Movie PREVIEWS

[Andykev]

Today I saw Indy's latest film. Good.

However, there were NO LESS than 10 Previews!

Everything from the new Will Smith film, Nicole Kidman's Australia , and several action films, ie. another Batman, a Pixar film.....

Our main attraction was to start at 1:15PM, but with all the previews, the film started after 1:30PM.

Is it just this area, or are all the theaters going over the top, if that is the case, with previews of coming attractions?

Do you find the previews fun and interesting, or a nuisance?

 

[happyfilmluvguy]

Sometimes the preview, even with as little information as possible, I can pick up what it's about and what's going to happen. I always try to make it to the theater to see them. It's exciting for me. The commercials and so forth don't really bother me because they go by so quickly.

 

[Lady Day]

I LOVE previews, what I hate are :rage: !!!!COMMERCIALS!!!! :rage:

Im paying ten dollars to sit through three minutes of Coke, Jeep, Insurance and what ever advertisements! :rage:

F*#&!%G !!!Commercials!!!

LD

 

[Charlie Noodles]

Not to mention the product placement.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Our usual policy is to run no more than three previews, unless there's some special event we need to promote along with the regular film offerings. We generally don't like the whole preview package to run any longer than eight minutes.

We do *not* run commercials under any circumstances.

Film commericals do have considerable Golden Era precedent, though -- it was very common for neighborhood theaters to run all sorts of advertising clips, sponsored shorts, and such things before and between their regular film programs. Here's one example from 1938: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyK9iG_Udr0&feature=related

 

[Lady Day]

Yeah, but that was before TV, when anything moving on the screen was cool.

F&#*&@G !!Commercials!! :rage:

LD

 

[happyfilmluvguy]

I saw this slightly *****c commercial of a person in the shower. Very dramatic. Then at the end, it turned out to be a commercial for toothpaste. That was a commercial I saw in the theater that I'll never forget. lol

 

[K.D. Lightner]

An****v -- I had the same experience when I went to see Iron Man in a shopping mall movie complex. The previews, and some other ads mixed in, went on for a whole half-hour.

When, Iron Man finally began, I was so startled I asked the friend who was with me if this was another preview.

Many of the "previews" were for shows in other parts of the theatre, including a goofy one with Will Ferrell that was advertised in and around everything else. It was playing right next door.

Too, too much. I hope this is not a trend.

karol