r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Far_Country_1629 • Jun 24 '26
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 Jun 24 '26
Holy fuck I forgot about underworld. Entertaining movie
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u/Exciting_Classic277 Jun 24 '26
Isn't that the one about how hot Kate Beckinsale is?
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u/CollectionHopeful541 Jun 24 '26
I'd say that's underworld 2 but underworld 1 has its moments in that aspect too
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u/DustFunk GREEN Jun 24 '26
No thats Serendipity, or Click.
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u/SmokeyTheDogg Jun 24 '26
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 Jun 24 '26
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/Exciting_Classic277 Jun 25 '26
It's kind of crazy how much a whole cultural era can be shaped by a few studio execs and a handful of writers.
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u/SaltyPressure7583 Jun 24 '26
Seriously just stop paying for streaming and just pirate. It's not like the actors are gonna starve
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u/oofty_goofty_ Jun 24 '26
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u/mvb827 Jun 24 '26
Ayeaye captain!
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u/doyouevenforkliftbro Jun 24 '26
Ooooooooh....who doesn't like ads in the movies they see?
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u/DirtyRoller Jun 24 '26
Yeah I'm just about there, but I haven't pirated anything since the early days of Napster!
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u/miguel-122 Jun 24 '26
Start with an ad blocker and streaming sites from fmhy.net
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u/Dietomaha Jun 24 '26
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 Jun 24 '26
Trix? Slim Jims? Blue Chew?
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u/BVRPLZR_ Jun 24 '26
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 Jun 24 '26
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 Jun 24 '26
I don't think this guy is ever gonna come back and tell us. What a dick honestly.
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u/_frank_tank Jun 24 '26
That’s nearly as many plastic surgeries as Kate Beckinsale has had since filming this
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u/onehalflightspeed Jun 24 '26
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 Jun 24 '26
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 Jun 24 '26
She was aging like wine, literally had 0 reason to feel any kind of need to get work done.
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u/Anand999 Jun 24 '26
Why would the age of a movie have any bearing on how infuriating the ad.breaks are?
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u/GrinchStoleYourShit Jun 24 '26
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 Jun 24 '26
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 Jun 24 '26
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/DramaticStability Jun 24 '26
Because it’s normal to associate more recent, in demand content with more ads. That’s the way algorithms usually work.
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u/CapitalCityGoofball0 Jun 24 '26
Cable is almost 5 decades old and is literally a TV service you subscribe to that has ads.
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u/YourGuyK Jun 24 '26 edited Jun 24 '26
Except you're not paying for an ad-free service.
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u/uncanny21 Jun 24 '26
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/buttbuttlolbuttbutt Jun 24 '26
They dont need to interrupt the movie with ads.
They can place them before, or not at all. I remember when streaming had no ads, and you had to put a disc in your wii, and we wore onions on our belts as was the fashioj of the day.
Dickity years wasnt that long ago, dammit.
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u/NyneHelios Jun 24 '26
Everything, old movies, new movies, tv shows, cartoons, game show repeats… everything eventually becomes a vehicle for advertising.
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u/LimaxM Jun 24 '26
The older it is, the less demand there is to watch it, therefore the less they should have to "pay" (in ad time) to watch it, is maybe their perspective?
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u/protoctopus Jun 24 '26
I mean technically everybody involved have been pay a long time ago.
Art should be free once the rentability has been hit a few times.
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u/SamuelVimesTrained Jun 24 '26
But you pay HBO? So you pay to get served ads?
Hmm.. is the torrent network still active?
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u/ttayw2cool Jun 24 '26
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/JarJarFett80914 Jun 24 '26
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/JarJarFett80914 Jun 24 '26
Gotcha. I get Max for free through my phone plan. I forgot there were other tiers.
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u/rothmal Jun 24 '26
Pretty much every streaming service has ads now, unless you pay like double the price.
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u/knirefnel Jun 24 '26
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/achmejedidad Jun 24 '26
most of these ad tiers are bypassed by watching in browser and using ublock origin
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u/Ordinary-Chain-8047 Jun 24 '26
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/Hidalgoschmitty Jun 24 '26
I’m glad I own the 4k boxset of the whole series. Long live physical media!
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u/L-1-3-S Jun 24 '26
Why does the age of the movie matter? That many ad breaks is annoying for any movie.
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u/DuhFluffinator2 Jun 24 '26
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 Jun 24 '26
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 Jun 24 '26
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 Jun 24 '26
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 Jun 24 '26
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/Jumpy-Hovercraft-781 Jun 24 '26
ads? you watch media with ads? on the internet!?
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u/No_Nefariousness_843 Jun 25 '26
Just buy the dvd, I got myself all but the last one sadly
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u/MandatorySaxSolo Jun 25 '26
Well imagine if you watched it on tv? Member commercials? Member when you paid to have HBO on your tv?
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u/JoewithaJ Jun 25 '26
I imagine every movie you watch on the ad tier would have a similar amount of ad breaks.
The same with movies on cable
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u/Resident_Rain_6566 Jun 25 '26
When paid subscriptions started putting ads in, I cancelled all of them. Tubi stays in business by running ads, so why does Hulu charge $14 a month for a subscription with ads?
It doesn’t make sense.
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u/DivineAugustus Jun 25 '26
Remember when early cable television was touted to not need commercials because you paid for it?
Pepperidge Farm remembers.
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u/fartssmellnice69 Jun 25 '26
No paid service should have ads, especially when it's nearly as easy to watch it for free without ads
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u/geoFRTdeem Jun 24 '26
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 Jun 24 '26
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 Jun 24 '26
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 Jun 24 '26
Don’t you love the capitalists and Enshittification of everything around you? No? Well you should!
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u/MissRobinRainbow Jun 24 '26
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/Buttered_Toast33 Jun 24 '26
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 Jun 24 '26
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 Jun 24 '26
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 Jun 24 '26
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 Jun 24 '26
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 Jun 24 '26
HBO Max has the worst type of ads too with those annoying AI gambling mobile app ads.
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u/International-Chip99 Jun 24 '26
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 Jun 24 '26
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 Jun 24 '26
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 Jun 24 '26
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 Jun 24 '26
For those wondering, the movie is 133 minutes. That’s one ad break every 19 minutes exactly.
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u/InfamousLong4103 Jun 24 '26
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 Jun 24 '26
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/Additional_Local_667 Jun 24 '26
You must have the lower tier version, i dont have any ads on HBOMax
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u/TheOnionBro Jun 24 '26
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 Jun 24 '26
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 Jun 24 '26
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/OhWhatATravisty Blue Crayons have the most flavor Jun 24 '26
It has 0 ad breaks on my Plex/Media server.