I have a new hero. Well, besides this guy.
That hero goes by the name of Jon Derevlany. He’s executive producer and writer of “Animal Jam” and who used to play my hero-of-days-gone-by: Crackers the Corporate Crime Fighting Chicken on Michael Moore’s “TV Nation”.
He was biting back about Studios griping about piracy, but then continues on about stealing his time. In today’s L.A. Times, he says this:
“Piracy is generally about the unauthorized taking or use of someone else’s property. I did not authorize anyone to show me these commercials. I did not authorize anyone to take my time and sell it to an advertiser. Nowhere in the theater that charges me $9.50 [Ed Note: or 13.50 where I live] for a ticket does it say my time and attention will be ‘pirated’ by these other corporate entities. I believe piracy works both ways…”
Yeah! You tell him cha-chi!.. Anyone wanna start a petition at www.petitiononline.com about this? That might be nice. Frankly, I’m sick of these commercials.. especially that movietickets.com commercial with the stupid family. While yer at it, read “Dude, Where’s My Country.” Like, whoa.
Man, great to see someone thinks the way I do. I am so sick and tired of those commercials. What tha heck is this? I say to myself. Then that stupid commercial comes on about movie piracy…as if that stunt guy doesn’t get paid because of piracy. I’m sitting there thinking..dang, I should start doing that to get away from these commercials!!! The nerve making me pay an arm and a leg to watch commercials! I’m leaning more and more toward piracy!! I love pirates….
I forgot!! Strong Bad is my hero too….but Homsar is far more cool (“I was raised by a cup of coffee!!”)
“Corporate” or not, I don’t care for the pre-movie runaround. (maybe trailers, just maybe) I don’t care if Coca-Cola, or the AdCouncil force me to sit through their crap. Personally, I hope no one tries to cram their politcals ads into the beginning of a movie a year from now…and if any of them try a flash-ad hijacking of my computer….
Either way, it’s nice to see that the public backlash is starting up. I’ve heard some people are calling up and asking the theathers when the actual movies starts, and telling them they are giving false advertising.
I totally agree.. I’m sick of those commercials. Very annoying.