TBS / TNT has broken me of the idea that movies used to only come on TV randomly one time, and then that was it.
Why am I seeing ads at the movie theater?
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I love going to the theater because it's one of the last few places on Earth where it's still a glaring faux pas to have your phone out. If you don't like the ads, just get to the movie later. Almost all of them have reserved seating now. Unless you've got the hots for Maria Menuous, just roll up 15 minutes after the movie time and you'll probably get 2 trailers and that weird AMC ad where you're on a roller coaster through the snack bar.
Zombie Jon Snow said:
How long since you've been to a movie??? There's been ads for a decade or more at most theaters. Or preshow "entertainment segments that are creative ads". And previews too.
I don't understand why people get to movies early any more at all. Reserved seating makes tolerating all of that a choice.
At best I arrive at the theater on time. Like when the movie "starts". And that's only if I intend to get snacks. More often we have drinks and snacks stashed in pockets and her purse.
We moved since, but a few years ago we lived less than 10 minutes from our closest theater. We would typically leave our house at the designated showtime and be in our seats before it started.
It doesn't matter when the last time I went to a movie was or how long this has been going on. Erroneous! Eorrenous in both accounts!
I'm pissed about it and as an old man I reserve my right to be pissed about stuff that has been happening for a decade but has only recently become an issue for me.
I don't ever remember it being as overt as what I saw yesterday. ****ing ad after ad of consumption bull***** Show me some local business that I'd be down for. Or go back to the trivia stuff. That was fun.
It's a horrible ****ing experience and while I saw 2-3 trailers I'd go back and watch, I'm really not feeling it now.
This **** sucks.
The fact that yall are saying "oh it's been that way for years…"
**** guys, I dunno what to say other than - you don't have to live this way. Did y'all fight back at all? All you movie nerds need to get with the other actual nerds and organize. Take this **** down immediately.
What about restaurants? How long before I need to listen to 2-3 ads before I can place an order.
Grocery store. Want to do self-checkout? Not so fast mother****er, you need to hear from this personal injury lawyer first.
**** it. Let's ad-support everything. Free money, amirite?
Wow. Just, wow.
lol he actually has a point. And I'm not being sarcastic.
I don't think I've ever seen someone so irrationally pissed after having to sit through, like, three minutes of commercials or whatever.
Fight back? Organize? What are you even talking about?
Personally, as long as I get a couple good trailers I could not care less what else I have sit through for a couple minutes, before what I actually paid for starts playing.
This is simply how most theaters have to help pay the bills now.
Seriously, if this is what sets you off to this degree you either have the shortest fuse possible or the easiest life imaginable. Either way, the rest of us were over this like 15 years ago.
What's next? A thread whining about sports franchises selling their stadium naming rights? Adidas having the gall to put their logo on our uniforms? Seething at the Zootopia 2 toy you found in your Happy Meal?
Fight back? Organize? What are you even talking about?
Personally, as long as I get a couple good trailers I could not care less what else I have sit through for a couple minutes, before what I actually paid for starts playing.
This is simply how most theaters have to help pay the bills now.
Seriously, if this is what sets you off to this degree you either have the shortest fuse possible or the easiest life imaginable. Either way, the rest of us were over this like 15 years ago.
What's next? A thread whining about sports franchises selling their stadium naming rights? Adidas having the gall to put their logo on our uniforms? Seething at the Zootopia 2 toy you found in your Happy Meal?
AggieArchitect04 said:Zombie Jon Snow said:
How long since you've been to a movie??? There's been ads for a decade or more at most theaters. Or preshow "entertainment segments that are creative ads". And previews too.
I don't understand why people get to movies early any more at all. Reserved seating makes tolerating all of that a choice.
At best I arrive at the theater on time. Like when the movie "starts". And that's only if I intend to get snacks. More often we have drinks and snacks stashed in pockets and her purse.
We moved since, but a few years ago we lived less than 10 minutes from our closest theater. We would typically leave our house at the designated showtime and be in our seats before it started.
It doesn't matter when the last time I went to a movie was or how long this has been going on. Erroneous! Eorrenous in both accounts!
