I'm very tempted to go Christian Bale on cell phone users during movies.

What don't they ******* understand? People are trying to watch a movie in peace without any distractions and they have the nerve to repeatedly keep on taking out their cell phone to text. It's ******* distracting when you have that light shining in a really dark room and it's especially bad for people who have good peripheral vision. For **** sake, what's so important that they can't wait until after the movie is over or after they exit the room? Do most kids these days have personal stock brokers that I don't know about, or do they frequently have to stay in touch with their clients to research or hold business meetings? I swear, these cell phone addicts (college kids especially) are just begging me to ******* go trash their cell phones. Nothing would give me more satisfaction than to snag their cell phones, throw it on the ground, and then stomp on it.

I'm not sure what's up with these cell phone addicts these days. Some 13 year-old girl sent 14,528 text messages in a single month. Like my one film arts professor said, texting must be some new form of sexual fetish for girls and guys or something. I honestly believe most college kids/teenagers probably wouldn't be able to go through a day without making a call or text message.

Well, as far as college kids go,

This is actually far more likely. Not to stay in touch with clients, necessarily, but some people are almost always busy working with somebody doing something, whether for a business or for another venture either school-related or not school related. When I was really busy I'd have like 15 new emails if I didn't check my mailbox for an hour (this is why I was so obsessed w/ netbooks haha)


What pisses me off more are younger kids (i.e. preteens) having like. Blackberries and stuff. When they obviously don't need them.


Still, you're right about cell phones in theaters being utterly annoying. I guess the right thing would be to leave the theater while you have to deal w/ your messages or whatever.

I'm going to go see Friday the 13th this weekend and text people how much it sucks the entire duration of the movie.

I generally hide my phone screen while I do this because I realize how annoying it is to other people. Or I just wait til the end of the movie to text back. It depends on the contents of the message and how much I like the movie.

I don't text often because I like to write full sentences. I don't know why it bothers me not to. Even in multiplayer games, it is always full sentences.

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This.

I also have this problem. I text slow because I use full words and punctuate. I never abbreviate or use "lol" unless necessary to fit in the message.

I'm not important enough to need to respond to hundreds of texts all the time.

Also, despite my horrible tendency towards typos, I always type out full words and use punctuation in my texts too.

Even that's annoying, because you can't really hide it well.

If you have something so urgent that you can't wait till the end of the movie to answer: If it's a sudden emergency, leave the theater; if it's something you're waiting on, don't go to the theater in the first place!

I remember once I had my cellphone in my backpack at a movie. I forgot to turn it off and then suddenly it rings. I have the "Push it to the limit" song from scarface as the cell phone tune that rings. So people were starting to get pissed off, and my friends were on the edge of laughing out loud. Finally I found it, after the caller had hung up twice, and it turned out to be a wrong number.

They shouldn't have remade it. I heartily expect it to be as awful as the Halloween remake.

But hey, it can't be worse than Jason X!

Hey, just so you know.

****ING CRY ABOUT IT YOU LITTLE GIRL.

People like you need to take the stick out of their ***. You little *****y *** complaining whores and your stupid pet peeves which make you oh so disgusted with humanity. How often do you get out of the house, like once, maybe twice a month? To go to your favorite nerdgasm event like the new comic book movie you're going to scoff at as non-canon, to pick up your stack of comic books from the comic store, or debate about the price of a harddrive from best buy?



PS, this is what you look like to people who don't care.

I turn my phone off when I go the cinema.

1) It's good manners as it p****s people off.
2) It annoys ME when it vibrates in my pocket for either a call or a text.

I don't see why anyone wouldn't turn their phone off - who wants be distracted from a film you've chosen to watch, made the effort to arrive to on time, PAID FOR and presumably are interested in? If you're not that inteseted in the film - don't pay to go see it.

Martyn has the right answer.

Turn off your damn phone; if you're posting on these forums then you aren't important enough that the call can't wait 2 hours.

I don't have a cell phone, and I like it that way.

ditto, or a real phone either

It even says to turn your phone off before any film starts, there's really no excuse.

This is your brain on drugs.

I'm very tempted to go Chris Brown on you for using a name as a euphemism.

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Probably first time ever, I'm in complete agreeance with DJ Yoshi. This elitist "I'm too sexy for my cellphone" bull **** is super annoying.

