Last night I went to go see Oz: The Great and Powerful. The movie, I did enjoy. I liked the foreshadowing, the little hints to the Wizard of Oz, etc,. It was a cute movie.
The part that really set me off though was the advertisements before. I think the last movie I saw in theaters was Sinister and I don't ever remember there being that many advertisements. I'm not talking about the long movie trailers at the beginning of movies either. I'm talking about advertisements for cars, phones, etc,.
The entire pre-show was advertising different things and then at 6:30, when the film was to start, we sat through ten minutes of ridiculous advertising. Not even specially made, movie advertisements but the kinds of commercials I can see at home while sitting on the couch! They aren't even good advertisements either, they don't make me say, "hey, I want that." They were weak.
I will throw this out there too, I am all for self-advertising for say a scene card, or your own movie theatre, things related to the movie but an advertisement for the new Chevrolet? Blackberry? Whatever. Seriously. Whatever.
Things like that make me re-evaluate my entire belief system and more importantly, make me want to shove it to the man. Stop trying to sell me a car, stop trying to make me buy your computer, no, I don't want switch internet providers and I will never buy another blackberry.
Dear Man, leave me alone. As if, as youth, we don't already have thousands of things being pushed on us. As if we don't have to already worry about school, looking nice, and trying to get our parents off our back. I don't need you telling me who I should be, what I should own and how I should live my life. I already have so many other people doing that and I don't need it before I'm about to watch a movie that I just paid $20 to go see.
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