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I thankfully missed the Frozen short because I was late getting to the theater but wow Coco blew me away; I thought I had the plot figured out but somehow I didn't see de la Cruz killing Hector for his songs, even though it seems really obvious in hindsight. The second rendition of Remember Me tears stream down my face after it became obvious how the plot was gonna resolve itself good movie, made me cry like I haven't in a while
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I left a showing a showing of Three Billboards at the same time a showing of Coco was getting out, and there was a little girl just belting out all the lyrics she knew from Remember Me. Which was pretty much just "remember me" over and over. Her mom looked super embarrassed, but kid was rocking it.
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The Frozen short was interminable but worth it because of the hand drawn Olaf Anna gave Elsa. I noted it was creepy, and the person I was with said, "Dear Mr. Policeman. You could have saved her." Also Coco was really good. It was simple, but everything landed.
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And of course when it's announced Disney is removing the Olaf short, all these fist-shaking Gen Xers and Baby Boomers are yelling about how ungrateful audiences are about a 'free short' and how people got no patience. Dude, most shorts do not clock in at 20 minutes, and with kids below a certain age, getting them to sit still for nearly two hours and have them be quiet is a chore for parents.
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Robindaybird posted:And of course when it's announced Disney is removing the Olaf short, all these fist-shaking Gen Xers and Baby Boomers are yelling about how ungrateful audiences are about a 'free short' and how people got no patience. Finish your plate. Das Boo posted:Quick, somebody see Coco again and count how many times they say "tradition" in the Frozen short. Tradition! Tradition Tradition! ........Tradition!
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Dec 4, 2017 03:16
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The last time a movie ever got a short 20 minutes long was Pokemon the Movie with Pikachu's Summer Vacation, and even that had an excuse because it was actually tied to the movie.
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Also the main movie was only an hour and 15 minutes, so the overall time in theater is still a reasonable hour and a half or so.
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Beachcomber posted:Finish your plate Save money by making less food
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You know, it's not that the short is 20 minutes that bothers me. It's that it's terrible.
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Robindaybird posted:And of course when it's announced Disney is removing the Olaf short, all these fist-shaking Gen Xers and Baby Boomers are yelling about how ungrateful audiences are about a 'free short' and how people got no patience  Almost the same happened here in mexico. Lots of suddenly super fans of Frozen coming out of nowhere to call everyone boring and bitter meany people for not forcefully liking sitting 20 minutes to watch a "short" with a mediocre script and songs.
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Beachcomber posted:Tradition! Tradition Tradition! ........Tradition!
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Das Boo posted:You know, it's not that the short is 20 minutes that bothers me. Yeah, when those people are "But what about Prince and the Pauper or Mickey's Christmas Carol?" the response was "THEY DIDN'T SUCK and Prince and the Pauper had an intermission between it and the movie proper" The movie is an hour and 15, but throw in a 20 minute short and 10-15 minutes of trailers, don't be a dick reminders and commercials it adds up to edging the two hour mark. I don't know about where you guys are at, but for Wonder Woman I had to sit through nearly 20 minutes of ads before the film started, and we went in right when it's scheduled.
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Dec 4, 2017 06:12
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And then, worst of all, you had to see Wonder Woman.
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Pick posted:And then, worst of all, you had to see Wonder Woman. You shut your whore mouth, if I had said Justice League you have every right to say that.
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Dec 4, 2017 06:22
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I didn't mind the Frozen short all that much, but we also had just one Incredibles 2 teaser for previews so time-wise we broke about even.
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Barudak posted:Save money by making less food Sorry, I was making fun of the "more is always better" attitude I've always experienced in my authority figures. One of these days I'll remember that I always add one tradition too many. 
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Frozen's The Lottery: Troubled by a childhood devoid of tradition, Queen Elsa introduces a new holiday to the people of Arendelle.
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Robindaybird posted:The movie is an hour and 15, but throw in a 20 minute short and 10-15 minutes of trailers, don't be a dick reminders and commercials it adds up to edging the two hour mark. Yeah, back when shorts before movies were common, the trailer/commercial block wasn't anywhere near as long as it is now. These days only a Pixar-length short really makes sense. A 20-minute short along with at least 10 minutes of ads almost adds up to half the length of the actual movie, which is pretty crazy.
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Wait, there are some places where there's a commercials that play at the actual showtime? Every theater I've ever been to will play commercials but they stop once it's the showtime and trailers begin.
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In all my cinema experience, the start time advertised is the start of the programme. This consists of adverts, then trailers, then the movie. So the movie itself may be some 20 minutes after the advertised start time. If that’s not how it is for you, I guess you’re lucky?
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Detective No. 27 posted:Wait, there are some places where there's a commercials that play at the actual showtime? Every theater I've ever been to will play commercials but they stop once it's the showtime and trailers begin. In my country is like, if you get too early, you get to hear some special recorded radio show, then when it's the time for the movie to start usually comes one small "news" segment, then the ads (from mayo, to cinema festivals, to political parties), then you got the trailer block, and then the movie. The movies always start like 15-20 minutes after the time given in your ticket. So yes, lots of people were irritated of another 20 minutes of something they didn't want to watch.
