Grand Cinemas E-ticket, Blood Diamond, The Departed
Grand Cinemas now has a online ticketing facility that allows you to book your movie tickets online, choose your own seats, print out your ticket, and present yourself at the entrance just minutes before the screening of your preferred movie.
E-tickets are currently only available for 2 venues in Dubai, namely the Grand Megaplex 21 at Ibn Battuta Mall and the Grand Mercato at the Mercato Mall. There is an ongoing promotion where for every e-ticket booking you make, you get AED5 back in the form of a sticker. Collect 6 stickers and you get to redeem a free ticket.
I booked myself for 2 movies, Blood Diamond and The Departed, both starring Leonardo DiCaprio. The good thing about online booking is that you get to choose what seats you want, and decide which movies to watch back to back, no queue and you don't have to reach the box office early to make sure that you get the better seats. What I didn't like about Grand Cinema's online booking system was that if you wanted to watch movies back to back, you need to complete your booking for 1 movie before making the next booking. And I didn't like the idea that I had to collect 6 stickers to enjoy the refund. You can't use the AED5 refund sticker as cash.
No spoilers here for either movies. I thoroughly enjoyed Blood Diamond. Moral of the story is: If you can, check the source of the diamond that you are buying. I also enjoyed The Departed although I had seen the Hong Kong version, Infernal Affairs, on which The Departed was based on. Infernal Affairs had 3 parts, so it would be interesting to see if Hollywood would pick up on the trilogy although if you had watched The Departed, and compared it to Infernal Affairs, you would know that the likelihood of this happening is extremely slim.
Seems like DiCaprio excels in roles where he plays the underdog, or the unlikely hero, like in Titanic and in The Aviator.
Try and catch these 2 movies if you can.
E-tickets are currently only available for 2 venues in Dubai, namely the Grand Megaplex 21 at Ibn Battuta Mall and the Grand Mercato at the Mercato Mall. There is an ongoing promotion where for every e-ticket booking you make, you get AED5 back in the form of a sticker. Collect 6 stickers and you get to redeem a free ticket.
I booked myself for 2 movies, Blood Diamond and The Departed, both starring Leonardo DiCaprio. The good thing about online booking is that you get to choose what seats you want, and decide which movies to watch back to back, no queue and you don't have to reach the box office early to make sure that you get the better seats. What I didn't like about Grand Cinema's online booking system was that if you wanted to watch movies back to back, you need to complete your booking for 1 movie before making the next booking. And I didn't like the idea that I had to collect 6 stickers to enjoy the refund. You can't use the AED5 refund sticker as cash.
No spoilers here for either movies. I thoroughly enjoyed Blood Diamond. Moral of the story is: If you can, check the source of the diamond that you are buying. I also enjoyed The Departed although I had seen the Hong Kong version, Infernal Affairs, on which The Departed was based on. Infernal Affairs had 3 parts, so it would be interesting to see if Hollywood would pick up on the trilogy although if you had watched The Departed, and compared it to Infernal Affairs, you would know that the likelihood of this happening is extremely slim.
Seems like DiCaprio excels in roles where he plays the underdog, or the unlikely hero, like in Titanic and in The Aviator.
Try and catch these 2 movies if you can.
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