Well, considering that a lot of the time, I kind of want to murder my co-worker who doesn’t drink coffee and is a natural morning person...

no-mi, why are you doing this? the theatres put up notices before the movie starts not to do this, and YOU KNOW it’s rude. why insist on being rude just to look at your stupid phone? it may sound silly to you, but i’ve lost a lot of respect for you for what you’ve said in this thread. you know you are wrong but you…

I wish I could downvote your post. If you’re not trolling then you’re one selfish motherfucker.

“How would the person know if something’s an emergency or not if they don’t look to inquire?”

We’re all missing the crucial piece which definitively makes you an asshole : why the fuck is your phone on? It’s not just rude (your argument is like sayubg, “I’m talking to one person loudly, but the movie is louder, so why are you paying attention to me yammering like a garbage person and gabbing in the place…

I go to Alamo Theaters. I will have you thrown out for talking or texting. It’s a pleasure and the policy of the theater I like to exercise. Whine to them that you’re too special to care about the rest of the theater for your precious texts

Thankfully Alamo Drafthouse will kick people out for using their phones during a movie. I don’t go to them, but it’s a great policy.

It is not unreasonable to expect someone to not look at their phone for 2 hours. In a dark movie theater, the bright screen of a phone is immediately noticeable in your peripheral vision. C’mon you already know this.

No, fuck off, you have no defense. The money you paid to be in the theater isn’t more valuable than the money other people paid to be in that theater. You want phone time, go where the phone booths used to go, outside the fucking theater.

The fucking theater makes a giant impossible to miss production of telling you to stay off your phone at the beginning of the movie. Why would you go to see a movie in a theater if you cannot follow even the most basic instructions?

I can guarantee that nothing you will ever do in your life is so important that it can’t wait 90 minutes. If you are in the midst of a crisis you can stay the fuck home.

Maybe you stop looking at your tiny screen and focus on the giant one in front of you. I may spend too much time on my phone—just ask my boyfriend—but on the rare occasion I go to the movies (and I rarely go because tickets are fucking expensive), I turn my phone off when the lights dim. I’m pretty sure there’s…

Or how about its more polite to leave to check your phone?

The theater tells you before the showing that cellphones are distracting and not to ruin the movie for everyone else. 

“If you’re that distracted, don’t go to the movies”

Maybe don’t text during a movie? If i hear or see anyone talking or texting I go straight ape shit.

If you’re that distracted, don’t go to the movies.

Counterpoint: Be a decent human being and keep your tiny screen in your pants while watching a movie. Or, god forbid, walk out to the entrance where you won’t bother anyone else.

I know it’s not an “emergency” becuase you’re still in the fucking theater. You’re phone is a giant blinding light flickering.. it’s not about staring at your selfish ass. I didn’t pay good money to watch people yank out their phones every minute and a half