She texted, we kicked her out
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PedroLumpy
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I can't believe people don't understand how a bright light in a dark movie theater might be distracting. Bright lights stick out in darkness.
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Magnus said:
Good thing nobody really gets the popcorn or nachos.
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The difference is that concession stands are part of the moviegoing experience, and they're not going away (unless you find a theater that doesn't have them). Eating (politely) in most theaters is accepted. I've never seen a theater that encourages texting.Magnus said:
Al-ibn Kermit
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Zoe said:
It's way less distracting then people eating food. I really don't see the problem.
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Dead Man said:
I'm not against the theater here IF it was on their rules, I even said that on my original post, it just amazes me how douchy they sound.
Magnus said:
That's the way humans work. Our attention is attracted to things like bright lights, conversation. Noises like eatting, while sometimes irritating, can be tuned out.
Someone kicking the back of your seat can't drive me mental too.
There is literally no goddamn reason to txt in the cinema except you are a selfish prick. If you phone vibrates with a txt, get up and go out to check it and reply or phone the person outside. Do not check it in the cinema. It's really that simple.
even if you think it is not distracting, enough people do, so out of kindness for your neighbour don't txt in the cinema.
It's not hard to grasp.
I'm not convinced by this argument.jiji said:
Texting is equally becoming part of the normal 'public' experience, something to just accept when you're around other people now. And in my opinion, infringes to a far lesser degree on others' space and senses than munching down on movie concessions, which has always annoyed me a little, but I'm focused on the film which is far more overpowering to my senses.
Zoe
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Al-ibn Kermit said:
How many times must this be said?
Eating at the Drafthouse is not a distraction. You go there with the mindset that you and everybody around you will be eating a full meal.
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Vagabundo said:
Goddamnit that pisses me off more than anything in a theater. Seriously people cannot control their legs? Are you that fucking bored you have to waggle your foot and constantly tap the back of my seat? What the fuck is wrong with you.
Magnus said:
Just simply answer what people have been posting since the first page:
When the theater asks you not to do it, why the fuck do you do it?
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Smoking was part of the normal public experience for how many years? Yet it's no longer accepted in most places. I think it's justified that texting/talking on the phone have been excluded from the movie experience from their first appearance because of how distracting they are in a quiet, dark environment.Magnus said:
I understand that some are distracted by the sounds of eating, but to me it represents an easily-ignored base level of background noise, while bright screens popping on all over the audience really takes away from the experience.
Also, this needs quoting:
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Al-ibn Kermit
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Vagabundo said:
No, that's not true for everybody and I doubt it's true for most people. I am way more distracted by the sound of people eating then I am with people texting. And I'm the type of person who is really anal about having the lights off when just watching TV or something.
Besides, it's nearly impossible to notice the light of another person's phone unless you're sharing an armrest. And in that scenario, I'll be very impressed if you're actually more pissed off about 30 seconds of texting then 2 hours of popcorn crunching.
Magnus said:
The sound is not the main issue, it just becomes one once the texting starts. The sound becomes something you focus in on once the initial annoyance starts. Let me give you an example from a recent screening I went to.
It's a dark scene in an action movie. I am completely drawn into the scene. Keep in mind, this is the only reason I really go to movie theaters in the first place. The screen is so big and the sound is so loud that during a good movie you "get sucked into the screen". You no longer notice your surroundings and are completely absorbed.
This illusion is completely broken when I notice someone's face one row down illuminate. Immediately I'm drawn back out of the movie because I'm aware of the audience. Does it only last a second? Yes. Is it still annoying? YES. Now, because I'm human, I'm not just focusing on the movie. I'm focusing on the only other light source in the theater. Since I know it's location i'm also focusing on the clicking that is now coming from that area.
The bottom line really is that I go to movies because I want a dark room, with a huge screen, with spectacular sound. I want to be drawn into it. I want to be absorbed. If I didn't, I'd stay home and wait the month for the thing to come out on video.
Come on people. Have some courtesy.
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jiji said:
Talking constantly throughout the movie is just as much a problem as someone texting constantly throughout the movie.
But if someone around me is talking just a few times during the movie, I have no issues with it. Heck, sometimes I might not hear something said in the movie and I'll ask whoever I'm with what was just said. Nothing wrong with that, I don't think. Similarly, someone texting a couple of times during a movie is no issue either.
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Zoe said:
It's still distracting. I can't imagine really getting into a movie if everybody's having dinner at the same time.
If people are chewing their popcorn or nachos with their mouths open and generally eating like a pig then yes, they should be treated with the exact same disdain that a texter receives. However, the vast majority of people don't eat that way. A person eating like a normal human is not the annoyance some people are making them out to be.
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The belligerent ignorance shown by some people in this thread is even more annoying than the light of a cellphone during the pivotal scene of a movie. I've written 4 posts to this topic, and had to delete each because I don't want to get banned during E3. smh. I'm going to go watch the Nintendo conference.
Edit: It's not belligerent ignorance - it's belligerent stupidity.
Edit: It's not belligerent ignorance - it's belligerent stupidity.
I guess that's why I've been so surprised at this discussion. I've never been told not to text or seen a rule to that effect. Just warnings not to talk, on the phone or to your friends in the theatre. Sound has always been the distraction behind that rule's inception, I thought.Chojin said:
The light of phones is so much more ignorable to me than the smell and sounds of food. My brain filters them all out in the theatre though. I guess all of our brains work differently.
Al-ibn Kermit said:
Well you just weird or not human then.
Your talking bullshit now. Depending on the scene in the film you can see mobile screens all the way across the cinema popping up throughout the film. And unless someone is feeding a horse in the cinema the noises of eating will only affect you from a few feet away.
As Smokey said earlier eating is way more important than txting.