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The_Doctor posted:So the movie itself may be some 20 minutes after the advertised start time. Same here in Australia, although recently it's been creeping closer to 30 minutes.
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Yup, I went to a 10 PM Coco showing, arrived a few minutes after and still had time to get a drink and shoot the poo poo for 20 minutes. And when we went in, the Frozen short was still going. e: Oh! I have to add that as we were hanging out in front of the theater (showing room, not the building), we watched a woman come out, look at the room's header, then walk off in the direction of the lobby. Five minutes later, she returned and went back into the theater. 
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The AMC I usually go to generally stops the commercials at the stated start time, but previews can last 20+ minutes from that point, so adding a 20 minute short on top of that is just too much. I usually look forward to the shorts before Disney or Pixar stuff, but Olaf's Whatever is exactly the wrong combination of mediocre and overlong, so that it detracts from, rather than adds to, the overall experience. I'm tempted to go see Coco again since I found out my local theater is doing some showings in Spanish, so it's a relief to hear they're ditching it.
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AMC sucks. Whenever possible I go to my local corner theater which doesn't play ads at all and has like 2-3 trailers before the movie, but they can't show everything with only 4 projectors so sometimes it's not an option.
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Anybody else get a chuckle out of the end credits last scene of Coco, someone decided to put their pet Husky in there.
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:AMC sucks. Whenever possible I go to my local corner theater which doesn't play ads at all and has like 2-3 trailers before the movie, but they can't show everything with only 4 projectors so sometimes it's not an option. My local AMC is the best theater in town, so 
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my theater is part of a local chain, so they end up making sales by higher quality than norm food and lots and lots of local ads (I think if I end up running into one of the local law firms I may end up instinctively smacking their smug faces after having it burned into my retinas
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One of the best parts of the Frozen backlash backlash is old-timers mentioning the long shorts before Rescuers and Rescuers Down Under. Yes, there were 20-minute shorts tied to those too - but Disney ADDED AN INTERMISSION before starting the feature film. I usually love the Disney shorts, to the extent that I was pissed Zootopia didn't have one beforehand, too. I think that minute-long "guys this is how hard we worked on this" segment after Frozen but before Coco was meant to be a palate cleanser.
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My friends kept joking that the Frozen short was there to provide the necessary amount of whiteness to ease the audience into a film with no white characters?!
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Das Boo posted:My friends kept joking that the Frozen short was there to provide the necessary amount of whiteness to ease the audience into a film with no white characters?! chances are reasonably good that this is literally the point
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CRINDY posted:One of the best parts of the Frozen backlash backlash is old-timers mentioning the long shorts before Rescuers and Rescuers Down Under. Yes, there were 20-minute shorts tied to those too - but Disney ADDED AN INTERMISSION before starting the feature film. yeah, and they apparently forgot what it's like to get a kid under the age of eight to stay still and quiet - I've been in an Imax show of Prisoner of Azkaban (twice, since first time they had a glitch where the sound completely cut out before the shrieking shack segment and couldn't get it back so free tickets to a different showing), anyways, both times, had younger kids in the audience that started to get antsy about 3/4ths of the way in with either starting to loudly ask questions or parents having to yank them back into their seats or tell them to stop kicking seats, etc.
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CRINDY posted:I think that minute-long "guys this is how hard we worked on this" segment after Frozen but before Coco was meant to be a palate cleanser. We didn't get anything like that, it just went immediately from Frozen to Coco.
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Das Boo posted:My friends kept joking that the Frozen short was there to provide the necessary amount of whiteness to ease the audience into a film with no white characters?! Shadow Hog posted:The minute-long what
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Man the Frozen short must be awful. I went to the theater today and there was a notice on the door for Coco warning people about the short and telling them when it would be over in relation to the start time if they wanted to skip it. I hope they replace it with something rather than just axing it though
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glam rock hamhock posted:Man the Frozen short must be awful. I went to the theater today and there was a notice on the door for Coco warning people about the short and telling them when it would be over in relation to the start time if they wanted to skip it. It's about as bad as Coco is good. edit: imagine twenty straight minutes of characters singing with some bad jokes mixed in and you've got the entire experience.
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It's not that bad. It's about on par with a mediocre Christmas special for little kids. I would have still sat through this as opposed to an equivalent time in trailers. The real issue is that it's 20 minutes long, and apparently a lot of theaters ran trailers too.
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https://i.imgur.com/q0vW9nZ.mp4
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Pants Donkey posted:It's not that bad. It's about on par with a mediocre Christmas special for little kids.
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IronicDongz posted:Which is to say, pretty bad, especially in context. Yeah, I kinda expect more from a Disney theatrical short than, say, A Very Skeletor Christmas.
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