I hadn't been to the movies in many moons but OF COURSE I had to get my tushy to the theater and see the movie event of the decade: WICKED. I wasn't waiting for that bad boy to come out on streaming services. It was made for the big screen.

Since I hadn't been to the movies in awhile, I was shocked to my core at the amount of previews. It hit the half hour mark after the start time and I lost track of how many movie trailers we sat through. And it wasn't just movie trailers! We saw everything from a T-Mobile commercial to Post Malone eating Sweet Chili Doritos.

I shrugged it off and thought maybe this is just what going to the movies looks like in this post Covid world. They have to keep the lights on somehow. My popcorn was half gone by the time the movie started but it was all worth it in the end. What a masterpiece!

But this is not a movie review of Wicked (but if it were, this critic gives the film two very enthusiastic thumbs up) we are talking about ACTUAL start times for movies at a movie theater, not the time the previews start.

Should it be required for movie theaters to list actual start times of movies?

According to Stamford Advocate, a Connecticut state senator named Martin Looney feels pretty passionately on how how much time we are sitting in movie theaters before the actual film begins.

He goes as far as to call it an "abuse of people's time."

He has introduced a bill that would require movie theaters to list the actual start time of the movie.

A movie theater owner in Stamford, Connecticut didn't love the idea and pointed out that these are challenging times for movie theaters and they rely on those ads for revenue. If we made it easier for people to SKIP those ads then companies would be less likely to pay for them as a result.

What do you think? Watching a half hour of trailers is indeed annoying. However, if it means the preservation of movie theaters in general, we can all suck it up, can't we?

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