what are ethical issues involved in showing 20 min of commercials before screening of the movie that we paid for.
2007-07-24 11:13:23 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Movie theaters make NO money from the admission price. It all goes straight to the producers of the film. So that is why you pay $10 for popcorn and have to watch forevers worth of previews, since that is where all their income comes from.
i always just show up like 15min late to every movie. I haven't miss the opening of a film yet.
2007-07-24 11:23:06 · answer #1 · answered by ohno 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are confusing the theatre with the film you are there to watch. The theatre makes no money from the 20 minute ad; no one does really. The ad usually promotes films being released by the same studio, so at the end, there's a net zero.
Also, even if different production companies pay the studios for the previews, who is to say that if they didn't have those ads that the $10.00 movie you are watching wouldn't go up to $12.00? When you are paying actors $20 million a movie, and then you think about the 100's of other actors that need to be paid, plus all the people that aren't in the movie, but work every bit as hard as the actors to make your experience wonderful.
Besides, are you saying you don't LIKE to see what's coming up to be released?
2007-07-24 11:25:11 · answer #2 · answered by Amber 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm sure you could ask what time the actual movie starts and just show up then. You aren't required to watch the commercials since they still let you in the theater at any time. Basically, they are giving you a general time the movie will start, and you are paying money to access the theater at any time during that. I don't see an ethical problem with that.
2007-07-24 11:18:26 · answer #3 · answered by Take it from Toby 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As long as the listed start time of the movie actually reflects the start time & not the beginning of the commercials I see no problem as there is nothing wrong with playing what they want between movies.
Otherwise it's false advertising & there has been a lawsuit over false start times but I'm not sure how it turned out.
2007-07-24 11:25:04 · answer #4 · answered by modernneanderthal 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most of the movie trailers come packaged on the film -- and are chosen by the movie's distributor -- most are not chosen by the cinema, and the cinema is contractually required to show them.
So, unless you can make the argument that you have never before encountered movie ads before a film and thus were unfairly surprised to encounter them now -- and somehow I doubt that you could honestly say that --- there is no legal claim.
2007-07-24 11:32:28 · answer #5 · answered by coragryph 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
this is not an ETHICAL situation... that's like saying it's unethical to FORCE us to watch commercials during a tv show on cable that we also pay for... they need to make $. it's a business.
2007-07-24 11:21:19 · answer #6 · answered by cat 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The same reason people pay for cable TV and also get ads, business that plebs like us put up with.
2007-07-24 11:24:51 · answer #7 · answered by Terry 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What's the difference between that and plopping down $5.00 for a magazine that is full of ads?
2007-07-24 11:23:44 · answer #8 · answered by wyllow 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ya know if thoes idiots could just shove a little more product placements into every film they could cut the crap out...
2007-07-24 13:56:17 · answer #9 · answered by Michael B 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
thats why I sneak in the theater
2007-07-24 11:17:07 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