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> That’s why movies (...) can clear a billion dollars, And yet somehow I still get 30 minutes of ads before a watching a goddamn movie in a cinema.
by bialpio 1mo ago
> That’s why movies (...) can clear a billion dollars,
And yet somehow I still get 30 minutes of ads before a watching a goddamn movie in a cinema.
- GlumWoodpecker 1mo agoTheatres need a piece of the pie too :^)
- bialpio 1mo agoI'm already buying their overpriced popcorn and soda!
- andsoitis 1mo agoJust take your seat 30mins later.
- bialpio 1mo agoJust tell me when the movie starts, not when the ads start.
- andsoitis 1mo agoby your account roughly 20-30mins in. You could also just sit there and read a book while you wait.
- BobBagwill 1mo agoThat's what I do! I wear a 10K lumen headlamp and read my elephant folio of Finnegan's Wake aloud, so everyone can enjoy it!
- Retric 1mo agoThere’s movie theaters that do that, Alimo is the chain near me which does.
- account42 1mo agoPersonally if I had experienced that I would just take my business elsewhere. Companies will keep pushing boundaries like this if the worst outcome from them is that for some customers they won't be able to extract the additional profit.
- tiznow 1mo agoPart of this is baked into the experience though, if "ads" here are trailers for upcoming films. I don't know if theaters are now showing ads for products, I haven't been in forever.
- bialpio 1mo agoI am willing to accept trailers but the split is closer to 25 minutes of random shit + 5 minutes trailers. Let's be generous and say that I'm misremembering & it's actually 20 + 10. That's still 20 minutes of ads that I'm paying to watch.
- Retric 1mo agoGo to a better movie theater and they don’t do that. Alamo Drafthouse movies have the old please keep quiet message, but if you show up 5 minutes late you’re missing part of the movie if they even let you in.
- bialpio 1mo agoThe closest Alamo to where I used to live in the USA is 2 states away. My choices were AMC, Regal, and Cinemark. And now that I moved, my choice is to either go to the only cinema around me (with ads), or try to fish something from the treacherous waters of the bay.