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H & M advertising Horror!
Dear (misguided) Odeon Management
I had to sit through the seemingly endless and totally appalling "Romero and Juliet" advertisement by H&M at the Odeon Wimbledon cinema today.
Please KILL ME NOW.
The manager and ALL four of his staff who were present when I complained ALL agreed this ad was terrible and would do H&M NO GOOD.
He said he had already had hundreds of complaints about it, and expected hundreds more!
I told him I would NOT be going to any movie cinemas which show this horrible, grating, nerve-wracking, soppy, cliched, disgusting load of crap.
He wished he could pull it, but apparently MONEY-LUST wins over the GREEDY Odeon Board of Directors, against any remote semblence of good taste, fairness or customer care.
I paid £15 for two tickets, and THEY MADE US WATCH A TOTAL OF 35 MINUTES Ads before the feature started !!! Who do they think you are?
--->>> NO WONDER cinema attendance is going down.
I had to sit through the seemingly endless and totally appalling "Romero and Juliet" advertisement by H&M at the Odeon Wimbledon cinema today.
Please KILL ME NOW.
The manager and ALL four of his staff who were present when I complained ALL agreed this ad was terrible and would do H&M NO GOOD.
He said he had already had hundreds of complaints about it, and expected hundreds more!
I told him I would NOT be going to any movie cinemas which show this horrible, grating, nerve-wracking, soppy, cliched, disgusting load of crap.
He wished he could pull it, but apparently MONEY-LUST wins over the GREEDY Odeon Board of Directors, against any remote semblence of good taste, fairness or customer care.
I paid £15 for two tickets, and THEY MADE US WATCH A TOTAL OF 35 MINUTES Ads before the feature started !!! Who do they think you are?
--->>> NO WONDER cinema attendance is going down.
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You could have waited in the lobby until your film actually started.
Or ask the attendant, when purchasing your ticket, what time the film actually starts and take your seat while they're changing reels.
And to have the tragic duo die, not by their own hands, but by gunshots! Juliet is shot by the police! There were catcalls in the cinema during the whole presentation. In staid, polite Wimbledon! I've never heard catcalls in the Wimbledon Odeon in over ten years!
Apparently, H&M are very proud of this Lachapelle travesty.
And to be charged £7.50 per seat, and then be ambushed by this garbage... Odeon must have real contempt for their customers.
-- Outrageously expensive tickets, time consuming and costly to attend cinemas, and insulting in the increasing length and falling quality of ads inflicted on us. No wonder cinema attendance is going down!
Sure, I know you can wait outside to skip the ads, or arrive late, but then you lose your chance at reasonable seats. So, I'll not be going to Odeon again until this ad finishes its terrible run. ("Run" as in what happens to you the next day after too-spicy food).
Has anyone else seen this yet?
I think donelson's point surely is that it for a 10 minute film to be shown *in addition* to the normal complement of adverts and trailers is excessive.
The only people I know that liked this advert didn't actually see it - they we just grateful that they didn't miss any of the film despite being 10 minutes late!
It is being advertised within the cinema and in newspapers as a film, but I was at no point told that I was booking tickets for a double-bill.
I've sat through it twice which is exactly two times too many :mad: (For the record, wasn't at an Odeon, or in the UK for that matter).
If you think about it... a bunch of fattish, oldish, white-ish men sitting around a boardroom table, completely befuddled by anything hip, totally disconnected from their target market, congratulating themselves on how cool they are told they are!
They are, of course, told this by people with $$$$ in their eyes at how much they're going to make on the Emperor's New Clothes - literally !
The fact that it only follows Romeo and Juliet to the loosest detail is one thing. The fact that it goes on forever is just horrid.
I haven't yet seen it, and I'm sure I'll find it appalling. But to avoid going to the cinema altogether, because of one advert, seems like a gross over-reaction.
It must be really bad!
But for an extra 10 minutes to be tolerable, it would have to be good. The two songs are largely indistinguishable and very little actually happens.
Honestly it makes you think Romeo got the best deal. At least he's dead for the most part and can't hear Juliet bleating.
And what is the message? "Buy our £20 jeans! They look great if you're lying dead in the middle on the road, or if you're crouched over your lover's body."
And it's the time and expense of going to the cinema as well, when you know for most movies you can just wait for the DVD and see it for 1/10th the cinema cost.
After all, £7.50 per ticket, and then forced to watch this crap.
(If you come late to skip it, all the good seats are gone...)
Yes, I admit that if the ads are short and clever, they're not so bad. I do object to paying £7.50 each, and THEN having ads as well. Greedy SOBs.
It's no wonder cinema attendance is going down...
;-)
I had to sit through that ghastly ad again yesterday :mad: I just can't imagine how anyone would have put in the time and effort to produce something quite that awful and be proud of it. I don't normally mind the ads and generally like the trailers... but the H & M ad is just so bloody annoying, boring and way too long. :mad:
The H&M ad is crap-flavoured bubble-gum for the eyes!
Stand and deliver..... your money or your life
I think they actually CHARGED US to see the effing H&M ad !
There is no escape