A Lawmaker in Connecticut Wants to Make Theaters Say What Time a Movie Actually Starts

https://www.indiewire.com/news/general-news/lawmaker-connecticut-make-movie-theaters-actual-start-time-1235090288/

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  2. Just show up 20-30 minutes after the show time. 30 if it is a big movie and 20 if it is a smaller one.

  3. It’s 15 minutes of commercials and trailers. Go do your fucking job and fix real issues.

  4. This is the perfect example of why it should be legal to throw tomatoes at politicians when they have it coming. Seeing one half exploding and skipping off the side of this fuckers forehead would be a perfect retort when they were declaring this

  5. Not saying it isn’t a good idea but this is the petty stuff they are willing to do to placate us.

  6. wish politicians would just stick to the important issues like building hotels on someone else’s land /s

  7. This lawmaker gets us. Fuck the DC drama. Call me what time the damn previews are done

  8. Perfect. After they knock this one of the park they can tackle the issue of the coup in progress in DC.

  9. Lol, country falling into fascism, executive branch billionaire cyber coup underway… but… when does the movies actually start!? Waaaanh

  10. went to see Nosferatu early morning. The ticket guy said, “movie starts 25min from show time.’ he said it in a way he had enough of people coming out to complain.

    it’s been like this for a couple decades now BUT many only see a movie 1-2x a year so they forget plus the trailers are way too long and the chains are now showing commercials and promos in between trailers.

  12. I wish all the other issues were resolved so we can get back to quality of life laws like this. The state of the world makes this look silly.

  13. I mean… if you can’t win at the national level, making movies a little nicer to go to would be cool I guess.

  14. Is it not common sense that trailers will run for roughly 20-25 minutes before showtime? I’d always add that into my calculation of how long I’d be gone, minus 10 minutes from the runtime that make up the credits.

  16. As long as they add that people can’t come in after start time, I’m all for it.

  18. At my theater it’s 10 minutes of previews. From what I could tell, most people that go there know that and show up accordingly

  19. I remember back in the old days we would ring and ask them.

  20. I used to love getting to the theater early. Watching the previews, getting settled in and setting up your snack and drink situation. Then they started playing commercials. Like, the same old crap commercials you see on TV! I hate it. Now I have to ignore the commercials until the previews start.

  21. I aint mad at this, back in the days, we would want to see all the new trailers, but with YouTube, surround sound, and big screeens at home, trailers at the movies are annoying af!

  23. I’m cool with it. Previews seem to be like 20+ mins these days.

  24. Like many others I’ve adopted the policy of showing up 20 minutes last scheduled start time to avoid the half hour of trailers n ads – much to my dismay when I went to see the new Almodovar film at a small indie theater a few weeks back we arrived 5 minutes past the ticket time and the movie was already playing when we got in. They should just make the start time the actual start time and if people want to show up early to be assaulted by previews for the next years worth of studio tent poles then the option is there.

  25. I 100% agree with the sentiment. But do we really need a law for it?

  26. Theaters want people there early to buy their grossly overpriced concessions…

  27. Of all the things to be putting your effort into right now…

  28. I’m all for it. It just wastes the time of anyone who doesn’t want to watch the trailers.

  30. Can we get a law that says bands have to give a refund if they don’t start playing at the time on the ticket and encore wait times can’t be more than 5 minutes?

  31. France always did this. List what time the room opens & what time the feature starts. They also used to have long-format big budget ads that screened which were very ‘cinematic’ as well. So not just trailers & animated ads for the snack bar

  32. Just let me know the exact time I have to be there to miss the Nicole Kidman intro.

  33. Dude probably sat through 20 mins of ads and trailers and ate all the popcorn before the movie started

  36. Connecticut also has a law that requires police to always be there to watch road work. Just in case the slack on the job?

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