ads in the cinema bad

LegacyUser

was at sin city in uci at the weekend, the amount of ads before the movie was scandaless.

i don't mind trailers too much. but after paying €8.50, i think they're taking the pi$s.

imagine they started putting 20 min of ads on a dvd! and you couldn't ff them, there'd be uproar.

i think it's time the ads go, who's with me.

garthv

Just go to the Savoy then

LegacyUser

there's no ads in the savoy?

GaRtH_V wrote:

Just go to the Savoy then

danniemcq

/crosses fingers and prays that all cinemas will follow the savoys example

garthv

Well there wasnt went I went to see Star Wars the other day

Winters

paperclip wrote:

imagine they started putting 20 min of ads on a dvd! and you couldn't ff them, there'd be uproar.

afaik there is some bill that was [or is] trying to be pushed through in the US to make it illegal to fast forward past trailers on a dvd. Read something about it on /. a few months ago.

I dont mind trailers for upcoming movies and maybe the ad or two but there can be an excessive amount. UGC generally have a few ad's and trailers before a movie but nothing too excessive. I havnt been to the Savoy in a good while.

monkeyfudge

Didn't Lucasfilm have some sort of stipulation about the amount of crap a cinema could put before the film? And if they were found to go over the limit they would lose the right to show it... I'm sure I read this somewhere.

I don't have a huge problem with the adverts... I tend to arrive in the cinema in that gap between the adverts and the trailers.

Actually... come to think of it, I'm pretty sure I saw a Red Bull advert at the begining of Star Wars in the Savoy.

ixoy

UGC used to have the general ads, followed by 3 movie trailers. This has recently been upped to 5 movie trailers and the long wait was quite noticable before Friday evening's showing of 'Sin City'.

You're not the only one though. A NY councilwoman has tried to introduce legislation in the city to force cinemas to display the film start time alongside the start of the ads/trailers (refered to as "promotainment"). It can last up to 20 minutes. A couple of US chains, in response, have decided to list these times of their own accord.

Fenster

Winters wrote:

afaik there is some bill that was [or is] trying to be pushed through in the US to make it illegal to fast forward past trailers on a dvd. Read something about it on /. a few months ago.

Some DVDs-especially rental ones-have ads on 'em. These ads are sometimes protected by CSS, so you can't skip them. Eh, so technicially skipping them can be already illegal.

The proposed bill was to make any skipping of ads illegal.

/geek

Anyhow, to get back on topic, I agree that ads are sometimes excessive. You're generally looking at 15-20 minutes of ads and trailers at the Galway Omniplex between the advertised start time and actual start time of a film, which is taking the mick, imo.

I can fully understand that they need to make their money as much as any other business, but 15 minutes?

LegacyUser

they make enough, €8.50 for a ticket, and €8 for a small coke and small popcorn!

Fenster wrote:

I can fully understand that they need to make their money as much as any other business, but 15 minutes?

Cianan2

I love trailers, but i hate those "pirate copying" ads, and when the ads go on for nearly 15 minutes it just really p1sses me off.

Ron DMC

Sometimes the ads are great. Remember Danno from the 11850 ad.

Speaking of, Here's a petition to bring him back.

Raoul Duke

Why not go in 15 minutes late? That's what I do.

Retr0gamer

I can't stand any form of mobile phone ads. When the ads start its my cue to take a piss. I usually arrive back when the trailers start.

skywalker

I dont particularly mind a couple of ads at the start of a film in the cinema. But I wish that they would all do as suggested. List the time the film is going to actually start rolling.

I remember UCI went through a really annoying phase about a year ago of showing terrible 20 minute long short films before a screening which no one wanted to see. Ive no objection to them showing the short films, just start them 20 mins before the screeening time listed, I want to eat my hotdog during the film Ive paid to see.


Anti piracy ads on legitimate dvds are another pet hate. If Ive bought the dvd I dont need a lecture about not buying a pirate.