Least favorite part of the pre-movie experience?

Trailers were great when I hadn't already seen them all on the internet. There are so damn many of them and most of them are terrible, so that's where my vote went.

You missed one...

"Let's all go to the lobby!"


It doesn't matter if ads are shown or the trailers...

It's those lazy assholes that arrive late and are not in their seats before the "movie" starts, so you can watch those hated ads or uninteresting trailers, uninterrupted if you just happened to want to see them...

And I'd like to strangle those people who arrive so late, that they have missed the start of the movie, and block my view of what I paid a bunch of money to see.

I actually do not mind the abundance of trailers before the film begins. I don't always go to Youtube to seek out these films so sometimes I'm surprised and captivated by the trailer.

Just recently , I saw the Annihilation official trailer before 12 Strong and was really blown away by it.

I'd say the lame Coke a Cola commercials can get kinda annoying before viewing my movie

I don't go to the theater any more. But for DVDs, it's the trailers, especially if you can't skip them. In the 90s, trailers were great. You'd rent a tape from Blockbuster and excitedly try to guess which movie each trailer was for as it started. Nowadays, can't wait to get past them and watch the actual movie.

I'd say the phone option. Everyone knows to turn off/put away their phone during the movie, and if they don't, then they are just ignorant and should watch the movie they paid for. Real talk.

The first option. I also agree with Drea's answer a bit too

I used to go to the movie theatre all the time, but for a while now I’ve avoided it and only gone when I’ve really wanted to see something (or I’ve just decided on a whim that I wanted to see something).

There’s a few contributing factors to what’s made the movie-going experience unpleasant/rather a chore.

Primarily, it’s the 30 minutes of ads (plus trailers) we get before the movie starts which makes going to see movies at the theatre much less fun than it used to be. It’s not an exaggeration to say the movie typically starts half an hour later than the start time the movie ticket says. If it was just trailers for other movies and a few ads, it’d be fine…but instead it’s so many ads that you think they’re never going to end (and sometimes you get the same ad multiple times).

The next most annoying thing about going to the movies is people who talk, use any form of technology (particularly annoying is seeing the light-up screens of whatever device in the otherwise dark theatre) or move around once the movie starts. The worst are children (oftentimes brought into movies they’ve got no business seeing), but older people can be just as bad – whether they’re discussing the movie, telling others they’re with what’s going to happen (because they’ve seen it before), or asking questions. Just generally making any sort of disruptive noise during the movie takes away from the enjoyment of seeing a film.

Since the question was regarding the pre-movie experience (and that’s^ more when the movie is actually on), I’d also add those times where there’s not many people in a theatre, yet still someone decides out of ALL the seats, they’re going to sit right in front of you. Luckily, it’s not too bad at the theatre I go to, as each row of seats is high enough that even if a tall person sat in front of you, you should still be able to see. But still...

I remember that when I went to go see "THE DARK KNIGHT" at the Movie Theater, There were actually 9 Movie Trailers before the Movie itself actually started.

LOL, I actually started counting them after the 5th Trailer!