• Schal330@lemmy.world
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    Kill the ads for sure, but go ahead and give me movie trailers before the start, but with some limitations in place:

    1. None of this “THE. TRAILER. STARTS. NOW” before the trailer starts
    2. The trailer must have a maximum length so it doesn’t go on too long
    3. The trailer shouldn’t give the entire plot away
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      None of this “THE. TRAILER. STARTS. NOW” before the trailer starts

      Trailers played in movie theaters do not include this. That is only used for online ads, because sometimes the trailer will play as a pre-roll ad and they don’t want people to skip it.

      The trailer shouldn’t give the entire plot away

      There’s a reason studios do this. They run focus groups for trailers, and studies have shown that the more plot they reveal, the more likely audiences will buy a ticket to see the movie.

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    With the Advent of reserved seating I don’t get why this is an issue anymore. Buy the seat you want, let the companies buying ads subsidize your ticket price, and show up after they’ve played. There’s no reason anymore to be stuck in your seat for 20 minutes before show time.

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      Because you dodn’t actually know when “showtime” is. I’ve never seen a ticket that listed the amount of time the commercials were going to take so I’d know when to be there. Ticket says 5:00, but actual movie didn’t start until 5:37.

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        Has arriving at the specified showtime not worked out for you? Usually that’s enough time for me to get there, use the washroom, get snacks, and sit down before the movie actually starts. But I don’t go to the theatre often or usually see movies when they first come out.

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          Not really TBH. Getting snacks only tastes like 2 minutes usually and nothing else is typically needed before the show. I don’t go to the theater much anymore as I’m pretty happy with my home setup now so take what I say with a huge grain of salt.

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    12 hours ago

    I’d be more concerned that there aren’t going to be any movie theaters left at this rate. The studios own all the streaming channels now — they’re going to cut out the middle man.

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        That’s not too different from renting a movie a few months later. Theaters have always been more fun to go to for a movie you actually care about.

        The problem I have with theaters is that the time and money sink is a terrible value these days. For my wife and I it’s always somehow shy of $70 and takes up most the night.

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          Holy shit. I live in a prominent city in the Midwest and tickets are only $11 to $12.

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            Just threw two tickets in for a local theater and it’s $38 for two tickets after the $6 convenience fee and taxes.

            $20 for snacks and drinks not including tax

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          The problem I have with theaters is that the time and money sink is a terrible value these days. For my wife and I it’s always somehow shy of $70 and takes up most the night.

          The money is bad, yes, but the deal breaker for me is…other movie-goers.

          For 90 minutes, modern movie-goers simply:

          • can’t keep their bright phones in their pockets
          • can’t stop talking to each other above an occasional whisper
          • can’t consistently keep their food and drink off other movie-goers
          • can’t level their infants or small children at home during non-family movies
          • can’t quietly not do any of the above when someone challenges them on it

          Paying for a movie is expensive, but when its regularly ruined by others in the theater it simply stops being worth trying to go anymore. I’ll watch it at home when it comes there.

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            This. Its like people have no sense of decorum anymore. There was a couple chit chatting through every other scene in a movie I watched a while back like they had the whole cinema to themselves. Super distracting.

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            9 hours ago

            I went to see Venom and there was a group of people in the row in front of me - almost 10 people, all adults. They brought a toddler that screamed any time a symbiote was on screen. Which was a lot.

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    I’m lucky enough to have a theater nearby where I can pre-purchase a particular seat. Once the seat’s bought, I just show up 25 min after the “start time” and skip the ads.