I'm sending this letter to the local movie theater *long*

[InlineFive]

Originally posted by: acemcmac

Originally posted by: Viper GTS
Way too long winded.

Hey folks your theater blows, fix your sh!t or I won't be coming back.

Short, sweet, and to the point.

Viper GTS

yeah man, jesus... talk about verbal diahrehia

That's the funniest thing I've seen all day.

 

[BrianH1]

cut all the crap out of it and say what you want to say. your paper is long-winded and does not have a "focus" for argument. just my $.02

 

[crypticlogin]

Originally posted by: SaltBoy
I'm sure that my geeky letter will fall on deaf ears and will mostly be ignored and/or laughed over, but I have to vent my frustrations somehow. What do you all think?

I think that's exactly what will happen to your letter.

 

[alien42]

as a former head projectionsist at a movie theatre in my teens there is a much simpler solution to your volume and focus issues. ask one of the employees if you can speak with the projectionist and politely ask them to turn the volume up a little and check the focus, thats it.

as for the surround sound quality, well you get what you pay for and if you dont like it then go elsewhere.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Congrats, you just wasted at least 30 minutes (estimate) of your life composing that letter which will most likely be tossed right in the trash. Best you can hope for is that someone will laugh their ass off prior to throwing it in the trash.

Edit-having read at least half of it I'm going to guess that you spent more than 30 minutes composing that mess.

I sound like a whiny geek,

This sums up your letter right there. Just write that on a piece of paper and save us all the trouble. That way you won't waste the time of the theater manager who probably has more to worry about like how empty the popcorn machines are or when to refill the butter dispensers or if there is enough toilet paper in the bathrooms.

 

[mugs]

It was very conversational

 

[kukyfrope]

I agree, if a person handed this to me I would roll my eyes and blow it off. If you cut it down to 2 paragraphs at most it would be effective. Trying to demonstrate your knowledge of film and how the theaters are setup does nothing but make you sound like you're better than them. They don't care how much you love movies, you're paying the same price as Billy Joe that wants to see the girl from Harry Potter in a short skirt.

 

[jfall]

this is about the gayest thing i've ever witnessed

 

[gk1998]

way too long

 

[sswingle]

Take out the first paragraph, take out the whiny geek part, and its good. Dont listen to all the lazy people here that want cliffs for something longer than 3 lines.

 

[Bozono]

You should bring up the fact that so few theatres have room for tripods anymore. Man that irks me.

 

[SportSC4]

way too long, no focus, you mention "I" too many times when it's a complaint of the movie theater, I had no idea on what you're talking about by reading the first paragraph (the intro should state your problem), you didn't make a demand (don't ask, demand) of what you expect them to do about the issue, and it seems that you've already made the decision to use your home theater instead of a movie theater - why should he care what you have to say then?

I'm not trying to be harsh but if you want something more powerful then there's no use in sugarcoating it.

Also, try bunching up your thoughts. You go from to your statement of problems to what it used to be to about films in general to statement of problems to another problem to not being a whiny geek to comparing it to your home theater to a link with no real description to what you're linking to, to restatement of problems, to what you would like, to ... blah, i can't go on.

edit: and if it's to the manager of the theater, do not put "to whom it may concern". put in the manager's name.

 

[Mo0o]

It took nearly half the damn letter to get to your point. You really should work on that. And you need to figure out whether you want the tone to be formal or casual because right now it's a terrible combination of both. And from what I've gathered, you're complaining about things that will cost a lot of money to fix so chances are your suggestions are useless

 

[Nick5324]

Originally posted by: Mo0o
It took nearly half the damn letter to get to your point. You really should work on that. And you need to figure out whether you want the tone to be formal or casual because right now it's a terrible combination of both. And from what I've gathered, you're complaining about things that will cost a lot of money to fix so chances are your suggestions are useless

nail on the head.

 

[Yossarian]

yet another example of how not to write a complaint letter.

 

[FoBoT]

what?

 

[Phoenix86]

Originally posted by: SaltBoy

Originally posted by: Phoenix86
edit: wow all that on sound and video quality and you don't even mention cap codes?

Theaters can't do anything about CAP codes, if I understand them correctly. I believe the movie studios put them on the prints before shipping them out.

True, but you are also expecting them to spend thousands of dollars fixing other BS (no matter how valid your complaints are), why not shoot for the moon?

LMAO @ verbal diahrehia, thanks acemcmac. :laugh:

 

[ericb]

Like most of the people said...get rid of the first half of the letter. It's mostly fluff and it's a poor attempt at establishing you as an "expert" which you are not (no matter what you think). You will get a lot more coverage as a regular movie buff who spends a lot of money there than an self important "expert" who takes a whole page to get to the point. The manager is going to be rushed and probably a little hostile towards a complaint letter...don't make it easy for him to toss it for wasting his time.

Remember KISS - Keep it simple stupid. Get right to the point, explain each problem in detail and close it up quick.

 

[Saint Nick]

Originally posted by: MikeyIs4Dcats
they won't throw it away. They will read it. Then they will laugh. Then they will pass it around to the other employees. And laugh some more. Then they will post it on the bulletin board.

i could honestly see this happen.

 

[SaltBoy]

Dang, I guess I went a little overboard in the letter. And yes, this took me about an hour and a half to compose. I guess I got a little heated up while typing this up and wanted to think of every stinkin' detail that I could. Maybe Viper has the right idea.

Thanks for the help, everybody!

:thumbsup::laugh:

 

[skrilla]

Take out the stuff about you being a geek. Why would you put yourself down when you want to be taken seriously.