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If a cinema screening starts at 11:40...

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SinkGirl · 04/10/2019 08:49

...and the run time on the cinema website is 117 minutes, it won’t finish at 13:37, will it? It will be 15 mins or so later due to ads and trailers?

Want to take the one opportunity we have to go to the cinema... kids finish nursery at 2pm, if the film doesn’t actually start until 12pm we’ll be five minutes late (not something I want to do, we have only ever been late once when we got into a car accident). If it runs for 117 minutes from 11:40 we’ll be there in plenty of time (cinema is less than 5 mins drive from nursery, parking right outside).

I used to work in a cinema in my youth and I’m sure that the start time is the start of ads and trailers which were 15 mins, so this was added to the running time.

Not sure if things have changed now.

Even more confusingly, I’ve just looked up the film on IMDB and it has a 121 minute run time Confused

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SchoolDecision19 · 04/10/2019 08:51

I always add half an hour now. Adverts and trailers go on forever.

Elodie2019 · 04/10/2019 08:52

I add half an hour too.
Phone the cinema and ask. They will tell you when the film ends exactly.

Marybennet · 04/10/2019 08:52

I agree with half an hour. Sorry OP.

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OrchidInTheSun · 04/10/2019 08:55

Yep, ads and trailers take 30 mins

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SinkGirl · 04/10/2019 08:59

Ball sacks.

It definitely used to be 15 minutes when I worked there - I remember the printed schedules. Bloody adverts.

No cinema for us then. Sob. I really want to see Joker, we haven’t been to the cinema since February... the boys have just started staying at nursery until 2pm in a Friday which should enable a screening... except the first one isn’t until 11:40. Boo.

There is an earlier one at the next nearest cinema but it’s a 35 minute drive which negates the earlier start time. Gah.

Oh well. Waiting for streaming for this one I guess. I so miss the cinema!

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SchoolDecision19 · 04/10/2019 09:01

Do they not have an after club or something they could go to or pay for an extra hour?

Clangus00 · 04/10/2019 09:03

At LEAST. 30 minutes for the ads/trailers.

ElizaPancakes · 04/10/2019 09:15

I’d go and pay for the extra 15 mins Wink

Don’t forget there’s likely to be ten mins of credits then an after credit ‘teaser scene.

ElizaPancakes · 04/10/2019 09:16

And I’ve always found it to be 20 mins of trailers if I’m honest coz we always leave half an hour but then we’re sitting there through the local ads.

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SinkGirl · 04/10/2019 09:23

I don’t mind at all paying for extra time but we are just trying to extend one of their days gradually - this is the first time they’ve stayed an extra hour and I don’t want to take the piss! I’m sure the nursery probably wouldn’t mind, unless they have some staff finishing at 2, but I think that’s unlikely.

Maybe I’ll call and ask them

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PurpleDaisies · 04/10/2019 09:25

When I went to the cinema the other day, I almost missed the start because there were only 20mins of adverts and trailers.

ExecutiveFiat · 04/10/2019 09:27

Add 30 mins op. Unless it’s our local independent cinema, the chains like Cineworld and odeon always have ads and trailers that seem to add half an hour on.
Saw Judy on Wednesday night. Great film Recommend it.

bruffin · 04/10/2019 09:27

It depends , we have a 3d weekend at oue local cineworld which has no adverts and everyone turns up late!

ElizaPancakes · 04/10/2019 15:59

Did you go @SinkGirl?

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SinkGirl · 04/10/2019 16:22

We did! It was brilliant - has had very mixed reviews but I loved it. Pretty brutal though!

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Marybennet · 04/10/2019 16:34

So what time did the film start and how long were the adverts/trailers? 😆

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SinkGirl · 04/10/2019 17:43

We went to the further away cinema - start time was 11am, film started at 11:25 and we got out just after 13:20.

Should anyone else find this useful 😂

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OrchidInTheSun · 04/10/2019 17:46

What did you see? I love going to the cinema in the daytime. Feels satisfyingly like bunking off school Grin

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SinkGirl · 04/10/2019 18:12

Joker. I’m not a comic book fan but I love a gritty drama. It was so good.

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OrchidInTheSun · 04/10/2019 21:18

👍

ElizaPancakes · 05/10/2019 13:20

I’m not particularly a comic book fan either but I REALLY want to see this. It looks so good.

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SinkGirl · 05/10/2019 13:59

It’s hard to watch - I was watching parts of it through my fingers, not because of the violence but just how sad and uncomfortable it is. I would definitely recommend it though, if you like things like that!

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BarbedBloom · 05/10/2019 15:06

We saw it last night. It was half an hour of trailers and adverts, I know for definite as I had forgotten to turn off my phone and did it right at the end of the trailers when I remembered and saw the time.

Definitely worth a watch though, very bleak and dark, but amazing

BarbedBloom · 05/10/2019 15:07

Ah, missed your update. Really pleased for you. Just for anyone else, we watched at Cineworld with the half hour of stuff beforehand

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SinkGirl · 05/10/2019 15:10

We went to an Odeon and it was 25 minutes so much the same. I think the extended time over years ago is adverts as there weren’t many of those when I used to work in a cinema compared to now.

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