The time between "showtime" and when the movie actually starts

They opened a store in New Haven, with an indoor ropes course. I heard from my niece that, even after the store had been open for months, the wait for the ropes course was over an hour. And this is in a furniture store.

20-25 minutes is par for the course here, though I don’t mind it because it’s all trailers and no commericals after the listed show time (or, well, non-movie commercials - I like trailers for the most part). I see most of my movies in and around Boston as well, and am a big fan of the shift to nicer & reserved seating. It’s nice enough that I actively avoid the AMC downtown, since they haven’t done that update there. The AMC Stubs program also makes the online order fees not an issue, and pays for itself very quickly.

Let’s all go to the lobby…

Damn you! Now I’ve got the earworm complete with dancing snacks!

I have no idea but my mind could definitely lead me in some reasonable directions.

I really just wanted to say thank you. I’m a punctual person and now I know that 2:30 showing actually means about 2:45-3pm. Now I don’t have to be so adamant in my punctuality for movies in my area.

But the previews are usually pretty darn enticing, don’t you think? My problem is I wanna see them all but I don’t have the money, and that makes me want to skip the previews.

I watch movies in the cinema about 2-3 times a month here in Japan. Trailer and promotions run about 10-15 minutes as both domestic and international films get some time. One cool thing here is most theaters have the ending time and/or film runtime listed as well.

The Imax screen at Pacific Science Center doesn’t show any trailers before mainstream movies, but then they’re a non-profit and they’re probably bringing in enough from ticket sales that they don’t need the trailer money.

The Cinerama in Seattle only shows a few trailers before each movie, but that place is one of Paul Allen’s pet projects.

There’s a chain of theaters (primarily) in the LA area called Arclight Cinemas. One thing they’ve been doing since their inception is having exactly three movie previews before each main feature. No ads, nothing else. Just those three previews. I haven’t timed it, but that can’t be more than seven or eight minutes off of the scheduled start time. The chain gets a LOT of things right in how they approach the theater experience differently, and that’s definitely on the list.

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Not generally. Sometimes I see one I enjoy, but a lot are more violent than what I want to watch, and others are annoying in other ways. (Especially some for kids shows.)

I saw WW yesterday, and I walked into a 3:40 showing at 3:39 and the trailers were already running. They ran, and ran, and ran. They ended with what must have been 5 or 10 min. of teaser for Dunkirk, which so totally confused me because it acted like it was the real movie. A movie that should have been over at 6:00 pm ended at about 6:20 or so. Yikes.

Trouble is, the morons realize there’s an increasing delay before the start of the movie, and dawdle even longer before showing up.

I should talk - My alarm clock time is set ahead with the justification that it keeps me from being late (it’s crept up to 25 minutes fast now), but I allow for that when setting the alarm. :rolleyes: