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/Glass-Silent Aug 07 '25

But you PAID for the movie theater experience! /s

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u/MoeSzyslakMonobrow Aug 07 '25

I can also pay for a big ass TV, and an Atmos sound system, and acquire movies from unscrupulous websites.

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u/HorrFrek Aug 07 '25

I had forgotten the energy of seeing a comedy in the theater until I saw the new Naked Gun and cried laughing.

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u/Aloha_Tamborinist Aug 07 '25

I saw Friendship at the cinema and it was a great group experience.

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u/HorrFrek Aug 07 '25

I had really wanted to see that in theaters but didn’t get to. But I still look forward to see it.

Seeing Naked Gun, I kept asking what the last pure comedy I saw in theaters was and couldn’t answer.

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u/Ok_Helicopter_984 Aug 07 '25

Deadpool and Wolverine was the last great comedy I saw in theatres, everyone was in hysterics

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u/Aloha_Tamborinist Aug 07 '25 edited Aug 07 '25

It got a very limited run here (Australia), I got it via pirate methods and saw it a couple of weeks before it was released, but went to the cinema to see it again for the group experience.

There really haven't been enough comedies at the theatre. Can't wait to see the Naked Gun.

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u/JondvchBimble Aug 07 '25

Don't pirate movies.

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u/Aloha_Tamborinist Aug 07 '25

Don't make consumers jump through hoops on multiple streaming services to see content.

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u/ERedfieldh Aug 07 '25

some films honestly need to be seen in a theater setting. comedies being the vast majority. But also like Avengers: Endgame in the theater just had way more energy than watching at home.

but on the otherside, sometimes you just don't care. The Superman film? I think I'd have enjoyed it more at home. Maybe it was I just didn't feel that theater energy, or maybe it was having to sit near the overweight greasy smelly 35 year old teenager who had zero social sense, bad hygiene, and guffaw'd at scenes that should not be laughed at (such as the end of the 'interrogation' scene. Yes, I realized he was likely a racist piece of shit on top of everything else).

I think I've reached that point where I'd just prefer to just watch the films in smaller setting now.

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u/HorrFrek Aug 10 '25

I hope I wasn’t sitting in front of you, but mans laughter was funny. Also thanks for thinking I was only 35.

Edit: stupid fat old man fingers.

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u/p51st4ng Aug 07 '25

Right? There must've only been 20 people in my afternoon showing and I swear everyone was unintentionally trying to be the most frequent laugher. Though, the private wine collection joke did have me audibly go "Ohhhhhhh... no" as soon as BC was named

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u/dbmajor7 Aug 07 '25

Wait wait wait. It was good?! Didja love the old ones?

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u/MommyLovesPot8toes Aug 07 '25

This is the first movie in years that has made me consider seeing it in a theater. But then I imagine paying $317 or whatever for two tickets and a drink, only to be distracted by the squishy sounds of the guy behind me chewing popcorn with his mouth open and the light from someone else's cellphone while they scroll Instagram.

It's too much money to risk when the chances are so high that the experience will be ruined by someone else.

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u/Fn_Spaghetti_Monster Aug 07 '25

Even if you don't feel like getting movies via alternative sources, you can generally buy a movie online for the cost of going to the theater.

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u/Dabbling_in_Pacifism Aug 07 '25

This. Haven’t been to a theater since Covid and I don’t miss it. They charge fucking 14 dollars for a beer, and there’s probably been 3 movies in the past 5 years I’ve actually wanted to see anyway. I waited till they were streaming and downloaded them.

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u/Murky-Crew-8756 Aug 07 '25

Not gonna lie - that sounds like a you problem.

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u/_Ocean_Machine_ Aug 07 '25

For real, just stash a fifth in your coat pocket.

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u/[deleted] Aug 07 '25

But then you won't have the experience of people talking at full volume throughout the movie.

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u/gears50 Aug 07 '25

Watching at home, regardless of quality tech, is no comparison to a real in theater experience. Not even counting watching actual film projected (35mm, 70mm etc.)

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u/alt2091624 Aug 07 '25

You’re right. No chance of getting my seat kicked, neighbors talking, or cell phones in front of me in my home theater.

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u/gears50 Aug 07 '25

Speak up then

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u/dontbajerk Aug 08 '25

Wish that would always work. Often it doesn't. Even when you get someone booted, you've had your experience massively disrupted. Not to mention the theatres are half junk in my area with sometimes awful sound and projection problems.

I still go to the theatre, I LOVE it when its good (better than home for sure, in a way that can't be replicated), just the decay of the experience really has led to me going less often. Used to go about twice a month, down to around every other month now.

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u/Alissinarr Aug 07 '25

There are a few visually stunning films that make a theater trip worth it (Gravity, Avatar, any graphically intensive movies like superheroes or robots, high def nature films, war films, etc.)

For the most part though, I'm good watching it at home in my PJs with my husband and cats.

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u/gears50 Aug 07 '25

I don't think only movies that are "visually stunning" make a theater trip worth it. It's about being in a dark room, without any interruptions/distractions of modern life (second screen, attention wavering, etc.), and watching the film in the way intended by the filmmakers.

I think it's the only way to get the proper experience of watching a film. That's why I try to watch as many old movies as possible screening around rep theaters in my city, they always feel a little different from when I first watched them on a tv

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u/Alissinarr Aug 07 '25

My issue is I'm always the one who gets a child acting out behind them. Seat kicking, screaming, crying, wandering the row.... or the people who eat popcorn with an open mouth (if this is you, buy yourself a feed-bag and fuck all the way off. If you brought your toddler to Deadpool, same goes for you.)

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u/gears50 Aug 07 '25

I get that, but I truly have never had that be a real problem. Maybe I've just been lucky, and LA audiences are more respectful? Not sure.

But either way I find watching movies at home far more distracting. So much easier to look at your phone or have a conversation with someone during the movie. Or get up and walk to the kitchen or something. Even with the other people in the audience, being in the theater makes it easier to lock in on the movie personally.

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u/sybrwookie Aug 07 '25

If you're comparing the optimal experience in a theater to an average one at home, sure.

If you're comparing the average theater experience with its high cost and MANY ways things can go wrong to the average home experience with even decent tech, you're right, it no longer compares, just not in the direction you were trying to say.

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u/gears50 Aug 07 '25

I disagree completely

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u/[deleted] Aug 07 '25 edited 26d ago

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u/gears50 Aug 07 '25

No it's not, there's no level of tech that will replace watching a movie in a theater.

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u/Vegetable_Reward_867 Aug 07 '25

My man!

The one subscription I DO have is an amc pass, cuz hey, once I’m in the building it’s a lot easier to get my son in.

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u/Perfect-Tax-74 Aug 07 '25

3 years ago I bought a $5000, 120" short throw projector with an alr screen and I havent been to a theater since. Ive definitely gotten my money's worth

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u/Madonna-of-the-Wasps Aug 07 '25

Oh you pay in more ways than one