I have no idea what movies are coming out. I’ve also stopped caring. I don’t even go to the movie theater. Why bother when everything’s so expensive there and the movies aren’t even that good?
When I see ads for a movie it’s usually when it’s in the theaters which I do not go to anymore because it’s too expensive and I really don’t want to be in a dark room with a bunch of people coughing and generally being annoying for that long. So I think “that looks cool” and then forget about it before it comes out on streaming. This leads to me ultimately not watching movies at all anymore.
When i say that i block ads, i of course mean uBlock and shit, but i also literally block them out of my head when i encounter them.
I do not consent to my energy and brainpower being hijacked by corporations.
Exactly. Mute the TV, ignore the screen, turn away until is done. I don’t need someone I don’t know telling me stuff I don’t care about.
Thanks to my adblocking and no-live-TV lifestyle these days, I don’t ever see ads and have absolutely no clue what’s coming out unless a friend tells me about it.
If it’s something remarkable, then I’ll learn about it through social osmosis. Other things I might notice months or years after the fact.
I’m totally fine with this :)
Compared to when I was 14 and watched the trailer for Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers about a million times getting massively hyped after having committed to downloading the high quality version on a dial-up modem.
I’m in the same exact boat, but I do miss movie hype and trailers. It was a sort of marketing I didn’t mind at all. 20-years ago I’d go to Apple trailers and see what was going on. Now I’m clueless. The article reminded me of quite a few movies I need to download.
I only knew about Longlegs and Weapons because I saw a bit of hype on lemmy. Who knows what I’m missing? Forgot about One Battle After Another, but I really want to see it. Marty Supreme might be pretty cool, but the ads never made it to my face.
That sounds like a good thing, but again, I didn’t mind movie marketing. It’s just that we’re so fucking inundated with ads that people like you and I turned it all off. Sad state of affairs.
I remember going to a movie for s friend’s birthday when i was 8 and we all lost our shit seeing the trailer for Revenge of the Sith. But all the movies coming to theaters now are shit so i never go to any movies, which also means i have no clue how to figure out when a good movie is actually coming to the theater.
I block ads everywhere I can, then get frustrated that I don’t know when movies are going to come out.
It would be nice if we could get back to a place where advertisers just wanted to tell us about products in case we are interested rather than stalk us like some kind of a psychotic ex-lover hoping to build the perfect psychological profile to Make us love their product whether we want to or not.
I tend to refer to them as informational Vs conditioning ads.
Informational are actually useful. They let you know a company exists, or a new product is available.
The conditioning ads are the evil ones. They are basically hacking your brain. We often shop based on familiarity, rather than logic. We weigh seeing a product in an ad at almost the same level as a friend recommending it. Throw enough ads at someone and they default to “all my friends recommend it, it must be good.”
I would love to either block or ban conditioning adverts, without also banning informational ones. The former are a lot more slippery at trying to bypass blocks.
Maybe your local cinema has a newsletter or something you can follow
I just go to rotten tomatoes every now and then
Same. Unfortunately I’m very forgetful and the distance between now and then is often greater than the release window of that movie I want to watch.
stop being sensible
That… Is not how targeted advertising works
dd not care
Was listening to a podcast the other day where the host was talking about how we now live in a polyculture.
Long gone are the days when everyone knew most of the things that were going on, when local venues would throw posters on every available surface to let locals know that an event was happening. That costs money and they have less money because people are going out less, so venues set up Facebook and Instagram pages, so unless you follow them you’ll not know what’s happening.
The end result is that we all have our own individual cultures, where someone can be absolutely huge, but the majority of people have never heard of them. The host used himself as an example. It was Blindboy, talking about how he can sell out a massive venue in Dublin for a recording of his podcast, but most people in Dublin will have no idea who he is.
And yeah, it’s kind of a headfuck.
I used to know what movies were coming out, but I got older, the movies got dumber, I got more cynical, and so did the movies. And now I don’t really give a shit. My mate shares his Plex with me, and has a robust arr stack, so my method of discovery is largely to see what pops up in the newly added section of his library.
I honestly don’t remember the last time I saw an ad that wasn’t like a narrated part of a YouTube video made by the person who created it. It’s been a long time and I don’t miss them.
If you don’t have it already, check out sponsorblock. It’s a community driven database of ad read timestamps so they can be skipped automatically. (It also tracks other things such as intro songs, self promotions, and others but I just use it for the paid promotion skipping)
Can’t read the article without giving them my email address so they can send me spam.
Maybe no one knows what movies are coming out because the high-quality information is behind paywalls and the low-quality information is either blocked or ignored due to volume.
If they want me to know about their movies, they’ll run informative, on-topic ads without tucking them behind a paywall and without drowning them out in a sea of other less-relevent ads.
At one point AV Club had a weekly print edition that had decent movie and music reviews. I miss having a go-to place like to learn about new media
Internet article used to be accessible. Now it’s just impossible.
Way too many adds everywhere and mostly horribly bad and uninteresting movies coming out. It’s not that hard to grasp, why people don’t care anymore.
A lot of that is just the death of mono culture
I get all my movie ads right here on PieFed!
