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Phone-Friendly Movie Theaters For Millennials Could Be Reality Soon (variety.com)
An anonymous reader writes: AMC Entertainment realizes Millennials' increasingly growing love for and reliance on smartphones for things, which is why it says it is open to the idea of phone-friendly movie theaters. "When you tell a 22-year-old to turn off the phone, don't ruin the movie, they hear 'please cut off your left arm above the elbow,'" Adam Aron, AMC Entertainment CEO tells Variety. "You can't tell a 22-year-old to turn off their cellphone. That's not how they live their life." Aron believes that AMC needs "to reshape our product in some concrete ways so that millennials go to movie theaters with the same degree of intensity as baby boomers went to movie theaters throughout their lives." AMC also realizes that if it allows people to use cellphones in theater, and text and talk to their friends, this might disturb the fellow citizen who just want to watch the god-damn movie in peace. He says the company is "going to have to figure out a way to do it that doesn't disturb today's audiences. [...] That's one possibility. What may be more likely is we take specific auditoriums and make them more texting-friendly."
With any luck that will keep them out of the regular theaters.
Grow a pair.
Seriously, you can tell a 22 year old to not be a dickhead unless you're willing to lose the older generation of cinema-goers. (Remember those - the people who paid off their crippling student debts and have disposable income?)
Separate auditoriums for people who text in the theater! Just lock the doors and leave them in there permanently.
I suppose these are all the kids that ate their marshmallow right away .
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...and have them stay in the lobby during the movie? It will be great!
So theater boxes?
Just like at church, create a "Cry Room" for these folks. Make the windows one-way and the walls soundproof. Heck, why not even let them smoke, too.
This just seems like a very, very bad idea. If you can't be without your phone for two hours, I bet you are already pirating films. Leave the rest of us alone and go watch your downloaded copy.... and you can text all you want.... from your house (or your office, dorm, basement, etc....).
If the MPAA ever wanted to INCREASE piracy, AMC just gave them the perfect justification.
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The phone was a lot better when it was on the fucking wall. Short attention span motherfuckers. Too bad there is no other way to see a movie.
I didn't realize people still when to movies. This is just another reason to let the movies come to me!
Let them pay big money to see a movie only to miss the entire thing because they're looking at their phones the entire time. Their loss. I would never go to such a crap theater. Reminds me of entitled brats who pay big cash to get to college of university only to plagiarize all of their homework and try their best to learn absolutely nothing. Let them waste their money.
If we go into a hospital, we have to turn off our phones. If we are pumping gas, we are asked to not be on our phone. There are times in life when we won't have access to the outside world. If they want to use their phone, let them leave the theatre. This is really silly and showing the seriously bad state of affairs we are in as a people.
Basically a no-op. If AMC has a policy against texting, they sure don't enforce it. This just means they won't have to give free passes to people who complain about it.
That's why I'm willing to drive 45 minutes to the nearest Alamo or ArcLight or other cinema that actually enforce rules against being disruptive.
"When you tell a 22-year-old to turn off the phone, don't ruin the movie, they hear 'please cut off your left arm above the elbow,'"
Speaking as a millennial, this is total bullshit. Only a tiny subset of us actually have a pathological need to be in constant communication with others.
Unfortunately, I'm married to an otherwise wonderful woman who feels entitled to text in theaters. Every time we go out, I'm forced to choose between standing on the right side of history and getting sexytimes later.
1. Broadcast the soundtrack to the phone so you can wear earphones and not be bothered by idiots who aren't watching the movie.
2. Broadcast subtitles to VR glasses on the same phone with the focus distance == screen distance. One of the main reasons I don't go to movies is hearing problems. With current technology, subtitle focus distance and screen distance are literally yards apart.
Alamo Drafthouse is going to eat their lunch:
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In the Detroit area we have E-Magine theaters, which have whole-theater reserved seating and electric recliners, and a similar no-phone policy.
They make the AMC theaters look like dinosaurs.
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I want the theater in a Faraday cage.
MPAA: But ... but... somebody will pirate the movie that way!!!!! Noooooooooooooo!
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When you tell a 22-year-old to turn off the phone, don't ruin the movie, they hear 'please cut off your left arm above the elbow, ...
Sure you can. I'm fine with the arm thing - it's your choice. However, if you *need* it leave it on, put it on vibrate and leave the theater if you get or need to make a call. Seriously, how hard is that? Your need to feel connected shouldn't interfere with others' enjoyment of the movie.
