She texted, we kicked her out
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ColonelColon
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Holy hell, this Alamo theater sounds pretentious as fuck. Are there actually people who are overly distracted by the mere idea that someone's cell phone isn't in his or her pocket during a movie, even when waiters are walking up and down aisles? That's insanity.
The Take Out Bandit
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This just makes me want to move to Texas sooner.
I had an absolutely terrible time when I went to see X-Men this weekend.
Idiots brought their baby. So right at the start when it gets loud (no spoilers, you'll know) the damned this starts bawling. Hire a babysitter. Hire a babysitter. HIRE A FUCKING BABYSITTER!
Some other asshole doesn't know how to silence his cell phone, so the fucking thing starts ringing during the movie.
Then some other asshole thought it would be HI-LARIOUS to correct DEAD President Kennedy on FILM for his pronunciation of Cuba.
It sucks, because I really like movies; but the savages in this part of the country can't distinguish a public theater from their fucking living room.
I really, really need to stick to watching movies at home and just wait to see stuff in civilized parts of the country once I get my sorry ass to Texas.
I had an absolutely terrible time when I went to see X-Men this weekend.
Idiots brought their baby. So right at the start when it gets loud (no spoilers, you'll know) the damned this starts bawling. Hire a babysitter. Hire a babysitter. HIRE A FUCKING BABYSITTER!
Some other asshole doesn't know how to silence his cell phone, so the fucking thing starts ringing during the movie.
Then some other asshole thought it would be HI-LARIOUS to correct DEAD President Kennedy on FILM for his pronunciation of Cuba.
It sucks, because I really like movies; but the savages in this part of the country can't distinguish a public theater from their fucking living room.
I really, really need to stick to watching movies at home and just wait to see stuff in civilized parts of the country once I get my sorry ass to Texas.
Count Dookkake
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ColonelColon said:
The waiters don't do that.
Zoe
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ColonelColon said:
Once the lights are down, the only times you might communicate with the waiters is when:
- they drop off the food (assuming you didn't get there early enough to get it during the pre-show)
- they drop off the check (last call)
- they pick up the check
- you put up a flag with an order before last call
thedrizzle34
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There is no more annoying thing at the theater than seeing the person in your peripheral vision 3 or 4 rows in front of you with their bright-as-hell phone texting during the whole movie, and they are far enough away that you can't even quitely inform them that it bothers you.
My video game playing eyes have been trained to immediately focus on the new bright thing that shows up in my field of vision, and IMO it is incredibly distracting. The only thing worse is the jackass who leaves his pulsing bluetooth headset on his ear. (I have seen this a handful of times; not lately though)
Good job Alamo Drafthouse.
My video game playing eyes have been trained to immediately focus on the new bright thing that shows up in my field of vision, and IMO it is incredibly distracting. The only thing worse is the jackass who leaves his pulsing bluetooth headset on his ear. (I have seen this a handful of times; not lately though)
Good job Alamo Drafthouse.
EricHasNoPull
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I've heard a lot about the Alamo, but never been, so it's dinner and a movie at once? don't people make lot of noise while eating? cutlery and all that? How does the dinner part work? especially in the dark, can someone care to explain? I'm not here trying to contradict anything, I seriously like to learn more about the "Alamo Drafthouse experience" It's dinner first and then a movie?
I actually like this idea, I'm going to use it next time, someone texts next to me in the theaterCopernicus said:
bodyboarder
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That was pretty awesome. Wish they kicked people out of my local cinemas for that.
tycoonheart
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You would rather have someone get up from the middle of a packed theater, having this person block the view for a few others, have people scoot back so he can get out of his row... than "dealing" with 10 secs of cell phone screen?SUPREME1 said:
Count Dookkake
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A bunch of spoiled turds ITT.
Any theater that shows the Indiana Jones trilogy, while serving exotic foods to match the onscreen action, can make whatever fucking rules it wants to.
