You could, however, say the same thing about two people having a loud conversation about the same topics at a restaurant.
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You could, however, say the same thing about two people having a loud conversation about the same topics at a restaurant.
Then please leave or go to that little thing called the LOBBY only a few steps away.
--Ted
Could've been worse, Christian Bale could've been there.
Ted's thoughts echo mine. If you're spending the time and money to see a movie in theaters, the presumption is that you are interested in the concept and will find it enjoyable enough to at least hold your attention for the entire running time. If it's truly awful, you should leave the place entirely, take a short nap, or wait in the lobby for the rest of the party if you're sharing a ride.
Nah, I'll just turn the backlight the phone screen down a bit to keep the light out of your eyes (I still can't can't see how it affects seeing the movie at all, given the light from the movie screen is so bright in comparison, but hey, now it's been raised as an issue for some of you, I'll turn the light down a bit).
It's a bright-light outside the field of vision/focus.
Those of us with peripheral vision are distracted by bright lights outside our main field of vision in dark places (no matter how bright of a light we're looking into in our main field of vision.)
Essentialy, you're a guy driving behind with his brights on-which are reflecting in my side-view mirror. Turn the phone off, text/check your messages after the movie or in the lobby.
It is amazing - I have somehow managed to go 51 years without ever sending a single text message to anyone (or ever receiving one). I have even managed to sit through shitty movies without annoting anyone - the only time I ever walked out of a movie was when I went to "Flowers in the Attic"
I once saw someone reading a book while driving. A paperback novel, just spread out across the steering wheel.What kind of demented lunatic sends text messages while driving?
For fuck's sake, call someone if you need to talk that bad! At least then you can keep your fucking eyes on the road, even if you aren't paying close attention.
People who don't mute/dim their phones in movie theaters definitely bug me. They seem to have cracked down on that, though, since I rarely see it anymore.
But yeah, people talking on the phone while driving, texting while I am trying to communicate with them, and so forth... very irritating. And dangerous, in the case of driving.
People who do things like that should just plain lose their license, at least for a year, and forever if it happens twice. That's fucking absurd.
Iowa is (slowly) moving towards adopting a law that would result in a one-year license suspension if one causes an accident while texting. I do hope it passes.
OK, OK, bright lights = disturbing. Fine, I'll turn down the backlight.
I only go to the movies a couple of times a year at most, so perhaps I don't really feel the same way about it. The times I do go, I go with a handful or so of other people so it's more a social thing to do than about actually watching a movie I'm necessarily interested in. It doesn't really bug me when people elsewhere in the cinema like check their messages, chat quietly, eat loudly or whatever. I remember once seeing a guy listening to his mp3 player while watching the movie. *shrug*
I only go to the movies a couple of times a year at most, so perhaps I don't really feel the same way about it. The times I do go, I go with a handful or so of other people so it's more a social thing to do than about actually watching a movie I'm necessarily interested in. It doesn't really bug me when people elsewhere in the cinema like check their messages, chat quietly, eat loudly or whatever. I remember once seeing a guy listening to his mp3 player while watching the movie. *shrug*
The situation & timing is ripe for any number of one-liners. I think "That's God saying He's now officially in the house" or "That's God calling in to prove the Protestants wrong about the Eucharist" would probably be my favourites if I was a priest.
I think it was on a radio talk show once. They were interviewing one of these "life coach" kind of people and she said that our manners haven't caught up with our technology.
I'd argue that people have lost their sense of common, er, sense.
You really shouldn't need a minute-long commercial at the begining of a movie, or people on a message board, to tell you that bright lights and talking during a movie is rude and disrupting to other people.
Hell, I don't even like to check my watch during a movie because I don't want the indiglo light to disturb people.
Jury duty. Somebody forgot to turn her phone off, and it rang loud and clear in the courtroom shortly after we got started.
I was in traffic-court one night. Judge comes out, tells everyone the night's procedure and finishes by saying that he doesn't want to see any cell-phones and that people should set them to silent-alert and if they must use them to do it in the lobby.
Hour or so into the night the kid sitting next to me starts talking on his phone, after a moment the judge notices and tells the baliff to take the kids phone, "Don't ask, just go over there and take it," -the kid doesn't hear this. The baliff does so and the kid looks up in wonderment and confusion.
The judge reams the kid for talking on the phone, for either showing up to court late and missing his instructions for the night's procedures/rules or simply ignorning is warnings about cell-phones. The kid stammers, saying that he didn't know and that the phone wasn't his -it was his girlfriend's who is sitting next to him looking more in disbelief than the kid.
The judge tells the kid that he is keeping the phone and if the kid wants it back he needs to talk to judge after court. The kid is kind of argumentitive and then judge goes on to threaten to put the kid in contempt, that shut the kid up.
Funniest and best thing I've seen in a long time.
Talking to the baliff when I was done with part of the evening I was told that the kid will get his phone back, he's just going to have to worry a bit and maybe grovel some to the judge at the end of the night.
The story I read said that Jackman and his co-star told the guy to turn off the phone in character.
