Movie theater time listing law

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

Since no one else has, I'm going to play devil's advocate and chime in with an opinion in favor of the proposed law. I am a strong advocate of consumer protection laws, which include regulations requiring truth in advertising.

I'm only for consumer protection laws when it's something that's A) well beyond consumer control and B) risks something more serious than wasting 20 minutes or seeing a commercial.

For example, I'm more than happy that consumer protection laws have cut the rate of E coli infected ground beef in half over the past few years. I would NOT be happy if consumer portection laws increased already bloated theater ticket prices and caused more people to step on my feet as they show up late for a movie. It's common knowledge that the movie doesn't actually start until at least 10 minutes after the listed show time. We don't need legal intervention to deal with that, it's a ridiculous waste of time and resources.

[innerSpaceman]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

It's common knowledge that the movie doesn't actually start until at least 10 minutes after the listed show time.

Exactly. Which is why half-an-hour is way out of line, and why theaters need to be forced to tell their customers when it's not going to be the customary 10 minutes, but rather will be one quarter of the running time of the film they came to see.

[lizziebith]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

Since no one else has, I'm going to play devil's advocate and chime in with an opinion in favor of the proposed law. I am a strong advocate of consumer protection laws, which include regulations requiring truth in advertising.

This whole issue of movie start time vs. trailer start time came about when theaters started showing over half an hour of trailers and commercials in New York City. It is only the greed of theater owners and studios that have necessitated consumer protection on this front. I will gladly pay a dollar more to ensure that I only get 10 minutes of trailers and, yes, a regulation that will leave empty seats in the theaters for the first 20 minutes of the half-hour trailerfest will soon accomplish just that.

Hallelujah!

Might I just second ISM's call for protection; it was a loooooong time ago when the time of a movie's start got pushed back in the interest of the "man" and we've all just sat back and taken it. I, for one, am DISGUSTED that there are now stupid commercials played IN FRONT OF SOMETHING I ALREADY PAID TO SEE!

And, maybe to start another irate thread, remember when you paid for cable because it was COMMERCIAL-FREE??? Now we even get logos super-imposed on every freaking show. Damn them. Damn them all to hell.

[FEJ]

MAybe they could tell us which version of "the 20" is going to be in which theater and what group of Movie Trivia I am going to get...hate knowing all the answers every time