I'm pissed about it and as an old man I reserve my right to be pissed about stuff that has been happening for a decade but has only recently become an issue for me.
I don't ever remember it being as overt as what I saw yesterday. ****ing ad after ad of consumption bull***** Show me some local business that I'd be down for. Or go back to the trivia stuff. That was fun.
It's a horrible ****ing experience and while I saw 2-3 trailers I'd go back and watch, I'm really not feeling it now.
This **** sucks.
The fact that yall are saying "oh it's been that way for years…"
**** guys, I dunno what to say other than - you don't have to live this way. Did y'all fight back at all? All you movie nerds need to get with the other actual nerds and organize. Take this **** down immediately.
What about restaurants? How long before I need to listen to 2-3 ads before I can place an order.
Grocery store. Want to do self-checkout? Not so fast mother****er, you need to hear from this personal injury lawyer first.
**** it. Let's ad-support everything. Free money, amirite?
AggieArchitect04 said:Zombie Jon Snow said:
How long since you've been to a movie??? There's been ads for a decade or more at most theaters. Or preshow "entertainment segments that are creative ads". And previews too.
I don't understand why people get to movies early any more at all. Reserved seating makes tolerating all of that a choice.
At best I arrive at the theater on time. Like when the movie "starts". And that's only if I intend to get snacks. More often we have drinks and snacks stashed in pockets and her purse.
We moved since, but a few years ago we lived less than 10 minutes from our closest theater. We would typically leave our house at the designated showtime and be in our seats before it started.
I'm pissed about it and as an old man I reserve my right to be pissed about stuff that has been happening for a decade but has only recently become an issue for me.
**** guys, I dunno what to say other than - you don't have to live this way. Did y'all fight back at all? All you movie nerds need to get with the other actual nerds and organize. Take this **** down immediately.
Fight back???? How so? Please explain. You really only have 2 (or 3) options.
You can (1) go or (2) NOT GO.
But more to the point if you are willingly sitting there through all the ads that's ON YOU. Why are you there 20 minutes before showtime? Your seat is reserved. It is not 1990 any more you don't have to get there 2 hours before to get your ticket and get a good seat by going in when they open the theater.
But if you do go then show up AFTER the stated start time and you never have this problem.
You also can (3) STAY HOME and wait to stream it. But there might be ads so I'm not sure you can handle it.
You say fight it bu It sounds like you are just complaining because you are not actually fighting it in any way. You are letting it happen to you.
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you need to hear from this personal injury lawyer first.
This kind of advertising does in fact happen in grocery stores, but maybe you just missed it since you're not in a captive audience position. These ads are found on the little plastic kids seat on the grocery baskets you push around the store. Maybe not all grocery stores but enough that I've noticed.
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A thread whining about sports franchises selling their stadium naming rights?
Let someone suggest this for Kyle Field and I predict you'll see a long thread about it on TA. Heck, I'll probably be excoriated for the mere suggestion that this could happen to Kyle.
Cinco Ranch Aggie said:Quote:
A thread whining about sports franchises selling their stadium naming rights?
Let someone suggest this for Kyle Field and I predict you'll see a long thread about it on TA. Heck, I'll probably be excoriated for the mere suggestion that this could happen to Kyle.
Only two possibilities are acceptable.
Buccee's Stadium at Kyle Field!!!!!
or
Shiner Bock Stadium at Kyle Field
Is this a real complaint? Show up to the theater later than you would have years ago and you don't need to see a single ad. As others have said you now have a choice on if you want to see ads or not. Since seats are now reserved there is no incentive to get to the theater early. I realized everyone else had figured this out when we arrived to opening day of F1 on time and the theater was almost totally empty. Over the course of the next 20 minutes while ads and previews played, the whole theater filled up.
Sometimes the ads get interspersed with the trailers. That I don't like. If they're just before the trailers start, it's not a big deal to me.
Wait until they figure out the airline model...commercials, higher prices for "premium" seats, 16" wide seats, minimize the turn time, cleaners starting down the aisle before the credits roll, etc...