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
cell jammers are cheap enough. they'll try and might give up.
Thanks to high screen TVs, good home sound systems, quick-to-home releases (to cut into piracy) that's never going to happen. (Hell, and homes having AC) Oh, and the unmitigated dreck being produced that's all nostalgia. But the solution is clearly to take something away from the theater experience, and make it less able to compete.
Oh, and Box Office records are still getting broken constantly, so, this seems like it's in search of a problem.
Unrelated to my point: I recently saw a fist-fight at a theater over someone using a phone. The guy using the phone deserved getting hit. He was an ass.
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Where's the petition to sign to send to this corporate asshat to tell him this is one of the stupidest ideas anyone has ever had? You want to drive people away from the movies? This sure as shit is one of the most effective ways to do that.
Are YOU using the TOOL, or is the TOOL using YOU? Think about it!
Yes, you can tell them to turn off their cellphone, and you should. Why continue to accommodate a bunch of spoiled brats?
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Well, guess that's less money I'll be giving AMC in the future. Encouraging this childish BS behavior in any way? Someone should be fired, from a cannon.
"specific auditoriums"? "More texting friendly?" Most theaters are too damn texting friendly already! Give spoiled rotten brats an inch, they'll take a fraking mile. I hate the term zero-tolerance, but this is one situation where a line needs to be drawn in the sand, and AMC needs to know that they'll loose money with this crap.
God ... we need a Drafthouse in every city...
"That's not how they live their life." Aron believes that AMC needs "to reshape our product in some concrete ways so that millennials go to movie theaters with the same degree of intensity as baby boomers went to movie theaters throughout their lives."" "That's not how they live their life" is precisely why they won't ever go to the movie theater "with the same degree of intensity as Baby Boomers", regardless of whether you give them a dedicated room or any other accommodation. And the same reason their families will never all sit around the dinner table and talk about their days the same way, or gather for a favorite TV show at the same prime time hour each week. Anybody who cannot unplug themselves from their constant flow of input will never lock in to the movie with the intensity of those that actually focus on it.
Common Sense isn't as Common as people think...
If you're a few+ decades old, the movie theater experience today is horrible, yet my wife still insists we see a couple of movies a year on the big screen. This is exactly the sort of thing to get her to prefer our home theater.
When you tell a 22-year-old to turn off the phone, don't ruin the movie, they hear 'please cut off your left arm above the elbow, ...
I really don't see the problem here. When they talk to me all I hear is "whaa whaa whaa whaa".
Now get off my lawn!
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Oh, please! There isn't a movie in existence that isn't downloadable before they get to the theatres.
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I recall a story recently about paying $50 to stream a movie a the day it comes out in the theater. This is why I'd gladly pay $50 to see a movie at home under my own control, with no morons ruining the movie with their damned phones. I can tell my kids to shut up, and I can pause the thing to use the bathroom. I can pop my own popcorn in the microwave and mix up my own adult beverage. $50 would save me a pile of money versus actually going to the theater, and I'd get to talk about the movie with friends -- or we could just have the friends over and all watch the movie together rather than having it ruined by some jerk not even paying attention to the movie because they are texting with their friends.
Or people can learn to live without there god damn phone for 90 minutes. Seriously, that's fucking pathetic. I say this as a millenial with a smartphone.
all this is saying is that the person who cannot stop looking at their phone for 90-120 minutes has ZERO self control. Especially during an entertainment event that the person sought out and chose to attend.
It is this kind of behavior that keeps the home AV business booming.
Could we try demonstrating the difference to them with a practical experiment?
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Rather then bring them into a theater, why not just put up a screen in their snack bar/cafe/restaurant and let them have the option of using headphones on their cell-phone to hear the the soundtrack delivered by a local Wi-Fi stream? Maybe Lay-z-Boy type seating with a snack table in front of you, too.
That way they can talk to whoever on the phone during the movie without disturbing anyone else.
Hell, they could offer them a golden multi showing super-ticket so the restaurant does not need to be cleared out. They can watch a marathon if they want, as long as they keep eating snacks and ordering more $20 sodas. Can you say Lord of the Rings/Hobbit/Star Wars/Star Trek marathons, anyone?
