Sue movie theatres for showing commericals?

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2003-05-25 01:05am

KhyronTheBackstabber wrote:I don't see what the big deal is. They are only shown at the beginning while people are still buying their popcorn, and arriving at the theater. Hell, if it weren’t for the commercials, I would have missed The Incredible Hulk trailer, when I went to see X2.
Now if they broke into the middle of the movie with a "And now a word from our sponsors." I could understand.(emphasis mine)

That would ROYALLY SuX0r!! Lawsuit all the way for that, but as of now, no.

[OT]What's your avatar, Khyron? It kinda reminds me of the result of a threeway involving Keel, Grunt, and Klesk from Quake 3! I like it![/OT]

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2003-05-25 01:05am

Next of Kin wrote:
KhyronTheBackstabber wrote: Now if they broke into the middle of the movie with a "And now a word from our sponsors." I could understand.
Hell, they could do worse and start playing "lets all go to the lobby" in the middle of the film!

ACK!! I HATE THAT CORNY-ASS THING!!! KILL

Rubberanvil · Post by **Rubberanvil** » 2003-05-25 01:20am

Einhander Sn0m4n wrote:
[OT]What's your avatar, Khyron? It kinda reminds me of the result of a threeway involving Keel, Grunt, and Klesk from Quake 3! I like it![/OT]

It is the Transformer Peiking(sp).

Damaramu · Post by **Damaramu** » 2003-05-25 01:26am

I zone out during those stupid commercials......

And I would just like to say that my girlfriend and I always sneak in our snacks. Suck it down, AMC 30!

Post by **Gandalf** » 2003-05-25 01:30am

Damaramu wrote:I zone out during those stupid commercials......

And I would just like to say that my girlfriend and I always sneak in our snacks. Suck it down, AMC 30!

You don't even have to sneak it in here, we openly walk in with bags full of stuff.

Damaramu · Post by **Damaramu** » 2003-05-25 01:32am

You guys are lucky, then.

KhyronTheBackstabber · Post by **KhyronTheBackstabber** » 2003-05-25 02:01am

Einhander Sn0m4n wrote:
[OT]What's your avatar, Khyron? It kinda reminds me of the result of a threeway involving Keel, Grunt, and Klesk from Quake 3! I like it![/OT]

It's Predaking, the combined form of the Predacons from Transformers G1.

Specialist · Post by **Specialist** » 2003-05-25 03:13pm

KhyronTheBackstabber wrote:I don't see what the big deal is. They are only shown at the beginning while people are still buying their popcorn, and arriving at the theater. Hell, if it weren’t for the commercials, I would have missed The Incredible Hulk trailer, when I went to see X2.
Now if they broke into the middle of the movie with a "And now a word from our sponsors." I could understand.

The big deal is some of theatres list the movie starting at 9pm then when you arrive, you find out the movie starts at 9:10pm instead of what's listed. That's their grounds for a lawsuit which I see no problem with. If you want to go in 20 mins before the movie starts to get a good seat and watch some ads that's fine.

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2003-05-25 03:31pm

Gandalf wrote:
Damaramu wrote:I zone out during those stupid commercials......

And I would just like to say that my girlfriend and I always sneak in our snacks. Suck it down, AMC 30!
You don't even have to sneak it in here, we openly walk in with bags full of stuff.

KeWL!

When me and my sister did it, we had to smuggle the shit in. It was pretty phun, especially the time when we snuck in *8* Whopper Combos...

Hamel · Post by **Hamel** » 2003-05-25 03:38pm

I saw Bruce Almighty last night, and we had a bunch of ads

Had a very annoying Nascar Coke advertisement~ I hate Nascar, and I hate most of the fans, since most of them are racist redneck assbitches

KhyronTheBackstabber · Post by **KhyronTheBackstabber** » 2003-05-26 04:13am

Specialist wrote: The big deal is some of theatres list the movie starting at 9pm then when you arrive, you find out the movie starts at 9:10pm instead of what's listed. That's their grounds for a lawsuit which I see no problem with. If you want to go in 20 mins before the movie starts to get a good seat and watch some ads that's fine.

I still don't see what the big deal is. Here's an idea. Instead of another stupid ass lawsuit, just do what I do, ignore them. They're not hurting anyone, or thing.

hamel wrote:
I saw Bruce Almighty last night, and we had a bunch of ads

Had a very annoying Nascar Coke advertisement~ I hate Nascar, and I hate most of the fans, since most of them are racist redneck assbitches.

Just like most Sci-Fi fans are fat assed, loser, virgin, geeks, who live in their mom’s basement.

Kelly Antilles · Post by **Kelly Antilles** » 2003-05-26 12:53pm

Okay, I guess I have to get medieval on all your asses.

First: DO NOT COMPLAIN ABOUT THE PRICES OF CONCESSIONS
Concessions is the ONLY way theaters earn money. ALL box office money goes back to the grubby movie companies until the movie has been out for a contracted amount of weeks. But, even then, the percentage the theater gets is under 30%.

Second: While I agree about TV commercials before movies, previews are important. IT is just another way to get money to run the theater in the first place.

Zoink · Post by **Zoink** » 2003-05-26 01:15pm

IMHO, the movie theatres would make more money from *me* if the concession prices were cheaper as I don't buy anything from them. I hope they have their supply/demand curve worked out.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2003-05-26 04:14pm

As for trailers, I like the ones that are cool.

For the ads and trailers I don't like, I just switch my brain off until I see something interesting/the feature.

Rubberanvil · Post by **Rubberanvil** » 2003-05-26 06:30pm

I love having the trailers before the movie. As they give me more time to get to the theater if I'm late, plus time to go to the restroom and afterward pick up drinks and stuff before the movie starts. I despise the Pepsi commericals.

Next of Kin · Post by **Next of Kin** » 2003-05-26 06:39pm

I think what's worse than trailers, ads, or product plugs is when the theater pipes in the scent of yummy hot-buttered popcorn into the ticket lobby! Gets me all the time!

Kelly Antilles · Post by **Kelly Antilles** » 2003-05-26 06:50pm

Next of Kin wrote:I think what's worse than trailers, ads, or product plugs is when the theater pipes in the scent of yummy hot-buttered popcorn into the ticket lobby! Gets me all the time!

There is a reason the vent above the popper blows right into the theater.

(of course when they burn it, it's annoying. Gah!)

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2003-05-26 07:09pm

I don't like the commercials, but they don't bother me that much. Though I think that if the theater lists a certain time, then the movie should start at that time, not commercials or previews.

Rubberanvil · Post by **Rubberanvil** » 2003-05-27 01:29am

Kelly Antilles wrote:
There is a reason the vent above the popper blows right into the theater. (of course when they burn it, it's annoying. Gah!)

By any chance any of the popcorn machines ever sets catch on fire?

Vertigo1 · Post by **Vertigo1** » 2003-05-28 02:08am

I dunno what theaters you goto, but the only ads I see are the ones shown prior to the movie trailers being shown, which are sent in by Coca-Cola. Those are still pictures shown through the projector, and are easily ignored. The only sound you hear is the radio playing a local station. The only 'trailer' I saw remotely advertising anything is the one for the marines (the dude climing the rock) when I went to see X-Men 2 and Matrix 2. Again, that was easily ignored.