HalifaxAg said:
Wait until they figure out the airline model...commercials, higher prices for "premium" seats, 16" wide seats, minimize the turn time, cleaners starting down the aisle before the credits roll, etc...
That's already in the works. Not different sized seats, but seats with better views are reserved for their Stubs members.
https://www.ign.com/articles/amc-theatres-will-reserve-its-best-seats-for-a-list-and-stubs-premiere-members-starting-later-this-year
FL_Ag1998 said:HalifaxAg said:
Wait until they figure out the airline model...commercials, higher prices for "premium" seats, 16" wide seats, minimize the turn time, cleaners starting down the aisle before the credits roll, etc...
That's already in the works. Not different sized seats, but seats with better views are reserved for their Stubs members.
https://www.ign.com/articles/amc-theatres-will-reserve-its-best-seats-for-a-list-and-stubs-premiere-members-starting-later-this-year
and reason #1,001 to stream at home, let them cut their own throats
HalifaxAg said:FL_Ag1998 said:HalifaxAg said:
Wait until they figure out the airline model...commercials, higher prices for "premium" seats, 16" wide seats, minimize the turn time, cleaners starting down the aisle before the credits roll, etc...
That's already in the works. Not different sized seats, but seats with better views are reserved for their Stubs members.
https://www.ign.com/articles/amc-theatres-will-reserve-its-best-seats-for-a-list-and-stubs-premiere-members-starting-later-this-year
and reason #1,001 to stream at home, let them cut their own throats
Its a chicken and egg scenario at this point. Less patrons = less revenue = rising prices and alternative revenue streams = less patrons = and on and on.
FL_Ag1998 said:HalifaxAg said:FL_Ag1998 said:HalifaxAg said:
Wait until they figure out the airline model...commercials, higher prices for "premium" seats, 16" wide seats, minimize the turn time, cleaners starting down the aisle before the credits roll, etc...
That's already in the works. Not different sized seats, but seats with better views are reserved for their Stubs members.
https://www.ign.com/articles/amc-theatres-will-reserve-its-best-seats-for-a-list-and-stubs-premiere-members-starting-later-this-year
and reason #1,001 to stream at home, let them cut their own throats
Its a chicken and egg scenario at this point. Less patrons = less revenue = rising prices and alternative revenue streams = less patrons = and on and on.
I agree...it's the flashpoint for an innovation, but Hollywood doesn't have a collective creative braincell among them all.
Ads at movies stink but nothing is more aggravating than an ad that disrupts my video. Stop interrupting my brain rot.
FL_Ag1998 said:HalifaxAg said:FL_Ag1998 said:HalifaxAg said:
Wait until they figure out the airline model...commercials, higher prices for "premium" seats, 16" wide seats, minimize the turn time, cleaners starting down the aisle before the credits roll, etc...
That's already in the works. Not different sized seats, but seats with better views are reserved for their Stubs members.
https://www.ign.com/articles/amc-theatres-will-reserve-its-best-seats-for-a-list-and-stubs-premiere-members-starting-later-this-year
and reason #1,001 to stream at home, let them cut their own throats
It's a chicken and egg scenario at this point. Less patrons = less revenue = rising prices and alternative revenue streams = less patrons = and on and on.
I think you mean vicious cycle
I'll give you some fun advice.
Don't get divorced.
In 2026, we can all google "x movie running time", tack on +25 mins, and be good to go.
Last week, I had the kids at an AMC, there was no Maria Menounos or Nicole Kidman to be found and we're running 10 mins after show time.
To which the actual response was "oh fk".
Don't get divorced.
In 2026, we can all google "x movie running time", tack on +25 mins, and be good to go.
Last week, I had the kids at an AMC, there was no Maria Menounos or Nicole Kidman to be found and we're running 10 mins after show time.
To which the actual response was "oh fk".
I already got divorced and it made life much better.
Had I paid my attorney his retainer and then he made me watch a few ads each time before he would file a motion then I would be pissed in the same way as I am with the movie theater but moreso. Same principle. I paid for a good/service. Now you're taking advantage and profiting from someone else BECAUSE I paid to be the butt in the seat to watch it.
