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AMC responds to 'texting' controversy
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He's really considerate of others while he's being completely selfish though, it's okay. He thinks about their feelings before ignoring them.
Ray Wonder
Founder of the Wounded Tagless Children
What kind of argument is this? You're just pulling stuff out of your ass to make me seem like a bad person. It's possible. If you can't do it, that's fine, but I can.
BobTheFork
Member
I'm not going to thank them for this. I already don't love the theater experience; I would have just stopped going all together as I think many people would have.
They didn't do us a favor, they did themselves a favor.
They didn't do us a favor, they did themselves a favor.
It was a roundabout way to publicly shame people who text during movies on a mass scale.
Genius, really.
you're completely missing the point. You think people can't see or hear you but they can. You're like that guy who thinks no one is seeing him picking his nose
it's basic etiquette, you ARE a bad person, accept it
kavanf1
Member
I think the general rule is that it's not cool to use your phone while watching a film. Most people pay a lot of money for cinema tickets, and don't want their experience disrupted by others. Even people trying to be subtle about it.
I like to hope there are some people who thought their texting in a theater was no big deal, but now realize how much people around them hate it and attempt to be an alright person and stop. :nudges: Ray Wonder
outunderthestars
Banned
Very single other selfish person thinks the same thing. We can still see your screen light up, even on lowest brightness. Your life iant that damn important. I know this will be hard for you to grasp as you've spent your entire life being told this, and now have a variety of social media that reinforces this, but it is a lie.
You are not important.
Then your damn phone off for two hours in your life and let everyone around you enjoy the movie. You will probably enjoy it more yourself. Once it is over you can go back to spwnd ing every moment of your life attached to your phone and social media platform of choice.
No. You can't.
Because you cannot personally make that judgment call. The entire problem of texting in a theatre is OTHER PEOPLE noticing it, so the person who is DOING the distracting task has literally zero say in how effective he was at hiding it. And no amount of you claiming you can do it perfectly will ever make it true.
Just don't text in a movie theatre. That's it. That's literally it! Just don't look at your phone, for 2 hours. Mute it, airplane mode, turn it off, whatever. Then put it in your pocket/purse/the cupholder for all I care. And just, don't look at it. Don't use it. For 2 hours.
blame space
Banned
sometimes I pull out my phone and start to watch another movie if the one I'm at is boring
Ivan Amiibo
Banned
still a problem, but the kinds of people that talk during a movie usually stick to dumb-as-shit movies
comicbook movies.
ElBoxyBrown
Banned
In a realistic situation AMC would get sued and probably lose the case so they probably don't want to deal with that.
I think the main problem with people using their phones is going into a movie with no info expecting to automatically like it. If the movie is not keeping you interested then sneak into another one.
outunderthestars
Banned
Fun fact: 911 already does know where you are if you call them via cell phone. At least in Canada, that's how they function. Legally carriers have to transmit GPS data to the dispatch whenever a 911 call is made/911 requests it from the carrier.
lmfao
killertofu
Member
Yeah, I can. Light is light. If you're in a pitch black theater, you're gonna see the luminance of a cell phone, even if the screen brightness is low.
Can't you just put it on do not disturb? That's what I do so I'm not tempted to look at my phone while watching a movie. It really takes me out of the experience
Don't know what system you have in Canada, but here in the US there has been some problems getting location from cell phones.
Optimusdouche
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Heh, it's stupid to do it, but if you catch one of the last shows, then the employees all leave since the movies will finish too late, and the cleaning is done the following morning. There are literally no employees.
Of, course you also have to get an empty theater to yourself at this place, which will only happen if you know what sort of movie people would never go to a late show of.
Like Midnight Special last night, I had the theater to myself. It was glorious. It also should preferable be a very large theater, that way the smell disperses extremely quickly.
Only seen other people do it openly in some run down Philly theater like a decade ago.
rootbeerafloat
Member
Great, now let me refill my $6 Icee again you fucks
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Deleted member 752119
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One of the local Regal theaters has. 21+ VIP area with a full bar and two awesome theaters worn reclining seats etc. The local craft beers are $6-7 or $18-19 for a pitcher. Only a buck or two more than at most decent bars/restaurants around the city.
Tickets are pricey as it usually ends up being $20ish apiece after online purchase fees, 3D fee etc. But my fiancée and I don't mind as we love movies and find it worth it for the awesome theater and no kids or teens.
... the fuck?
I would fully support this.
If you still want to believe the ridiculous safety hazard excuse, you don't have to go.
BobTheFork
Member
I would hope so. I'm still not clear why they thought this was a good idea. I assume they thought there may be people who refuse to go into a theater because they can't stop using the phone for 90 minutes. Who knows
Glass Shark
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This is why I actually really like going to preview screenings, because they either have you check your phone at the door or they have people watching like a hawk to see if people are using their phones. Also, no one talks and there are generally no small children.
I wish all moviegoing experiences were like that...
I wish all moviegoing experiences were like that...
Ray Wonder
Founder of the Wounded Tagless Children
Ok, Ray Wonder's guide to texting in a theater:
If there's someone around you that you think will be distracted by it, don't. Simple. Easy. The theater I've been going to for years is never packed. Unless there's a big movie opening. So most scenarios I find myself in pass my first step. Mostly because I like sitting further back in the theater. Where not a soul will have a clue I was texting.
