Movie theater time listing law

[Ghoulish Delight]

http://www.nbc4.tv/irresistible/4238574/detail.html

A guy in Illinois is propsing a law that would require theaters to list both the starting time of the trailers, and the actual starting time of the movie. He says that, among other things, parents scheduling baby sitters deserve to know more precise schedule information. Meanwhile, theaters argue that it will adversly affect trailer exposure. Showing trailers is a large part of a theater's revenue.

What do you think? Personally, I think it's dumb for 2 reasons.

1) A freaking law? Piss off. This should not be legislated, it's not the place of government to set marketing practices.

2) Even if this weren't a law, but say a theater chain bandying the ida about, I don't like it. You go to a theater, even with the 10 minute preview buffer, people show up late and damn do I hate that. Tell them EXACTLY when the cutoff is, and that's just going to get worse as people will take every second you give 'em. Nope, I say, encourage as much early arrival as possible.

[Motorboat Cruiser]

Nope, don't like it either. The last thing we need is to make laws such as these.

The system works fine as it is. Does a babysitter really need a schedule down to the absolute minute? Has there been a lot of instances where someone gets home at 10:47 instead of 10:33, causing much panic and chaos to ensue?

I think not.

[Eliza Hodgkins 1812]

Yeah, I'm not liking this either, for all the reasons you've already mentioned.

[MickeyD]

I will agree that it would be a ridiculous thing to legislate, however, I personally kinda like the idea of two listing times, myself. Mostly because I'm sick of watching the damn commercials that they play in theaters.

[Jazzman]

I agree; Piss off. This country has become far too legislation happy. Every time someone runs into something they don't personally like, they start campaigning for new laws. I remember a quote from my youth that seems to handle situations like that pretty well. It goes like this, "Deal With It."

And with all that is going on in the world, someone actually believes that making laws governing movie schedules is a priority? How stupidly trivial.

I hope this dork gets laughed out of the legislature.

[Gemini Cricket]

Originally Posted by Jazzman

I hope this dork gets laughed out of the legislature.

Yeah.

I mean, he feels he is being forced to watch previews. Doy. Sometimes the previews are better that the movie you're gonna watch.

Previews are just part of the experience. It's the commercials that tick me off. And as was said, I hate it when people walk in late after the previews and sometimes well into the movie.

Urgh.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

A law??? Grrrr. This guy needs to move to a country where there isn't a free film industry. Maybe then he'll appreciate the freedoms he enjoyed here.

[mousepod]

Obviously, legislating this is pretty silly. But if they get away with passing this law, the corollary should be that nobody will be admitted into the theater once the feature starts. If "the law" wants to make sure that the general public isn't annoyed by the theater, they should also protect the general public from the general public.

If this law does come to pass, I wonder how much ticket prices will rise, because empty theaters before showtime will lower the theater's advertising and concession revenue...

[Motorboat Cruiser]

Originally Posted by mousepod

If this law does come to pass, I wonder how much ticket prices will rise, because empty theaters before showtime will lower the theater's advertising and concession revenue...

A very good point.

[sleepyjeff]

It is not the governments place to make laws against harmless annoyences....especially when the law will actually benifit those who are most annoying(latecomers to a movie).........