re: Hollywood had worst summer in 17 years

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most previews these days are fricking terrible jumbled messes of random jokes and action scenes strung nonsensically together to the point that nobody even know what the frick half these movies are even about.

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This. They really are exploiting the general public's short attention span with this. Frankly, it's made most of the movies they preview seem totally fricking cheesy and formulaic. I roll my eyes at most previews.

On the subject of previews, a big part of the reason that I rarely go to the movies anymore is because there are just too god damn many of them. After you're done flushing your week's pay down the toilet on concessions, you're done with them long before the feature even starts. And to make it worse, now they're cramming commercials in before the previews. Commercials!! The lack of them was what made part of the appeal of going in the first place. Now there's 10mins of commercials, 30 minutes of previews (which just seem like the same movie over and over), and all of the drinkless, popcorn-less patrons have to piss by the time the fricking thing even starts. I'm tired of sitting in the theater so long that my arse hurts and I'm ready for the movie to end.

It's just gotten to where the negatives far outweigh the positives for me. And if they don't scale back the absurd amount of previews, they'll never fully recover.