Second, have your screen dimmed to, so the people in front of you cannot see the entire back of the room light up. If need be, you glance at your fully dimmed phone, and text while in your pocket. Not difficult. If I need to do this, I'll just make sure I'm sending the message to a person that wouldn't care if I misspelled everything possible. I really don't want you guys to pretend that when you get a message, you don't glance at it. That's irresponsible. If an emergency were to occur, you'd have no clue, because you didn't look at your phone to know if you need to leave the theater.
You're all so sure of yourselves. I know. It seems impossible for me to be an ok and considerate person. I text in a movie theater sometimes. Please someone get me help.
I'm ok with you thinking I'm a terrible person. You'd be wrong, but that's fine with me.
If there's someone around you that you think will be distracted by it, don't. Simple. Easy. The theater I've been going to for years is never packed. Unless there's a big movie opening. So most scenarios I find myself in pass my first step. Mostly because I like sitting further back in the theater. Where not a soul will have a clue I was texting.
Second, have your screen dimmed to, so the people in front of you cannot see the entire back of the room light up. If need be, you glance at your fully dimmed phone, and text while in your pocket. Not difficult. If I need to do this, I'll just make sure I'm sending the message to a person that wouldn't care if I misspelled everything possible. I really don't want you guys to pretend that when you get a message, you don't glance at it. That's irresponsible. If an emergency were to occur, you'd have no clue, because you didn't look at your phone to know if you need to leave the theater.
You're all so sure of yourselves. I know. It seems impossible for me to be an ok and considerate person. I text in a movie theater sometimes. Please someone get me help.
I'm ok with you thinking I'm a terrible person. You'd be wrong, but that's fine with me.
Netherscourge
Banned
THANK YOU, AMC.
even simpler way to text in a theater:
just walk out the theater room for a minute
no need to think that one out, could have your phone on full brightness
old manatee
Banned
people with their big glowing smart watches can eat a hundred assholes, too. it's like being in a rave stone sober. shit.
Jebusman's guide to texting in a theatre:
1. Don't
Incredibly simple. Literally zero prerequisites to completing this guide. It has never failed me once.
Get over yourself. Drop the victim act. You are getting called out for doing something that is dickish, and doing everything in your power to rationize why "YOU" aren't the dick in this situation.
You don't know that and you CAN'T know that without questioning every single person in that theatre with you.
You don't know how perceptible it is TO THEM. This is the part you seem to be failing to grasp, you are looking at it entirely from your PERCEPTION on how you are presenting yourself, not the fact that other people may have different tolerances and perceptions that make it a distraction to them.
I'm not pretending. I don't. Hell my phone is in airplane mode when I'm in a theatre, I couldn't get a call/text even if people tried.
Ray Wonder
Founder of the Wounded Tagless Children
That's fine, but you're all just moving goalposts. I said it was possible, you said it's not. I showed that I really could, you say just don't. This was in defense of you're accusations, not an actual guide.
kavanf1
Member
Do you work in the emergency services? If you don't, it's probably highly unlikely you will ever need to deal with something so urgent that you have to rush out of the cinema.
I don't know, maybe it's because I went the first 20 years of my life without having a phone at all, but it really doesn't seem like much of a sacrifice to me to turn my phone off when going to the cinema. I'm in my 30s now and so far I haven't missed any emergencies, nor have I ever witnessed anyone rush out of the cinema to deal with an emergency. It might be worth considering how important responding to something so promptly really is. Most of the time, it probably isn't, you've just been conditioned to think it is.
why do you keep hammering it's possible. It's also possible to kill someone without getting caught, it doesn't make you a better person
They act like the idea was emergent and no adults were consulted. Imagine being a downstream employee and having to think, "the clown who came up with this idea or approved it, is still in charge and is going to retire a millionaire."
TheAbsolution
Member
Just ask for a manager. In most cases they'll send someone in there to get them to stop.
Or at least in my theater they do.
Ray Wonder
Founder of the Wounded Tagless Children
So now, the act of texting in the movie theater is what's bad. Not that it's annoying anyone?
lol
If that's what I'm arguing against, then I give up, because that's dumb.
I said it's not possible to do it without being an asshole.
Something you have yet to prove because you literally CANNOT prove you are not bothering ANYBODY in the theatre unless you are literally the only person in the theatre.
God damn man, all these hoops you jump through to trick yourself into thinking you're being considerate. Just because you develop some convoluted process for viewing your cell phone to minimize the amount people could see it does not mean you're being considerate. If you actually cared about being considerate to others, you would just not text.
you're just trolling to get reactions by now, so there's no real argument here anyway
LyleLanley
Banned
I would've been fine with this if it meant stricter anti-texting policies in the rest of their theaters.
shortsFortallPeople
Banned
you doing an inconsiderate thing with as much consideration as possible still makes you someone doing an inconsiderate thing.
if you really wanted to take the considerations of others into account then you wouldn't be inconsiderate at all
he has to be trolling at this point. there's no way any sensible person buys into what he's selling.
if you really wanted to take the considerations of others into account then you wouldn't be inconsiderate at all
he has to be trolling at this point. there's no way any sensible person buys into what he's selling.
Ray Wonder
Founder of the Wounded Tagless Children
You literally cannot prove that you being in the theater with people isn't annoying anyone either, but you assume it isn't because that's the obvious thing to do. It's obvious you're not. I don't need scientific theories and experiments to know I'm not bothering anyone.
I didn't have this process thought out, it just happens, because I'm thinking about who is around me. I typed it up for all of you.
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