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Author Topic: Why all the "Movietunes" hate?? Dean Kollet Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 591 From: Florida State University Registered: Jul 2003 posted 11-23-2004 10:46 AM                     they are doing that right now with 'selections of songs' from the Spongebob movie.  |  IP: Logged Frank Angel Film God Posts: 5305 From: Brooklyn NY USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 11-23-2004 01:41 PM                        If your theatre would have to raise ticket prices or possibly even go out of business if it stopped playing MovieTunes, then, heads up, it's either got really poor management that doesn't know much about the business or the demographics, or the operation is simply being used to grind out as much profit as it can to then be thrown away after it's been run into the ground. Thing is, if MovieTunes is the turning point by which a theatre is keeping afloat or even keeping the ticket price competitive, then that theatre is in big trouble and it shouldn't be operating at all, or it won't be very soon. Believe me, contracting MovieTunes is not keeping any theatre from going under. And just for the record, I am a customer, and like Mark, I DISPISE MOVIETUNES!, so now you've heard TWO patrons complain about it, and I bet if you took the time to ask, you'd find a lot more who hate it too. Like I said, if I wanted to listen to a radio with a droning, half-wit DJ, there are a dozen stations I could turn on; I don't need to be subjected to it when I go to the movies. What makes anyone think people prefer to sit there and listen to 15 min of one continuous ad? Does management actually believe that the theatres that play this crap are more attractive....that a patron might choose the one that has MovieTunes over one that doesn't? So if it is not a marketing device, then why?....expecially if it has the potential to annoy at least some patrons? Or perhaps management thinks if they play something really obnoxious before the movie, it would drive me out to the concessions stand. Possibly. At least on the radio I can turn to another station or turn it off if I don't like what I am hearing. MovieTunes HAS NO FREAKIN OFF SWITCH! What MovieTunes has the potential to do, unfortunately, is to simply add another nail in the coffin and give moviegoers one more reason why they'd rather wait for the DVD and see the movie in the comfort of their own home theatre where THERE IS NO MOVIETUNES PLAYING!  |  IP: Logged Chase Hanson Expert Film Handler Posts: 172 From: San Diego, CA Registered: Oct 2004 posted 11-25-2004 04:31 AM                     I wonder if anyone would notice if I made a completely custom play disk with appropriate Rick Allen douchebag voice overs and tried to pass it off as Movietunes.  |  IP: Logged Ever Gonzalez Film Handler Posts: 29 From: San Diego, CA Registered: Oct 2004 posted 11-26-2004 01:41 AM                     I have been reading stuff on Film-Tech for a long time now. Never did register till recently. Anywayz... Back when I was just a projectionist we programmed the CD changer to play that song "Gonna Make Your Body Scream" by Busta Rymes featuring Janet Jackson, then a song or two of Destiney's Child, then the Movie Tunes CD played (one track only CD) and then two more songs from the Destiney's Child CD. Nobody noticed for a month. Good times! Anybody remember Billy Gilman on Movie Tunes? Awfule.  |  IP: Logged Jason Gazaille Film Handler Posts: 46 From: San Diego, CA, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 11-26-2004 01:47 AM                     What really bugs me about Movietunes is that we never get them on time, so the Christmas music plays until the middle of January. Our last disc wasn't even mailed until 1 day before the playdate. I guess since we don't have commercials on ours, they don't care if we get them on time. And no, I didn't go to the movies when Billy Gilman was on there. That was before I started working with you guys, Ever  |  IP: Logged Brent Neal Jones Expert Film Handler Posts: 211 From: Ennis, T.X., USA Registered: Nov 2001 posted 11-26-2004 07:34 AM                     Sponge Bob...SPONGE BOB! YES!!! I love it.... "Are you ready kids" "Yeh!!" "I can't heer yoooo!"  |  IP: Logged Eric Webb Film Handler Posts: 40 From: Atlanta GA Registered: Oct 2004 posted 12-18-2004 01:10 PM                     Most of the time they have good songs on movie tunes its just that working at a 16-plex you just hear it over and over every hour  |  IP: Logged

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