If you don't believe that the majority of people in this thread are distracted by mobile phone usage what do you think our agenda is? You think I'm a Luddite? Maybe, I work for the land line companies and hate mobiles as I will eventually lose my job?
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Zoe said:
lol.
So this whole bullshit about "superior experience" at this movie theater is... just that... bullshit. The fuck kind of a superior experience do you get while you and the rest of the people in the theater are munching on their food?
Al-ibn Kermit said:
People are accustomed to eating food while watching movies. Most people do it. It enhances the movie experience.
Plus, the sound of eating is frequently masked by the sound of loud speakers.
People are not accustomed to seeing small bright lights coming from off screen. Most people do not do it. It does not enhance the movie experience. And the darkness of the theatre setting makes it all the more obvious and all the more annoying.
It's not going to affect everyone in the theatre - but the people unlucky enough to have it in the periphery of their vision, without obfuscating line of sights are going to have at best a glary distracting screen and at worst, a point to rage about, distracting them from their movie.
Arguing that eating is worse than operating a mobile phone in the context of a theatre setting (especially a theatre where the context IS to eat and watch a movie) is been utterly disingenious.
It's annoying; we're not going to rape your mother and piss down your throats for doing it - and you should stop defending the act of texting like that's what we're equivocating it to.
It's just one of those things you should understand annoy people in a movie theatre - just as people commonly understand talking and kicking chairs to be annoying in a theatre.
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Magnus said:
Are you kidding or are you the guy who shows up late to every movie? Every warning shown before movies in the theater says no talking or texting. Every chain I've gone to has such warnings shown before the previews start.
Magnus said:
Every AMC theater I have been to in the last 5 years has had a splash screen even before previews start that says "Don't talk, don't text. Please turn off your cell phones." I always assumed it was like that in every theater. Hell, even the independent places have. Even the damn Fork and Screen (just like the brewhouse) has the warning.
The people in this thread who are terribly annoyed by eating may choose to attend theaters with a no-eating policy, or complain to the management about people eating in theaters; just as I choose to attend theaters with no-texting policies and complain to management and ask for refunds when texting is uncurbed.
tycoonheart said:
The superior experience of been entertained by a movie while you eat your food, free of other distractions like phone calls, flashing lights, inconsiderate people talking...
It's the fucking experience that these people are paying for. If you don't like it, don't go - but these people aren't paying to eat, watch a movie AND listen to someone else talk, or have some ass use a laser pointer on the screen, or some inconsiderate dolt annoy them with a small glowing screen out of the corner of their eye.
I went to see X-Men last weekend and they had 3 separate videos before the movie that had something to do with no talking, no texting, turn off/silence phones. People still do it, only difference is Alamo actually enforces their rules. Movie theaters will never ban food or snacks, that is their main source of income not the ticket prices. So its a necessary evil, but its very rare someone is such a pig it is distracting, for me at least.
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tycoonheart said:
You get to watch shorts and clips related to the movie before it starts.
You get to see independent films in a major theater.
You get to attend sing/quote-a-longs and heckling showings.
You get to avoid babies and unaccompanied children.
You get a full food and alcohol menu while you watch the movie.
You get a theater that is willing to throw out patrons for breaking their rules.
tycoonheart said:
I've no problem with people banging my seat occasionally or saying a few words or, even checking there phone or something. I mean people are human we all make mistakes, forget to turn off the things.
My problem is people doing it constantly. Once sure fair enough, twice, three times,... now you're pissing me off.
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Vagabundo said:
Someone talking 2-3 times, or texting 2-3 times, during the course of a movie which lasts around 2 hours is that big a problem?
sazabirules said:
Haha, neither kidding nor late. The warnings I've always seen are to be quiet. That's it.
And eating's definitely not 'essential' to the movie experience. "Why can't you snack before and after the movie so you don't inconvenience all the people around you with coming in late from concessions, and the sound and smell of your food?"
It's so easy to flip around so many of the arguments in this thread for eating, but you've all gotten used to it, so it's alright.
A lot of you should accept that different things are distracting to different people. It's just as preposterous to you that food is so distracting, as it is to me that small phone screens are so distracting.
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sazabirules said:
People ignore those messages. It's like a sign that says slow down in an area due to children.
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Good thing they aren't around here I'm busy playing iOS games during virtually all of the previews and shit.
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When half or more of the theater does it 2-3 times in 2 hours, you have a constant, theater-wide distraction.tycoonheart said:
Magnus said:
Ideally, there would be no distractions while watching movies.
But yes, we are accustomed to eating food both by ourselves and others while watching a movie.
I dunno why you'd want to use that as an avenue to start justifying more and more distractions towards the movie experience.
Especially with distractions that don't improve the movie watching experience.
Evlar said:
My point is, it can't stop, it's part of being out and about and participating in something with other members of the public. They're gonna eat. And no, it's a little distracting to me, but nowhere near what people are making this texting issue out to me. I'm just saying that texting is in the same pool of activities now. I'm of the belief that it's just as innocuous an activity that doesn't infringe on people's experience as other things, like eating. That this big deal can't and shouldn't be made about something this ludicrously innocent and small.
Solideliquid
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My job requires me to be on call in the evenings half the month. I get the calls and texts on my phone. I guess I just shouldn't go to the movies huh.
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Solideliquid said:
That is understandable. 90% of the people attending the movies are not on call.
Evlar said:
Obviously, that's ludicrous. The jump between either activity and air horns is much larger than personal activities in one's space like eating or texting.
If everyone is just assuming this is a foregone conclusion and is just going to dismiss anyone debating this as ignorant or idiotic, I'll bail. Have a great day.
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At least sit near an exit, so that you can take important calls outside of the theater.Solideliquid said:
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