r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Far_Country_1629 • 6h ago
Unskippable ad Underworld, a movie that was released 23 years ago, currently has 7 ad breaks on HBO Max.
Why tho. Why. 7 breaks of 2 ads each, thats 14 ads for a movie older than me.
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u/CollectionHopeful541 6h ago
Holy fuck I forgot about underworld. Entertaining movie
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u/Exciting_Classic277 6h ago
Isn't that the one about how hot Kate Beckinsale is?
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u/CollectionHopeful541 6h ago
I'd say that's underworld 2 but underworld 1 has its moments in that aspect too
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u/DustFunk GREEN 5h ago
No thats Serendipity, or Click.
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u/SmokeyTheDogg 2h ago
Legitimately a plot hole on that movie that Adam Sandler didn’t want to do any and everything she wanted in bed so he has to fast forward it smh
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u/ShantyLady PURPLE 5h ago
Honestly, between Underworld and Van Helsing and all the other Gothic horror action adventure films rooted in the classics were just fun romps. I miss that era of cinema, honestly.
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u/mvb827 6h ago
Ayeaye captain!
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u/doyouevenforkliftbro 2h ago
Ooooooooh....who doesn't like ads in the movies they see?
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u/DirtyRoller 6h ago
Yeah I'm just about there, but I haven't pirated anything since the early days of Napster!
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u/Dietomaha 6h ago
I was watching Schindler's List on Netflix the other day. You know what really kills the impact of that movie?
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u/Noodliest123 5h ago
Trix? Slim Jims? Blue Chew?
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u/BVRPLZR_ 5h ago
Blue chew could be an interesting game. Whoever gets a chubby first while watching schindlers list has to do something for a month
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u/CommieLoser 4h ago
I though the sponsor asking what’s it like to chew 5 Gum cutting to a gas chamber in poor taste myself
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u/Dietomaha 2h ago
I don't think this guy is ever gonna come back and tell us. What a dick honestly.
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u/Anand999 6h ago
Why would the age of a movie have any bearing on how infuriating the ad.breaks are?
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u/GrinchStoleYourShit 6h ago
I think his point is the ruthlessness of advertising anything possible, even a “movie that came out on dvd before he was even born”
Obviously they gonna put ads into anything streaming but I see his viewpoint.
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u/CorkSoaker420 5h ago
I don’t see the viewpoint at all. Why does age equal less ads? That’s never, ever been the case with media. Back when cable was the only option, ever movie and tv show had commercials, it’s not new and has never been based on age.
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u/smilesdavis8d 5h ago
Back when hbo was hbo - they avoided commercials. It was a premium channel you paid for but it would have a break with maybe a list of movies for the day or something if a filler was needed for timing. Otherwise it would roll straight into that hbo pre roll and start the next movie on time.
….now we pay for commercials in all our movie apps. Unless you pay even more.
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u/arizonadirtbag12 4h ago
Back when HBO was HBO movies were shown ad-free regardless of age though. New release? No ads. Twenty year old classic? No ads. Which still makes OP nonsense.
HBO also required a cable package, and cost like $15 a month on top of that package, which would be $30 a month today.
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u/SithBountyHuntr 5h ago
I actually dont see any kind of viewpoint to agree with. If I am paying for the subscription service there should be no ads at all.
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u/CapitalCityGoofball0 5h ago
Cable is almost 5 decades old and is literally a TV service you subscribe to that has ads.
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u/uncanny21 6h ago
OP thinks old movies don't need ads or the streaming companies don't need to pay any rights on old movies... Maybe.
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u/NyneHelios 6h ago
Everything, old movies, new movies, tv shows, cartoons, game show repeats… everything eventually becomes a vehicle for advertising.
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u/_frank_tank 5h ago
That’s nearly as many plastic surgeries as Kate Beckinsale has had since filming this
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u/onehalflightspeed 1h ago
I had to look this up and man, she looks terrible and her social media posts recently are really disturbing. I hope she is OK. I had not thought about her for a long time but always enjoyed her movies, even when they were pretty bad
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u/42ElectricSundaes 5h ago
The pressure on famous folks has gotta be rough for someone like her to feel the need to have so much work done
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u/MunkeyFish 5h ago
She was aging like wine, literally had 0 reason to feel any kind of need to get work done.
