Hi all, new to the board as of last night. I was up late reading thousands of posts here. Good to see a few folks I recognise from www.theinside.org *waves*. Nice to see Tim stops by occassionally. Am I the only one who wanted to check to see if he wrote the season finale of NCIS?
Mmm. Wife soup. I must've done good.
Wash ,'War Stories'
The Minearverse 3: The Network Is a Harsh Mistress
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls and The Inside), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
JadeHand - May 27, 2005 9:31:25 am PDT #7438 of 10001
"Waiting to be recognised, quite applause will do. They shower you with flowers, when they bury you." -Brave -Marillion.
Wolfram - May 27, 2005 10:59:51 am PDT #7439 of 10001
Visilurking
Don't follow NCIS, but welcome Jade.
Mikey - May 27, 2005 12:54:18 pm PDT #7440 of 10001
All this time, I thought Hunter was a bitch. Turns out she was just hungry.
I think habitual lateness tends to protect me from the prior advertising most of the time—I'm lucky if I catch any previews in the theatre.
Picking nits, but the previews aren't what's being referred to as ads. Actual ads for soft drinks, scents and SUVs, run before the movie. I don't mind 'em at the $3.50 anytime theatre, but they make me complain to management when I've paid $10.00 for a ticket.
§ ita § - May 27, 2005 12:56:53 pm PDT #7441 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Most anything the cinema chooses to do with their screen before the listed movie time is okay with me. I do like to be there, but that's the time I can talk, surf the web on my PDA, read a book, whatever. I'm still waiting for what I paid for.
From ticketed time onwards, though, I get testy.
Matt the Bruins fan - May 27, 2005 1:11:58 pm PDT #7442 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Mickey, in that sentence I was using "previews" to mean movie trailers themselves. I'm generally in my seat about 2-5 minutes after start time, and am lucky if they're still showing actual previews rather than the movie itself.
Allyson - May 27, 2005 1:14:09 pm PDT #7443 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
I don't mind 'em at the $3.50 anytime theatre, but they make me complain to management when I've paid $10.00 for a ticket.
And without em, it'd probably be $20.00 for a ticket.
Betsy HP - May 27, 2005 1:17:26 pm PDT #7444 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Not necessarily. I watch movies in the SF area, and although there are ads in slideshows, there are generally not movie ads before the trailers. (Bother. By "movie ads" I mean "ads that are movies", not "ads for movies".)
I paid $10.00 a head to go to ROTS, no ads.
§ ita § - May 27, 2005 1:22:01 pm PDT #7445 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
They show TV ads here. Ads that you see on TV, and ads for TV. I admit, everyone pretty looks prettier that way. I kinda like it.
JZ - May 27, 2005 1:22:52 pm PDT #7446 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
The Metreon in downtown SF has $10 tickets, a slideshow, about 3 minutes of ads, then another 5-7 minutes of previews.
Out in the Avenues, the Balboa Theater has excellent and imaginative second-run double bills for $8 or $9, no slideshow, no ads, and previews. The Balboa isn't making anywhere near the profit that the Metreon is, but it's surviving.
aurelia - May 27, 2005 1:31:12 pm PDT #7447 of 10001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
I saw a Jack Johnson video interspersed with the slide show before Ep 3 last night. That was kinda fun, especially since I don't ever get to see music videos.