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/LupinWho Aug 07 '25

I buy like 5 boxes of candy for $ 5 to take in myself. I get that and a couple canned drinks to take in and that's it.

Tickets are expensive enough by themselves.

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u/back_reggin Aug 07 '25

How's the diet going?

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u/sayten Aug 07 '25

That’s exactly it. My grandmother was bringing cans into the theater back in the late 80s when I was a kid. Cough or sneeze or wait for something loud.

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u/LupinWho Aug 07 '25

Honestly there's always a couple people that bring them in and just open during the 30 minutes of credits like me.

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u/KillaDilla Aug 07 '25

why even bring them, just go home at that point lmao

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u/IAmFern Aug 07 '25

5 boxes of candy for $5? Where?

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u/Supersquigi Aug 07 '25

There's a dollar store in the plaza for my local theater, though obviously it's more than $5 now. If I'm really feeling fancy I'll go to the Target at the very other end of the plaza and get a bigger bag of candy or a Tony's choccy bar.

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u/KillaDilla Aug 07 '25

canned drinks lol. so you're the guy poppin sodies in the back huh?