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As much as I love seeing movie trailers, I think things are getting a bit out of hand in theatres these days.

I went to see Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy yesterday. I loved it, but that's not what this topic is really about. The movie was scheduled to start at 2:20 and the movie actually started at 3:00 ... I think I'm getting rather irked here. I paid them to watch the movie, they advertised the movie's start at 2:20, and yet the opening credits rolled across the screen at 3:00. I, and the rest of the audience, sat through forty minutes of commercials, teasers, trailers, previews, and whatnot.

Now, I'm not saying I hate trailers. I love trailers. I love seeing what's coming out. I enjoy some of the more creative ways of getting the gist of a movie across without giving away the plot. But damn, even thirty minutes is asking too much.

Fifteen, sure, that's a reasonable number. I can forgive fifteen or so minutes of commericials, that gives the tardy folks time to get in the theatre, find their seats, and not interrupt the movie for the people who were there on time.

Now, if movie theatres charged, say, half the matinee rate, to sit in a room and watch an hour's worth of previews... HELL. I'd do that! Like I said, I love trailers. I think it'd totally rock to be able to sit through a loop of all of the current trailers, it'd be a great way to pass time.

I'd *so* arrive early to my movie and go sit in the Trailer Room, and they could flash an announcement between trailers, "The Time o'clock showing of Movienamehere will be starting in approx. 5 minutes" so viewers wouldn't miss their movie. Optionally, if your group split up to see different movies, and one movie let out half an hour before the other, well, there you go, fewer people waiting in the lobby between movies for the rest of their group.

That'd just be too cool. Movies would start at their advertised times. They could probably even sqeeze in a whole extra showing of each movie per day, because they'd only have to allow time for cleaning, and for people to get into/out of seats and the like, and not for over half an hour of commercials before each movie actually starts

Anyhow, anything I said here is open season for conversational tangents. Topic evolution is fun. I think it's kinda funny though, that I hate being a captive audience, but if given the choice, I'd watch what I'm being forced to watch anyways... xp

I have yet to run into this problem, maybe my neck of the woods is magically exempt. The longest I believe I've ever seen it run was 20 minutes, but I usually try to arrive on the dot so I can get in and not feel like I've been sitting there forever. I'm not picky about where I sit, generally. As long as I can see the screen fine without looking over someone or hurting my neck.

What I hate are the theater adverts in the theater. I'm not even talking about "Lets go to the lobby" kind either. Ones that advertise for the theater you're already IN. That time could be much better spent, oh, not advertising where I already am. If I like the place, I'll come back. If I don't, a cg trailer for your place isn't going to swing my opinion.

I'm really fond of how they generally select advertisements in theaters though. I mean, if I see something like Kung Fu Hustle obviously seeing a trailer for the Matrix Online doesn't seem too far fetched. They generally only advertise the movies I would naturally be interested in anyway. I'm just glad I don't have to sit through 3 minutes of Charlie's Angels 3 if I'm waiting to see something completely different.

That trailer theater sounds pretty nice though.

The hardcover edition is actually 6 books.

The movie is only based on the first.

Bilious: your viewing experience was assraped by Regal, too? crying We seem to have gotten the exact same set of previews and everything. I was cracking up by the end of the Love Bug trailer because of how badly they'd set up all the pre-movie stuff, which worried Cole for a minute because he'd thought I was amused by the trailer itself. No, no, that's a stinkbomb of a trailer, thanks...

Geez, every time I go see a movie (the only theaters that seem to get the movies I want to see around here are the two big ones, which're both Regal) I come away with the urge to wait a few months until the DVD comes out the next time there's a nice movie. However, I know I'll be going back again for Revenge of the Sith, and that movie even has a shitty title! crying

This is why I feel no shame in busting out a giant purse and loading it with food. xd Regal tries to assrape me, I give 'em the finger.

Yeah. Ara? It takes like maybe six hours total to read the first book of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. If you're a slow reader. Took me 3. 3nodding

I saw ONE trailer for a movie that, after seeing the trailer, I want to see. Tim Burton's Corpse Bride. Drool. But only because I hadn't heard of it before, and I friggin LOVE Burton+Depp. Sloberdroolkeyboardshort. The rest of 'em? I'll wait until they hit DVD.

I think what really offends my sensibilities though, is that I paid them to watch the movie. They also got paid to show the trailers. Essentially, they're getting PAID twice per showing per individual. stare

Famous Players isn't bad. Ours are all Famous Players and I'm pretty sure the trailers just go until the time when the movie is scheduled to start. :3

I watched Robots and The Jacket in theatres... those are my only real theatre experiences though XD

Oh yeah, cause you know, 1987+18 doesn't equal 2005...

...howait.

D:

Sometimes, I wish to hit people. ninja