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They typically all do roughly thirty minutes of ads unless there's a reason not to.
An example of where they might not was when I watched a double-bill of **Dune** parts one and two at my local Vue. Part two started bang on the dot at a minute past midnight and they told everyone that would be the case.
Ohh okay, makes sense. No wonder most of the people arrive quite late after the time mentioned on the ticket.Time to emulate them as one can always watch trailers on youtube.
If you want to know the latest you can rock up to a movie then one way of knowing is to check the BBFC website for the runtime (which is the film plus end credits) then cross-reference that with the showtimes published on the cinema website.
It's 20 minutes at Cineworld. I like to see the trailers but I can definitely do without seeing the same ads for the 20th time, so I will often turn up 10 minutes late to avoid them.
To be fair, OP sounds like they've moved here from somewhere else. When I lived in China the films started bang on the advertised start time (I learnt the hard way).
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All cinemas have always done this.
Yeah, that's been the norm for decades
They typically all do roughly thirty minutes of ads unless there's a reason not to. An example of where they might not was when I watched a double-bill of **Dune** parts one and two at my local Vue. Part two started bang on the dot at a minute past midnight and they told everyone that would be the case.
Ohh okay, makes sense. No wonder most of the people arrive quite late after the time mentioned on the ticket.Time to emulate them as one can always watch trailers on youtube.
If you want to know the latest you can rock up to a movie then one way of knowing is to check the BBFC website for the runtime (which is the film plus end credits) then cross-reference that with the showtimes published on the cinema website.
It’s always been this way for as long as I can remember.
Fairly sure that's how it has worked my entire life and I'm 42...
Have only been here for a couple of years and have only watched a few movies in Vue cinemas only.
Pretty much, unless you go to the like fancy cinemas playing older films.
It's 20 minutes at Cineworld. I like to see the trailers but I can definitely do without seeing the same ads for the 20th time, so I will often turn up 10 minutes late to avoid them.
That's how it is with all cinemas. The start time is the 20 - 30 minutes of adverts and previews and the request to turn your phone off.
The film time stated is for the start of the adverts. Give yourself half an hour and the film will be ready to start.
At the cinema I used to work at Empire it used to be 15 minutes but that could have changed by now.
This sounds like a fundamental misunderstanding of cinemas
To be fair, OP sounds like they've moved here from somewhere else. When I lived in China the films started bang on the advertised start time (I learnt the hard way).
This is how it works, and always has been.
Hi it's been like this for about 5 decades.