No I leave my phone in my pocket. Movies are too expensive to waste my time fiddling with my phone. If the movie is that bad I will just leave the room.
I'm doing nothing to exacerbate the problem. I just don't think it's a big deal, nor should it be for anyone else with an attention span longer than a gnat. If this were a serious problem, movie theaters would have hammered down on it. People either don't report it to management because they don't want to miss parts of the movie -- implying that it's not a big deal -- or management does nothing about it and people continually come back to the theater -- implying, once again, that it's not a big deal.
I'd actually prefer a place like the Alamo Drafthouse. A movie with dinner and some beer sounds great, and their strict no-cell policy wouldn't affect me in the slightest. However there is not one or anything like it close to where I live, so I go to normal AMC or Regal theaters.
I don't defend it at all. I'm saying it doesn't bother me and I never even take my phone out of my pocket during a movie. I just paid $12 to be entertained for two hours. I'm not wasting my money.
I live in the Midwest, Chicago more specifically. And as any literate mouth breather could note, I grew up in a mid-size Midwestern city. Tickets there haven't been 8 bucks since I was in high school ten years ago
It's not that annoying and your cell phone makes a pretty shitty flashlight. That's why they have flashlight apps which use the camera flash as the light and not the screen.
I've voted for plenty of people who've lost an election. I just don't particularly support someone who isn't electable on the national stage or whatever level they are running at. If the person I'm willing to vote for doesn't win, it means someone I like less is going to hold that office.
I've already said talking is not acceptable. It doesn't reduce my experience if people text or surf on their phone while I watch the movie. Beside the non-distracting nature of the behavior, I rarely see it after the movie starts. I don't really care about the credits.
Any number of people I assume. No one has tried to kill me. Some people tried to mug me one time but it didn't really end well for them.
Either people don't think I'm an asshole or they are unwilling to try to silence me.
I live in an apartment building. There's really no place to leave a chainsaw for me to safely retrieve it a few days/weeks later. It would be picked up be a cleaning crew or some other employee. Sorry I can't fulfill your demand.
I'm not the guy who called you an uncooked teenager, by the way, in case that is why you want to come across as macho and hostile. That was markdavis.
However, I am not pro cell phone in the theater. I just don't care, and I don't have a problem with it. To be "pro cell phone in theaters," I would be advocating that they should be in theaters or should be allowed in theaters with their use going unpunished. I am not doing that.
I don't think anyone who's posted has actually expressed a "pro cell phone in movies" sentiment. There seem to be a large chunk of people, myself included, who either don't think it's a problem or are ambivalent about it.
The movie theaters already do this by warning people not to use their phone during a movie. They are perfectly capable of ejecting people who violate the rules. Given that they generally do not, I guess whether or not it's annoying or reasonable to accomodate has largely been decided. I'm guessing the management doesn't really want the bad press around ejecting people and the small chance that what would normally be a quiet occurrence could become a much louder altercation that ruins the movie for *more* people.
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No I leave my phone in my pocket. Movies are too expensive to waste my time fiddling with my phone. If the movie is that bad I will just leave the room.
I'm doing nothing to exacerbate the problem. I just don't think it's a big deal, nor should it be for anyone else with an attention span longer than a gnat. If this were a serious problem, movie theaters would have hammered down on it. People either don't report it to management because they don't want to miss parts of the movie -- implying that it's not a big deal -- or management does nothing about it and people continually come back to the theater -- implying, once again, that it's not a big deal. I'd actually prefer a place like the Alamo Drafthouse. A movie with dinner and some beer sounds great, and their strict no-cell policy wouldn't affect me in the slightest. However there is not one or anything like it close to where I live, so I go to normal AMC or Regal theaters.
No I can see it. They just don't distract me. You all are massively overblowing the frequency and severity of the problem.
I don't defend it at all. I'm saying it doesn't bother me and I never even take my phone out of my pocket during a movie. I just paid $12 to be entertained for two hours. I'm not wasting my money.
I live in the Midwest, Chicago more specifically. And as any literate mouth breather could note, I grew up in a mid-size Midwestern city. Tickets there haven't been 8 bucks since I was in high school ten years ago
My vision can't get much better unless I get Geordie's visor from TNG
It's not that annoying and your cell phone makes a pretty shitty flashlight. That's why they have flashlight apps which use the camera flash as the light and not the screen.
I've voted for plenty of people who've lost an election. I just don't particularly support someone who isn't electable on the national stage or whatever level they are running at. If the person I'm willing to vote for doesn't win, it means someone I like less is going to hold that office.
Um both
I've already said talking is not acceptable. It doesn't reduce my experience if people text or surf on their phone while I watch the movie. Beside the non-distracting nature of the behavior, I rarely see it after the movie starts. I don't really care about the credits.
Erm no. I'd prefer to vote for someone who isn't half insane and has a chance to win some type of national election.
It would also knock out the project.
I think it would happen more than once given the number of alleged offenders.
Any real proof to that assertion?
The Austin Drafthouse is also completely different from most movie theaters.
I feel like stopping the movie and turning the lights on would bother more people than someone or multipel people texting during the movie.
Asshole is not the preferred nomenclature. Sphincter, please.
Any number of people I assume. No one has tried to kill me. Some people tried to mug me one time but it didn't really end well for them. Either people don't think I'm an asshole or they are unwilling to try to silence me.
I would say average to moderately proud of myself.
I'd have been way more mad at the general suckiness of those movies versus the price/noise/snack prices.
I live in an apartment building. There's really no place to leave a chainsaw for me to safely retrieve it a few days/weeks later. It would be picked up be a cleaning crew or some other employee. Sorry I can't fulfill your demand.
I'm not the guy who called you an uncooked teenager, by the way, in case that is why you want to come across as macho and hostile. That was markdavis. However, I am not pro cell phone in the theater. I just don't care, and I don't have a problem with it. To be "pro cell phone in theaters," I would be advocating that they should be in theaters or should be allowed in theaters with their use going unpunished. I am not doing that.
I don't think anyone who's posted has actually expressed a "pro cell phone in movies" sentiment. There seem to be a large chunk of people, myself included, who either don't think it's a problem or are ambivalent about it.
I've had that happen. Didn't bother me as I had my eyes on the movie screen after the briefest of glances at the person.
The movie theaters already do this by warning people not to use their phone during a movie. They are perfectly capable of ejecting people who violate the rules. Given that they generally do not, I guess whether or not it's annoying or reasonable to accomodate has largely been decided. I'm guessing the management doesn't really want the bad press around ejecting people and the small chance that what would normally be a quiet occurrence could become a much louder altercation that ruins the movie for *more* people.