Annoyed at Warner Bros

[s_ings]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at y..., "btk6y" <btk6y at v...> wrote:> 
Secondly, if for some 
> reason I decided to go see Scooby Doo (independant of the trailers 
> attached to it), Warner's practice has disgusted me so much that I 
> would buy a ticket for a DIFFERENT movie just so that WB doesn't 
get 
> the money.  The theatre shouldn't care because they are getting $8 
> regardless.  I understand that this is not exactly following the 
> rules, per se, but I don't believe this is "stealing" (especially 
> since it costs me the same either way) but rather a form of civil 
> disobedience in response to an act of utter stupidity.  History is 
> replete with instances of people "disobeying" rules in order to 
> protest an injustice.  Is not releasing the trailer on the internet 
> really an injustice?  Of course not, and it's really not that big a 
> deal in the grand scheme of things- but neither is my buying a 
ticket 
> for a different movie so WB doesn't get the sale.  We can argue the 
> slippery slope on both sides, so don't tell me one is worse than 
the 
> other.  Studios MUST be held accountable because even though they 
are 
> dealing with money and profit, they are also handling cherished 
> institutions and art that holds a more important place in the 
public 
> consciousness, and we can't let them slide just because they THINK 
> they can make a few extra bucks.
> 

I'm going to respectfully disagree with your idea that the theatres 
shouldn't care if people buy tickets to one movie and attend another. 
Theatres pay careful attention to how many tickets are sold to a 
particular movie for a variety of reasons. Tickets sales are used as 
a basis to gauge interest and can influence whether or not movies 
move down to smaller screening rooms or leave the theatre altogether. 
And how would you feel if you bought a ticket to a movie and then 
couldn't get a seat because a number of people were in the screening 
who had not actually bought tickets to that movie? What about the 
ticket sellers who have to deal with the irate people who couldn't 
get seats in screening rooms for which they had purchased tickets in 
good faith?

Nope, I don't think that protesting against WB by doing something 
that more impact on other companies than WB is such a great idea. The 
theatres don't have anything to do with WB's decision, why do 
something  that will impact them negatively and WB less so?

Sheryll, one of the would-be harassed ticket sellers