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[–] [email protected] 59 points 2 weeks ago (13 children)

Maybe they need to tell theaters to calm the fuck down with their pricing and ads. Do one or the other. If I'm paying $15+/ticket to see a show, then don't lie to me about the showtime and include half an hour of commercials.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

I used to like trailers. But just as I was starting to feel like the trailers were getting too long, the new thing became to splice the trailers with ads. So you think you're watching trailers and then suddenly there's a Ford commercial. So now they're too long AND they're less entertaining and relevant.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Movie trailers playing before a movie made sense to me. You like movies? Here's some that are coming up, in case you're interested.

It was a movie trailer that made me go all-in on adblockers. One of the Mission Impossible movies, I forget which one, I lost count after the third. This trailer had that annoying "Ready or not, here I come" "song" in the background. And it played ahead of every single Youtube video I watched for a week.

I will never watch a Mission Impossible movie ever again, old or new. I will never watch another Tom Cruise movie ever again. Old or new. I might avoid the spy/action/thriller genre entirely for the rest of my life. I won't go see James Bond ever again because of Mission Impossible's marketing. There's a strong and growing possibility I'll never walk into a movie theater ever again. And I aggressively block ads now.

They went from letting me know what movies were going to be released soon to trying to beat my personality out.

I used to be a movie buff. I grew up in a house with a lot of VHS tapes, movies were important to my social life in my teens and early twenties, I went to work for a couple years basically living at the airport and sleeping at home, and when I came up for air it was all a cancerous mass, a tumor of its former self.

I would rather watch RedLetterMedia make fun of 40 year old movies than go watch a new one.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Insane response to mild annoyance honestly

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I also haven't bought a game made by EA since 1992. I don't like their behavior as a company so I have completely stopped buying anything from them. This you label "insane."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Does the phrase "vote with your wallet" mean anything to you?

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