No. We'd rather he turn off the phone prior to the show and stop pretending he has some important business to attend to.
Any theater that shows the Indiana Jones trilogy, while serving exotic foods to match the onscreen action, can make whatever fucking rules it wants to.
tycoonheart said:
No. We'd rather he turn off the phone prior to the show and stop pretending he has some important business to attend to.
1. Don't go to a movie on opening weekend
2. Have the theater to yourself to A) text all you want or B) avoid the texters/loud eaters/people using the bathroom/etc
3. ???
4. Profit!
I honestly don't understand why people even go to the movies during the first week of showing if other people's actions really piss them off so much.
2. Have the theater to yourself to A) text all you want or B) avoid the texters/loud eaters/people using the bathroom/etc
3. ???
4. Profit!
I honestly don't understand why people even go to the movies during the first week of showing if other people's actions really piss them off so much.
elrechazado
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how about turn it off before you go in a freaking movietycoonheart said:
When someone I go with to a movie talks or illuminates their cell phone during a movie, they never, ever get to see a movie with me again. We can still be friends, but there will be no watching of movies in theaters. I never bring it up or make a scene of it.
For the idiots defending these practices: think slow and hard and you'll remember people like me who saw a movie with you once, and never invited you again.
As an Alamo Drafthouse customer for 10 years, I've already decided that I will stop going to theaters if I ever have to move away from Austin.
For the idiots defending these practices: think slow and hard and you'll remember people like me who saw a movie with you once, and never invited you again.
As an Alamo Drafthouse customer for 10 years, I've already decided that I will stop going to theaters if I ever have to move away from Austin.
FunkyPajamas
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I had to endure two chatty teenagers last night narrating the entire fucking movie to each other and trying to explain whatever they didn't understand right there and then (which was pretty much every other scene). It came to a point where I had to tell them to stop it. My gf (sitting next to me) had the same issue with the couple sitting on the other side but they just wouldn't stop. I hate that. "Oh, what is he doing now? I don't understand, why did he do that?" ffs.
Dark Octave
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You don't need to be going to the theaters if you have a bad cough. You still need to think about others. Being sick is no excuse to be an ass hole.Grifter said:
lol I remember having a bad sinusitis during the second Matrix movie and sniffing really hard trying to clear my nose, but only during the loud parts of the movie as not to disturb anybody. The next day my friend said I was sniffing my ass off during the action scenes and it was still very distracting.
shanshan310
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All I coul think of when I heard this chick's voice was "At UCLA we do not talk on our phones IN THE LIBRARY". Seriously. Opposite philosophies perhaps, but I swear its the same chick.
I myself am a movie talker, but only at home.
I myself am a movie talker, but only at home.
The Shadow
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Count Dookkake said:
Yup!
People seriously can't grasp the idea that their texting bothers others. Moreover, that the absolutely must reply to people while they're watching a movie. Sounds incredibly needy and co-dependent.
I'm pretty sure whoever texted you will survive the hour and a half to hear back from you.
Alaskanbullworm
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You know, if she really wanted to text that badly, she should have went in the basement.
The Take Out Bandit
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daw840 said:
Obviously.
Peasant Princess-King
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Like a boss
InfectedZero
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I live in San Antonio, its the only theater I go to because of their policies. I have never had a bad experience. Their crowds are always great and everyone is usually respectful compared to the teen filled theaters that I avoid.
Kitsunebaby
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daw840 said:
Really? Despite the fact that every single movie theatre has a preview telling people to turn of their phones (not silence them, turn them off) it NEVER occurred to you that it might possibly bother some people?
It's not nearly the most annoying thing to me at the movies but it still astounds me how willfully ignorant people can be about common courtesy. They know it's not allowed but choose to do it anyway because they think that somehow rules don't apply to them. It doesn't matter if the think the rule is stupid, follow it!
Kitsunebaby said:
Well, like I said just previously, I was acknowledging the annoyance and had the intention of discontinuing the practice.
edit: And I always make sure to silence my phone. Even the vibrate goes off, and I remind everyone else to do the same in my movie friend group.