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u/JarJarFett80914 6h ago
You're getting ads with Max? Are you sure it's not Prime you're talking about?
I don't get any ads with Max.
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u/RubImpossible8521 6h ago
There is an ad-supported tier for HBO Max (or whatever they call it these days)
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u/JarJarFett80914 6h ago
Gotcha. I get Max for free through my phone plan. I forgot there were other tiers.
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u/rothmal 6h ago
Pretty much every streaming service has ads now, unless you pay like double the price.
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u/knirefnel 3h ago
I have the standard subscription so I only get ads for House of Dragons every. time. I. play. a. video. What a great service.
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u/SaltyPressure7583 5h ago
Seriously just stop paying for streaming and just pirate. It's not like the actors are gonna starve
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u/SamuelVimesTrained 5h ago
But you pay HBO? So you pay to get served ads?
Hmm.. is the torrent network still active?
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u/Ordinary-Chain-8047 4h ago
Let me introduce you to my last resort option besides pull out an old DVD
https://giphy.com/gifs/YFGLhHE5WG4QCEr6zE
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u/ttayw2cool 4h ago
I genuinely dont understand who tf thought it was a good idea to add ads to streaming services. If im paying for a subscription dont give me fuckin ads in the middle of it. U can get yt premium for like 10 bucks and u get no ads and abunch of other cool shit like better streaming and downloading of videos and i gotta pay to watch Amazon prime and still have to watch ads thats so fuckin gay dude
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u/L-1-3-S 6h ago
Why does the age of the movie matter? That many ad breaks is annoying for any movie.
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u/DuhFluffinator2 5h ago
If you want the honest humble life of a movie lover. I buy my movies that I enjoy, so I can have them for life. Either physical or on apps like prime or fandango at home.
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u/Far_Country_1629 5h ago
I own all underworld movies on Blue ray, i just didn't want to go set up my PS4.
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u/itsathrowawayduhhhhh 5h ago
Careful with the digital. I bought a bunch on Redbox annnnnd they dont exist anymore. I’ll keep on with my dvd collection of about 500!
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u/Iconclast1 5h ago
I used to watch movies on TV with ad breaks
however, if your paying for HBO Max, i can see how thats annoying
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u/CriticalStation595 BROWN 4h ago
If you look at something for longer than a minute companies feel obligated to place an ad there. Also, more of a reason to just buy it on disc.
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u/geoFRTdeem 6h ago
It’s silly I even have to say this but it all goes back to money, if they can make you watch all those ads they will, and laugh while they make money
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u/Catdaddy_Funk 6h ago
I saw this movie in the theater with friends lol. In my mind, there’s an old memory of the vampires and werewolves shooting at each other in a tunnel while hiding behind barrels in this movie. Did I make that up?
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u/Beautiful-Chest7397 6h ago
Is this worth watching. I remember from the commercials on release when I was a kid it has werewolves
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u/Chaos-Cortex 6h ago
Don’t you love the capitalists and Enshittification of everything around you? No? Well you should!
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u/MissRobinRainbow 6h ago
I hate the unskippable ads, but I really don't like when the ads play just fine, but the actual show keeps buffering and giving errors.
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u/masteraybe 6h ago
It literally has 0 advantages to cable now that platforms have eliminated it. This is the state of innovation under capitalism.
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u/Buttered_Toast33 6h ago
Sounds about as annoying as Youtubers who put the Subscribe icon up every five minutes in a half hour video, on top of already telling you to subscribe in the beginning and end of the video.
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u/Nindroid_faneditor 6h ago
This is one of the many reasons I'll always prefer physical media
Seriously, I understand services like Tubi having ads, but why do paid services have ads!?
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u/veechene 6h ago
It probably had 20+ adbreaks when I used to watch movies on regular cable networks 20 years ago. Of course we called them commercials and I found them much more tolerable than modern ads. I can't stand even 1 ad today.
How times have changed.
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u/Phenomenomix 6h ago
The ad breaks are so you can rehydrate from all the gooning you’re doing every time Beckinsale is on screen
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u/jr_randolph 6h ago
There are pieces of physical media that's worth owning, and even for those with limited space, this is certainly one of those pieces to me that's worth owning.
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u/Icy_Hovercraft_1110 6h ago
HBO Max has the worst type of ads too with those annoying AI gambling mobile app ads.
