Just got cell phone taken away from movie staff cause i was texting...

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

Originally posted by: nweaver

Originally posted by: wkabel23

Originally posted by: Imp

Originally posted by: ShadowOfMyself

Originally posted by: umbrella39

Originally posted by: wkabel23
So you get distracted by someone texting in a movie?

Stop worrying about what other people are doing, and watch the movie. Shouldn't be a problem.

But most people would rather get on their high horse and bleat on about immaturity and lack of responsibility...and let something insignificant affect them. I'm sure all the anti-cell phone zealots don't buy food or drink at the movies either. Because popcorn and drinks, which can actually make noise, really disturb my viewing experience. :roll:

oh, and it always says silence your phone...not turn it off.

Stop worrying about texting and watch the movie, shouldn't be a problem.

Thats possibly the worst argument twist Ive ever heard


He was saying you should mind your own business, and it is his choice if he messages or not, you have nothing to do with it, watch the movie and stop caring about other people

Oh and I have yet to hear the anti phone crowd say why exactly is messaging more disturbing than eating popcorn? Oh wait, IT ISNT, thats why

"Popcorn is a tradition" was the best attempt yet, but it also fails... Tradition or not, it is more disturbing, yet none of you mention it, so stop whining, you dont like having people around you, stay home
/thread

Keep seeing variants of this same arguement from the pro-phone crowd about "minding your own business". Anyways, here's the converse of your statement:

If you don't like having people around you, stay home so you don't bother anyone else with your selfish, inconsiderate and thoughtless attitude. Enjoy your phone though...


No one can "mind their own business" if you make it their business by interrupting/distracting them. If you choose to text at home in the dark or yell into your phone at night in bed, then you have a case. Like you said if "you don't like having people around you, stay home".

As to the original, it's EXACTLY cause you "Stop worrying about what other people are doing..." that's the problem. You don't give two sh!ts about disturbing anyone else and how you bother them. You chose to take your phone out, others around you can only choose to gauge their eyes out, beat you, change seats or hold a hand over the area of view with the bright light...

do you have super sensitive eyes? i really can't believe you're complaining about the brightness of a cell phone. find me a cell phone w/ a glow that compares to a mag-lite and maybe you'll have a point.

not worrying about others, not letting what they do affect you =! not giving a shit about other people. what kind of logic did you use to make those equal?

I use my cell as a flash light all the time...

Pshh. I'll turn on my cell phone LED and then you'll see how happy you are. THAT is my flashlight. You think cell phone screens are bright? Get over it.

Originally posted by: akshatp

Originally posted by: BUTCH1
Can one person text and not disturb the other patrons?? yes, if was done discreetly.
the point most of the pro-texting group seems to miss is there will be DOZENS of people
doing it all movie long if it was allowed. Will all those people be discreet and hold the phones
so that the light is not visible?? not likely. Why should patrons be asked to adapt to the
"new" electronic toys when it's to everyone's benefit to just shut the damm thing off!

How do you know it is to "everyone's" benefit to shut it off? Have you polled moviegoers everywhere and asked them if they like/dislike a small light eminating from the row in front of them?

Let's not get unreasonable here. I think it's hard to jump to the conclusion that it's to everyone's benefit to shut the phones off, but I think it's to everyone's benefit that phones aren't going off left and right. I'm sure we can agree that we'd all rather not have lights flashing even if it's people discreetly texting. There are things you'd rather NOT have happen. Come on. When you go with friends or with a SO or whatever you're bound to say a few words to each other during the movie right? Is it to my benefit that you STFU and don't make a sound at all? Sure. Do we kick you out of the theater for talking? No because unless you're shouting or making a scene, a few words is something we can all cope with. Similarly, I think we can all cope with a little light that chances are you can't see directly if people are texting properly, and what you see is just a small glow.

 

[soonerproud]

Originally posted by: kevinthenerd
If I'm driving and I know I can't safely answer it (i.e. not at a light or stuck in traffic), then I won't. I just don't believe that a movie theater is such a bad place to reply to a text for 20 seconds. I'm 24, and often if I don't respond to my mother's text right away, I forget to do so later, and she gets upset and complains that I don't care about her any more, etc. It's worth pleasing her because she's not getting any younger and all...

Your mom needs serious psychological counseling if she cannot stand an unanswered text message.

 

[shortylickens]

SWEET JESUS IS THIS STILL GOING?

Alright, seriously, I will buy all the priciple players lap dances if they just let this shit go right now.
There is no movie worth all this aggrevation. Gone with the Wind was not worth 451 posts, to say nothing of the dozen or so the Mods deleted for saying god knows what.

 

[akshatp]

Originally posted by: shortylickens
SWEET JESUS IS THIS STILL GOING?

Alright, seriously, I will buy all the priciple players lap dances if they just let this shit go right now.
There is no movie worth all this aggrevation. Gone with the Wind was not worth 451 posts, to say nothing of the dozen or so the Mods deleted for saying god knows what.

I'll let it go. Will you be sending the lap dance fee via paypal or MO? :laugh::evil::laugh:

 

[MainFramed]

should have made a poll with this.....

