So when's the movie finished?

[Joker]

Let's see, the movie is one and a half hours long, 12 minutes of trailers 10 minutes of commercials and a few minutes of end credits. Pick me up in a couple of hours.

Anyone else notice commercials are getting longer and longer? Last movie I went to (Serenity) had 13 minutes of commercials before they got to the trailers. I thought this was only happening in the States where my experience was 15+ minutes of commercials and about 5 or 6 trailers (ONCE 12!!!). Normally I wouldn't bother mentioning this and I don't know why I'm doing it right now. But DAMN!. Almost 25 minutes of crap before the actual movie starts.

I go to movies on a weekly basis, sometimes twice a week (not counting festivals, they don't show commercials) and it is so tiring watching the same crappy Bacardi or Fanta commercials.

Well, that feels better.

 

[Viking Bastard]

I like the trailers. But I hate the commercials.

They've been cutting back on them here, though. I expect because of moviegoer backlash.

Still a bunch.

 

[Hand of Evil]

The big screen is in trouble and while there have been trailers, commercials are being added as additional revenue, well that is what they want you to believe. To me this is a double edged sword, it helps keep cost down but pisses the viewer off, BUT just wait, they will be coming to a DVD near you soon...

 

[Flyspeck23]

Last movie I went to (Serenity) had 13 minutes of commercials before they got to the trailers.

Didn't stop the time, but here Serenity had an insane number of commercials too - so many that I noticed a difference to other movies. Coincidence? Probably.

I go to movies on a weekly basis, sometimes twice a week (not counting festivals, they don't show commercials) and it is so tiring watching the same crappy Bacardi or Fanta commercials.

Tiring and annoying.

 

[Zappo]

It happens here as well, though it is mostly limited to big multiplexes. Smaller cinemas still generally show a few commercials and one or two trailers.

 

[Taelorn76]

The Attorney General here in CT was trying to pass a bill that if a movie time is listed as 9:50pm the movie must start at 9:50pm. Have all the trailers and commercials you want before that time but come 9:50 the movie must start. He was using false advertisment as the base of his argument. If you advertise a movie is going to start at a certain time and it doesn't, well you just lied to the public.

 

[Desdichado]

We usually get all the commercials on the digital slideshow kinda thingy before the trailers actually start. I can't think of a theater around here that shows more than a single commercial once actual film is rolling.

And I like the trailers; they're hardly crap. If I don't see four or five good trailers, I feel cheated. That's how I know (and start getting excited about) what's coming out.

 

[Psychic Warrior]

We usually get all the commercials on the digital slideshow kinda thingy before the trailers actually start. I can't think of a theater around here that shows more than a single commercial once actual film is rolling.

And I like the trailers; they're hardly crap. If I don't see four or five good trailers, I feel cheated. That's how I know (and start getting excited about) what's coming out.

Trailers are Ok in my book too. I like at least 4 but my limit is about 7. i've never been in a theater that has shown more than 7 trailers however.

Commercials are teh suck though. I can completely do without them and I don't believe for one minute it was anything than another way for advertisers to shove their crap at us. I go to the second run theater herein town when I can. 5 trailers max, 1 maybe 2 commercials (sometimes 0!) and they have a 'slide show' thing with trivia (and advertisments, usually local shops etc) that is mildly entertaining while you wait for the movie to start.

 

[sniffles]

The Attorney General here in CT was trying to pass a bill that if a movie time is listed as 9:50pm the movie must start at 9:50pm. Have all the trailers and commercials you want before that time but come 9:50 the movie must start. He was using false advertisment as the base of his argument. If you advertise a movie is going to start at a certain time and it doesn't, well you just lied to the public.

That's the one that bugs me! I find it really annoying that big theatre chains like Regal advertise a movie as starting at 3:30, for example, but that's actually when the trailers start running. I do enjoy seeing trailers, but I could certainly do without "The Twenty" beforehand.

I'm pretty sure that when I was younger the advertised time was actually when the movie began, and the trailers were run prior to that announced time (but then, I was a kid when *adult, non-matinee* movie tickets cost $1.25, so maybe my memory is wrong).

 

[buzzard]

The theatre I prefer to frequent makes a point of having no commercials before the films. Though this is fairly true, they always have a Fandango commercial (which they don't count for some reason, I suspect they are part owners or something, it's an online ticket buying service) which is painful enough to count for a few other commercials. Though since it is only one it doesn't take very long.

The chain is Century Theatres.

buzzard