Few Protests Over Theater Ads, Say Movie Chains
Meanwhile, their audience is slowly dribbling away...
See how I'm not punching him? I think I've grown.
Mal ,'Shindig'
Natter 37: Oddly Enough, We've Had This Conversation Before.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Tom Scola - Jul 19, 2005 10:05:23 am PDT #1157 of 10002
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Connie Neil - Jul 19, 2005 10:06:26 am PDT #1158 of 10002
brillig
I like the ads. The production values are generally very high, and they're either funny or very mock-worthy.
edit: though that doesn't apply to the slide show of Coca-Cola bits and movie trivia and local ads that play in my theatres between all the movies.
Calli - Jul 19, 2005 10:07:10 am PDT #1159 of 10002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Meanwhile, their audience is slowly dribbling away...
Yeah, I was thinking that whole not going to movies as much thing could be considered a silent protest. Although whether folks are protesting ads or the new Herbie movie is harder to determine.
Fred Pete - Jul 19, 2005 10:10:47 am PDT #1160 of 10002
Ann, that's a ferret.
I like the ads. The production values are generally very high, and they're either funny or very mock-worthy.
But I can see the same man-vs-ram Mountain Dew commercial on TV at home....
bon bon - Jul 19, 2005 10:15:21 am PDT #1161 of 10002
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Friday's isn't so cheap that $50 would last long. Unless that's just the Special Manhattan Pricing. I went in one a couple of years ago, and was SHOCKED. We left and went to a pub.
It is the SMP. When I went there not only was it overpriced, our waiter smelled, the place was dirty and dingy, and there was a belligerent drunk at the bar who was arrested as we ate. All the chain restaurants in Manhattan seem to be dirtier than their counterparts elsewhere and dirtier than Manhattan restaurants in general. Why not try to blend in, eh?
I was walking the the Olive Garden the other day and noticed their entrance has "Bienvenuto!" on the door. Who do they think they're fooling?!
beekaytee - Jul 19, 2005 10:19:21 am PDT #1162 of 10002
Compassionately intolerant
something to do besides talk to the person they came with.
Soooo. If I go to a movie by myself, can I get into the special, I-don't-need-to-avoid-intimacy, showing?
Kathy A - Jul 19, 2005 10:20:05 am PDT #1163 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Heh. All I have to do is mention the words "Olive Garden" to my very Italian SIL, and she starts to gag.
Anne W. - Jul 19, 2005 10:23:21 am PDT #1164 of 10002
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
I'm not even the tiniest bit Italian, and the words "Olive Garden" make me queasy.
Tom Scola - Jul 19, 2005 10:24:53 am PDT #1165 of 10002
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Olive Garden is a parody of an Italian restaurant. The one time I went there I kept expecting to see an organ grinder with a monkey.
Jesse - Jul 19, 2005 10:25:06 am PDT #1166 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
When I went there not only was it overpriced, our waiter smelled, the place was dirty and dingy,
34th Street? That was the one I walked into, and out of. NAST.
though that doesn't apply to the slide show of Coca-Cola bits and movie trivia and local ads that play in my theatres between all the movies.
I don't mind those slide shows, because you can talk through them AND they give you something to talk about. "Man, look at that nose job!"