 

[akshatp]

Originally posted by: MainFramed
should have made a poll with this.....

I dont think it would have much of a poll... Its pretty obvious from the replies that most people would have voted against....

 

[MainFramed]

Originally posted by: akshatp

Originally posted by: MainFramed
should have made a poll with this.....

I dont think it would have much of a poll... Its pretty obvious from the replies that most people would have voted against....

more like a poll, im 50 and im against it, im 20 and im against it, and vice versa. probably would seen the older generations separate from the younger generations real quick eh

 

[akshatp]

Originally posted by: MainFramed

Originally posted by: akshatp

Originally posted by: MainFramed
should have made a poll with this.....

I dont think it would have much of a poll... Its pretty obvious from the replies that most people would have voted against....

more like a poll, im 50 and im against it, im 20 and im against it, and vice versa. probably would seen the older generations separate from the younger generations real quick eh

Still dont think you need a poll to know the answer.. i could venture a pretty good guess as to what kind of responses you would see...

 

[MainFramed]

Originally posted by: akshatp

Originally posted by: MainFramed

Originally posted by: akshatp

Originally posted by: MainFramed
should have made a poll with this.....

I dont think it would have much of a poll... Its pretty obvious from the replies that most people would have voted against....

more like a poll, im 50 and im against it, im 20 and im against it, and vice versa. probably would seen the older generations separate from the younger generations real quick eh

Still dont think you need a poll to know the answer.. i could venture a pretty good guess as to what kind of responses you would see...

well rock on nostradamus

 

[umbrella39]

Originally posted by: ShadowOfMyself

Originally posted by: umbrella39

Originally posted by: wkabel23
So you get distracted by someone texting in a movie?

Stop worrying about what other people are doing, and watch the movie. Shouldn't be a problem.

But most people would rather get on their high horse and bleat on about immaturity and lack of responsibility...and let something insignificant affect them. I'm sure all the anti-cell phone zealots don't buy food or drink at the movies either. Because popcorn and drinks, which can actually make noise, really disturb my viewing experience. :roll:

oh, and it always says silence your phone...not turn it off.

Stop worrying about texting and watch the movie, shouldn't be a problem.

Thats possibly the worst argument twist Ive ever heard


He was saying you should mind your own business, and it is his choice if he messages or not, you have nothing to do with it, watch the movie and stop caring about other people

Oh and I have yet to hear the anti phone crowd say why exactly is messaging more disturbing than eating popcorn? Oh wait, IT ISNT, thats why

"Popcorn is a tradition" was the best attempt yet, but it also fails... Tradition or not, it is more disturbing, yet none of you mention it, so stop whining, you dont like having people around you, stay home

/thread

/of your entitlement rant you mean Popcorn is teh loud! Zzz.

 

[imported_Imp]

Originally posted by: wkabel23

not worrying about others, not letting what they do affect you =! not giving a shit about other people. what kind of logic did you use to make those equal?

If you think everyone should "stop worrying about what other people are doing" that means you blame everyone else for getting distracted. Hey, it's their fault for paying attention to me, nothing I do is causing them to be distracted. It's all them. So I guess you really give a shit about other people...

Everyone, get your phones out in theaters, talk in restaurants, talk in class. You are all hypersensitive and it is purely YOUR fault for being distracted.

 

[DrPizza]

Originally posted by: shortylickens
There is no movie worth all this aggrevation. Gone with the Wind was not worth 451 posts, to say nothing of the dozen or so the Mods deleted for saying god knows what.

What the mod(s) edited out were personal attacks. i.e. "you're the world's biggest imbecile", "IDIOT", etc. Some were worse than others and definitely needed to be removed. But, so that no favoritism was perceived toward one side of the argument or the other, once I started removing some of the personal attacks, I removed them from both sides, even "minor" personal attacks. Some of the offenders who repeatedly attacked in this way, or had worse attacks than others received a PM from me. There were too many edits to PM someone for every individual edit. (Have mercy on me; latency is horrible with satellite broadband.)

For what it's worth, for a thread with two sides passionately opposing each other for 451 posts, this thread has remained quite civil. (Somehow, it must have been missed by the radar of a few of the people who frequently post in P&N.) If anyone feels that I shouldn't have edited out such comments in this thread, feel free to PM me about it, or PM the Anandtech Moderator, or post about it in forum issues. -Anandtech Moderator DrPizza

There is no movie worth all this aggravation

I questioned the thread several times the same way as I was busily editing.

 

[destrekor]

Originally posted by: MainFramed

Originally posted by: akshatp

Originally posted by: MainFramed
should have made a poll with this.....

