In other news, the sky is blue and water is wet.

Just felt the need to point that out to Andy, who seems a little…well, slow.

I actually thought that movie houses still didnt make enough money from candy and popcorn to keep the places running so the adverts was another way for them to make the money.

Because I was thinking, despite the candy being overpriced, its also a risky product to sell as not everyone buys it as they are educated enough to avoid paying the high prices and bring in their food with them or eat beforehand. If they are only making money off this alone I dont think they would be making the multi-million dollars necessary to keep the cinema running.

Then don’t see movies in the theater. Bootleg or buy on dvd or what it on tv or rent it. OR stomach all the advertising in the theater only for movies you really care about seeing. That’s what I do and what most people I know do. We see like 4-8 movies a year. The only people who would complain about this are the people who have an unhealthy obsession with “needing” to see EVERY movie opening weekend. I can see how that would be annoying for professional critic-types like John, but the rest of us shouldn’t really care. The only solution is to vote with your dollar, by withholding it.

1. it was a Saturday night
2. it WAS in IMAX
3. they only showed ONE preview (Beowulf)
4. the theatre was clean, the viewers were QUIET, and it was a great experience.

Suddenly the $14 didn’t seem too bad..

And as “I” already replied to you before:

“Because in North America (at least in most places) we don’t have pre-assigned seating, which means if you show up 5 minutes late, you run the risk of the show being sold out, or getting a neck breaker seat, or not getting enough seats together for you and your date or friends.”

The onus should not be on me to decide to either obediently sit like a good little sheep to watch commercials when the movie was supposed to start, or run the risk of missing part of the movie/not getting a seat/getting a horrible seat/not get enough seats together for me and my friends.

But if “you’re too stupid” to read what other people reply to your comments before repeating your comments, “well, sorry to hear that”.

box office is so front loaded now the theatres are missing out on the biggest piece of the pie…..

the studios take their biggest cut from the opening weekends and films don’t sit in theatres for months on end raking up coin anymore so the theatre owners have to do something.

sure they are not lowering their prices but i imagine they are not raising the prices as drastically as they would be without the commercials.

sure its a pain but things change.

you want to send them a message – stop going to theatres that play them.

it is not going to go away any time soon unless people actually make a stand but since hollywood just had its biggest summer ever i don’t think the general public give a shit so you might as well get used to them/

Sometimes they’ll test my patience with like ten trailers. I don’t want to wait 20-30 minutes for my movie to start. And I can’t stand it when they advertise adult films before a kiddie flick. I took my little girls to see Happy Feet last year and they advertised a Stephen King movie, I kid you not. Sorry, I’ll never take my kids to the theater again until they are much older.