Friday, July 28, 2006

The evils of the movie theater

Why is it that I pay to go see a movie to sit and be bombarded by advertisements? Just recently I went to see a movie in the theater which I was very excited to see. I was not disappointed with the movie but having to sit through 15 minutes of commercials really bothered me. Now don't get me wrong, I enjoy the previews for the most part and look forward to watching a few, but watching 6 commercials for smaco-cola is a bit much don't you think? I mean come on you walk in the theater and are bombarded by advertisements. You pay for your tickets and again are staring face to face with yet more advertisements. You sit in the theater waiting for the movie to start and get watch slide-show style ads. After that you get to watch 15 minutes of commercials from everything from shampoo, the "coolest" car in the world and 6 ads for a certain brand of cola that we dare not mention but you all know which one I'm talking about. Who in the hell's bright idea was it to start showing commercials when I've paid my hard earned money to go and watch a movie. Don't you think we have enough advertising now? How many billboards do you pass a day driving to and from work? How many commercials do you see when you get? Well for those of you who are too lazy to look or are just too stupid to figure out how to use google on a type day the average person sees between 400 and 600 ads. If you take into account the normal life expectancy of us mere humans that adds up to over 40,000,000 (yes that's 40 million) ads in our lifetimes. What really gets me is that most of the advertisements are unsolicited. I don't care how great the latest tampon is. I don't care if you feel fresh or not. Why do these bastards think that any of us actually care about this shit? I don't go running around buying shit just because some asshole on the TV said it was the greatest thing since sliced bread. Does anybody? Ok, so I got a bit off track but you see my point. With all the advertising that is spent in this country don't you think that's enough? Can't I go to a movie and just watch a movie? I don't want to buy your products, I don't want to support your business, I don't care about you. Just let me watch a God Damn movie in peace you bastards.