The Hydra Open Air Cinema is in the UAE for the first time this year. Swiss Open Air has been doing outside cinema events all around the world for twenty years but this year they have partnered with Hydra Properties to host a huge 12 day event to correlate with all the National Day and Eid celebrations. It was in Dubai at he end of November and then came to Abu Dhabi from Dec. 1st through the 12th. On a 4,000 square foot screen with a 32 surround sound speaker system it turns any movie into quite the event! It opened with James Bond and has all sorts of choices from family flicks, Bollywood, to the world premiere of 'The Day the Earth Stood Still". We saw "Bolt" on Dec. 5th, quite cute although I thought the hamster stole the show! And Barry went with a few guys on the 7th and saw "Gingus Khan", I passed on that one.
The tent to the right is the entrance area to the Open Air Cinema, held on the grounds of the Emirates Palace Hotel.
Walking around to the entrance.
We watched this Helicopter take off after several Sheikhs piled in while we were walking the grounds waiting for the cinema entrance to open.
A view back towards the Emirates Palace from inside the grounds of the Cinema. You can see where the word 'Hydra" is how the screen was folded completely down. When the sunset because it was family night we were surprised with a ten minute firework show. Who would have thought there were any left in the country after National Day! Then the laser show began as the screen folded upward, it took about 5 minutes. Way cool!
The beginning of the laser show, smoke machines and all!
The screen almost completely open! And that's when the rechargeable batteries in my new camera went kaput! Oh well! I think you've got the idea. And no cameras once the film began, so we sat back at enjoyed the show!!!!
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