27 minutes of previews

[PackBacker]

So I just got back from a 8pm showing of Transformers. So we've got a roughly 2.5 hour film....and they decide to put TWENTY SEVEN minutes of commercials and trailers in front of it. TWENTY SEVEN FUCKING MINUTES.

We've gone over the ridiculousness of commercials even being in theaters before so I'm not going to rehash that. I find it incredible, though, that with a long film they tack on 20% of the runtime in filler crap. I guess we could have gone to the lobby a half dozen times, shown up 30 minutes late, taken a huge dump, or simply wasted TWENTY SEVEN minutes of my life. I've promised now to not buy Coke, whatever cell phone that was, join the National Guard, watch the two TV shows advertised, or see the 8 movies we saw the trailers for.

TWENTY SEVEN minutes...someone should be smacked.

[teenkiller]

Damn! I didn't know Transformers was two and a half hours long. I agree with you though. A half hours worth of advertisements is overkill. Fifteen minutes and then let's move on to the feature please. Well thats all for now GOoD JOURNEY my fellow schmoes.

[Brando @$$ Fat]

Man, if you lived in South Carolina you'd die before the previews ended. When I went to see one movie last year we had 40 minutes of commercials. Our theaters are like that for some reason.

[Tagia_Romero]

Originally posted by PackBacker


TWENTY SEVEN minutes...someone should be smacked.

Damn, that is a tragic waste of time, utterly disappointing. :mad:

[ilovemovies]

Well, I'm a previews guy. As long as it's movie trailers that would be fine by me. I love watching trailers.

[sezperai]

i have actually been to crappy movies before JUST for the trailers haha

but that commercial shit (coca cola, cell phones etc) is bullshit


NO COMMERCIALS IN THE DAMN THEATER!!!



they use the excuse that the actual theater is not making enough money because of a decrease in theater patrons for putting those commercials in and they blame everything from ripped movies on the net to dvd's coming out too soon for a decrease in people going to the movies.....

i guess maybe the CRAP that hollywood is making now and the 50 dollars you have to spend to get a popcorn, coke and skittles have nothing to do with it.


bah
jasn

[Moviefan1234]

Originally posted by ilovemovies
Well, I'm a previews guy. As long as it's movie trailers that would be fine by me. I love watching trailers.

Ditto that man. I love watching previews. Fortunately for me, my theatre does not play commericals before the movie it jumps right to the previews.

[Cronos]

i think the most i've had to sit through is probably 20 minutes, only half of which were probably trailers. i don't mind sitting through movie trailers when i go to the cinema, but i cannot stand watching commercials

[teenkiller]

Originally posted by sezperai
[B]i have actually been to crappy movies before JUST for the trailers haha
B]

Now that you mention it I once bought a ticket for a Matrix movie JUST to see the preview for FREDDY vs JASON. When the preview was over I walked out and got a refund. I still have never seen a Matrix movie. Well thats all for now GOoD JOURNEY my fellow schmoes.

[Derek237]

I've stopped watching previews online so I actually look foward to the slew of previews that await me when I go to the theatre. Sometimes I'll get so excited for a movie that I'll forget what movie I'm actually seeing, and I'll end up being dissapointed and want to see the other movie. All in all, I enjoy seeing as many previews as possible. A friend of mine who I see movies with a lot always has this routine with me: once the preview is over we turn to each other and either shake or nod our heads if we want to see it. It's fun. *shrugs*

I don't like the commercials though. I've only enjoyed a very select few out of countless years of movie-going. Currently they play that Grand Theft Auto-esque Coca Cola commercial, which I love, and it's probably one of my favourite ads I've ever seen, so I look forward to seeing it anyway.

But the way I see it, you come in, maybe a little early, you sit and view the little slideshow, chat it up a bit with whoever you're seeing the movie with, then once those previews start, it's kind of like the overture for the main event. It's part of the movie going experience.

[The Postmaster General]

The trailers don't bug me. What bugs me is ads for Coke and other things they sell right at the concession stand.

WHY THE FUCK DO I NEED TO KNOW COKE IS GREAT WHEN IT"S THE ONLY FUCKING OPTION I HAVE?

[Tweek]

"Hey Dad has the movie started yet?!"

That episode of The Simpsons rang true with me... The one where homer freaks out at the movie theater because of all the previews.

[bigred760]

I do hate the commercials before the movie (that is those that run after the time the movie's scheduled to start). But I love the previews; I hate missing them. For me, they add to the movie going experience.

[CyclicNightmare]

But hey, if you get there early, you can watch 20 minutes of commercials before your show starts.

[spiderfan11]

I only have a problem when there are regular commercials in front of a movie (i.e., pepsi and what not) I love regular movies previews.

[therealjohng]

I like lots of previews.

[echo_bravo]

Originally posted by therealjohng
I like lots of previews.

Me too. I dont mind a ton of previews, the more the merrier.

I am all for fewer commericals though. :mad:

[PackBacker]

The question is at what point do you draw the line? Adding basically a half hour to a 2.5 hour movie seems excessive to me. Forty five minutes, an hour, three hours, where does it end? I'm all for the movie going experience but I don't want to spend my life in that theater...especially with fifteen minutes of commericals blaring at me.

[EZM22]

27 minutes is way too much, but at least you get movie previews... over here we have to sit through a cheap and melodramatic commercial denouncing movie piracy which is so corny and stupid you can hear groans coming from all the seats.

[travisvornoff]

wow that would make in vomit in anger.
that whole thing needs to stop. im sick of sitting thru a extra 20-30 min before the feature starts.

[Digifruitella]

Originally posted by ilovemovies
Well, I'm a previews guy. As long as it's movie trailers that would be fine by me. I love watching trailers.

+1

[Shockwave]

..one more reason i rarely go to the movies anymore.

At least the commercials seem to have toned down abit. I was about to swear off theatres forever if that shit kept up.:mad:

[Tayzlor]

I don't have to worry about it because there's a deluxo, high class, nonchain movie theatre in the area that's not desperate enough to tack on all that shit. The difference was staggering when I went to another theatre, apart of a chain, and had to endure at least twenty minutes.

Don't these theatres rely on their concessions for their profit? If things are slow all-around they could probably recoup it all selling screen space. Maybe you can call ahead and request the total time of all preshow filler? Has anyone tried that?

[APzombie]

I've always liked previews. Though like many i hate commercials at the theater.

[LordSimen]

Originally posted by APzombie
I've always liked previews. Though like many i hate commercials at the theater.

Pretty much sums up my view. I don't mind 27 minutes of trailers and movie previews, but I dislike coke adds and car adds infront of movies.

[Tayzlor]

I don't understand all this trailer love; you could easily play the trailers at your house, with image-manipulating capabilites. I dunno about you guys but I like to rewind and visibly leer complete with grunts at the pretty women paraded around in trailers (to subtly sway the male's mind, or to salve their eventual inevitable visit to some romcom w/ the girlfriend), and I'm incapable to do this at the theatre because I'd like receive sideways glances and people would snicker at me.


Although...if not for force seeing the "Blood Diamond" trailer several times I wouldn't have been able to write it off once DiCaprio's accent ruptured time and space.

[PackBacker]

So I've found the solution to my problem. I now drive twenty minutes out of my way to a theater that shows no commercials. Yesterday I got 3-4 trailers (perfect amount in my opinion) and then boom to the main feature.

Of course with the twenty minute drive I'm basically in the same boat, but fuck em.

[trodge]

I hate when they show Coke commercials and the theatre only serves Pepsi products...uhhh, Helloooooo...