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Heres my random rant of the day @_@ why is it that movie theaters, while getting larger, comfier and more spacious, are becoming more expensive? Ok that makes sense, for quality you must fork out the cash right? Well what is jabbing me lately is how you spend 6-8 dollars on a movie, 3 bucks on a drink and 5 bucks on a large popcorn, you sit down to enjoy your show, AND THEY SHOW YOU FRIGGIN ADVERTISEMENTS! I just bought my big Coke, now I have to see them advertise it for me, even though I just paid for it, and I also paid for this ticket which, in my view, should guarantee me an ad-free experience, I mean you pay extra for premium channels on Cable TV like Starz! and you don't get commercials on those. I swear, in many ways you are getting less for more today in society.

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I'm a cheap skate, I go to the movies in the middle of the day and get in for $5.50.

But what do you mean by ads? Do you mean when you sit down and they have godawful ads for local business? and "Coke presents: Twisted Trivia" such as "Guess the star who was in Spider-man: yoTb cMuGieer"? I think those aren't really meant to push products so much as give something to confirm the screen works when you walk in and find a seat... and those new fangled CGI "Let's go out to loby" remakes (maybe no Let's go out to the loby, but something in the same vein) is sort of just there so people can have time to finish a sentence and take a last minute seat without missing anything (except the space ship with the theaters logo missing the delicious Pepsi moon only it a popcorn comet)

If you mean trailers... who doesn't love trailers?

Has anyone ever really bought a product they saw in a theater ad?

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I've only seen the commercials in really big cities. When I was living in California recently, they were all over the place. But since I've been back in Arizona, nada. I also catch the early matinees in addition to frequenting the cheap theatre. I urge you to find out if your locale has a chea theater, they're the bomb diggity.

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I've only seen the commercials in really big cities. When I was living in California recently, they were all over the place. But since I've been back in Arizona, nada. I also catch the early matinees in addition to frequenting the cheap theatre. I urge you to find out if your locale has a chea theater, they're the bomb diggity.


I generally go around 4:00 to 5:00 in the afternoon. That's about the latest you can get the affordable matinee prices and not have to skip out on work or school. Plus I've gotten into the habit of going into the theater about 15 minutes late. That way I skip the obnoxious ads and I hate previews with a passion since most of the movies advertised I'll never see anyway.

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Heres my random rant of the day @_@ why is it that movie theaters, while getting larger, comfier and more spacious, are becoming more expensive? Ok that makes sense, for quality you must fork out the cash right? Well what is jabbing me lately is how you spend 6-8 dollars on a movie, 3 bucks on a drink and 5 bucks on a large popcorn, you sit down to enjoy your show, AND THEY SHOW YOU FRIGGIN ADVERTISEMENTS! I just bought my big Coke, now I have to see them advertise it for me, even though I just paid for it, and I also paid for this ticket which, in my view, should guarantee me an ad-free experience, I mean you pay extra for premium channels on Cable TV like Starz! and you don't get commercials on those. I swear, in many ways you are getting less for more today in society.

I'm a cheap skate, I go to the movies in the middle of the day and get in for $5.50.

But what do you mean by ads? Do you mean when you sit down and they have godawful ads for local business? and "Coke presents: Twisted Trivia" such as "Guess the star who was in Spider-man: yoTb cMuGieer"? I think those aren't really meant to push products so much as give something to confirm the screen works when you walk in and find a seat... and those new fangled CGI "Let's go out to loby" remakes (maybe no Let's go out to the loby, but something in the same vein) is sort of just there so people can have time to finish a sentence and take a last minute seat without missing anything (except the space ship with the theaters logo missing the delicious Pepsi moon only it a popcorn comet)

If you mean trailers... who doesn't love trailers?

Has anyone ever really bought a product they saw in a theater ad?

