How will this help increase ticket sales?

How will this help decrease ad revenue?

>already pay excessively
>throwing in more ads and trailers
Great. So I can just cross off going to theaters then.

The kinoplex you grew up with is gone

>>212243165
Before you start thinking of being a clever little pirate, the theaters will cut off seating before the ads start so you’re forced to watch them instead of arriving 30 mins late. Not watching ads is theft.

>>212243035 (OP)
how about they clean up the stinky theaters filled with spilled soda and sharts

>>212243035 (OP)
They’ll get paid to play those ads for a bunch of empty rooms

>>212243243
CHICKEN JOCKY

>>212243165
That's the normal amount of ads and trailers they're just saying it now

>>212243035 (OP)
I'm tired of pretending like it's not fun to be comfy and eat popcorn while trailers play

>>212243243
Maybe you should start living by white people.

I strategically pick times where nearly no one is ever in the theater with me so you'll have to enforce it pre theater entry or else I'm just gonna show up late and dick around on my phone unless I'm interested in the trailer. Enforce some method to prevent me from doing that and I'll take my refund and go home with the candy I snuck in.

>>212243035 (OP)
My theory based on young kids having multiple screens constantly and revenue declining for purchasing new content (torrents) that movies will be like Japanese TV with just constant bullshit flashing and appearing on screen accept it'll ask be ads and kids will just be used to filtering it so imagine watching godfather in the theater and having pop-ups constantly and everyone being okay with it and if you question it you're the weird one. "Just ignore it bro"
End of blog

>>212243035 (OP)
You'll start getting "Late Reporters", which go to a movie showing and time how long it takes from the showing time to the movie starting. Then they'll say for example "Superman: 30 minutes" so everyone knows to show up 30 minutes late to the movie.

>>212243384
>>212243336
see >>212243223

>>212243316
>i love sitting through ads selling me shit after i already bought overpriced popcorn and drinks please show me what new products i must consume
Say no more.

>always used to get really anxious when dad would fuck around when we were going to the cinema
>relax, they don't start the movie until 20 mins of adverts
>he always got us in right when the movie was about to start
>realise later this was his way to make us skip getting the food

>pay for just one fucking movie
>its been monetized

Just wait until the next Avengers movie has a 10 minute mobile game commercial halfway in.

>>212243316
>I'm tired of pretending like it's not fun to be comfy and eat popcorn while trailers play
Eating popcorn and watching a trailer you are interested in at your home? Good.

Eating popcorn and watching a trailer you are forced to watch? What a fucking cuck.

I just don't go to the cinema anymore. A perfect stream rip will be available after 5-6 weeks anyway.

Can they show them in the middle of the film? I'm in my late thirties, I need time to go take a piss without worrying about missing anything. This is half the reason I don't go to theaters anymore because everything has to be over 2 hours long now and it's just annoying when I can't pause something to take a break when I've paid to see it.

>>212243035 (OP)
>ticket sales?
??
>>212243572
Intermissions would actually be a nice addition to some movies but I feel like in a lot of slop it just doesn't work these days.

Bring back intermission to push more concessions sales.

>>212243633
They can't do intermissions. Studios make the movies insanely long to hog cinema time and cinemas want to squeeze in as many shows per day as possible.

>>212243035 (OP)
>>212243572
>I can't pause something to take a break when I've paid to see it.
Cant rewind too.
Can't sit on your favorite sofa or be in your favorite settings.

Cinema is bound to die in the modern age. Just like telephone booths. Why use a booth when everyone has their own phone?

There's no way to justify this to a youngling, even though I'm a boomer myself.

>>212243035 (OP)
What are they even advertising? There is literally nothing to watch.

>>212243035 (OP)
So ill walk in 25 minutes after the start time and just watch the movie

>>212243721
Sad thing is, I don't go to the cinema anymore because movies have become shit. Doesn't really matter what the cinema does or doesn't do.

>>212243743
>What are they even advertising?
Smiling niggers driving electric cars.

Just one more small dystopian step, frog boiling us until they can inject ads into our dreams.

I like seeing trailers when I go to the theater every 2 years

>>212243035 (OP)
First of all I absolutely loves trailers and adds before the movie. Second it's not always possible to stuff 30 minutes of whatever before the showing because it all depends on the duration of the movies and how it fits in the scheduling of the theatre.

>>212243271

>>212243772
Yeah, but when I was younger, I used to go to the cinema with friends a lot.
We didn’t really nitpick whether a movie was actually good, we just wanted to do something together. Just spend time, you know?
We’d pick a movie that seemed popular, something most of the group agreed on.
So we got to hang out and all that.

