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Originally posted by nata25
7:10 start-time for movies + 10 minutes' commercials = fraud
Moviegoers are suing theater chains for suckering audiences into their auditoriums for a 7:10 show and then showing ten minutes of commercials instead. They're asking for minimal damages -- $75 each -- and focusing on getting theaters to start the trailers, if not the movie, at the advertised start-time. I am so down with this.
"They deceive you into thinking a movie starts on time in order to create a captive audience,'' Weinberg said. "People are actually paying good money to watch commercials.
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-film19.html
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I want IN on this! Who lives in the Cleveland area and wants to do something like this? I hate, hate, <B>HATE</B> the Coke commercials and the car commercials and the television series commercials they force down your throat at the movies these days. It amazes me that, with movie viewership down like 60% in the last few decades, they are so ignorant as to pull this crap after charging your $8 to get in.
Oh, man. I hope these people get their way. I would be thrilled to death to hear that they won. It's only a matter of time until things are like they were in the Stephen King book "The Running Man" (not the game show part, the commercials part).
SpaceAce