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Todd Phillips: Movie Theaters Should Ban Commercials Before Films(variety.com)

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breadsmasher@lemmy.world
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they were called trailers for a reason

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scops@reddthat.com
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I don’t think he’s complaining about movie trailers. He’s talking about the Coca Cola and 12 year old M&Ms advertisements that run for 10 minutes BEFORE the theater plug and trailers start.

When I went to see Deadpool and Wolverine, I think the projector fucked up and we had to watch the ad loop twice. When the movie finally started 25 minutes late, people cheered just to see the Marvel logo

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GlendatheGayWitch@lemmy.world
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That’s about average now in my experience for the movie to start 20-40 minutes after the showtime. Alamo Drafthouse tends to be better than the other chains.

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aeronmelon@lemmy.world
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And they were moved to before the film started for a reason. :)

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BrundleFly2077@sh.itjust.works
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In a weird twist of Internet norms, I upvoted both of ya 🤣

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Crackhappy@lemmy.world
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I upvoted you but neither of them.

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Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world
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That was when the credits happened at the start of the film. Now that the credits are at the end, most people would walk out before the trailers could play.

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