Keyboard phones.





As for texting, I think alot of people are hypersensitive about this issue. I could care less. If you want a complete movie experience all to yourself, build a home theater in your basement. Otherwise stfu.

Some examples of things far more annoying then -gasp- texting, would be -- The annoying person next to you who has to constantly make commentary, the kid behind you kicking your seat nonstop, the guy leaving the theater every 10 minutes to take a call, the kid to your left smacking his popcorn, the woman in front of you who doesn't know how to open a bag of candy and has spent the last 5 minutes fidgiting with it, the theaters sound randomly cutting in and out, slurping soft drinks, groups of teenagers constantly talking, crying babies, the list goes on and on.. I think whining about texting is the least of the issues here.

...Do you use it when you're at the cinema?

Asperger's has robbed you of the ability to moderate your feelings about an extremely minor display of impoliteness. You are also cripplingly socially withdrawn so you like to pretend to the internet that you would take action about this affront to your person even though you never, ever would.

You overreacted to Cloud's complaints because you are consciously aware that what you do is irritating and disruptive to the people around you, and you feel bad about it, but it would be more convenient to convince other people not to be annoyed than it would be to change.

You are not consciously aware that what you do is irritating and disruptive to the people around you.

Jon'C: Massassi's resident shrink.

Jon'C is beginning to sound like House.

no I'm stating things that are plainly obvious to anybody who has communicated with any of these people for even a short period of time

Ooh! Ooh! Do me! Do me next!

What the hell crawled up your *** sideways?

I don't know any guys who have blackberries - the have cellphones, but not many use them. It's the girls who have them all. It's annoying as ****.

Leave the theater? You could attempt to complain to the theater for not being able to enjoy your movie. They've given me free movies before for such reasons

And Yoshi - this is how people respond to people who don't care. Maybe you should read the thread from the point of view from someone who DOES......

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Well actually I don't really care about phones in theaters, I'm always in the middle or so, in front of the teens so I don't see the stupid lights

Also, Jon`C ftw.

Pretty much. Laws can help restrain people and keep them in "order". For the most part at least, a man did shoot someone for not shutting up, while watching The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.




I have no problem when it involves important matters. However when it's just a bunch of text messages consisting of "this movie sucks" or "have you heard about what x did?", they're completely unnecessary. Additionally, should the person be watching the movie since that's what he paid for?

Oh and I realize I may be excessive with my original post, but I also wanted to pay tribute to Bale who is still one of my favorite actors regardless of those whole Terminator debacle.

A new law in place of common courtesy? You seriously want to live in such a nanny state?

I find this the most annoying. I hate going to movies with my friends because they don't understand the concept of shutting the **** up. Especially since a few of them work at the theater, so the majority of the group gets in for free (work at theater + one person get in for free to any movie). I just pay my $7.50 and shut up because I want to watch the movie.

Its not even just teenagers though, I've seen equal representation of all groups (e.g. mothers, old people, teens) who just don't give a **** about common courtesy.

I remember once being at a movie, and some ******* couldn't shut up about the things he and his friend have done while being drunk. He was talking to, who I assume was his girlfriend, and she was in complete silence. I think that justifies dumping him.

That's what really pisses me off.

You pay for a movie, just to go in and blab through the entire thing, and not watch it. Why not go to a coffee place, where you're SUPPOSED to talk.

Nah, I was pretty sober at that point in time. I rarely post if I'm anything but drunk, maybe.


No, I was actually being fairly facetious with my overreaction. I don't care if it disrupts him, and I don't care about the issue period--I only ever sit in the back so if I do for any reason need to text it doesn't hurt anyone behind me, or I step outside of the movie to text/converse if needbe. I just think he should see how he looks from the other end of the spectrum.

I remember being at the movies once and a few rows over there was a couple of kids lounging around with their feet up on the chairs.
One picks up her phone, RINGS her friend and starts talking
"Hey what are you up to?'
"Yeah, I'm at the movies"
"Yeah it seems pretty good so far"

I couldn't believe it, and when someone shushed her, she actually turned around and said "I'm trying to enjoy the movie here"

I didn't realize there were people who actually acted like this, she seemed like an exagerration of herself.




Oh, and yes, she got kicked out.