Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ucdavis.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!decwrl!ucbvax!ucdavis!ccrbrian From: ccrbrian@ucdavis.UUCP (Brian Reilly) Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Re: Strange Preview Practices Message-ID: <445@ucdavis.UUCP> Date: Thu, 15-Aug-85 23:34:21 EDT Article-I.D.: ucdavis.445 Posted: Thu Aug 15 23:34:21 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 17-Aug-85 05:30:36 EDT References: <3254@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> <1201@umcp-cs.UUCP> Distribution: na Organization: University of California, Davis Lines: 34 > In article <3254@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> trudel@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU (Jon) writes: > > >Well, I live in NJ, and I find that I discriminate heavily when it comes > >to moviegoing. Within 15 minutes of New Brunswick, I can think of at least > >twenty-count 'em-twenty movie screens. There are a lot of movies to choose > >from, and I can bet that advertising for a movie will be quite extensive > >due to this large amount. One other thing of note is that in the theatres, > >they also show a lot of minute-long+ previews. Is this true elsewhere too? > > One thing that's started around here is the practice of running COMMERCIALS > with the previews! I mean commercials just like on the small screen! > > Has this obnoxious practice appeared elsewhere? > > C Wingate umcp-cs!mangoe (here is C.P., Md.) The last ( and it was the last ) time I went to a movie here in Davis, I paid $5.00 to watch 10 minutes of commercials and previews that finished up with a pitch for the 'Will Rogers Institute' (which I am sure is a place worthy of donations) and 2 ushers with hats for donations walking through the aisles. Then, they had the nerve to show "Mad Max ..." on a screen with a giant scratch in the middle and lousy sound. Boy, was I ticked! But this isn't New Brunswick, so we only have 3 screens within 15 minutes, and the same people own all of them. Maybe I will move back to Perth Amboy after all. - Brian Reilly -- ~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~= Brian Reilly Davis, CA 95616 U.C. Davis Computer Center ucbvax!ucdavis!deneb!ccrbrian