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Topic: Stupid Showtimes (AKA You Suck: Outing bad showtime schedulers)
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Eric Hooper
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From: Fort Worth, TX, USA
Registered: May 2003
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posted 08-10-2005 02:54 PM
I called the REG/UA Berkeley 7 on Tuesday to inquire about showtimes for Skeleton Key on Friday, since a group of us are going to see it and the showtimes weren't on Fandango yet. I was told 5:00, 7:40, 10:20. Sounds great, right.
Fandango (and other websites) now have showtimes for the weekend up and here's the 'new' schedule:
Deuce Bigalow 12:30pm |1:30pm |2:40pm |3:40pm |4:50pm |5:50pm |7:00pm |8:00pm |9:40pm |10:10pm Ok, so showing on two screens, but with over an hour intermission between the 7 and the 9:40?
Four Brothers 2:30pm |5:00pm |7:45pm |10:20pm Empty useless wasted auditorium until 2:30
Wedding Crashers 2:00pm |4:40pm |7:40pm |10:30pm Ok.
Dukes Of Hazzard 2:10pm |3:15pm |5:45pm |7:30pm |8:15pm |10:45pm Sharing one screen with Batman, but the other screen is empty and wasted until 3:15..
Batman 4:30pm |10:00pm Sharing one screen with Dukes
and finally... Skeleton Key 1:10pm |4:10pm |7:10pm |10:40pm No mid evening show scheduled with almost an hour and forty minutes with the auditorium just sitting there empty and wasted from about 9pm until 10:40pm. Also, hello, people want to go to dinner first sometimes. They've effectively made their showtimes so unattractive to attend, and they're also wasting the whole auditorium during prime time with it just sitting there empty.
Who makes up these schedules? What a bunch of idiots. Crack kills.
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Jason Whyte
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From: Victoria, BC, Canada
Registered: Sep 2002
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posted 08-10-2005 10:45 PM
Eric,
Yeah that 7:10 to 10:40 split for Skeleton Key is baffling. It's about a 105 minute movie so why not set the second one for 9:50 or even 10?
What I find incredibly irritating is theaters that schedule so much dead space in their afternoon shows, sometimes so much so that an entire showtime can be fit in the middle of it! Years ago, a cinema in Vancouver had a 88 minute movie with the following showtimes:
12:20-4:50-7:30-9:50
The 12:20 show ended around 2:00 and there was no sharing product, so there was TWO HOURS and FIFTY minutes inbetween shows! There could have easily been a 2:30 scheduled show. I think the reason being was that they had longer movies starting around noon or so, but still...
Another oddity I saw a few years back:
A mutliplex here in Victoria had 2 Fast 2 Furious scheduled at the following times:
12:30, 1:50, 3:45, 4:45, 7:00, 7:40, 9:50 and 10:30
No problemo, right? Here's how the screens were assigned when I got to the cinema (EDIT: I should mention here that I was seeing another film):
Screen #5 - 1:50, 4:45, 7:00 and 9:50 Screen #8 - 12:30, 3:45, 7:40 and 10:30
Rather odd that the first set of showtimes run into the second, and vice versa, and only about a 15 minute break between the 4:45 and 7:00 show and a TWO hour break for the other one! I double-checked this with the box office and it was confirmed as correct!
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Monte L Fullmer
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From: Nampa, Idaho, USA
Registered: Nov 2004
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posted 08-10-2005 11:59 PM
Okey - try this one out for size and see what you think on this one:
Opening 12:00 set for a six-plex are: 12:00, 12:05,12:10,12:20,12:25 and 12:30. = people in, people out. A mad rush to the snakbar (and they wonder why their percap is low...)
Using the same scheduling format for the 4:00 sets are: 4:25, 4:30, 4:35,4:40, 4:45, 4:50 and 4:55 <-which this one is the most "gay-assed" showtime to use. Why not go to 5:00???
Then the most "ballsy" one is for the 9:00pm set:
9:30, 9:35:,9:40,9:45,9:50 and the "gay-assed" one at 9:55pm. The six-plex doesn't believe in 10pm showtimes, so the 9:55 one pops up.
Like-a...Where's the time for snakbar sales to happen? "Hey people! your percap sucks with these crammed in showtimes!"
It's hell to start shows like this - being 5 minutes apart. You screw up one house, the others are going to be behind.
-Monte
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