They can sell more top shelf items, such as real pizza to order, burgers and fries, salads, etc, not just the crap they sell now. They make their actual profit from the food they sell anyway, might was well cater to folks who like to splurge while enjoying the latest first run movies,
> "When you tell a 22-year-old to turn off the phone, don't ruin the movie, they hear 'please cut off your left arm above the elbow'"
What the fuck is wrong with people?
They'll kick people out if they're distracting others from the movie.
AMC wll never get buy-of from the movie makers. Movie producers don't want you to shut off your phone so you don't disturb others. (Kids are crying and screaming in the next row from you and a drunk guy is loudly laughing uncontrollably at the non-funny parts of the movie.. Is it really that distracting if someone sends a text?) They ask you to turn them off so they can get the film houses to more easily spot the movie pirates.
that is all
If you could do all that, then others should be able to watch their movie in peace without you audibly or visually disrupting their experience, and yet you could still use your social media apps.
I'm one who follows twitter live-tweeting of mass events, and I could see where this might be something I'd like to see (perhaps even participate in) for something like a big movie release. Twitter greatly enhances my experience of viewing live sporting events (it like being in a big virtual sports bar), and similarly for other live events like political debates, and I do kind of miss that for movie viewing. You can participate in discussions about it afterwards, but you really miss out on those instant reactions.
...and yes, I livetweet my Church services (phone on silent of course). Often I get likes or retweets from the Church's own social media account before the service is even over. This is the world we live in now. Its only natural that theaters and movie studios want to participate too.
So basically, AMC is allowing shootings in movie theaters?
But seriously -- they will allow you to text, but not use your built-in video camera? How will they tell the difference?
And of course, slipperly slope time is that complete loud phone conversations will start happening during the movie.
And beatings. Lots and lots of beatings.
If telephones are outlawed, then only outlaws will have telephones.
...same degree of intensity as baby boomers went to movie theaters throughout their lives.
I'm a boomer who used to go out to see movies quite often. I don't even mind how pricey it is today. What I DO mind is all the advertising for crap not related to movies. That, and the ad-filled trivia games and crap that show before the ads that roll before the movie, have so totally put me off that I stay away for all but the biggest must-see-in-a theatre shows.
I really hate paying to see advertising in a theatre - fucked if I'll also pay to sit in a movie house with a bunch of non-house-broken smartphone addicts. Now get off my lawn...
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One screen is the no cellphone room and another for those that want tobise theoir cell or are not bothered by those that do.
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This is the worse idea because they are the biggest crowd, so basically normal viewings will be discontinued and allowed texting viewings will be the only thing left.
Wait until they actually try it, and 100 people all have their phones out during the entire movie. It will be a disaster. When I was a kid, people made fun of my PDA. Now they can't put it down long enough to watch a movie? Bullshit.
You can't tell a 22-year-old to turn off their cellphone. That's not how they live their life.
Ah yes, treat everyone in the same vague demographic as if they were an amorphous mob of clones who act and think the same way.
What could possibly go wrong?
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It's not just movies: I was watching Cirque du Soleil "LOVE" in Vegas, and someone just HAD to see the sports results. Every few minutes, all through the magnificent show.
It's not that it made the sound, but the bright light was bad enough.
We just need a full face helmet with 3-d glasses built in, and a port to accept the most popular phones. The phone interfaces to the helmet and projects your texts, memes, etc. translucently onto what you see. It's a full-face helmet with advanced acoustic technology so that you can talk or even shout without disturbing other patrons. This might be dangerous though, because if you had an emergency nobody would hear you. Don't worry. The helmet will also incorporate a heart, BP, and body temperature monitor to make sure that you are, at the very least alive and not under too much stress. If you've got a fever it won't show you the movie. It will tell you that you've forfeited your deposit because the helmet needs extra sterilization now. Of course you'll have to sign some disclosure docs because of HIPAA. The helmet is, after all, technically a medical device which is covered by insurance. That's why you'll need to carefully document your movie-going expenditures and report them to the IRS, which will now be administrating the cinema experience.
Or you could just wait for it to come out on Netflix.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
Fucking get it together, man.
Glad I stopped going to movie theaters years ago because of jerkwad kids and their cell phones. I set up my own theater room at home. Much better.
This is just another sign of the complete failure of parents today. It is their responsibility to teach their children to be good citizens. Instead we are degrading into a society of whiny self-entitles twats that are not even sure of their gender. FOR SHAME!!!
