Lol if you pay there shouldn't be ads
If I can't get media without ads I'm pirating it
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Enjoy pirating the experience of going to the theater lol
I was actually able to do this, but it was expensive.
First, buy a couch and a TV and some movies to watch. Then, and here's where it gets expensive, have a couple kids. Let the kids throw popcorn around and get the couch all sticky. Then have them interrupt the movie every fifteen minutes.
It's the perfect movie going experience.
Tbh i prefer watching movies at home
I experienced a sense of awe as a child going to the theater, but after 2020 I'm over the movie theater experience
So what’s AMC going to do? Aron says the trims won’t come from the NCM ads. Those are contractually obligated.
Trailers. They're cutting trailers in order to show you more commercials.
I love/hate the wording. We can't cut the ads, we're contractually obligated to show them. It's not our fault. Thems the breaks sometimes. Aw shucks. Golly gee wiz.
Generally people don't mind the trailers. My local (non AMC) theater shows 2-3 trailers before the film. That's 5-10 minutes total. But I don't go to theaters to see ads for Jeeps and toothpaste.
But I don't go to theaters to see ads for Jeeps and toothpaste.
Don't worry, those will end up in the movie anyways.
Where’s the toothpaste?
In this case it was Jeeps and shaving cream
Stop calling it a 'preshow'. It's wall to wall ads with a couple of movie previews that spoil the plot, thrown in.
If you haven't been, Alamo Drafthouse has an actual pre-show before the movie time. They will show clips related to the movie that you'll see or clips from older versions of the movie you'll see. Also old game/toy commercials like a time capsule and sometimes they'll just show some funny Japanese game show moments.
It's one of the reasons I like going there, you aren't inundated with ads and kind of get into the mindset for the movie before watching it.
I've stopped watching trailers for movies I'm interested in for exactly this reason. Same with "next time on..." at the end of TV shows. Shit, even the "previously on..." segments can unwittingly spoil things that are about to happen in the episode you're watching.
It's a spoiler minefield out there...
Hardest is trying to pull up replays of sports events. If I miss a game from yesterday that I want to watch fresh, I usually get my wife to pull up the replay feed on the TV because, depending on the streaming service, it will very likely be spoiled trying to get the stream up.
Dtmts.com (don't tell me the score) helps with this for certain sport's recaps, but unfortunately not full replays.
But how will I learn about all the new shows that will be cancelled in the first half of the first season?
so 30 minutes of ads is a deluge but 26 minutes isn’t?
I will be back to the theaters for this. Sure, I just got my home theater setup how I like it. And yes, classic films in my collection are showing daily at whatever time I damn well please. And my snacks are both superior and cheaper.
I forgot where I was going with this.
Oh right. To the other room to watch a movie without any fucking ads.
FWIW, i also have a great home theater and media library set up. But, the AMC a list subscription is genuinely worth it. $26/mo for 4x movies a week (any format) is such a crazy good deal.
I go to the theaters at least twice a week now, and it's honestly great. My HT might be good, but its not IMAX good & having a few new movies to choose from vs thousands of options to stream is a win when going with a group too
My Hometheater sound is better, I just don't have the giant screen, but the oled picture is still better.
From what I know of the audiophile communities, to achieve better sound than that found at a cinema would require an investment akin to years of ticket purchases. Quite impressive to have such an experience in your own home.
Or quality headphones
9.2 setup but, I still feel it's better. There's alway a bad speaker, wrinkle on the screen and the black levels for the picture is not as good.
OLED seems unbeatable. It's hard to imagine a TV with a better picture.
I have several decades of first hand experience saying AMC does love exactly that.
My local movie theater was bought out by Regal. It went from 3 trailers to 30min of ads + trailers. All large chains are doing this now.
The regal ads are obnoxious. They go past the movie start time too.
I just saw Weapons in an AMC theater and I could hear the theater next to me the whole time. This is the second AMC theater I've had this problem at.
I saw weapons at a non-amc and heard background voices through a lot of the movie. Still not sure if that was the theater next to mine or if it's part of the movie to make you feel insane.
Man I still need to go see that. Was it good? And if what you say is true that be awesome!
It was great. Avoid the AMC in Yukon though.
Was it good? The trailer kinda seemed wack, but it's doing really well in the box office
I loved it. Takes it's time at first, but I wouldn't call it slow. Great ending.
aww man, I relied upon those ads because I'm never on time! now I gotta show up "early", or skip getting snacks!
Mobile order :) place the order when you leave for the theater, and it'll be ready for pickup when you arrive
lol on the off chance I go to a theater to see a movie I've just been showing up 20 minutes late...with success.
Hello @fenririii@lemmy.world,
Is there any reason to crosspost this from !movies@piefed.social to here?
I wonder if the ultimate reason for cutting trailers is because there aren't actually enough trailers to air anymore. It seems like the small budget movies have largely disappeared. Going to the movies is an activity for big mega-hits that makes hundreds of millions ONLY, so there aren't enough trailers to fill the slot.
Its because movies are in digital platforms close to a month after theaters.