It’s sad that the public school system failed you so badly.

“Seriously? Commercials is about money (someone getting some)…piracy is about money (someone taking some)….

How is one worse than the other……really?”

I do not endorse or condone piracy – period. If you would kindly email me the IP of the person that posted I’d be very interested to track that down.

Thanks in advance.

The Arbitron poll said that moviegoers “don’t mind” the ads, but who’s to say whether they mind or not, or if they simply understand that this is to be expected when frequenting the theater?

These advertising tactics must be working for the industry, since they’ve increased their advertising revenue to $456 million, but I feel that at some point, moviegoers as a whole will “mind” when they’re forced to watch 20 minutes of commercials each time they go see a movie. I wouldn’t watch 20 minutes of commercials at home, why would I want to do it in the theater?

please tell me what components make up your home cinema – I want to watch movies on a huge screen at home :)

mostly since a lot of my favorites (Lawrence of Arabia, The Godfather, Nightmare on Elm Street, etc.) came out before I was born, so I never got a chance to see them in the theaters.

First off, whenever I go see a film I highly doubt I have ever spent more than 5 minutes watching commercials after the film has started. I honestly haven’t timed it, but I’m sure I’m being generous even with that amount.

I also find it funny that no one minds the trailers, after all they are just commercials for other movies – designed to do the exact same thing a commercial does right?

As I see it, the commercials are a subsidy in a way. Prices for movies haven’t gone up in my area in easily 5-6 years, while my movie rentals and cable bill both have. So I’ll happily sit through a few commercials with that in mind.

And lastly, monetizing your leisure time was, for me, a weak point in an otherwise great article. I mean really, do you expect them to give you a free pop to compensate your time because you drove all the way to the theatre?

You do always have the choice to enter the movie 5-15 minutes late. Now doing this on the opening night or week of a movie is something I would never do, but if I hated commercials that much it might be an option.

In effect they pay me $2.50 to sit through 10 minutes or so of advertising. Personally it doesn’t effect which theater I’d rather go to because I don’t mind paying more to miss those crappy ads, but on the other hand, spread that $2.50 discount over several people and it’s sometimes worth the torture.

Clever bringing the recession into the picture to justify pirating films from the Internet. The first problem with that is you probably did it before the recession and, assuming it ends, you’ll do it after. The second is that you are not entitled to the viewing of their product. There is no “right to entertainment” in the Constitution, so when you pirate their copyrighted material from the Internet all you’re doing is greedily breaking the law for your own purposes. Whether or not you agree with that law is another debate, what matters is that the recession has nothing to do with it. They aren’t stealing your time they are entertaining it by charging money and commercial time for the films they created.

You paid for your movie ticket. Then the whole industry is adding advertisements on top of that. You pay your $9 to sit there, and then a car company comes on and tries to sell you a car that is speeding on a public highway? Are you telling me people are okay with paying for a movie seat so that companies can try to brain wash them into buying something by any means necessary?

I am not okay with it. That is my time. I paid for it. Their job is to entertain me – period. For 120 minutes that is my chair and that is my brain.

IMHO.