Last movie we went to see was Interstellar, because we wanted the IMAX experience (saw it while on vacation at PCB last year). Otherwise, we prefer to watch them in the comfort of our own home. Plus, the food's better and the beer is colder.
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I'm technically a millennial (born in 1982, which counts according to some definitions) and I think this is complete crap. I use my smartphone all the time, but I have no problem putting it into airplane mode or turning it off when I'm in a movie. Even if I'm only texting or browsing on it, the light pollution bothers other people. This is no different from avoiding loud talking in a movie. Follow the basic etiquette, or watch the movie later in your home where your own rules apply.
Aron believes that AMC needs "to reshape our product in some concrete ways so that millennials go to movie theaters with the same degree of intensity as baby boomers went to movie theaters throughout their lives."
The problem is he believes this is a reasonable goal. It isn't. Baby boomers went to the theaters because that was the only place you could watch the movie. Eventually, VCRs changed that, allowing you to watch at home, but at a lower resolution. Today, many living rooms can produce a better experience than the movie theaters - similar resolution, and without sticky floors and overpriced popcorn.
The only thing that theaters provide that my living room does not is a place for teenagers to make out.
"You can't tell a 22-year-old not to be a retard. That's not how they live their life."
If someone wants to text and talk while they watch movies, then they can do that at home ! The purpose of a movie theatre is to watch movies.
Theaters are so 20th century. I stopped going because every time I wanted to watch a movie, I caught a cold from some 22-year-old. (kidding)
AMC's business would improve if they would strictly enforce their OWN policies banning cell phones and other electronic devices. I suspect there are more people (including millenials) I know who WOULD go to a movie theater if this was the case. A LOT MORE!!!!
btw Is cutting your left arm off, either just before or just below the elbow or any part of your left arm all that more tragic? What the fuck can be Sooooo important you can't shut off or silent your phoen for 1.5 to 2.0 hours?
I don't see this being a problem once I get my hands on a virtual reality headset, I'll just go to a virtual cinema.
Hopefully they don't try to replicate the experience by putting in a bunch of virtual teens who are on their phones.
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Peace, or Not?
is not the solution to your product losing customers.
Does he really think the solution to theatres losing popularity is to allow people to do annoying shit that makes people not like going to theatres?
Having some dimwit complain about the audio mixing because he/she doesn't feel it is appropriate for THEIR tastes is just as annoying. You are the perfect customer for Monster cables and a home theater!
"The Special Place In Hell"?
If AMC does this and the other theaters don't, I'll just not got to AMC theaters anymore and enjoy my movies elsewhere without the annoying millennial crowd.
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What is so fucking special about this generation that it is constantly being pandered to? It seems not a single person/entity can say know to it.
And we wonder why they feel entitled, we make 'em so.
That the AMC CEO said it is worrisome -- it shows he doesn't care one bit about presentation. And if he doesn't, then his underlings won't, either.
Good for AMC, it'll only accelerate their demise. I've not been happy with their presentation for a long time now.. I stopped going to AMC completely.
Maybe they can do what some theaters did back in the smoking era - a lot of the cinemas back home (Puerto Rico) that were built in the late 70's early 80's had a glassed-in standing-room-only section at the very back where you could smoke, then return to your seat in the auditorium.
Funny thing is, Cinemark doesn't have this problem.. I go to one from time to time, I don't see a sea of glowing phones during the feature. Maybe the snipe featuring self-absorbed teens lost in the screen and calling them out as mindless has something to do with it? I can't find it anywhere, but it starts "It's movie night and the big screen beckons, but the small screen won't go away"
It's anvilicious, with bits like "Watch the movie on this giant screen made for movies." And, "Go away, pocket screen"
The "Civilized World" jumped the shark ca. 1973.
A theater full of people who like to text watching movies...
Wonderful! When a theater full of these ogres has gathered, you can go in, take a seat... then during the movie, take a few calls, or better yet watch a whole OTHER movie on your phone at full volume! No need to worry about how the others in the theater feel about it all since it's merely karma coming back to them for what they have done to countless others during the years.
Oh, and I shall also bring in candy bars with the crinkliest possible wrappers and ten cups of sodas with only a half inch of liquid left to slip up through the straw.
May as well bring my laptop in and get some work done also.
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"Phone Friendly Theatre" = A Toilet
One that only contains toilet stalls, each one soundproofed. That ought to take care of the problem!
