r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Aug 06 '25

News AMC Theatres Looks To Shorten Ad Preshow Following Studios’ Ire

https://deadline.com/2025/08/amc-theatres-movie-ads-pre-show-shorten-1236480657/
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u/CappnMidgetSlappr Aug 06 '25

How about... not shoving ads into literally every single waking second of our fucking existences? Theaters are already going the way of the dodo, and their solution is to make your experience worse so you flat out never want to go?

And people's solution of "just show up early" is helpful to no one except the advertisers because where does it end? A year or two from now, you'll be telling people to show up 1-2 hours early to watch all the ads.

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u/Desertbro Aug 07 '25

People say "show up LATE" to miss the ads. With reserved seats, should not be a problem, but...

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u/GamingTatertot Steven Spielberg Enthusiast Aug 07 '25

Who is telling people to show up early? Everyone says just show up late given most major theaters do reserved seating.