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I could also do with out screaming babies, gang bangers, ass holes, people who talk loud through out the movie, people who bring noise making devices into the theater like celphone and pager without even turing the ringgers off, people who talk on celphones durring the show, 'art houses' that smell like piss, and movie theaters that don't care about giving you service and put no effort into stopping these things.

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I could also do with out screaming babies, gang bangers, ass holes, people who talk loud through out the movie, people who bring noise making devices into the theater like celphone and pager without even turing the ringgers off, people who talk on celphones durring the show, 'art houses' that smell like piss, and movie theaters that don't care about giving you service and put no effort into stopping these things.


Too add to that. remember when pissing off people with laser pointers was "cool"? I am happy that fad passed over. And theathers with arcades seem to get the rarest and weirdest games at the same time. A harkins near my house is th only place with Jumbo Safari. A While ago is had DDR 3rd Mix Korean version but replaced it for Ms. Pacman.

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No, he probably means actualy real honest to goodness commerical ads. I've seen them at one of my local theaters too before the start up on the trailers, and they're pretty annoying (mostly cause they're blown up to such a huge resolution they can't help but look ugly...they weren't filmed to be shown at that size).

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Too add to that. remember when pissing off people with laser pointers was "cool"? I am happy that fad passed over. And theathers with arcades seem to get the rarest and weirdest games at the same time. A harkins near my house is th only place with Jumbo Safari. A While ago is had DDR 3rd Mix Korean version but replaced it for Ms. Pacman.

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Too add to that. remember when pissing off people with laser pointers was "cool"? I am happy that fad passed over. And theathers with arcades seem to get the rarest and weirdest games at the same time. A harkins near my house is th only place with Jumbo Safari. A While ago is had DDR 3rd Mix Korean version but replaced it for Ms. Pacman.


Yeah, that was really annoying. However this one time I was at a theater and it was pretty empty. They was this group of dumbass 14 year olds shining their laser pointers at the screen and giggling like idiots. Finally this huge guy turns to them and yells "YOU CAN STOP NOW." That shut them up for the rest of the movie. It was nice.

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I've always hated going to see movies in theaters.. I always get stuck by some sort of crazy woman who rocks back and forth in her chair muttering to herself..

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Master in Disguise

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Master in Disguise

I certainly hope that's not a typo on the Dana Carvey movie "Master of Disuise" because that movie has bee getting HORRID reviews

and I'm not talkin just from Roper and Ebert, but every critic on earth seems to hate that movie...that should be saying something about.

Just because Dana Carvey is funny on SNL, doesn't mean the film is.

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I've always hated going to see movies in theaters.. I always get stuck by some sort of crazy woman who rocks back and forth in her chair muttering to herself..

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I find early Matinee showings (except for kids/family movies) tend to be free of this problems.

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Fun thing to do if you get to a theater too early... look for an arcade machine sitting in a hall way. sit in a bench ooks towards it and then count how many kids run up and mess with it....

before watching PPG I counted 15 such kids, not counting ones who messed with it more then once... one of them who messed with the machine at least 3 times told my friend and I as we were watching the end credits "I hope you know soon you'll be the only people left in the theater... so have fun" his parents looked at him in quit humilation.

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Bah...Stupid kid, does he not know that films sometime stick stuff in the creedits (See Pixar and Jackie Chan) And even then I like to stay and listen to the sound track and watch the credits if I like the movie...Of course if i don't I tend to flee much before then...:)

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Bah...Stupid kid, does he not know that films sometime stick stuff in the creedits (See Pixar and Jackie Chan) And even then I like to stay and listen to the sound track and watch the credits if I like the movie...Of course if i don't I tend to flee much before then...:)

Well we're animation students so we stay mainly just to see the crew details (one of the main animators of Nana [Lilo's sister] in Lilo&Stitch was my friend's intro to animation teacher, a fact she pointed out to me the three times her teacher's name was on screen)... and the dumb kid interupted during the best part of the credits! when it list the Korean Animation studios who worked so hard yet get little credit!

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Where do you study animation?

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