Seems like they could solve many of these issues by building theaters inside of a faraday cage.
.. is there nothing they can't fuck up?
I am curious to know more about this sex weapon.
Not to be a dick at the movies you say.
Guess why I have not been to a movie sense the drive inns closed.
if the fucktard cant ignore their phone for 2 hrs, they have no fucking business being in a theater. period. fuck those stupid gene pool-polluting-attention-defeated assholes.
Wouldn't people just cam the movie with their phones that they're allowed to have out in the theater? Can't wait to see the MPAA try to sue a 15 year old for $50,000,000.
Having some dimwit complain about the audio mixing because he/she doesn't feel it is appropriate for THEIR tastes is just as annoying. You are the perfect customer for Monster cables and a home theater!
The sound had better be worth pumping up.
I've been in theaters where the sound was too loud. Not "I'm an old person, turn it down!" loud, but "the machine gun fire in Die Another Day is physically painful to listen to" loud. If the loudness causes pain, it can easily cause hearing damage, and it is -objectively- too loud. So yeah, sometimes I've gone to movies where the sound was cranked up too high. That hasn't happened in awhile, though.
https://www.arclightcinemas.co... Reserved seating, no cell phones - period.
Instead of changing how attending movies work, why don't we help millenial pot-smoking shitbags learn that being an inconsiderate douche is a bad thing?
In my area we have signboards all over the place reminding black and hispanic parents to feed their children, care for their children, and educate their children because I guess they forget all the time.
Let's extend that to millenials and have PSAs about "How to not be a huge dick" and "There's more people in the world than you, fuckwit".
Through repetition they might learn how to be normal people again.
You can't tell a 22-year-old to turn off their cellphone.
Like hell you can't.
"Nine times out of ten, starting a fire is not the best way to solve the problem." - my wife
...just provide some sort of universal audio headphone/earbug jack in the seat? As a bonus you can give them volume control as well.
I just moved from an area where the Alamo Cinema Drafthouse chain was pretty much the only place I would go to watch a movie. There is no Alamo where I'm living now, and I'm considering looking in to a franchise agreement. Can't bear the thought of sitting through a movie with Brenda from Scary Movie.
They should just tell them, if they want to use their cell phones in the theater, just save your money and watch something on Netflix.
How awful. :)
However, we can still legally kill them if they take flash photos after the lights go down, right?
Having some dimwit complain about the audio mixing because he/she doesn't feel it is appropriate for THEIR tastes is just as annoying. You are the perfect customer for Monster cables and a home theater!
The sound had better be worth pumping up.
I've been in theaters where the sound was too loud. Not "I'm an old person, turn it down!" loud, but "the machine gun fire in Die Another Day is physically painful to listen to" loud. If the loudness causes pain, it can easily cause hearing damage, and it is -objectively- too loud. So yeah, sometimes I've gone to movies where the sound was cranked up too high. That hasn't happened in awhile, though.
If only it were just the gunfire and explosions. They're playing the cartoons like Zootopia at what seems like 120 dB. I suppose it's to drown out the babies and 2-yr olds, but I have to wonder if the reason they're crying is that their ears are bursting.
Wanna get Millennials to the theater? Try lowering the the prices...
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I get the impression it's an epidemic of talking and phone use in the US cinemas, I've got several US friends and anecdotally online there appears to be a LOT of talking or phoning over there, especially from one particular demographic (hey, I keep hearing it consistently)
I had a US friend come over here for a month and she checked out the cinema 4 times with me in that time, she was utterly shocked that (for the most part) people are generally quiet here, no phones out, etc. It does happen but I get the impression FAR more over there.
Will the cinemas which now offer a movie going experience for inconsiderate assholes who want to talk and use their phone, surely the regular experience will be policed better, right?
I'll yell at people if I have to over here (not often) but I get the impression doing it over there might end up in a fight.
When a four-year old is hitting his brother over the head with a baseball bat, the solution isn't "Oh, he's a four-year old, that's just how they live life when they're four". You tell him to stop hitting his brother, and if he doesn't stop you progress to more and more serious consequences.
It's not any different than any number of other things someone might want to combine with watching a movie, such as sex, or lighting up a joint, or playing melodica. Figure out if your primary interest is watching a movie or texting, and if it's texting, go do it in the lobby or in the parking lot or some such shit.
Not quick enough! How about the same time as the theat(er/re)s have them?
