Movie Theathers to Allow TXTING?!

[RamirezDoEverything]

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I'm 17, and I turn my phone off before the previews and it doesn't go back on until the lights do.

People in my generation are self-righteous assholes who feel that they are entitled to fucking everything.

Parents don't teach manners anymore, my parents would beat the hell out of me if I acted like most people did.

I say please, I say thank you, I say Sir and M'am, I wait my turn, I hold the door, I never use my phone when it's inconvenient and I respect people.

Parents need to parent, like my parents have done, and I'm grateful for that.

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[Iron Criterion]

Time to build my own single screened cinema - with no 3D gimmicks. You're all welcome to come.

Also why do we pander to the lowest common denominator? In the perfect world it would be the people who can't spend 2hrs without texting who are shunned from the cinemas and not the person who dislikes movie texting.

 

[zehydra]

I'm not really a fan of going to the movie theater anyway.
I'd rather watch it on my laptop with alone in my room with headphones and the lights out. It's more immersive(spelling?) that way.

 

[pilouuuu]

It's funny because here in my underdeveloped country, texting is considered polite! Because or else people will be commenting everything on screen with their buddies at the cinema or they'll be talking on the cell phone. It's just recently that MOST people stopped talking on the phone here. I hate living in this jungle...

Captcha: funnily enough it's "indian summer"

 

[DANEgerous]

I am going to be honest I hate it when people text during movies, how much? Here is an example.

I live in Texas we have "The Alamo Draft House" if you life near one i recommend going they are fucking awesome but that is beside the point. The point is they hate this as much as I do and have a cousin that has done been kicked out 3 times and is now banned from the entire cinema, if any one who know this see him he will be kicked off they have his photo on record to make a fairly accurate comparison. They kick out any one that texts in the movie.

What make this absurd is that they serve food during films which require you to be interrupted to do thin like pay or order more beer and yet I do not mind them at all because i know it is coming and know it to be needed and if i do not order they never bother me at all. yet one text from a guy 20 rows behind me pisses me the fuck off and if I was at said theater i would get a free ticket for reporting the bastard.

So yeah I am with Tim on this one, if you test during a movie you get kicked the fuck out, same for crying children. If you allow texting in any movie in you theiter i will never visit a theater affiliated with you ever again even if you lift the ban, as far as i am concerned you brand is now run by Nazis who murdered my wife that i do not even have and may be a husband when if if the time was to come and it always will be.

 

[HenrySugar]

I'm sorry, but HECK NO will I spend upwards of 12-15 dollars for a movie I will only be able to buy later on in better quality and less people, and I refuse to sit in front of this projection of a movie while people text and talk and do other sorts of crap. I'm not really against people - my point here: I'm against people disrespecting the movie theater experience.

The Movie Theater Experience = ESCAPING REALITY... not bringing it with you on your darn phone.

 

[RatRace123]

I've heard this before but I haven't commented on it yet.

That's a terrible idea. And it doesn't make much sense either, why the hell would being allowed to text during a movie make teens and young adults more likely to go see it anyway?

The only thing this would do is get people into the mindset that it's OK to act like an inconsiderate jackass. But, fair enough if movie theaters want to start implementing this policy, more power to them. They should expect however to lose even more people than they would gain from this, it's damned expensive to go to the movie's lately, and kinda pointless if you consider the fact that you'll be able to watch the movie in the comfort of your own home a few months later anyway. When people go the movies they expect a certain atmosphere, one that doesn't involve the flashing lights of a dozen cellphones.

Turning your phone off at a theater is simply common decency. If you really can't stand having it turned off for two friggin' hours than you have a problem, unless of course your phone's on because you may be expecting an emergency or something, but in that case what the hell are you doing at the movies.
For everyone else, phone should go off, whatever you could be talking to someone about is probably not so important that it can't wait for a couple hours.

 

[tzimize]

In my town it might as well be legal. Not ONCE has anyone been talked to or asked to leave for texting, and its making me a sad panda :\

People texting/cellphoning is double trouble.

1: The light/sound is distracting
2: The fact that they are so fucking inconsiderate enrages me and can ruin parts of my movie experience.

God Damnit I hate cellphones in theaters.

 

[Nouw]

To encourage younger movie-goers? I don't know about what the rest of the world is like but the only reason we're not going to the cinema more often is because of the ticket prices. Thinking that allowing texting will encourage more kids/teens is stupid.

