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Old 07-30-2003, 06:34 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Sign the "Movie Commercials " Petition

If you already havent, there is an online petition to stop the commercials before movies. I just signed it and I hope you all will too.

http://www.petitiononline.com/cmpaa/petition.html

Im also putting a link to it in all my message board signatures. Let make some noise. At the time of me posting this there were 1109 signatures.

lets get alot more.

If this is not stopped now I guarentee in 5 years they will interrupt movies in teh middle for commercials.
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Old 07-30-2003, 07:08 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Old 07-30-2003, 07:35 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Old 07-30-2003, 08:09 PM   #4 (permalink)
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wow. I was the 1111th signature.

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Old 07-30-2003, 08:36 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Signed, I remember when I first saw it and thought wow thats odd, they must have paid a lot for that, and then they just kept coming and multiplying.
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Old 07-30-2003, 08:50 PM   #6 (permalink)
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Damn Straight!!! As if the high ticket prices aren't already enough for the damn theaters.
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Old 07-30-2003, 11:03 PM   #7 (permalink)
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Yeah, but if they stop the commercials it might give them an excuse to hike up the ticket prices even more.

I don't know....
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Old 07-31-2003, 08:45 AM   #8 (permalink)
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Even though they're annoying as hell, there's technically nothing wrong with them because they play before the movie starts, at least at the theaters I go to. It's preshow 'entertainment'.
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Old 07-31-2003, 09:25 AM   #9 (permalink)
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Soon enough there going to be on DVD's that you buy
At the very least the can set-up specific commercials to play on certain genre of film. Example: Before T3 started, one of the commercials was for female hair care products. Now, I know that ladies watch action movies as well, but honestly the over 75% of the audience was male.
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Old 07-31-2003, 10:41 AM   #10 (permalink)
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Old 07-31-2003, 05:21 PM   #11 (permalink)
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I thought the commericials help offset some of the ticket price. I'm never on time so those few minutes help out.
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Old 07-31-2003, 07:47 PM   #12 (permalink)
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I can't stand these. It costs enough to go to a movie already.
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Old 07-31-2003, 07:54 PM   #13 (permalink)
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Old 07-31-2003, 11:07 PM   #14 (permalink)
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They are taking it to far, im in!
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Old 08-01-2003, 02:21 AM   #15 (permalink)
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Saw this horrible trend for the first time when I watched T3 and my thoughts were "WTF?" - bad enough to watch suck-ass trailers.
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Old 08-01-2003, 04:42 AM   #16 (permalink)
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Regal/UA have changed their movie commercial format. They no longer show the commercials before the previews. Now they show a video segment called the 'Twenty' during the waiting period before the movie start time. The Twenty is a mix of commercials and behind-the-scenes kind of stuff. It's better than watching the old slide-show crap. So if you show up to see a movie exactly at the start time, you won't get any commercials (only previews).
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Old 08-01-2003, 05:01 AM   #17 (permalink)
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Yeah, but if they stop the commercials it might give them an excuse to hike up the ticket prices even more.

I don't know....
I'm with you.

If they don't show the ad's, even tho I hate 'em, they will just find another way of hiking up the price of a ticket. It's just one thing you have to tollerate.

What they need to do is display an EXACT starting time for the film, not just the begining of the shorts/ads, so the consumer gets to choose wether to watch the ads or not. Otherwise we are just a captive audience, can't turn it off or down like we do on the telly in our own homes.
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Old 08-01-2003, 06:55 AM   #18 (permalink)
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I am afraid the advertising before movies has been added to help bring in revenue and not force the theaters to raise prices further. A more useful petition might be one that proposes the idea that Hollywood actors and acrtresses are grossly overpaid and that their salaries should be lowered to something more realistic. Why do we, in this country, insist that those who entertain us are the most valuable and therefore costly of people? Why not value say, TEACHERS for example, and pay them the kinds of salaries actors and pro sports players make and reduce the pay to those in entertainment to something more down-to-earth? Ugh. Just my $.02.

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Old 08-01-2003, 09:00 AM   #19 (permalink)
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IWhy not value say, TEACHERS for example, and pay them the kinds of salaries actors and pro sports players make and reduce the pay to those in entertainment to something more down-to-earth? Ugh. Just my $.02.