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I think it's yet another sign that society is in decay. If by the time a person is old enough to attend a movie by themselves, without adult supervision, and they haven't learn A) How not be an arsehole, B) How to be considerate of others; We as a society have failed.
Popcorn!
Are you kidding me? Which 22 year olds they asked? Antisocial autistics from death row? "Don't bother other people" is something anyone 5 and older should understand and that talking on your phone while one metre away from someone who paid money to understand some dialog falls into that category should be another basic life skill.
No, we need to stop this bullshit of adapting the world to idiots. Two, three generations ago, children were treated completely differently. They were "adults in the making", expected to conform to more and more adult-like depending on age.
A good mix of the authoritarian and the libertarian view of childhood would give us some reasonable approach. But, being human, we will for another five thousand years figure out that one extreme doesn't work and promptly try the other extreme instead.
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Yuck
Stop watching their stupid, anti-white, anti-family, anti-everything that used to be normal films, stop paying to watch adverts before the films, stop paying ridiculous prices for popcorn, stop being forced to endure ear splitting volume levels, shitty and oh so predictable 'music' accompanying the film, and more 'Holocaust' films, every single year, than you can shake a stick at.
Who actually still goes to see films in a cinema? Why would you do that, when you can watch it in the comfort of your home, stop the film at any point, eat whatever you want, go to the bathroom, have friends round and not have to pay extra for the film, and most of all - not have to ASSOCIATE with people you don't want to! Now wouldn't that be awful!
Just imagine if you had freedom of NON-association. You would never suffer from crime, because who would choose to associate with burglars, muggers, rapists, your GOVERNMENT, etc.?
Until you have freedom of NON-association, whoever prevents you from having it has enslaved you - you are literally their slave.
That's not how they live their life.
I don't live my life by breaking the left arms of young punks who think their narcissism is more important than me using the service I paid for. But hey, if they want change, I can comply. Why pay $13 plus snacks for a cinema experience then spend half of it pushing buttons? It says they don't take their money and time seriously; so naturally they'll devalue other people's time and expenditure too.
My last trip to the cinema, a few months ago, everyone from tweenies to pensioners were using their smartphones; mostly for pictures or articles. As soon as the adverts began, people started putting them away. By the time trailers started, all phones were hidden. At the moment, cinema patrons are considerate.
When accommodating cinemas are booked-out, or not showing the movie they want, millennials will go to a regular cinema and demand everyone support their phone-driven narcissism. Fighting that means more work for staff at regular cinemas.
Unless you are work on-call in some job where people would die, you don't need to have the phone on. It is pure selfishness to pick your phone up during a movie. Really, you are not that important that anything you say can't wait for a few hours. The parents of these people did nothing but spoil them as kids, and this is the results.
AMC - Why don't you give them a participation trophy when they leave the theater!
Maybe build them a "safe zone" theater?!
Every teenager in the US is already well used to being told that in school and often at work. Stop making this seem like it's a brand new concept.
I don't always subject myself to AMC's crappy theaters. But, when I do, I use phone screens as spit wad targets.
The beauty is, the users night vision will be totally shot by their spit wad-smeared screens, and they'll never know where the goop is coming from.
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1988 "Millennial" here.
This time distinction is far too broad, but you can definitely see the depending on cell phones in the past years.
Seems like all these children have become narcissistic. "Everything I do is important and I must share it with the world." No one gives a shit about what you had for breakfast or in this case, what you're doing at a movie theater, besides what should be the obvious.
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The movie 'God Bless America' - has a great response to cell phone use in a theater.
FWIW, I've got a projector, and a 144" screen that I hang off my shed.
This a completely bad concept. Yeah, let's throw manners and common sense away. It's all about ME. (assholes)
"You can't tell a 22-year-old to turn off their cellphone. That's not how they live their life."
JUST WATCH ME
End of Line.
I loudly announce "FRONT ROW PHONE OFF!"
Usually they fold up their phone and don't bring it out for the rest of the film.
In Canada I only usually see 1 person max using their phone.
(No, I don't care if you think that makes things worse. I'll keep doing it each time I see someone with their glaring phone on in the corner of my eye, distracting me from the film.)
You can't tell a 22-year-old to turn off their cellphone.
Maybe YOU can't do this, but the rest of us Adults who aren't retarded, weak, or Sheeple can do this a few time per minutes for Years on end!