 

[Darks63]

I just weep for the younger generation if they cannot part from their phones for a couple of hours!

Sadly it isnt just the younger generation alot of folks use thier phone as a second umbilical cord.

OT: this sounds like mostly a bunch of smaller theaters I doubt the theater I work at would ever allow it.

Personally im surprised that theaters dont install electronic signal dampeners in the theaters to stop texting during movies.

 

[Kyrian007]

Personally im surprised that theaters dont install electronic signal dampeners in the theaters to stop texting during movies.

The solution is to buy your own. Texting in theaters used to bother me, it doesn't anymore. It hasn't ever since I bought and modified a portable jammer. I have not had a problem with texting or phone in a theater for quite some time now. Fits nicely in my pocket, has no external lights to bother other patrons, and it's batteries hold out more than enough for an entire movie. And if I sit about 3/4 of the way up people in the very back can still text all they want. Can't text in a theater when ya got no bars...

It's a little expensive, but it has almost paid for itself. People I know who know about the jammer buy me tickets to movies that they are going to just so I will bring it with me.

 

[SwagLordYoloson]

When the lights go Down, my phone goes off.

 

[Aris Khandr]

In general, I don't see why people need to text while they're at the movies. That said, Disney has a program for iPads and laptops that syncs with your BluRay and provides additional information, behind the scenes stuff, and the like on some movies. If a theater picked up that technology and ran it during the show (special engagements only, I'd want to see the movie the first time without the iPads and laptops going), I think that would be really cool. Not strictly related to texting, but a tangent my brain jumped on.

 

[Dogstile]

How about only texting if you are only sat next to friends (on both sides) and if you keep it in your lap. Sorted! If you're bothered by a light going off a couple people down from you, you do indeed need to chill out.

 

[Buzz Killington_v1legacy]

Texting in theaters used to bother me, it doesn't anymore. It hasn't ever since I bought and modified a portable jammer.

Just be careful you don't get caught with it. From the FCC's jammer FAQ [http://transition.fcc.gov/eb/jammerenforcement/jamfaq.pdf]: "Federal law prohibits the marketing, sale, or use of a transmitter (e.g., a jammer) designed to block, jam, or interfere with wireless communications. See Communications Act of 1934, as amended, 47 U.S.C. §§ 301, 302a(b), 333." Apparently there are some pretty hefty fines and possible jail time associated with using one.

 

[suitepee7]

other people ruin cinema for me by being there. i hate people screaming at horror movies and then laughing afterwards, i hate people who cannot stop laughing at comedies, when the joke is over, and i hate people using their phones, it is a huge distraction

 

[DANEgerous]

I'd like to pose a question....who the fuck actually cares if someone texts in a movie? It's a tiny source of light and if it doesn't make any noise, why the hell does it matter?

Me, a "tiny" source of light is so ehr... "tiny" I can notice it if it is even quite a far distance behind me and it is very distracting due to the fact they can go on testing for well over an hour.

It is the equivalent of taking in a typical voice as far as I am concerned

 

[Kyrian007]

Texting in theaters used to bother me, it doesn't anymore. It hasn't ever since I bought and modified a portable jammer.

Just be careful you don't get caught with it. From the FCC's jammer FAQ [http://transition.fcc.gov/eb/jammerenforcement/jamfaq.pdf]: "Federal law prohibits the marketing, sale, or use of a transmitter (e.g., a jammer) designed to block, jam, or interfere with wireless communications. See Communications Act of 1934, as amended, 47 U.S.C. §§ 301, 302a(b), 333." Apparently there are some pretty hefty fines and possible jail time associated with using one.

That code specifies a wattage level such a device must exceed to be considered in violation. Enough power to block signal in a movie theater is well under the limit. Several websites sell such devices legally and you can pick one up at your local Radio Shack or similar specialty store.

edit: I was wrong. These codes have been strengthened since I bought my jammer and wattage limits are no longer mentioned. I'll have to make sure to hide it well from now on.

 

[FamoFunk]

I'd rather be in a cinema with people texing than those who cannot shut the fuck up for 2 hours of their lives.

 

[pffh]

If this becomes a thing here I'll do what I did once when someone next to me kept looking at their flip cellphone. I took it and snapped it in two.