I don't know anyone who likes being solicited unprompted.
If I am paying for something I do not want to be solicited. That's the takeaway. It used to be a pretty understood and agreeable social contract.
I get that my post is over the top, but we have given up way too much in terms of being consumers.
Had I paid my attorney his retainer and then he made me watch a few ads each time before he would file a motion then I would be pissed in the same way as I am with the movie theater but moreso. Same principle. I paid for a good/service. Now you're taking advantage and profiting from someone else BECAUSE I paid to be the butt in the seat to watch it.
I don't know anyone who likes being solicited unprompted.
If I am paying for something I do not want to be solicited. That's the takeaway. It used to be a pretty understood and agreeable social contract.
I get that my post is over the top, but we have given up way too much in terms of being consumers.
TCTTS said:
This is simply how most theaters have to help pay the bills now.
That's a bull****, lazy excuse for unimaginative jackasses.
They can get creative or figure out a way to draw in more people, reduce overhead, etc.
All they've done is sat in a room some lazy **** said, "how about ad revenue?" And then idiots sit there and say, "oh gee, well sure I guess I can sit through a bunch of random marketing **** for 10-20 minutes."
The movie theaters' business problems are just that: their problems. You might think it's okay for them to shove a lazy solution (THAT ISNT EVEN SUSTAINABLE) down the throat of their customers, but I don't.
I love going to the movies. Now I'm questioning that.
If I was losing viewership/attendance at my business I would be looking for new and inventive ways to attract people. I sure as hell would be careful about alienating the people that are going in the first place.
No need to be an ******* about it.
too late
it's comedy gold though. should be in the TA HOF for epically stupid rants.
it's comedy gold though. should be in the TA HOF for epically stupid rants.
Feel free to list every time your architecture firm passed up a chance for easy revenue.
superunknown said:
Feel free to list every time your architecture firm passed up a chance for easy revenue.
No one spends/wastes someone else's money like an architect.
Ads have been there for awhile, but they seem to have increased substantially recently and were before the posted movie time. Now, there is 15 minutes of ads after the official movie start time and they are total kick in the arse. The last movie I saw was 28 Years Later and the same Amazon ad with LeBron played 3 times.
superunknown said:
Feel free to list every time your architecture firm passed up a chance for easy revenue.
I'll do that but you have to go watch 4 YouTube ads first.
Am I doing it right? That's the way it works, isn't it?
AggieArchitect04 said:superunknown said:
Feel free to list every time your architecture firm passed up a chance for easy revenue.
I'll do that but you have to go watch 4 YouTube ads first.
Am I doing it right? That's the way it works, isn't it?
You haven't addressed the fact that you can show up later if you want and skip the ads.
FL_Ag1998 said:AggieArchitect04 said:superunknown said:
Feel free to list every time your architecture firm passed up a chance for easy revenue.
I'll do that but you have to go watch 4 YouTube ads first.
Am I doing it right? That's the way it works, isn't it?
You haven't addressed the fact that you can show up later if you want and skip the ads.
"BUT BUT.... I shouldn't have to!!!!!!"
"AGGGGGHHHHHH" - to the clouds
He also hasn't addressed his mantra that we all "should fight this".
How exactly?
You can go or not go those are your options. And if you go you can go early and suffer or go late like everyone else and this thread becomes moot.
How exactly?
You can go or not go those are your options. And if you go you can go early and suffer or go late like everyone else and this thread becomes moot.
I've already a GoFundMe so he can stay in a mobile sensory deprivation tank until the exact second that each movie starts.
Haven't been to a theater in 6 years. There's literally nothing to miss. The theater "spectacle" is nonsense. What are you going to do, bounce your grandkids on your knee in 30 years and tell them about your amazing lived experience of hearing surround sound and seeing giant battle scenes while other larpers in the crowd cheer? Nobody cares. When SHTF in life, you won't either. But congrats on spending all that money.
The senior citizen community needs to limit some of you guys' time online and get you out playing pickle ball or doing jazzercise, so damn bitter about things.
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