Random question: I rarely read novels. Therefore I can't compare a movie to a book.
This is true…is sneaking in candy in German theaters as popular to do as it is in the US because of that? 😅
Not just candy. Usually everything is overpriced.
The only movie I watched based on a book was Twillight and I think the book is meh... I didn't liked the book for reasons as like they needed 1 entire page to describe the opening scene where Bella stands at an airport in Las Vegas with a small cactus in her hands ... 1 freaking page for something that takes less than 2 minutes in the movie. I didn't liked how detailed the entire info in the first chapter was compared to what you see in the movie so I stoped reading the book and just kept watching the movies instead
I guess the only reason for iced soda pops is that the ice is (or originally was to be) cheaper than the soda pop. They just filled the cups up with cheap ice cubes to save money on the flavoured sirup. Maybe the price difference changed over time, but the "American taste" had gotten used to iced soda pops. The big advantage with 'watered down soda pops' is the lower input of calories. - just consider it as a "low carbon diet"😂. And regarding snacks and drinks: I HATE people making disguisting noises while watching movies, so I stopped watching movies at public cinemas years ago. People chatting, eating, slurping and scrolling through their social media accounts all time makes me cringe. But one of our local 'art' cinemas went to offer 'private shows': you bring your own movie or make a wish and book the whole place for you and your friends. So you have a wholly cinema experience plus a 'netflix-like' selection of movies and audience.👍
IT has to be sweet Popcorn and a Coke for the movie. at my favourite Cinema you can also get a big bucket Popcorn and a 1 Litre Soda. but better Checkout, before the movie Starts, the Location of the restrooms or it will be a very long movie.
you have to Checkout the Cinecitta in nuremberg Bavaria. It is a Cinema where the Auditoriums are located at the Underground and the quality of the technique is great. the cinemagnum Auditorium is roundabout 30 or 40 m under the ground. Always an exciting Event going to the Theaters there. the are 23 Auditoriums and IT IS the biggest multiplex Theater in Germany
For me one example of a movie that is better than the book its based on is the original "Blade Runner" from 1982. While the movie is a true masterpiece, the book " Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick is a somehow weird and tiresome read. At least I felt that way.
Oh, and lest I forget, my recently deceased mother wrote a book about the history of the cinema in this city, _Wiltrud Henningsen, Die Entstehung des Kinos in Münster Versuch einer Historiographie_ ... given that I have whole unsold boxes of that in the house, and I've seen it sold for 60€ or more (which I'm pretty certain is more than mom asked for it) ... my email is in my channel info; don't expect fast replies.
Fun fact: if you are disabled in Germany and have disabilitie license wich says that you need someone with you and you show it at the register were you buy the tickets only the person who comes with you has to pay for their ticket while you can go in for free ( I had that experience with my brother. For anyone who’s curious I have autism)
Popcorn sweet or mixed, coke zero and Nachos. Big sweet tooth!
You are next to a small cinema I guess^^
You are shocked about beer in the cinema? You should check the next swimming pool.. They sell their alcohol too. While I never expirienced any alcohol induced misbehavings in cinemas, it is another story for pools.
How can people think it is a good idea to comb swimming and alcohol?