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I was watching WALL•E last night/this morning and had this exact thought.
Yay! Wall-e is the best!!!!
meh… its over-rated
meh… it’s over-rated
Really? You spend hundreds of minutes more watching the ads and previews than you do actually watching a movie? I usually make myself a cup of tea when the warnings come on, and get back in time for the movie to start
ya just ‘eye-balling’ it it looks about 95% on ads, and 1.5% on movie in 1 hour thats 57 min of ads and 0.9 min of movie….pretty fail
right… the warnings and unskipable ads are longer than the film… And changing the options takes a couple hours, too… Fail.
This is an embarrassing failure.
You ever try skipping the ads, only to have them restart because of some lame-o encoding that forces you to watch them again from the beginning because you tried to skip over them?
No.
that would explain the graph though.
especially if you were dumb enough to keep trying it hundreds of times…
^
Yep. And after the first time I leave it alone, so it only takes a few MINUTES to get through.
The way this graph is presented, the ads take about 80-90% of the time. Given that an average move is 90-120 minutes, that means that they’re spending HOURS dealing with ads and options.
Wow, what a literal world you live in. Never encountered a metaphor or hyperbole before, have you?
A friend of mine came up with a good response to people. It goes like this: “Wow, you really believe that, don’t you?”
Feel free to share.
Knuckles, dude… up high.
Fail. The ads aren’t that long.
Agreed. The author has some serious issues if this is the ratio of ads to actual movie. It makes my pockets hurt.
I WOULDN’T STEAL A CAR BUT I WOULD DOWNLOAD IT IF I COULD!!!
WIN!
Do addon cars for games count?
What about taking that superglued plastic top sticker off?
THIS could take a decent portion. Or if it was ‘Unwrapping/Opening the movie, sitting through warnings/ads, and setting options”–that can take a decent amount of time depending on the packaging and the stickers. Still not more than the movie itself though
The ‘choosing chapter’ only makes sense (to me, at least), if you’re picking up where you left off–otherwise, you’d just hit play.
The funny thing is pirated movies have all that bs removed…
Well if it doesn’t say in the pirated version that I can’t download it, I guess it’s legal!
Exactly!
Don’t even need a pirated version. Just play the dvd on a computer with a program that doesn’t suck.
My thoughts exactly.
so your dvds have 4second movies on them?
Yes, and the length of the ads is OVER NINE THOUSAND!!!!!1!!!1!fordfocus
I also buy DVDs with 6 hour long warnings before 5 minute long movies.
You know the greatest irony? When you download a movie illegaly, you don’t have to watch those ads! No wonder people don’t buy movies, they are the ones being treated like criminals…
The bass turds won’t let you skip em sometimes.
I especially love the Literal-Minded Brigade here and their continuous influx of “OMG YER MOVEE IS 87% SHORTUR TAHN TEH WORNINGS LOL?!”
Have they not invented hyperbole on your planets yet? Do you really go through graphjam and point out every graph that isn’t 100% mathematically accurate? What a fun world you must live in.
There’s a huge difference between this, and the hyperbole in most graph jam graphs. You must be dumb for assuming that even if these people don’t have a grasp on hyperbole that allows them to normally enjoy these graphs, that it detracts from their enjoyment of the world.
yes but there is also a huge difference between simply scrolling down, and trying to make a witty comment that 7 other people wrote. Also some of these people actually did the math to prove their point… and on a side note Google chrome seems to think math isn’t a word… but that really doesn’t pertain to any of this….
Just download the movie, it won’t have all of that crap.
I really know the feeling that this graph represents (and as such, it’s a good graph
) Especially the Disney DVD’s are really bad at it, but luckily the commercials can be skipped.
The anti-piracy commercials are very bad, sometimes to the point of being hilarious. Like the British one…’Piracy funds terrorism’. A real Lolwut moment. And really, what is the use of talking to and punishing people who actually bought the movie legally? No one knows.
illegally downloaded movies don’t have those ads
Yeah, funny how the pirated products turn out so much more functional than the legitimately purchased ones.
I use mplayer, which does what you tell it to despite what the video says, but that requires the encryption to be cracked (which, for DVD, it was years ago), just like piracy does. Hmm.
MacTheRipper solves my DVD problems
What is this buy you people speak off? I am intrigued but don’t want to pay.
I find most ads easily skippable… plus if I wanna avoid the FBI warnings I just go Chapters > Chapter 1. Always gets around the ads between Menu and film.
I sometimes buy movies off iTunes so I dont have to watch the bloody ads lol
YOU WOULDN’T DOWNLOAD A CAR!
XD
This graph is stupid. Why would you spend that much more time watching previews than the movie itself. And choosing the chapter takes almost half as much time as watching the actual movie? I understand exaggerating for comedic effect, but this is just dumb.
It’s not about that. It’s (righteous) anger over the massive amount of advertising and other crap shoved down our throats when all we want to do is watch the movie WE bought!! This is a major reason why people pirate movies!!
Commercially produced DVD:
Put DVD in, watch the 8 million ads, watch the anti-piracy warnings, … 20 minutes mater… watch movie.
Pirated movie:
Double click, enjoy.
The most awful thing is that you buy a DVD, but we warn you to never download illegally…But on some illegal versions, we said ” buy it if you like !”It’s…meaningless. And it’s idiot for the ones who always bought
I’m French, I’m the autor of this graph and i approve this message.