Take my wife. To the movies.

Today I took the afternoon off and went to the cinema. The closest one is just on the other side of Princes St, about a half-hour walk away, and there are a few others 45 minutes' walk to the west.

British cinemas are about the same as American ones, and I wouldn't expect any different. Expensive popcorn, candies, and sodas. A solid 10 minutes of advertisements before the previews, mostly for cars or beer, and a lot of previews for things only tangentially related to the target audience. Though I didn't see any messages asking me to bin my litter after the show, just to set my mobile to silent.

The rating system is a little different though
Classification Scheme, for the interested
UK: Uc: especially for children under 5
U: 'universal'
PG: same
12A: children 12 and above; children under 12 must be accompanied by an adult; only seen at the cinema
12: same, but only for DVDs and videos; only children 12 or older may rent the film
15: only children 15 or older may watch (or rent). It doesn't say if parents can bring their 14 or younger kids in
18: only adults 18 and older may watch (or rent)

The same classifications are used for buying movies, or on video games.



Also we've seen a few movies in my Particle Physics course, which may or may not be of interest, but most are at least humorous in their own way.
The Quark Dance (no science here!)
Massey University (NZ) explains quarks humorous for the horrible cinematography
Okay there were others but I won't bother listing them. Definitely check out the quark dance.
Did you know that the last quark discovered was only seen in 1995? For real!