I might sound a bit nostalgic, but seriously: A short film before the main feature would be a fantastic extra. It would also help reduce annoying commercials, which bother a lot of people.
Moreover, it would benefit cinemas as venues. If the main feature turns out to be bad, for example, a Looney Tunes short could at least save the chinema trip, either completely or partially. This could give cinemas, which are currently struggling, a chance to improve their image. Furthermore, the 2020 Looney Tunes shorts feel modern and have a great runtime.
What's your opinion on this? I think the cinema experience would be better that way.
by Judokos
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This past summer when I saw HTTYD at a drive-in they played a little Bugs Bunny/Tazmanian Devil short before the film began.
Theaters need less stuff before the movie its already ridiculous. 20 mins of trailers ads for the theater ads for the food etc….play the darn movie
Why would it reduce commercials? They’re not playing those for entertainment
While I had pleasant surprises with some short filmes in the past, ultimately I think we should let people watch what they wanna watch instead of forcing a “try this” approach.
They still do this at times like disney had mickey mouse get a horse in front of frozen, pixar used to have one in front of every pixar movie. Minions, the bad guys and simpsons had a few in front of movies. Ninja turtles short was in front of last spongebob movie and spongebob had a short in front of smurfs and a super mario 3 80s short was in front of the limited mario movie 90s rerelease. Cartoon network had two dexters lab shorts in the 90s and 2000s. Frozen had 3 shorts so far. Moana and tangled had a short each.
Theatrical shorts are still a thing in front of animated movies. For live action movies, I don’t think they’re a good fit anymore. Back in the past you could only see Looney tunes shorts at the theater, either in front of movies/serials or apart of children’s matinees. Nowadays you have many options to watch these shorts online or through dvd collections. Also having an unrelated animated short in front of, say, Supergirl would be confusing to a lot of people.
They still do them for children’s films. There’s a ninja turtles one in front of SpongeBob.
Would be cute. Wonder if Sony will attach that new KPDH short they made to GOAT?
Yes, because that would have helped Elio (s)
Why they certainly should. Doesn’t Pixar still do it?
When a movie starts at a certain hour, it usually starts 15-20 min later due to local commercials, national commercials and finally trailers. And the cinema gets paid for these commercials. Now you want to top that off with another 10min shortfilm? I’d rather have a short intermission when a movie is over 2,5 hours long.
Honestly, I think people are just there for the movie these days. Sure, in 1940, you wanted to spend the whole day at the movies and get the news about the War and shit, but people these days don’t go to movies to see Bugs Bunny first. Most kids don’t even give a shit about him.
I would personally enjoy shorts, but theatres make no money on that, and I’d most prefer the movie just starting earlier. Maybe they could put shorts in the pre-show before the official start time, as they don’t often put ads there so much.
Really my ideal experience is movie start time is 8pm. At 8pm trailers start immediately, show maybe 3-5 trailers, begin movie at 8:10.
depends on the movie, if it is over 2 hours then no.
Worked at a cinema years ago, and honestly the best thing about Journey 2 the mysterious island, was the Daffy Duck short beforehand
NO! Just put the movie on! You’re killing movie theaters!!
Honestly…yes, there’s many shorts I’ve wanted to see but never did because they were exclusively tied to the movie …while I think streaming services should still stream those eventually…why not keep a bonus to watching the movie in the theater.
Paramount have. Spongebob short before the 2025 Smurfs movie and TMNT before the 2025 Spongebob movie.
I think that would be awesome. As long as they publish the actual time the movie starts.
Yeah. See SpongeBob and there was a ninja turtles cartoon that was awesome before it
Had one this year before Little Amelie or the Character of Rain. Maybe am dumb, but I was so thrown off, didn’t realize it was seperate and was wondering when the animation change was coming.
Yes
Intermissions- films are too damn long for no reason nowadays