W3dd1e
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- Comment on Movies not starting when they are scheduled. 4 days ago:
I have been timing movie previews since August 2022. I was posting the data weekly on Twitter but I stopped using Twitter when the sale to Elon was finalized.
My Qualifications
I have a monthly pass that allows me to go up to 4 times a week. I also worked at a theater for 4 years, with part of that time being as a manager and projectionist. I have selected and put ad rolls on the film myself.
I go every Sunday morning. I started timing ads and previews before the movie started and logging them in a chart, but I am not a data analyst. I am just an annoyed theater patron.
Movie Previews and Ad Roll Lengths
Note: Most of my data is from seeing movies at AMC. I can’t guarantee every theater will be this way but theaters that use digital film distribution instead of physical film.
Ads ranged from 17 min to 31 min. Timing start at the scheduled showtime and start the moment the last ad stops and the film credits start.
If you go to AMC, the Nicole Kidman ad is always the last one. I stop counting as soon as she says “AMC Theaters, we make movies better.”
- You can safely go to the theater 15 minutes late every single time.
- Once, the movie started exactly on time with no ads at all, but that was two years after I started timing previews. This is an outlier.
- Newer movies have longer ads. Movies in the larger rooms have longer ads. IMAX, Dolby, Laser, Prime, and 3D/movies 4D have longer ads. For these movies, ads tend to run approximately 24-27 min.
- The longer the movie has been out the shorter the ad roll length.
- The studio/distributor behind the movie also matters. Indies and smaller budgets have less ads, but big studios like Disney and Sony have more. Studios like Searchlight and Focus can be deceptive as they are owned by bigger companies but they still aren’t as bad as said larger conglomerates.
TLDR: I tracked movie ad times for years and recommend showing up 15 minutes late.
- Comment on The state of YouTube history search 1 week ago:
YouTube recommendations are just as bad. I HATE YouTube. I wish more people used other platforms.
I was promised dogs. Image
- Comment on Xbox Game Pass might be getting a price hike 2 weeks ago:
Again? Didn’t they just raise the price in September?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Deportations seem to be the primary benefit of electing Trump according r/Conservative. I check periodically to see if they regret Trump yet.
Obviously, hard to tell what’s real over there.
- Comment on More than 90% of JPMorgan employees reported a decline in morale following RTO 2 weeks ago:
No worries! Ask as many questions as you like!
It affects the value of the surrounding spaces.
Example: A strip mall has a grocery store. If the grocery is active on the property, the surrounding spaces are more valuable to rent. The landlord can rent the spaces to restaurants retail stores because the grocery store has a lot of foot traffic.
If the grocery store “goes dark” or stops operating at the strip mall, the neighboring Chipotles and Game Stops lose money and close. The landlord can’t fill those spaces as easily as when the grocery store was there.
- Comment on More than 90% of JPMorgan employees reported a decline in morale following RTO 2 weeks ago:
Actually, I work in commercial real estate.
It’s not uncommon for there to be triggers on these loans that go into effect when a tenant vacates a property, even if they are still paying rent.
They direct control of their rents and they have to pay a monthly fee for management.
I can promise you, the only reason we returned to remote is luck. Our lease happened to be up at the same time our moral dropped.
Still, many of our employees cheered and celebrated the announcement. Take the wins where you can.
- Comment on More than 90% of JPMorgan employees reported a decline in morale following RTO 2 weeks ago:
My company did a forced RTO. Moral dropped. In one category, it dropped to 14%. We couldn’t hire anyone and people were quitting. Our president kept saying “We will never return to WFH.”
Less than 6 months, later we went fully remote.
- Comment on GOG store introduces one-click mods with Skyblivion coming soon 2 weeks ago:
This is good. Installing mods can be complicated for some. I love the idea of getting mods in the hands of more people.
Funny story that is semi related:
I missed Kendrick Lamar in the Super Bowl Halftime Show because my boyfriend called me to ask if I can teach him how to install “big titty mods” on The Witcher 3. Then, I spent most of the 2nd half looking up nsfw mods for games with him. 😆
- Comment on The Expanse: Osiris Reborn Announcement Trailer 2 weeks ago:
Dune and Expanse? You are my kind of people. This is a good name.
- Comment on The Expanse: Osiris Reborn Announcement Trailer 2 weeks ago:
You’ll have to have another to name Miller. Sorry I don’t make the rules.
- Comment on The Expanse: Osiris Reborn Announcement Trailer 2 weeks ago:
Is this real? Omg. I was a little disappointed with the SGF announcements so far, but this would be huge for me.
- Comment on What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews. 3 weeks ago:
Is this because Embracer sold Borderlands to Take-Two last year?
- Comment on Oh, it turns out Cyberpunk 2077 is getting one more update after all, and it's not too far away 3 weeks ago:
That’s awesome. Seems like they’ve done a lot of work now. I just need time to play it again. Being an adult is hard. Haha
- Comment on Oh, it turns out Cyberpunk 2077 is getting one more update after all, and it's not too far away 3 weeks ago:
I played when it was released. I didn’t have as many problems with it as everyone else, but I was a bit disappointed in some of the story.
I got busy and didn’t finish it. Since you just replayed it, how does it compare to the launch version? I love that whole world and I’m excited to see where it goes in the future.
