There’s gotta be a law against this. On opening night of Tomb Raider, we had to sit through “The 20” and then another 5 to 10 minutes of commercials. Movie profits are down this year, they say it’s because of the glut of big movies, I say it’s because people don’t want to have to pay to watch commercials for a half hour. The listed time for the movie was 7:10, the movie didn’t actually start until 7:35. Ugh.
My Seabiscut showing started 20 minutes after it was supposed to, but it was mainly for trailers. I don’t mind trailers. Hell, I love them. Well, I used to, before I started despising the way Hollywood cuts trailers. No more mystery anymore, they give away the entire fuckin’ movie in the trailer. Best trailer I can remember seeing in the last decade was the first Saving Private Ryan trailer. Just a voiceover, some grainy black & white photos, and it had you just beggin’ for more.
The Episode One trailers were better than the movie. I know they might seem bad in retrospect, but Lucas actually did a nice job with those things.
Also, that commercial with the jeans and that guy taming the car has to go. If I’m going to pay 8 bucks for commercials I should at least get new ones on a regular basis.
It’s perfectly legal. The way I deal with it is showing up late. :D
It’s perfectly legal. The way I deal with it is showing up late. :D[/quote]
Depending where you are that usually means you’re going to sit in the front row :?
It’s legal, but annoying. And I agree that this, along with high ticket prices and the ever high concession prices, may be turning people off going to theaters.
I do like trailers, though.
There’s a guy thats sued because of these. His basis is that the movie times listed are false since you have to sit through so much before the movie actually starts. False advertising I guess. Dunno if its still going or not.
I don’t mind trailers(except when they show like 7 before the start), but I hate the commercials. I got so sick of the Brittney Spears Pepsi one.
I’ve got no problem with trailers at all, but the regular adverts are getting more and more obnoxious. The same ones, every time, usually about cars and deoderant.
The really annoying ones at the moment though are all the copyright warnings ordering everyone to hand in their cameras and camcorders, not even consider watching the movie because then you can make a timeshifted copy in your brain, and other warnings that basically put the words “YOU ARE A THIEF!” onto the silver screen. When I went to see Matrix Reloaded, they specifically asked at the gate if anyone was carrying a camera, and then went through the audience checking everybody in a full theatre individually. Madness.
And I’m guessing everyone with a camera said yes and handed it over? Do they believe people that don’t think twice about taking a camera into a theater are totally against lying?
At least at the theater I go to in Bellevue, they only show “The 20” (which is the gayest thing ever btw) during the time before the official start time (the time in the old days where we got to listen to Elevator Music), so that’s not quite so annoying. I love previews, but I could deffinately do without the “Buy overprice food from us!” and the other crap commercials they show.
I think someone mentioned that in the UK there’s about 20 minutes of commercials other crap before every movie - people just don’t show up until 20 minutes after the start time of the movie to conteract this.
Do as I do, make fun of it, and loud :)
Creates a great mood in the theater :wink:
Oh you’re that annoying person that doesn’t shut up? DAMN YOU! :twisted:
I don’t make a sound once the movie has started, never. Or just to shut the up the loud guy in the back row speaking to his girlfriend while the plot thickens :evil:
I’m in the trailers = good, commercials = bad crowd.
It can go a bit overboard however, 20 minutes of previews tends to wear on you to the point that the last few aren’t very memorable.
I don’t have a problem with the commercial that the theatre makes to advertise itself. The chorus line of dancing hot dogs, coke and red hots is an american tradition. :)
“Let’s go out to the looobby”
“Let’s go out to the looobby”
“Let’s go out to the looooooobby”
“and get ourselves a snack!”
I don’t make a sound once the movie has started, never. Or just to shut the up the loud guy in the back row speaking to his girlfriend while the plot thickens :evil:[/quote]
i thought it was okay to talk shit during the commercials, but i was told to STFU by a clerk before the movie even started :shock: when i went to see pirates of the caribbean. i think thats the first time a clerk’s ever told me to be quiet at any movie.
Yes, in fact that nice Captain Bluejack (insurance salesman from Surrey, but fascinating guy…) led the entire room in a chorus of Kum Bas Tards in honour of the MPAA. I think that’s what he was singing, anyway.
I don’t have a problem with the commercial that the theatre makes to advertise itself. The chorus line of dancing hot dogs, coke and red hots is an american tradition.
“Let’s go out to the looobby”
“Let’s go out to the looobby”
“Let’s go out to the looooooobby”
“and get ourselves a snack!”
You can keep it ;-)
Although, that said, the Odeon over here still insists on having an Intermission after the adverts but before the movie starts. Idiots. Nobody ever, ever goes, because they know they’ll miss the start of the movie.
Wasn’t there some lawsuits somewhere about this? I recall reading about a women who sued since the advertised start time was actually later due to the 20 minutes of commercials and trailers. No idea what the outcome of the suit was though.
It’s not so bad that I have to watch a few commercials before a movie. It’s just that they suck. All of them. Consistently. The ones on T.V. are 10 times better. If I have to watch that lameass jobsearch.com or Pepsi teen commercial one more time, I swear I’m gonna lose it.
But I like preview trailers. I look forward to those.[/list]
I wouldn’t mind the commercials if they were using that added revenue to lower ticket prices. But they’re not. In the few years since Regal bought Act III around here matinee prices have doubles, evening shows are $3.00 more, they closed the two second run theaters and went from innoucuous slides between shows to obnoxious, sucky commercials which they play until they lower the lights and start playing different commercials. Also they stopped serving Dr. Pepper, which is the worst thing of all!