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Re: Bad radio ads
« Reply #25 on: June 11, 2009, 08:26:25 AM »
Quote from: fistful on June 09, 2009, 06:21:59 PM
What film could possibly be so scrumtrelescent, so magnificent, so towering in cinematic stature that you would subject yourself to those ads? 
Or any ad (besides popcorn) at all?

I remember when movie theaters first started running ads . . . paying patrons, figuring they paid to see a MOVIE, not commercials, revolted, and began doing things like throwing their sodas at the screen. What ad money the theaters made was eaten up by screen-cleaning costs.  =D

I miss those days . . . we've become a nation of wimps.  =(
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Re: Bad radio ads
« Reply #26 on: June 11, 2009, 01:10:43 PM »
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I remember when movie theaters first started running ads . . .

What about buying DVD's, only to get fifteen minutes of previews for upcoming movies? Granted, you might be interested in some of the movies, but it's still advertising on a product you paid for. Some of the DVD's also have public service ads such as no-smoking ads that really cross the line.
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Re: Bad radio ads
« Reply #27 on: June 11, 2009, 01:29:51 PM »
Quote from: Monkeyleg on June 11, 2009, 01:10:43 PM
What about buying DVD's, only to get fifteen minutes of previews for upcoming movies? Granted, you might be interested in some of the movies, but it's still advertising on a product you paid for. Some of the DVD's also have public service ads such as no-smoking ads that really cross the line.

DVDs that I figure I'll watch more than once get ripped to hard drive, without the puffery.
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Re: Bad radio ads
« Reply #28 on: June 11, 2009, 01:39:27 PM »
Quote from: HankB on June 11, 2009, 08:26:25 AM
Or any ad (besides popcorn) at all?

I remember when movie theaters first started running ads . . . paying patrons, figuring they paid to see a MOVIE, not commercials, revolted, and began doing things like throwing their sodas at the screen. What ad money the theaters made was eaten up by screen-cleaning costs.  =D

I miss those days . . . we've become a nation of wimps.  =(

Amen, I don't go to theaters any more unless it is on a date or something.  Movie previews I expect, but when they started showing shampoo ads like I was watching TV instead of having just paid $9 to see a movie, especially after the stated movie start time, I got very irate and decided to never do that again.
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Re: Bad radio ads
« Reply #29 on: June 11, 2009, 03:34:48 PM »
Quote from: BrokenPaw on June 10, 2009, 10:01:07 AM
Star Trek.  That's the one that I went to knowing that I'd have to face those ads.  I'm seriously considering changing movie theatres because of the ads.

The first time I saw those ads, though, I was seeing...well, I don't remember what movie (probably because of the emotional scarring), but I was just sitting there, unsuspecting, when the Metro Pawn one came on, and then, in a feat of purest sarcasm, the other one immediately followed.

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You need a higher class of theater, I've not seen those ads at the Regal near I66.   :angel:

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Re: Bad radio ads
« Reply #30 on: June 11, 2009, 09:32:57 PM »
Quote from: mtnbkr on June 11, 2009, 03:34:48 PM
You need a higher class of theater, I've not seen those ads at the Regal near I66.   :angel:

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Yeah, that's the one I'm pondering switching to; the one with the ads is the AMC at Potomac Mills.  AMC PM's seats are far more comfortable, but a sore butt recovers quicker than a damaged soul. 

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Re: Bad radio ads
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