Unpopular Entertainment Opinions • Page 19

yeah, i normally show up a little after the scheduled start time when i'm going to a cineplex so i don't have to see the commercials for the theater itself and the banks that sponsor them. the movie trailers are awesome though. the theater is the only time i ever watch trailers, and they're normally for things coming out in six or seven months so i don't feel spoiled seeing them

 

The problem with most trailers is that they are not effectively targeting the demographics of the viewers in the audience. It has been years since I saw a trailer for a movie that I wanted to see that I had not already known about.

 

do trailers still premiere before movies and it's a big deal or is it all online now

 

I'm in charge of putting the trailers on before the movie at my theatre. I do my best to put trailers on that make sense for the crowd that is watching the film but studios mandate that you have to put select trailers on certain films and if I don't have any time left over then I can't do that ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I put the trailer for Knight of Cups before the The Revenant knowing full well we wouldn't get it but I just thought people should know

 

yo i want to know more about your job, that sounds super cool

 

Haha well, I'm just a theatre manager but part of my job entails dealing with projection. So I do the trailers, all of the light cues, schedule the movies,check content a.k.a. watching movies early to make sure they run properly, change projector lamps etc.

 

I am reminded of Tyler Durden:

 

So you are the one to blame. My theater showed a trailer for Paterson before Moonlight so I thought they would get it, but never did.

I end up seeing trailers for a lot of broad comedies/Sundance "indie" films because I see a lot of art and independent films. They always look like the worst movies of the next few months. A single screen arthouse theater about an hour away always has good trailers but at the same time they have a much more narrow playing field.

 

Sans film. It's a cool theatre though. Built in 1932, Art Deco, and the main house seats about 750 people. It's a lot of fun

 

750 people, holy shit. so do the trailers have to be for stuff you know your theatre is going to get? and how early in advance do you know what films you're going to get in? how is that decided?

 

It depends on the studio. Disney ALWAYS has required trailers and we know we'll get their movies so it makes sense to show the trailers. Lionsgate is the FUCKING WORST. They strongarm you into taking content they know isn't going to do well. For example, they made us take American Ultra and if we didn't, they wouldn't give us Hunger Games, which would obviously bring in a lot of business. Similarly, we didn't take some film that's like part of their Latin production company and they withheld La La Land from us for like two months. We have a booking agent that gets the movies for us, usually the week of. I'm actually about to go to work right now and we should have Get Out waiting for me. The thing is, even if you have a hard drive, you can't just watch the movie, the studio has to provide electronic keys to basically "unzip" the movie. So really they can take it from you at anytime haha

Edit: i have fun with the trailers. I tend to put trailers on for more obscure feature that I'd personally like to see

Double edit: this past weekend I had a lady coming in and checking the trailers for 50 Shades to make sure I put on the required ones

 

Hollywood sounds like the mafia lol.

Anyway trailers in the theaters I think have been ruined by the internet. I don't think I've seen a new trailer in the theaters I hadn't seen before in years. When I saw Lego Batman last weekend, they played an old Power Ranger one instead of the new one that actually shows them all suited up and fighting. The kids seemed unimpressed but I bet if the newer one were showed they would have been excited.

 

I doubt this will be unpopular in this thread but I dunno where else to put it: I hate Rotten Tomatoes. More importantly, I hate that, having worked at a movie theatre for a few years, now I too pay attention to RT scores. Not because I give a shit or feel that an aggregate score legitimizes a movies quality, but because I have seriously seen people walk up to the box office not knowing anything about the movies, and then not pick one based on RT scores. Like, part of me gets it, but if a movie interests you, just see it regardless ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

But then you have movies like 50 Shades or Transformers that get slammed on RT but still do really well at the box office so what the fuck do I know

 

I hate when people see a movie just because it's well reviewed and then don't know what it's about or complain about it being boring

 

The theater I usually go to does exactly 20 minutes of trailers. If the movie listing says 5:00, the movie will start at exactly 5:20. I like it since they have reserved seating and I now know the deal. I just walk in right when the movie is gonna start since I don't typically want to see trailers.

 

I feel like I'm one of the few people who don't actually look at ratings for films. I tend to go off of word of mouth from friends. Or hell, if I really wanna see the movie, I'll just go see it.

 

Rotten Tomatoes is the worst. If everybody barely gives it a pass, it gets a 100% right?

What a joke.

 

Rotten Tomatoes, like Metacritic, has use solely in the fact that they round-up critics from all over the map. If you use these websites to click on the full reviews to digest them, great. However, their scores are completely meaningless.

 

I'm not really a fan of reading critics anyways.

 

Really good reviews might make me check out something not on my radar. Truly bottom barrel reviews might make me hold off on seeing something in theaters until it hits HBO, but only sometimes. Generally though, if it looked good, see it

Duck Soup almost bankrupted a film studio and Clue didn't get very good reviews and those are two of my all time top 10. Judge for yourself

 

Film criticism from decent writers are great resources in terms of picking up on context/imagery/things you may have missed. I always try to read reviews of movies I'm interested in from reputable critics. Much better than looking at a score to determine whether or not you want to see it.

 

I have trash taste so reviews don't bother me like score-wise but if it talks about content like violent rape scenes or something I'm like cool thanks for the heads up I'm out

 

I like to read reviews after I've watched a movie for the same reason I visit movie threads on this website. I like to hear other people's opinions, but I think it's a lot more productive if I'm in a place where I can contribute

 

I usually don't read reviews until after because I want to go in fresh, I just skim and do rotten tomatoes

 

I'll amend my post with pretty much this sentiment. I rarely ever read reviews beforehand.