Aren’t you the same? I’ve always seen 'going to the cinema' as a friends-and-family kind of thing, not purely about whether the movie is good or bad.
Otherwise, how do you explain why a fuck-ton of mid movies make so much at the box office?

With modern tech, people can actually do the whole 'going to the cinema' activity at home.

i would only go to the cinema if the world became 100% insane and it was like those memes about kinoplex with falcons and designated shooters

otherwise fuck you and your noisy eating retarded women and yelling kids

>>212243035 (OP)
There always has been half an hour of trailers and adverts before the film comes on. This cinema is just making sure people come in if they want to avoid the adverts. If you didn't know this then you probably haven't been to a cinema in 20 years.

>$30 plus tip
>ads
>no piss break
how do normies do it?

>>212243688
And so I can go take a piss from that red icee I got.

>>212244003
>We didn’t really nitpick whether a movie was actually good, we just wanted to do something together. Just spend time, you know?
Same. Tuesday was the 5€ day.
But, movies were better. They just tried to make something entertaining. Nowadays there aren't fun little movies anymore.

>>212243746
like always

>>212243035 (OP)
It's almost like AMC doesn't actually want people to show up at their theaters. But that doesn't make any sense unless this is purposeful sabotage by theater owners to fuck with movie studios profits.

>>212244153
Exactly

>>212243035 (OP)
>movie theater has trailers and adverts before the movie starts
>movie theater now tells you precisely how to skip them
>this is bad somehow

>>212243223
>the theaters will cut off seating
So where do people take a piss break? On the corners of the theater?

They should just stick to making novelty popcorn buckets.

>>212243035 (OP)
Good, I can be more late, 20 minutes isn’t enough for me.

I don't get what /tv/ is complaining. They already had 30 minutes of commercials. Now they tell you that you can get there 30 minutes late and not miss anything.

>>212243316
With that many ads and trailers your popcorn bucket would be empty before the movie even starts.
In France we have between 15 and 20 minutes of ads and trailers.
I try to calculate the exact time the movie actually starts so I arrive 5 minutes prior to get me time to get comfy.
And I never start eating the popcorn before the movie actually starts.

>>212243223
>>212243407
you're retarded. they're not going to stop you from paying for $10-$20 tickets just to make you watch an ad.

>>212244003
>how do you explain why a fuck-ton of mid movies make so much at the box office?
People generally have poor taste

>>212244456
Already solved long ago friendo.
The theater has a ticket guard that prevents access to the hallways and showing rooms. Once you get past the ticket guard, you can walk freely from the showing room to the bathroom and back. And concessions have two counters so you can buy on the other side of the ticket guard. You have no excuse.

>>212244610
There is a theatre chain in my country that still has intermissions for long movies. But their competition doesn't.

They want you to buy the coca cola but not take a piss?

>>212243035 (OP)
This already happened to me last week... I was pretty pissed. Movie claimed to start at 1:00, didn't actually start until 1:30.

>>212244073
>how do normies do it?
fear of being perceived as weird

>>212244610
how much is popcorn there? over here a regular popcorn is like $10 so I stopped buying it.

>>212243035 (OP)
>increase ticket sales?

>>212243223
>he doesn't buy his ticket 12 hours in advance so everyone else can see that you're a lone wolf making them keep their distance

>>212243035 (OP)
Do you guys think the transition from First Come First Serve seating to Reserved Seats had an effect on anything related to this?

I was just thinking, back in the day, you had to show up like 20 mins early to get a good seat and you'd be fed commercials. Maybe a little Maria Menounos if you were lucky. But with reserved seats, you can show up 20 mins late and skip all those commercials.

>>212243035 (OP)
Trailers are basically the whole movie nowadays so thats like getting 10 movies for the price of 1, what a deal!

>>212244117
Yea, nowadays there are ten thousands:
- remakes / reboot
- gender swap / spinoff
- race swap
- soulless live adaption of games
- less convincing visuals because of the constant overuse of CGI. (when a lot of CGI is required, its quality tends to go down.)
- injection of DEI (diversity WAS cool, power rangers and start trek etc, diversity was used as a PLOT TOOL. Nowadays it's just used to send The Message.)
- with the growth of social media, most celebs are revealed to be shitty people. (nobody’s gonna pay to watch people they hate.)
- woke journos (they called Sound of Freedom a pedo film)
- poisoned well (Mad Max: Furiosa has good word of mouth, but flopped because people didn't give it a chance, due to too many woke, shitty girl boss films before it.)

The modern Western era is extremely unfriendly to good film production.

30 minutes of advertisements, is 1/4 of ticket/concession revenue sales for a 120 minute film, = the advertisers are paying more than 25% of ticket/concession sales for that advertising space you dumb golem.

Theres literally nothing wrong with watching some ads here and there

>>212243452
Heh, my Dad always had us showing up to movies late cause he had to have one more beer before we headed there.

