When i say that i block ads, i of course mean uBlock and shit, but i also literally block them out of my head when i encounter them.
I do not consent to my energy and brainpower being hijacked by corporations.
Exactly. Mute the TV, ignore the screen, turn away until is done. I don’t need someone I don’t know telling me stuff I don’t care about.
Thanks to my adblocking and no-live-TV lifestyle these days, I don’t ever see ads and have absolutely no clue what’s coming out unless a friend tells me about it.
If it’s something remarkable, then I’ll learn about it through social osmosis. Other things I might notice months or years after the fact.
I’m totally fine with this :)
Compared to when I was 14 and watched the trailer for Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers about a million times getting massively hyped after having committed to downloading the high quality version on a dial-up modem.
I’m in the same exact boat, but I do miss movie hype and trailers. It was a sort of marketing I didn’t mind at all. 20-years ago I’d go to Apple trailers and see what was going on. Now I’m clueless. The article reminded me of quite a few movies I need to download.
I only knew about Longlegs and Weapons because I saw a bit of hype on lemmy. Who knows what I’m missing? Forgot about One Battle After Another, but I really want to see it. Marty Supreme might be pretty cool, but the ads never made it to my face.
That sounds like a good thing, but again, I didn’t mind movie marketing. It’s just that we’re so fucking inundated with ads that people like you and I turned it all off. Sad state of affairs.
Was listening to a podcast the other day where the host was talking about how we now live in a polyculture.
Long gone are the days when everyone knew most of the things that were going on, when local venues would throw posters on every available surface to let locals know that an event was happening. That costs money and they have less money because people are going out less, so venues set up Facebook and Instagram pages, so unless you follow them you’ll not know what’s happening.
The end result is that we all have our own individual cultures, where someone can be absolutely huge, but the majority of people have never heard of them. The host used himself as an example. It was Blindboy, talking about how he can sell out a massive venue in Dublin for a recording of his podcast, but most people in Dublin will have no idea who he is.
And yeah, it’s kind of a headfuck.
I used to know what movies were coming out, but I got older, the movies got dumber, I got more cynical, and so did the movies. And now I don’t really give a shit. My mate shares his Plex with me, and has a robust arr stack, so my method of discovery is largely to see what pops up in the newly added section of his library.
I have no idea what movies are coming out. I’ve also stopped caring. I don’t even go to the movie theater. Why bother when everything’s so expensive there and the movies aren’t even that good?
more like, i can stay home and have a better experience and watch 100 movies for a monthly fee of $20.
a single movie ticket where i live is $20 and it often in a gross, noisy, and poor quality theater full of loud obnoxious jackass people. the picture is often washed out and poor or the screen is off-color of torn.
the movie is used to be fun. now it’s mostly miserable and the experience often is better at home if you have a mid-ranged home theater setup.
Way too many adds everywhere and mostly horribly bad and uninteresting movies coming out. It’s not that hard to grasp, why people don’t care anymore.
A lot of that is just the death of mono culture
I avoid trailers and only use podcasts, letterboxd and newsletters to hear about upcoming movies based on the director, studio, actors, etc. I go to my theaters discount Tuesdays about once a month so that’s another great time to see trailers for other random movies. Everyone is so pessimistic about movies in this community I’m surprised anyone even reads or comments on things that are posted.
I get all my movie ads right here on PieFed!
When I see ads for a movie it’s usually when it’s in the theaters which I do not go to anymore because it’s too expensive and I really don’t want to be in a dark room with a bunch of people coughing and generally being annoying for that long. So I think “that looks cool” and then forget about it before it comes out on streaming. This leads to me ultimately not watching movies at all anymore.
