Dear to Whom It May Concern:
Yesterday I had the misfortune of seeing "Batman: The Dark Knight" at one of your Carmike megaplexes, specifically the one in Cranberry Township, north of beautiful downtown Pittsburgh. I have no beef with the movie, but I take exception to the amount of time we were forced before the movie started to endure commercials and movie previews. Twenty-six, count 'em, 26!, minutes of ads for stuff that I will now forever boycott, followed by an endless string of movie trailers that I will not even netflix because I am that pissed off.
What ghoul in marketing thinks that it's a good idea to subject a movie-goer to this amount of tripe? I despise these advertising fiends. I'm willing to sit through a reasonable amount of crap before the main feature rolls, but edging close to half an hour of forced viewing is ridiculous. Why not list the start time of the movie as 1pm instead of 12:30pm?
I realize that I am not the first person to gripe on this subject, and I doubt I'll be the last, but I do want to make Carmike aware that this is effecting my willingness to go to one of their theaters to see a movie. In fact, when I go to see "The X-Files" movie this weekend I am actively avoiding going to Carmike. I'm just not that thrilled by Coke and JC Penney commercials, especially the latter's idiotic rip-off of "The Breakfast Club", to throw a half an hour of my life down a blackhole of suckiness.
Anyway, have a great day, and if I believed in hell I'd tell you all to go there.
Cordially,
jennifer
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