well I am pretty sure I heard you say ojn the podcast a couple of weeks back that you don’t have to pay to see movies anymore?? so which is it?

;P

We already covered everything you brought up in your comment.

You said:

“You watching commericals before a film is paying part of your fee to see the movie.”

Ummmm… NO IT’S NOT. We already covered this in another post some time ago. When you do the math, the money they generate from stealing my time, equates to about .22 to .24 cents per actual ticket sold. $0.23 Do you REALLY think they’re reducing the ticket prices by $0.23? No they’re not. Also, they’re revenue from the advertising just went up by almost $90 million dollars. Did our ticket prices go down? NO THEY DIDN’T. The boxoffice broke records again last year… Ad revenue went up… and yet our ticket prices stayed the same.

Also, Commercials before movies is still a NEW thing. It hasn’t been around that long. The theater industry never used it until recent years. It was never a part of the ticket price.

Also, you said:

“If you cant see that your dumb, and blaming the wrong people. Maybe you should blame the studios for taking so much money of the cinemas to screen the film.”

No sir, you are “dumb” for not seeing this for what it is. What you just did is exactly like this:

“Didn’t you just complain that hard working auto workers don’t get paid enough? Then you’re not allowed to complain when one of them breaks into your house and steals your stuff! You’re blaming the wrong people! Blame the Auto industry, not the people who broke into your house!”

That is totally idiotic logic. When you advertise a 7pm start time, and I PAY YOU to get into that movie… then you owe me a movie at 7pm. When you show commercials at 7pm, YOU ARE STEALING MY TIME. Show commercials before 7pm, that’s fine… but when you show 20 mins of commercials at 7pm… the time you said the movie STARTS… then you are stealing from me. I PAID TO BE IN HERE.

You also said:

“if it bother you so much, and enter the screen 15-20mins after the films stated start time, stay in the bar for a drink!”

Oh yeah, that’s brilliant. Except the vast majority of theaters in North America don’t have pre-assigned seating. You show up 20 minutes after 7pm and you risk:

a) Not getting a seat
b) Getting a neck breaker seat
c) Not getting seats for you and your friends together

In theses theaters you pretty much have to show up on time. And why not… after all they said the movie starts at 7pm right?

You also said:

“If there wasnt advertising before films in cinemas expect to see your ticket prices to dramatically increase”

As I’ve already pointed out, you’re 100% wrong. Ad revenue was never a part of the equation before. When ad revenue came, ticket prices didn’t go down…. they’ve gone up by over 300% since that time. Ad revenue just went up by almost $90 million, and ticket prices didn’t go down.

You also said:

“I mean come on, cant you find somthing real to complain about.”

Maybe your time is worthless, but mine isn’t. I had to see about 80 films in theater last year. At an average of 20 minutes of commercials per movie, that’s over 26 hours of my time that theaters stole from me.

26 FUCKING HOURS that I had to sit through commercials AFTER the movie was supposed to start… 26 Hours of sitting in a seat that I PAID FOR to watch ads. Sorry, that’s something very very very REAL to complain about.

Hey, if you don’t see any of that as a problem, then more power to ya, but don’t be so myopic to call those of us who do see this as an issue “dumb”.

Of course, this means that if you chose NOT to get there ‘early’ (and therefore had to sit through all the ‘dreck’), you’d not necessarily get the seats you pine after. ‘First come, first served’.

Unless you go with a strident reservation system, can’t imagine many would be happy with this. And yet, I’m sensing that this reality…that a 7:00 show doesn’t actually start at 7:00…is actually the issue people are carping about.

You cant have it both ways.

Cinema’s make crap money of ticket sales, they make the return on food/beverages and advertising.
You watching commericals before a film is paying part of your fee to see the movie. If you cant see that your dumb, and blaming the wrong people. Maybe you should blame the studios for taking so much money of the cinemas to screen the film.

I couldnt care lesss about having to watch a few commericals before a flick, or you could just do what vaste ammounts of people do if it bother you so much, and enter the screen 15-20mins after the films stated start time, stay in the bar for a drink!

I mean come on, cant you find somthing real to complain about.
If there wasnt advertising before films in cinemas expect to see your ticket prices to dramatically increase, and also your snack prices.

Cinemas arnt a public service, they are there to make money.

Oh John ?

Youre not nearly as pissed as you should be.
Actually no one is.Yet.

I just hope the day comes before i turn 100 (i’m 42 )

And now were getting those nice Coke Zero commercials…WITH TALKING TONGUES…talking eyeball,i can take…BUT TALKING TONGUES !!!!!!

I’ll bet even the Jackass crew is ready to puke with this one.

Smelling salts needed now.

Then I go for a walk or talk with friends outside the theatre.

There is also no downside to this plan as the cinema issues you a seat number when you purchase a ticket.