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- From: pashley@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Montykins)
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- Subject: Re: Why no cartoons before movies???
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- Date: 22 Nov 92 08:52:43 GMT
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- In article <By3KF4.3nK@world.std.com>, andyi@world.std.com (Andy G Ihnatko) writes:
- >
- >1) Because if they make each showing longer (even by only ten minutes) then
- > they probably won't be able to schedule as many daily showings as they
- > would like to. This in itself is why movies that run longer than 150
- > minutes are extremely rare.
- >
-
- Quite true. For instance, Malcolm X, at 201 minutes (Spike! Learn to
- EDIT!), ten of which is closing credits (Love that shot of Cos in an
- X hat), can only be shown a maximum of three times in a normal
- theater's day (defined here as the day which the theater where I
- work stays open. Movies start from about 12:00 noon to about 10:30).
-
- As a result, _many_ theaters showing Malcolm are showing it on two
- screens, just to get up to five showings a day.
-
- >2) Because shorts themselves cost money, and theaters are (alledgedly)
- > being run on short margins these days.
- >
-
- Yup. Remember, the money you pay for your ticket goes _straight_
- like a bullet into the movie company's coffers. The theater gets
- nothing out of it. All the profit has to come from the concession
- counter.
-
- >3) Because theater operators are cheap lousy stinking no-good rat-fink
- > bastards.
- >
-
- Well, now, I wouldn't say that [note ObAnimation Warner Bros.
- Reference]. Being a managerial-type, I _am_ an
- "operator". And, in a chain, the managers have no control. It's all
- the home office, man.
-
- Here's a few other reasons:
-
- 4) Nobody's _making_ shorts anymore. Sometimes a movie will have
- something attached (Like 3 Ninjas and the execrable "He's Bonkers!"
- or a Roger Rabbit cartoon), but that's it.
-
- 5) It's more profitable to rent out the screen to advertisements
- from local car dealers.
-
- 6) Don't be foolish. The cartoons were _never_ shown between the
- movies. They were shown at the _beginning_ of the movies. Dopey
- elevator music has been around quite awhile.
-
- -Paul "Monty" Ashley
- (Three and a half hours! Longer than JFK! Only 30 minutes shorter
- than Gandhi, which had an _intermission_!)
- >
- >-- Andy Ihnatko
- > andyi@world.std.com
-
-
- --
- All just the opinions of pashley@sdcc13.ucsd.edu.
-