Posted by Ed Chilada on 07/11/06 23:04

On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 22:47:44 GMT, "Mike Hall"
<tarrow@spam3block.yahoo.com> wrote:

>Ed Chilada wrote:
>
>> Last weekend I went to watch Pirates of the Carribean.
>
>> 45 minutes and many adverts and trailers later, the film eventually
>> started....
>
>You obviously don't go to the cinema much.

Reasonably often, but it was just the juxtaposition of this
anti-piracy trailer coupled with the particularly crap pre-film
experience that niggled.


> The adverts always last for at
> least 20 minutes after the film is supposed to start.

Problem is, they're not allocated seats (which I don't blame them for
doing because having to deal with allocated seat arguments when the
film's due to start must be a nightmare). So the film starts at say
8pm, you've got to be in a seat for 7:45 because it's a popular film
and otherwise you'd be sat in the front row staring vertically
upwards. So everyone piles in and then sends out people from their
parties to get the popcorn. This kinda works but people simply aren't
sure how long they've got so it becomes a gamble. I wonder if they
simply hold the trailers back until they think everyone's returned
from the shop - and that's why it then takes so long. If they showed
them at 8pm, loads of people would be missing.


> That's how they fund
> the actors' and actresses' ridiculous salaries plus how they manage to
> afford the CGI for Jar Jar Binks.

Mesa not impressed!

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