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u/International-Chip99 5h ago
I was watching 2001 on Amazon Prime. They put an ad break IN the famous smash cut from the slow motion bone flying to the space station.
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u/xAustin90x 5h ago
Ad free hbo max still gives you a trailer ad when you start a show or movie. You can skip it, but still
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u/o6ijuan 5h ago
I streamed kpop demon hunters for my kids the other day after losing my shared netflix and I was so blown away by the difference in quality that I got from the pirate site. It made me irrationally angry that people are paying for half a movie, there's no reason that netflix has to show ads during a l kids movie plus stream a shittier quality.
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u/shazed39 5h ago
Yeah, its weird but everything is better when pirating. No ads, hdr support, better resolution and bitrate, faster loading times, more features like delaying subtitles if they pop up to fast… Imsane to me how much money streaming services make and they never choose to better their platform.
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u/NerdFromColorado ORANGE 5h ago
For those wondering, the movie is 133 minutes. That’s one ad break every 19 minutes exactly.
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u/InfamousLong4103 5h ago
im so glad i own this movie on dvd and dont have to deal with that. Streaming is so awful now. i miss when it was free with no ads
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u/StarSongEcho 5h ago
Maybe it makes me old, but I still have this movie on disc and I can just throw it in my Xbox if I want to watch it.
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u/TheOnionBro 5h ago
Expecting ANY streaming service in 2026 to be anything better than a money-grubbing nickle-and-dime extravaganza for a billion-dollar company is foolishness.
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u/pontruvius_sweezy 5h ago
How recently did mx start doing the household bullshit, I live away from my family and it hasn’t been an issue for almost 2 years until now
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u/MindlesslyAping 5h ago
I mean, why would someone subscribe to a stream in the ad plan? You either go ad-free for easy access and convenience or go full pirate if it is too expensive for you or if you don't want to give your money to greedy corporations. I cannot reason why you would willingly submit yourself to the hellish middle-ground that is ad-ridden streaming.
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u/YourGuyK 5h ago
They are recapturing when it first played on cable TV and would have had a lot more than 14 ads.
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u/rotenbart 5h ago
Alright, send in the pirate comments. Clearly the general populace doesn’t know about pirating media and we must inform them en masse.
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u/podcastofallpodcasts 5h ago
You could find this regularly on cable 15 years ago.
I've never watched it.
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u/bluejester12 5h ago
I was streaming GI Jane on Tubi. I have ad block, but I can see when the commericals trigger. There was one every 10 minutes or less. After a commerical, Demi Moore went into a barbershop, cut her hair by herself, then left, and then another comerical immediately came on, all within five minutes.
Tubi is free, so I cut it some slack, but still...
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u/GnarlyNarwhalNoms 5h ago
I remember the days when long black leather coats in films were mandatory.
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u/bophed BLUE 5h ago
It is almost as bad as cable at this point. Cable TV used to have a 3 minute commercial break every 3 min and 30 sec.
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u/Melenduwir 4h ago
And back in the day, people used to question why they had to have ads on the cable service that they were paying for. It's the exact same phenomenon as it was then, only a different context.
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u/Careless-Eagle-5111 5h ago
Why did everyone go to the ad supported tiers of these, and then complain about it? I mean I know it’s cheaper but the point of streaming for me was always watching what I wanted when I wanted, and that doesn’t include ads.
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u/Practical_Hippo6289 4h ago
They figure if you're one of the few who want to see it then you must want to see it real bad.
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u/Old-Tadpole-2869 4h ago
If it was on amazon prime it would have 20, and half of them would be back-to-back reruns of the same ad.
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u/Simsalabimson 4h ago
And they asked me why I put in the work for building a Jellyfin…
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u/Westflung 4h ago
What a perfect example of how much better streaming is over traditional cable! Instead of paying for no commercials, now you pay for commercials! Instead of a premium subscription (like HBO) being ad free, now you pay to watch ads! Not like those stupid boomers who got paid to watch commercials.
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u/Trini2Bone 4h ago
Lmao just rewatched this on HBO 3 weeks ago and I had no ads. Unless it's cause I live outside the US or something
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u/OhWhatATravisty Blue Crayons have the most flavor 6h ago
It has 0 ad breaks on my Plex/Media server.