chris winters
Second Unit
- Joined
- Nov 12, 1999
- Messages
- 274
The thing is, the theaters sell out wether they run the ads or not. So they make more money running the ads. I supose your' correct in that they havent crossed that threshold where people are pissed enough to stop going, but do your really want to push the miserable theater going exerience that far? until we hit rock bottom? I guess thats the question. Given an alternative, people would take it, im sure, but there is no way an alternative could compete. Maybe a theater that charges more per ticket, enough to offset the profit made by the ads, would generate enough buisiness to stay afloat. Maybe that is the answer, but somehow I predict we will live with the ads getting worse and worse, as well as higher ticket prices, higher concession prices, and noisy cell phones etc...until the industry eventually crashes. I wonder why it took the theater owners so long to figure out the, " ads before movies thing." They could have run commercials decades ago, and made money, but somehow It is tolerated now when it wouldnt have been in the past.