Or would be if the management would make half an effort to make people shut up and turn off their cell phones.
You know, people complain about that sort of thing frequently, but I don't remember the last time a cellphone user was a problem in a theater. I can't complain about the odd cellphone that goes off if the owner leaves to take the call. I've been "on call" for family emergencies (relatives near death, etc) often enough to appreciate the fact you can't always turn the phone off.
Chris
I didn't say cell phone gabbing happened a lot, just that it happens. The lights are also distracting and thus irritating when people, usually teens who can't live without their cell phones, get bored with the movie and open their phones to check for calls they might have missed and/or to send a text message.
I understand the sometime necessity of the things, but people could put them on "vibrate" and, agreed, if it does ring take the call out to the lobby.
And to clarify, by "shut up" I didn't just mean using the phone. Too many people act like they're sitting in their living room and want to discuss what's going on with their friends or just whoever happens to be sitting nearby.
The last time I went to a movie to see something
I wanted to see was over ten years ago when a friend and I went downtown to see
Halloween H2O. Just before the film started a group of six people came in, five of them sat on one row and the sixth sat in the row ahead of them. The woman in front spent the entire film half turned toward her friends and they all chatted with each other and shouted at the screen during the entire runtime. I went looking for an usher and couldn't get one of them to come into the theatre (it was the last show of the evening and they were all busy doing their closing tasks) nor get one of them to call for a manager. I went back into the theatre and told the talkers I didn't appreciate them ruining the show for me. The singleton looked at me like I had three eyes and said, "I don't know what your problem is. We didn't tell you how it ends!" I said I meant them running their mouths throughout the movie and she retorted, "So!? This is interactive entertainment!"
People think they can act like they want because they paid their money and don't care that other people paid, too. That's why I hardly ever set foot in a theatre anymore.
