For the last two weeks the theater in Tesco Chaweng has had no English-language films showing. Are we living in Buriram? What is the deal here? This is high season. People want a break from beach life and the cinema is a good respite for a couple of hours. I realize that there are many Thais living on Samui, but certainly at this time of year there are many, many foreigners.

Today the Thursday change-over has us with five movies at Major Cineplex -- all Thai films. Not a breath of English.

Who is running the ship?

I can't imagine any tourist wanting to visit a cinema on Samui. Anyway they can watch DVD's of the latest movies in their hotel if they want to.

I can understand an expat gripe session though....

you would be surprise how many tourist do go to the cinema

but i would agree, why on earth are they not showing ' Blockbuster ' movies? , surly even the Thai's want to see the hollywood blockbusters,

this weeks new movies - http://www.imdb.com/nowplaying/

i would have at least thought they would show ' Little Fockers ' , as even the Thais would get the humor of this movie

i have heard that the owner of the cenima would like nothing better than to show thai films only ala hua hin. some time ago he did the same thing and my kids wanted to go to the movies so we went to a couple of thai flicks, after sitting through 2 of these brain dead, low humor films i banned my children from watching thai films unless they meet their mothers approval.

I live near the Major Cineplex- Ekamai. I have suspected that the (rich) Chinese owners of "Major" to be "anti-farang" as evidenced by their (subtley) not advertising the 60 baht discount rate on Wednesday nights anywhere in English. (Also, throughout Thailand and Thai society in general, those with some amount of "power"- political, financial,... encourage the masses to be "resistive" to farang "aliens," and the common-folk fall for it!