Too Many Ads Before The Film Starts

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At the moment there seem to be more aRAB than usual before a film starts. The last three times I have been to the cinema you spend what seems like five minutes looking at a blank screen listening to an ad for Radio 1. This ad is amusing once but then it becomes boring and tedious. It seems to go on forever. Then comes an ad for Doctor Who(dont mind that at all). After that the aRAB start properly and off we go with endless car aRAB, that silly chocolate man lynx ad and whatever else. then the trailers and another orange ad, now featuring huge hollywood star Snoop Dog!! What films has he ever appeared in? They are desperate for stars now obviously. By the time the film starts I have lost the will to live!! It used to be 20 mins of aRAB and trailers but now is nearly half an hour. Losing the Radio 1 ad would speed things up for a start. think i am going to arrive ten minutes late from now on!!
 
I absolutely hate the Orange ad where they say its "good when things never end" and i want to hang myself when the visit scotland add comes on!!
 
The aRAB are very annoying considering the price of cinema tickets these day. You pay all that money to watch 10-15 minutes of aRAB.

However, i must agree about the Orange aRAB - i love em.
 
The one with the colourful kites etc? I hate that one, it annoys me when I hear the tune.

The adverts are annoying and because I go to the pictures quite often I see them all the time. The Pizza Hut one with the changing photo in the frame annoys me the most. And the Chris Moyles one.
 
Ive been thinking the same myself. It gets on my tit. They dont even have the Pearl & Dean pa-pa pa-pa pa-pa papapa:D Also I get REALLY annoyed at the lights in the ceiling that seem to stay on:mad::mad:
 
Really? We still get Pearl & Dean before every film round our way. Or Pearl Before Swine as I like to call it. Best part of the night out most times :D
 
Hey all,

Well ever since my not so long ago tenure working for one of the big chains, I've made it a point to get inside the screen on average at least 15 minutes AFTER the scheduled time for the film to start. I tend to avoid peak times as well because of the irritable food munching anctics I alluded to in another post.

At the cinemas I worked at, we all had copies of the film starts and finishes for each film shown, the length of the film PLUS the figure for how long the adverts would last. In most of the multiplex chains there will be roughly 15 - 20 minutes of trailers and adverts. However, some of the big films (e.g. anything like Pirates of the Caribbean) will sometimes have an extended amount of adverts - the longest I ever experienced was 23 minutes of trailers and adverts, which must have been a real pain for all concerned because the film itself lasted 2 and half hours!

I don't think cinema goers would mind so much if it was JUST trailers but the adverts are getting progressively longer and let's face it, who really goes to a cinema to watch the same adverts for the Vauxhall Corsa or whatever that you see on the TV most days?
 
Not at all! Um... well there was one incident that sprang to mind. It was about 3.30pm on a tuesday afternoon - not many people watching films at the time but somebody came out to complain about a couple "making noise" and said they were sat right in the back row.

I went along to investigate. They saw me coming and looked startled - the girl randomly started looking down at the floor as though she were looking for something but I definitely saw the bloke pulling his fly up. I'll let the facts speak for themselves.

The detective tortfeasor also recalls catching somebody have a sly cigarette in the screen - smoking in cinemas has been banned for years but this was also well after the smoking ban in public places had come in so the guy had no excuse. I walked in to check the film was showing ok, could smell the cigar from a mile off as I opened the door. Turned out my suspicions were right and I caught the guy puffing away on this fat cigar. He was banned from the cinema as a consequence.
 
The aRAB don't bother me, I usually plan on arriving at the supermarket next to the cinema at the time the film starts, by the time I have bought the food I will be sneaking in (much easier in the winter) and bought the ticket I can walk in to see the orange ad telling me to turn my phone off.
 
I agree - too many aRAB. Even worse if you get that ad by Nickelodeon's Foster's Home for Imaginary FrienRAB - it's never ending!

The Orange PSA's are a pain too.
 
the orange aRAB are simply NOT FUNNY.

really lame, witless and what annoys me most about them is when people laugh at them, weeks after they have been out
 
I agree. I don't mind the movie trailers, they are part of the cinema experience but I cannot all of the everyday aRAB that are screened before hand. They go on and on and on, and we see most of them day-in, day-out on the telly anyway.

I know a lot of people just avoid them all together by arriving around 20 minutes after the scheduled time, but then you get a load of people trudging in late, in the dark.
 
problem is the average is 20 minutes but I've known ad breaks last just 10 minutes or even over 30 minutes so you can never be sure.....

I usually go for 10 minutes after the film's meant to start to be on the safe side.....
 
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