Movies/Theater/TV in china

Well Theaters I have in idea of right now, I haven't asked but I am sure they are here. They are most likely expensive and of course will be in Chinese. Karaoke is very popular here, I was at a place called K-TV last night and was actually drunk enough to grab a mic and start singing. Karaoke seems dumb to me but the people here can't get enough of it. Most of these places have private rooms that you rent for a few hours. Movies on the other hand are available by several methods, there are theater's but often the movies have been dubbed in Chinese and relatively of course, they are kinda expensive. Keep in mind that China doesn't get movies at the same time the states does, if they get them at all. When they do get them they have often been heavily edited, and are often not worth seeing in the end. Probably the best way to get movies is to purchase them at shops, you can get a first run movie, usually uncut, of reasonable quality on DVD for about 1 or 2 yuan 12-24 cents American. If you ask me watching a movie in the privacy of your own apartment beats being in a Chinese movie theatre, kinda vulgar people occasionally and they love spitting, everywhere. One of the problems with this is it isn't exactly legal and often the government is pressured to put a stop to it, from what I understand the united states government of all things. Most of the movies being sold are American movies as the Chinese movies we get in the states have been available for legitimate purchase, sometimes for several years here. For example Jet Li's movie HERO was an old movie here by the time we got it. Now Chinese television may be the most interesting thing overall, especially if you have Cable here. They have these soap opera's that aren't really soap opera's as much as they are martial arts epochs about the Mongol hoards attacking China or something like that, very interesting. They have normal soap opera's to, these are centered more on comedy that the ones in the states. Chinese comedy is much like British comedy and really doesn't do anything for me, there is a local Wuhan channel that broadcasts all animated stuff, from Disney to Batman the animated series. I really like this channel, however I only see the same shows on it. There is BRAVO which is kinda like China's version of southpark, there is ultraman which is a Japanese show that they dub in Chinese, this is that power rangers style of animation with people in suits. The girls are cute and it's good for a laugh. And there is this very old 70's era Japanese anime that deals with these three woman (Also gorgeous in an animated 70's way) who lead other lives as secret agents. This is also dubbed in Chinese, believe it or not my Japanese is still better at this point and I could understand it a bit better if they left it alone, but the fact is the Chinese hate the Japanese and there is no way they are going to allow that to happen. You have to have some onions to even drive a Japanese car or motorcycle here, your going to catch some flak. Tom and I tend to watch a movie every night, but honestly China is beautiful enough at night to just go see on it's own. I have also been to my share of bars and clubs, last night I told a Chinese girl that she was very beautiful in Spanish and brought tears to her eyes. There is always allot of loud music, pretty women, free booze (Especially for a foreigner), Homosexual men (Generally you pick these guys out pretty fast, they dance better than the women and are always trying to touch you, just something you get used to and deal with), and Drugs (People do some serious drugs here and it's just best to steer clear). Many people choose to do things like this instead of going to movies, guys take their girlfriends to movies here to impress them within the first couple dates, so I am sure there are all kinda of things going on in a movie theatre here that I would rather not be around. Anyhow hope that answers the questions, and Holly, thanks.