I'd cry,
>"But Dad, the previews are the best part! They're usually better than the movies themselves!"
And it was true, back then. But then previews became "trailers" and you could just watch them online. The magic was gone.

>>212243035 (OP)
what's to stop you just going to the screens 25 minutes later

>>212243384
I already do this to skip watching previews.

>>212245021
this is >>212243223

>>212243911
>First of all I absolutely loves trailers and adds before the movie.
Trailers I get. But you love watching the ads??? All I ever see are niggers drinkin' Coca-Cola or M&Ms using subliminal messaging.

Then again, if watching commercials means I don't have to sit thru 2 mins of fucking Nicole Kidman aka The Boggmonster shilling, I'm all for it.

>>212244814
I don't even think that girl can get into PG-13 movies let alone marry a Nigerian refugee.

im just not gonna go is all

>>212243035 (OP)
I think they randomly play only 5 minutes of trailers just to stop people from skipping them. The AMC near me has been playing 20+ minutes of trailers (that start on the showtime), so I always come 10 minutes late to skip most of them. But randomly I will come in to the first scene of the movie despite only being 10 minutes late to the showtime, meaning they only had 2 or 3 trailers before the movie started. Its evil.

I've seen thousands of movies and the last one I paid to see in theater was Bring It On in 2000 because it was roommates birthday. They had just started the car ad bullshit then.

>>212244855
>lone wolf
When someone reserves seats next to me, I get super pissed. Don't they know I'm fucking loco!! When they do, I take my shoes off so they have to smell my stinky feet. And I make sure to hog the arm rest. Then I laugh extra hard at scenes that aren't even funny. And if they still haven't moved away from me, I light up a stogie.

>>212245351
They have contractual obligations for what they have to play.

>>212243035 (OP)
Isn’t ever theater now assigned seating? I just show up fifteen minutes after the start time since I already got my seat

In the ten-cent admission days theaters would run the trailers last (which is why they're called "trailers"), but you could stay as long as you wanted watching multiple showings of a single long feature, or a double or triple feature, a comedy short, a newsreel, a travelogue, et cetera, and sometimes even a live performance. In the silent days, the orchestra or the organist would play numbers between the films.

I'm thinking they should go back to the old business model of selling you a one-time (daily, weekly, or monthly) admission price for a varied all-day program, letting you stay as long as you like, and forcing you to pay for concessions, parking, blankets & pillows, toilets, et cetera, to make a profit.

>>212245874
I saw two star wars movies in the 90s on re-release back to back and it was painful sitting there. Drive-ins were much better for this. They would have dusk to dawn showings on holidays with 4 movies in a row.

Kind of unrelated but what ever happened to reruns? Seems like when I was a kid, they would show 5-10 year old movies all the time. I saw Wrath of Khan for the first time in a theater after Voyage Home already came and went, for example.

>>212246160
Be careful what you wish for. They're slowly starting to get back in the rerun game because Hollywood can't make an original film for the life of them.

Just recently a rerun was announced with like 15 minutes of new footage, but I forgot what it was. Oh! Spiderman 2.

this wouldn't have happened if the Studio System still existed, just saying

>>212246268
I'm at the point where I feel like that's preferable. I've been to the theater 3 times in the last 6 years, and once was to watch Empire Strikes Back during Covid.

>>212243817
>dystopia is when they try and sell me stuff
grow up

>>212243223
Then I'm going to vape in their fucking bathroom until the movie starts, fuck you

Can't lie I miss the theaters in house movie before the trailers it always made me feel welcome

>>212243817
>they removed the frogs brains and the frogs didn't get out
>scientists: shocked

>>212246329
>Studio System
Explain?

>>212246617
prior to the 1950s, film studios usually owned the theatres that played their movies. So you'd go to the Paramount theatre to watch Paramount films, or the Warner theatre to watch Warner films. It cut out a lot of the overhead running costs that theatres have to deal with, meaning they could charge less for tickets and concessions. Actors were also considered employees of a studio rather than independent contractors, so studios gave them managers to manage their public image and would give them contracts that forbade them from working with other studios. SCOTUS ruled the system was a monopoly and outlawed it.

You'd love seeing a film at a military base/post theater. Before the film starts, a flag appears on the screen and everyone rises for the national anthem, then there is a short PSA about how bad rape is, then you see the film.

>>212247064
Gotcha. Thx!

Gonna have to make some movies that get me in the theatre first.

>>212246268
>Be careful what you wish for
That would be cool as fuck though. I would love to see Akira on the big screen, possibly Imax

>>212247204
best i can do is reboots and sequels of 40 year old movies

>>212247204
Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle Part 1 this fall.