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to the woman @ Park Lane who started talking on her cell phone in the middle of the movie: When I asked you to please turn it off, you said, “You don’t have to be rude.” …What??? Me, I’m…
—Still Laughing in Disbelief
This article appears in Dec 31, 2009 – Jan 6, 2010.
22 Comments
I fucking hate cell phones in the theatre. Especially people who feel the need to check fuckin’ Twitter in the theatre using their iPhone/Crackberry. Those things put out enough light to see them from the bottom row. If they’re in front of me, I usually kick the seat or let a few farts go… they get the message. I don’t bother asking anymore, simply because it’s usually responded with a middle finger in my face or a very cordial: “fuck you”, or the best one is the dumb, expressionless face followed with no response at all.
Yeah, this drives me nuts too. why go the movies if you are just going to spend all your time texting? At least sit in the back so I don’t have be distracted by the screen lights. Last movie I went to I sat near the middle of the theatre and there were 5 people scattered around the theatre in front of me who were texting the whole time.
I hate people that have the need to text/twitter all the time……ummmm…Tim….
What EVER did we do before cell-phones? Oh yeah, we actually watched the movie uninterrupted, and the earth did not stop spinning simply because someone couldn’t be reached for 1+ hours! Cell phones should be mandatorially shut off in theatres. If one needs to be reached that urgently (read that: life or death situation) maybe a movie theatre is not the place to be. There is no other excuse for interrupting the enjoyment of a whole theatre of people who pay to both hear and see the movie and want their money’s worth.
This used to bug me too…
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I thought cell phones were supposed to be turned off before you went in to the theatre.
Not just the theatres but restaurants, bars, etc. There’ll be a number of people at a table and instead of (gasp) talking to each other, they’re all texting or on their cells.
I would have demanded that the manager throw the bitch out…or….gone to the concession stand, bought another LARGE drink and…OPPS I must have slipped on something on the floor DIRECTLY BEHIND that bitches seat. (evil grin)
I never encountered someone actually talking on their phone in a movie, but I’ve encountered drunk young people calling each other “fag” and other clever insults during a movie. I simply tell them to “shut the hell up, I’m trying to watch a movie”. I don’t tolerate people openly talking in the theatre during the movie. Whispering once in a while to the person beside you is one thing, but actually raising your voice to insult your friend a couple rows up. Heeelllllll no hoe.
Anybody ever see Futurama when Bender got into the robot fighting league? I follow Bender’s lead in theatres – cigar and all.
haha
i haven’t been to the moving picture show in years; but the thing that put me over the edge was the frequent unpaid free lance comic dude that felt his commentary/quips in a loud voice added a needed boost to the enjoyment of the movie
should have accidently on purpose tripped on the way to a seat,and dropped something nice and cold all over her,or him.works better when you don’t say anything before hand though.
what i should have done is put a cap in his ass yo! :):):)
Those people who go to bars are just sit around texting all their other friends, and when when they leave their current group of friends to see the friends they were just texting, continue to text their previous friends, crack me up. I try very hard not to be a texting addict. I play it cool with the ladies and wait at least an hour before texting back a “yo yo baby grl wasssuuuupppp!!!!”
More ladies for us, QP……!
We mad pimpin’!
I was gobsmacked last week when the teenie-bopper next to me in the movie theatre answered her cel phone not once, but twice, and loudly. When I shushed her, she said “Well, I dpnt have call display, so I have to answer it!” as though that was a perfectly reasonable explanation. Movie tickets in Ontario are fucking expensive as it is, making it an infrequent treat for me. So, I put on my best crazy eyes, cocked my head and said “Hang up or lose it. Now.” To my surprise, she did. And I enjoyed the rest of Doctor Parnassus greatly.
There are presently 8 text messages on my phone unopened.
THey will ,like everyother text I’ve received,remain unopened.
If you need to speak to me , need to get my attention, for what ever reason.
You can call me on my cell phone.
IF i don’t answer, leave a message & i’ll get back to you.
If you want to write me…e-mail me, when I turn on my computer I’ll see it then, or send one by snailmail.
I’m paying for a PHONE & a MESSAGE SERVICE …You dumb fuckin’ morons USE IT
I am not about to try typing out a damn message on my 10 digit key pad, when we can simply T A L K to each other ….DDDDDUUUUUUUHHHHHHHH ! ! ! ! !
We never had this problem when I was a kid, Charlie Chaplin movies were silent so you weren’t interrupting the dialogue – plus, they were ahead of their time as THEY texted you the dialogue on screen and supplied a pianist in case you couldn’t read……
More, you could read the txt and call them back.
I use texting like immediate and mini e-mails. I don’t need a conversation to let you know I’m on my way or something like that. I’ve never had a conversation by texting yet, they’ve always been one-way communications.
Basil, do you think those new-fangled “talkies” are ever going to catch on, or are they a fad?