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Dec 10, 2013 - 11:00 PM
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Mr. Jack
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I have refused to watch movie trailers since last December. Too many, too LOUD (the invention of the subwoofer has ruined the art of trailer cutting forever...nothing but incessant B O O M s, swooshes, the Apocalyptic Choir Of Doom, clangs, bangs and shrieks), too much of the plot given away, too many funny jokes spoiled, too many cool visual images wrecked. I will literally stand in the hallway and wait for them to be over...unless it's an AMC theater, with their TWENTY-PLUS MINUTE trailer block, where the last time I went, an employee walked up to me and said that I was "making the other guests nervous" by milling around outside the doors.  Hey, fuck YOU, maybe I don't want to punish my eardrums for close to a HALF-HOUR.
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Dec 11, 2013 - 6:56 AM
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mstrox
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I skip through commercials on the DVR at home and I don't like watching stuff on my phone or laptop, so the theater is the only way I see movie trailers. I love the number of trailers, wouldn't mind more frankly. They give me an idea of what's coming out, what I might have an interest in, etc. Don't care for the product commercials, but I can zone out well enough for those. The movie will still be there when the trailers are over, and I don't go to see a movie when I have somewhere else to be, so why not?
It might be more annoying to me if I saw more than the ~10 movies per year that I do see in theaters. I rarely see repeats, and the ones I do see are typically ones for movies I want to see (I've seen previews for the new Hobbit movie a couple of times). I also love sitting through the previews in front of DVDs, though, so maybe I'm just easy to please.
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Dec 11, 2013 - 8:13 AM
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Mr. Jack
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The movie will still be there when the trailers are over, and I don't go to see a movie when I have somewhere else to be, so why not?
Um, maybe because that extra half-hour tacked onto the movie's running time mean another half-hour before you can feed the parking meter, or get something to eat after the movie, or take a piss before your bladder explodes. It's just not RIGHT when you research beforehand just how long the movie is going to be, and then get an additional fifteen minutes to a half-hour's worth of BULLSHIT tacked onto the beginning.
Ironically, the one time recently I was actually counting on the usual fifteen-minute trailer reel -- when I saw Captain Philips and the train arrived in the station next to the theater barely five minutes before the movie was scheduled to start -- there apparently were no trailers, or at least just one, so that by the time I bought my ticket, hit the bathroom and walked into the theater, the movie was already a minute or three in. There were also no trailers before Nebraska, which surprised me...I was waiting in the hall, looking through the window in the door expecting to see the trailer "green screen", but instead saw the "Our Feature Presentation" blue screen immediately after the pre-show commercials, so I hustled into the theater and settled into a seat just as the opening logos were starting. Maybe because these films were aimed at "adult" audiences, and older moviegoers have been complaining about the volume of movie trailers?
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