I dont think it would have much of a poll... Its pretty obvious from the replies that most people would have voted against....

more like a poll, im 50 and im against it, im 20 and im against it, and vice versa. probably would seen the older generations separate from the younger generations real quick eh

I'm almost 20 here, and am thoroughly against it. My mind is super-sensitive to motion, and I am easily distracted. There are many like me. Not to mention, that's nature to have sensitivity to motion in the corner of your eye.
Seeing a bright light in a dark theater (especially during a dark scene, or a movie that is almost all dark) is something that is very distracting to me.

the people who tell me its my problem, need to meet me so I can sock them in the face the next time they pull out their phone to text, or worse, to call someone, when I am in the same theater as them. If its behind me, its one thing, I don't care cause I don't see it. But others likely care.
the fact that some people don't get bothered, are also people who have likely been in an accident in their lifetime, or multiple. And yes, I just connected sensitivity to motion in the corner of your eye to driving and accidents. Probably nicely proven too, just don't feel like looking up studies.

 

[HN]

re: the post count...

Shows how much people still really care about their movie going experience.
Or cellphones.

 

[RaiderJ]

Talking and disrupting during a movie - get kicked.

Texting? Hardly worth worrying about.

 

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[Number1]

Originally posted by: MainFramed

Originally posted by: akshatp

Originally posted by: MainFramed

Originally posted by: akshatp

Originally posted by: MainFramed
should have made a poll with this.....

I dont think it would have much of a poll... Its pretty obvious from the replies that most people would have voted against....

more like a poll, im 50 and im against it, im 20 and im against it, and vice versa. probably would seen the older generations separate from the younger generations real quick eh

Still dont think you need a poll to know the answer.. i could venture a pretty good guess as to what kind of responses you would see...

well rock on nostradamus

Let's find out!!! Give us a poll please!!!!


The number of views should skyrocket if you add a poll.

The last thread I created with a poll got over 5000 views in less then 24 hours.

 

[wkabel23]

Originally posted by: Imp

Originally posted by: wkabel23

not worrying about others, not letting what they do affect you =! not giving a shit about other people. what kind of logic did you use to make those equal?

If you think everyone should "stop worrying about what other people are doing" that means you blame everyone else for getting distracted. Hey, it's their fault for paying attention to me, nothing I do is causing them to be distracted. It's all them. So I guess you really give a shit about other people...

Everyone, get your phones out in theaters, talk in restaurants, talk in class. You are all hypersensitive and it is purely YOUR fault for being distracted.

clearly, if someone is talking on the phone in a movie theater there is a difference between that and texting. apparently, i was too naive to believe people could pick up on that. i am not pushing my ignoring others argument to the extreme, you are. if someone started yelling in a movie theater, would that distract multiple people? yes. if someone started texting in a movie, would that distract multiple people? you say yes, i say no. cell phones apparently have blinding light to some people and the pressing buttons on a cell phone is super loud too.

and umbrella39, what about someone slurping on their drink? and i have in fact, heard people munching on their food before. of course, being focused on the movie with the sound of the movie generally overrides such noises, so it's not really a bother. likewise, with lights on a cell phone. i'm looking at the screen, a stupid cell phone light isn't going to distract me.

they don't say turn your cell phone off in the theater, so the OP really didn't have a good reason for having his phone taken away. if you stand back and think about it, i think you'll see that the distraction of someone texting relative to the other various distractions that can occur in a theater is a minor issue. like i said, it doesn't bother me but it bothers you. the OP is 1 incident in which i've heard of someone having their phone taken away for texting. so it looks like the numerous people that text in theaters will largely go "unpunished." sucks for you.

 

[Reckoner]

Fight for your rights Non-Texting Moviegoers!!!!! Fight with Strength and HONOR!!!! For tonight, we dine... in HELL!

 

[BUTCH1]

Maybe the theaters should be more specific and post a sigh the clearly says
"no talking or texting on cell phones", might eliminate a lot of misunderstanding
right off the bat..

 

[imported_Imp]

Originally posted by: wkabel23

Originally posted by: Imp

Originally posted by: wkabel23

not worrying about others, not letting what they do affect you =! not giving a shit about other people. what kind of logic did you use to make those equal?

If you think everyone should "stop worrying about what other people are doing" that means you blame everyone else for getting distracted. Hey, it's their fault for paying attention to me, nothing I do is causing them to be distracted. It's all them. So I guess you really give a shit about other people...

Everyone, get your phones out in theaters, talk in restaurants, talk in class. You are all hypersensitive and it is purely YOUR fault for being distracted.

if someone started texting in a movie, would that distract multiple people? you say yes, i say no.

That about sums up the thread.

Oh, and I got carried away, should of said "text in restaurants, text in class".

 

[Kev]

I was at the Bourne Ultimatum the other day and this pathetic kid was sitting in front of me checking his phone every minute to see if someone texted him, but he never got any messages. Sad. Just sad.

 

[akshatp]

Let it die people... Let it die...

 

[kevinthenerd]

Originally posted by: akshatp

Originally posted by: MainFramed

Originally posted by: akshatp

Originally posted by: MainFramed
should have made a poll with this.....

I dont think it would have much of a poll... Its pretty obvious from the replies that most people would have voted against....

more like a poll, im 50 and im against it, im 20 and im against it, and vice versa. probably would seen the older generations separate from the younger generations real quick eh

Still dont think you need a poll to know the answer.. i could venture a pretty good guess as to what kind of responses you would see...

No offense to anybody, but Anandtech gets to be a pretty predictable crowd for some reason.