I'd be okay with trailers being at the end. Which according to wikipedia is where the word originally came from. Would also like the alcohol ads to be dropped, but thats a general pet peeve.

More people need to go to independent theaters. All the ones near me start the trailers early and the movies on time.

AMC recently added a disclaimer on their website that movies will start 20-25 minutes after the scheduled time, if that helps.

I'm always late so.. I kinda appreciate the ads

Also the reason cinemas died. Overpriced seats, overpriced snacks, no security, ads, and you even share the place.

OH and the threat that filming along lands you in jail as a warning/movie.

Im glad cinemas are dead.

I live pretty close to my local theatre, say a 5 minute drive if that should traffic allow.

I typically like seeing movie trailers before a film so I don’t mind a little padding but the commercials before hand are ridiculous.

Back to my point, today I went to see Whalefall and incorrectly remembered the start time, I thought it was at 1:30, it was technically a start time of 1:20. I left my place at 1:20, got to the place at 1:30, parked, had my tickets scanned, and walked in to the theatre and we were perfectly on time to sit down right as the feature was beginning.

So it’s a good 10-15 minutes of front loaded crap before the actual movie starts. And that’s if you get there right at the supposed start time.

I don't think you should pay for a movie and see ads.

When i worked in a cinema we used to tell people, "the film itself is on the screen at..." One projectionist used to marvel that people were still late, and sometimes thought that was when the ads started. I concluded that people were so used to that practice that the word "itself" was not enough on its own to make people realise what we meant. I generally added, "ads and trailers start at..." to hopefully avoid that.

I always wondered if there was any rule against this as obviously it would cut into ad viewings. The distributor occasionally sends someone round to check the cinema is reporting their tickets sold correctly (to pay them correctly) and I wondered if they ever rang up to book and check nothing like that happened!

It was a while after I stopped working there that they joined the 21st century and had online bookings at all.

I like his solution: no assigned seating, you want the best seats? Sit through the ads. Seems like a reasonable compromise.