Okay, so why is it that when I buy a DVD or a blue ray disk, I have to be subjected to an endless number of advertisements when I pop the disc in to enjoy the movie that I bought and paid to watch?  And when I try to bypass these advertisements for other movies, I’m not allowed to progress to the main menu UNTIL I’ve watched or fast forwarded through all of these advertisements?  I mean, cmon, seriously?

Now, if I was at a movie theatre, it’s expected that I’m going to see the movie once.  So yea, you have one chance to advertise your upcoming movies.  But when I buy the movie on disk, well, it’s safe to assume that I’m going to watch this movie MULTIPLE times.  So if I’ve seen your advertisement once, I DON’T WANT TO SEE IT 50 MORE FRIGGIN TIMES!!!  I want to be able to just advance to the main menu screen, at which point I can either watch my movie from the beginning, or go to a particular screen.  Or maybe perhaps I want to watch the directors commentary.

But noooo!!! You have to FORCE me to watch this crap time after time, and on top of that, you want me to watch some short flick on movie piracy and how wrong it is.  You know what, I KNOW what piracy is and I bought your dvd so I apparently want to have a legitimate copy.  If you want to get the message across, create a few take torrents and put them up for download.  Just make it an endless 2 hour, 2 gig loop of this same “Anti Piracy is wrong! Don’t do it people!” message.  As for those of us who actually paid for your plastic product which costs a few cents per disc to print, PLEASE… STOP… ANNOYING… THE… CRAP… OUT… OF… US!!! Yes Disney, I’m talking to you since your the main culprit.  And if you keep on doing it, well maybe I’ll start considering copying your dvds just so I can edit out your crappy advertisements, anti piracy messages, and the annoying, mostly red screen saying that it’s illegal to copy this disc. 

From now on, how about putting it on a sheet of paper, so we can read it once, get the message and then throw that crap away.  So that the next time we sit down to enjoy the movie, we don’t have to be irritated with the same crap time after time.

So, when I started writing this post, I popped in a copy of Pirates of the Caribbean and came back to type of this post.  As of right now, the advertisements are STILL playing and I’ve pretty much finished my rant.  What was the total time?  15 friggin minutes!  15 minutes in which we can only advance, not go to the main menu, the top menu, scene selection.

Maybe if you didn’t irritate the hell out of us legitimate consumers, you wouldn’t drive us to the point of madness where we download your movies or copy just to spite your greedy hides!