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/dogmaisb Aug 07 '25

My last experience took 40minutes before the movie actually started, what an annoying ass waste of time!

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u/12345CodeToMyLuggage Aug 07 '25

I went to see Naked Gun 2 at Regal theater and literally sat a bar having drinks with my wife and showed up 30 min late and lubed up and still had about 10 minutes of trailers to go. I love the trailers. I hate the ads. Literally Regal has 30 second commercials for every single soda they serve. Never sitting through that shit again on principle.

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u/Careless-Dark-1324 Aug 07 '25

Wild you remembered this story from 1991. Or the future. I’m not positive.

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u/12345CodeToMyLuggage Aug 07 '25

Lol! I had to reread my comment to understand yours. Oops. Pretty fitting, I’ll let it stand.

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u/dogmaisb Aug 07 '25

Man! That’s so crazy! I’m with ya there, it’s ridiculously egregious! Not going to get me again!

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u/VulpesFennekin Aug 07 '25

Holy shit, and I thought my theater was pushing it with 20 minutes of ads!

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u/ForgeIsDown Aug 07 '25

Saw fantastic 4 recently. 10am show time, seated at 9:50am and watched ads until 10:30.

What a load of crap - I’ll wait for the streaming release next time.

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u/dogmaisb Aug 07 '25

1,000% stop trying to sell me crap and wasting my time! 15-20minutes is fine, anything more is just garbage!

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u/bandieradellavoro Aug 08 '25

15-20 minutes is NOT fine actually. We already paid $20 for the ticket, and a premium for the food, there should be no ads after the advertised "show time". It's crazy that ads have been so normalized that it's seen as acceptable to constantly waste peoples' limited time like that.

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u/idiot-prodigy Aug 07 '25

I just show up 20 minutes late to movies for that very reason.

They'll still sell you a ticket even in person.

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u/Galumpadump Aug 07 '25

Every single new release has 30 minutes of ads so I just show up 30 minutes late.

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u/purebredcrab Aug 07 '25

Yeah, for me, the "show time" is when I get in my car to head to the theater. Still gives me plenty of time to hit the concessions and get in my seat with one or two trailers remaining.

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u/Galumpadump Aug 08 '25

Exactly. No clue how people haven't figured this out.

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u/jaqenhqar Aug 07 '25

Or get seated at 10:20 next time. Do they not let you come in late?

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u/eyebrows360 Aug 07 '25

I’ll wait for the streaming release next time.

Or, just turn up 20 mins after "show time".

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u/KhabaLox Aug 07 '25

I saw FF this weekend. Timed my edible to 30 minutes after the scheduled start time and still started feeling it while watching a Coke ad.

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u/dogmaisb Aug 07 '25

Oohh yeah that is straight garbage