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I've actually upset a few people by walking up to them in the theater if they're on their phone and asked them if they were to pay for the price of my ticket, then they could yammer on or check their e mail or whatever to their hearts delight and I wouldn't bother them. Several times, I've gotten them to stop through the embarassment of being yelled at by some stranger. And once I even got my ticket price of 7.50! Sure, they kept looking at their phone and illuminating the area around them, but at least I didn't see my ticket price to go waste.
1. If you are purchasing something ... off the phone ... a cashier shouldn't have to talk over you to get you to sign the receipt
2. Movies ... nuff said
3. Carpool ... make calls to take care of responisbilities, but no one wants to listen to your BS talk to your significant other about how your day went.
4. At a restaurant with someone ... take off your bluetooth and enjoy the company of you are with.
Most of these offenses are of the 18 and under, but I do see the 18+ Dbags occassionaly
Nice Boiling Point. Maybe we can print it out and hand them as programs at out local theaters.
The bottom line is that it is a basic erosion of personal values and manners from the last 20 years. Most people under the age of 30 seem to beleive that no matter what they do it is alright because they think it is. Seems they were never taught by their parents to respect others especially in public. So it falls on the rest of society to jar them back into reality.
Fortunately I'm blessed with tunnel vision, but my boiling point came when someone fell asleep and began snoring loudly and wetly in the chair next to me. Not only that, but he was huge, spilling into my seat, and when he jolted himself awake he checked his cell phone twice at various points, and it was all during the premiere of the The Dark Knight. I swear I gave him mercury poisioning when my fat-bastard-tolerance thermometer exploded in his face.
Uh, happy cellphone-less movie going everyone!
When you find love, you'll understand.
Not to hijack the thread, but are the movies you are seeing not engrossing enough to hold your attention while in the theater?
Or is it a tiny attention span?
The only folks people watching in a darkened theater are timid voyeurs and the incredibly nosy.
Mind your own and watch the screen.
Thanks
I go to the Arclight Hollywood, which is a tremendous theater, but even there, you can see and be aware of other people. And when someone in the next row pulls out a cell phone and lights it up, it draws the human eye. Some of the theaters nearby have balconies and when I saw Tropic Thunder, I was up there, and anytime a cell phone came out below, it was eye catching, no matter how much I was into the movie.
I would love to mind my own and watch the screen, as you put it, and I could, if everyone else had the decency and respect not to bring their business into the theater. A movie theater is not a public park or a street corner. It is a business that runs on the idea of presenting a movie in total, immersive darkness. Someone talking on their cell phone or waving a light around disrupts that process. Sure, some theaters serve dinner and create a unique experience, but that's the keyword - unique, not the norm. In the theaters I attend, the rule is be silent, be unobtrusive, and keep the phone put away. Some people, ignorant of the experience of others, do not heed these common principles of politeness.
@Cole
Your love is both a sham and a shame.