How about: don't run ads (except trailers) before films. It is so obnoxious to be forced to sit through an ad before something you're paying for. Especially in a theater. If an ad on TV bothers you, you can turn off the sound or go into the next room. If an ad in a newspaper or magazine bothers you, you can cover it or turn the page. But an ad in a theater you are getting shoved in your face no matter what.
Ads have a cost. People who think they can keep sticking more and more ads on things don't realize that they're gradually making whatever it is less attractive. But eventually you cross a line.
I'd say make trailers optional too. I personally don't care for them -- I generally only see movies that I've read about online or heard about from friends.
A lot of people do like trailers though -- maybe set the start time of the movie to be the actual time the movie starts, and then let people interested in the trailers come early? Or, maybe, have the trailers live up to their namesake and show them after the movie?
Maybe I'm in a minority -- do trailers bug anyone else?
I'm interested in the advances digital cinema projection can bring. Smaller cinemas (20-50 seats) for on demand viewing of a catalog of 1,000s of films. Simply select what you want and go watch it in comfy seats with food served to your seats. Whilst your watching the 15 mins of trailers any other people can choose to also come watch the film. Then on the way out pick up a copy of the DVD..
Definitely. The economics of the thing are actually really nonsensical. A "home cinema system" of any serious quality is, at least for now, at least a thousand bucks. That buys a lotta movie tickets.
Just figured out a sixth point: re-run famous movies of yore. It's almost 100% profit on the ticket, as I understand it, and with the comfy seat + some sort of pre-movie kickoff drink, you attract fellow fans of said movie (cult movies are a plus), and you make more money on the sales.
I'd SO go to those for the movies I got in my all time top 10 list.
[+] [-] pg|18 years ago|reply
Ads have a cost. People who think they can keep sticking more and more ads on things don't realize that they're gradually making whatever it is less attractive. But eventually you cross a line.
[+] [-] far33d|18 years ago|reply
If you pay full price for a theater movie you have to sit through 15 minutes of ads and trailers.
If you pay full price for a DVD, you have to sit through the trailers (which you often can't fast forward) and a bunch of annoying FBI messages.
If you pirate the film, you see exactly what you want - a movie.
[+] [-] irrelative|18 years ago|reply
A lot of people do like trailers though -- maybe set the start time of the movie to be the actual time the movie starts, and then let people interested in the trailers come early? Or, maybe, have the trailers live up to their namesake and show them after the movie?
Maybe I'm in a minority -- do trailers bug anyone else?
[+] [-] comatose_kid|18 years ago|reply
[+] [-] danw|18 years ago|reply
[+] [-] rzwitserloot|18 years ago|reply
Just figured out a sixth point: re-run famous movies of yore. It's almost 100% profit on the ticket, as I understand it, and with the comfy seat + some sort of pre-movie kickoff drink, you attract fellow fans of said movie (cult movies are a plus), and you make more money on the sales.
I'd SO go to those for the movies I got in my all time top 10 list.
[+] [-] rzwitserloot|18 years ago|reply
[+] [-] nickb|18 years ago|reply
Uhmmm... no they're not! Movies are quite long as it is, last thing I need is to break a story and spend extra 15min at the theater.
[+] [-] cbetta|18 years ago|reply