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Then everyone would be a teacher. Becoming a teacher is a cop out, the schooling is very easy and is basically for people who couldent think of anything elce better to study.
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Old 08-01-2003, 09:37 AM   #20 (permalink)
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Becoming a teacher is a cop out, the schooling is very easy and is basically for people who couldent think of anything elce better to study.
Maybe in some cases, but most teachers I know like teaching and are extremely well educated people.

I hope Regal/UA looks at this petition and puts the ads somewhere else besides on the movie screen...
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Old 08-01-2003, 02:45 PM   #21 (permalink)
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Spending the time to form a petition to stop something that has absolutely no detrimental effect to anyone anywhere seems like a phenominal waste of time. Ticket prices are already too high and as much as we'd like to go and yell at the movie theater workers, it's not their fault. Hollywood charges an outragous rental fee on it's reels. A lot of you might have missed it but one of the bigger theater chains in the country refused to carry Rush Hour 2 because New Line had decidced to change it's pricing policies for it's "big" releases which would have made the reels cost upwards of 30% more than before. This was done to Rush Hour 2 to keep New line from implimenting this new policy on the Lord Of The Rings trilogy because that would have cost theaters millions nationally. Those commercials some of you seem so adament about stopping are keeping movie tickets from jumping in price by 20-30% every year. Personally I welcome anything that can keep the price of going to the movies somewhat reasonable.
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Old 08-01-2003, 10:05 PM   #22 (permalink)
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Old 08-01-2003, 11:09 PM   #23 (permalink)
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now i signed the petition... i'm going to be spammed... dammit .. I cannot win.
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Old 08-01-2003, 11:20 PM   #24 (permalink)
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A more useful petition might be one that proposes the idea that Hollywood actors and acrtresses are grossly overpaid and that their salaries should be lowered to something more realistic. Why do we, in this country, insist that those who entertain us are the most valuable and therefore costly of people? Why not value say, TEACHERS for example, and pay them the kinds of salaries actors and pro sports players make and reduce the pay to those in entertainment to something more down-to-earth? Ugh. Just my $.02.
First of all no online petition is useful, that's an oxymoron in itself, and as a sweeping generalization, petitions are wastes of time and space where more relevant information could have been put.

Secondly, if teachers were to be among the higher paid then aspirations of the majority of future generations would be to become teachers. Therefore emphasis would be placed on theory and concepts, rather than application of such and would be a step backwards in the economy.
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Old 08-02-2003, 05:34 AM   #25 (permalink)
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Secondly, if teachers were to be among the higher paid then aspirations of the majority of future generations would be to become teachers. Therefore emphasis would be placed on theory and concepts, rather than application of such and would be a step backwards in the economy. [/B]
Teachers was meant only as an example of the idocy of the way salaries are distributed in this country. ANd teachers are GROSSLY underpaid here. I have no knowledge of teaching salaries elsewhere in the world but know many many fine teachers in this country who struggle daily to make ends meet. There are many more professions that deserve good salaries. I don't think an ability to lie and pretend to be someone else for the cameras should be one of them (yes, acting is merely an enhanced form of lying). Now, before the flames start pouring in, I do LOVE movies and like some of what is out there on TV. And I don't mind paying for my entertainment. However, that doesn't mean these people's paychecks are justified. I guess I just feel that salaries should be determined by intelligence and the benefit of the job rather than by the entertainment value. Do any of you realize your local garbage man probably makes significantly MORE money than the people teaching your children how to read, write, do math, etc? Why do the most mindless jobs deserve to be paid more money than those that require constant, high-quality thought?

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Old 08-02-2003, 05:29 PM   #26 (permalink)
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I work for AMC and I may be aware of facts that not everyone realizes. We make no money off of tickets at all. All of our profits come in from concessions and selling refreshments. The prices rise only because we need to break even there or else we could no longer be a business. The ads are just a way of keeping those ticket prices lower. Without the ads prices would rise as theatres would be forced to compensate. The reason prices are high is because of the high costs for producing movies including actor salaries as previously mentioned. Don't blame the theaters, most of the time the source of similar problems originates far from where the consumer ever goes, but they are the last in the chain.
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