GodfatherX
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i hate talkers and texters during movies, so much so that I pretty much avoid any afternoon showings on weekends. Which sucks because I work a 2nd/3rd shift during the week and have to wake up early in order to see a movie. I saw Fast Five later in the night because the misses insisted on seeing it and roughly 20% of the theater talked
WickedAngel
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daw840 said:
Go into a dark room, turn your phone screen on, and sit it on the bed. Go back to the door and observe how much ambient light it creates.
Touch-screen phones have screens that are 3~4" tall; my HTC Evo can light up a room with its screen. It's a distraction even on low light settings.
You go to a movie to watch the movie. If you're in the middle of something that is so important that it can't wait two hours for a response, you probably shouldn't be at the movies anyways.
WickedAngel said:
I have an EVO too, I agree it's pretty bright. It's not a matter of something that's important. It's a matter of an ingrained habit. I pull my phone out all the time to either look at the time (mainly what I do in a theater about 3/4 of the way through the movie to see how much longer the movie is), check FB, check email, etc. It's something I do without even thinking about it.
Kitsunebaby said:
Oh, it's entitlement and stupidity. Some people really have no concept of shared space, of the volume of the voice, or how their actions might be bothersome to others.
It's a movie. Sit and watch it. For two hours, you don't need to multitask or check your e-mail or whatever.
tycoonheart
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WickedAngel said:
There is a huge fucking screen that is in front of you that is 100 times brighter than the cell phone ever will be. I have yet to be distracted away from the screen on to the cell phone because the cellphone happens to be that bright.
MC Safety said:
OK, fuck off first off. That post was meant to acknowledge a problem I didn't know existed.
Yes, in this one instance you don't need to do what society, school, and work tell you to do all the time and do it better. Just turn off that innate habit that you don't even think about. It's cool, should be really easy right?
WickedAngel
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tycoonheart said:
You're still here?
We've all derided you to our satisfaction. You can leave now.
Pristine_Condition
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Alamo Drafthouse makes the rules. If you don't like them, get the fuck out.
<3 the Alamo Drafthouse.
<3 the Alamo Drafthouse.
Woah, you need to chill on this. My daughter, who is almost three, sometimes is able to sit through a movie. I do agree taking a kid to a theater to see a movie that isn't a kids movie at night is a jackass thing to do, but still.G-Fex said:
I take her to matinees and see G/PG movies that are meant for kids. If you come into one of those and get pissed that my daughter is having a good time, that's on you. Go to a movie in the evening.
daw840 said:
Look, it's not my fault you're an idiot. Don't get mad at me.
And I'm pretty sure your school and work aren't telling you to take personal phone calls and text when you're supposed to be learning and working.
Multitasking is innate? I'm not exactly sure you understand what that word means.
hydragonwarrior
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Stabbie said:
The worst is sitting next to some asshole who clearly does not wear deodorant. I don't like having to move to another vacant seat God knows where just because of some greasy haired prick.
Joe Shlabotnik
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tycoonheart said:
Hold your cellphone up to one of your eyeballs next time you're watching a movie and let us know which one looks brighter. Absurd example? Yes, but you do now understand how something with high luminance that is closer to you can appear brighter than the comparatively dim screen that is 100 feet away? A cell phone held up in the row in front of you, or right next to you, is going to be brighter to your eye than the movie screen.
Alternatively, ask the usher to shine a flashlight in your eye from across the movie theater. How could it bother you? It's so puny compared to the movie screen!
HELLA_MONEYZ said:
If you're really so undisciplined that you can't keep your thoughts to yourself for two hours and then talk about the movie afterwards, wait until the movie comes out on DVD.
I don't understand this texting addiction some people have these days. Is it really so hard to go two hours without using your phone?
gutter_trash
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texters and chatters should get covered in fake flavored butter
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