"In the $12 ticket price?"
LOL....didn't you have to wait in line?.....why couldn't you get the best seat in the theater?......did you have to wait for in line to buy popcorn?....and they NEVER have enough urinals....the fat guy sitting next to you with orangutan arms?......too hot, too cold.....what was that smell?
These are all inconveniences that are not avoided by a $12 ticket!
It's just common sense that common theaters are not setup to be a church like experience. Going to the movies is a social experience that involves going out in public and experiences all of the things that come with being out in public.
To be sure, people who attend movies should try their best to be courteous to their fellow moviegoers, but a theater patron just has to realize that it's not always going to be a pristine experience.
For a person to expect a totally sterile experience is just not realistic - at least not with mainstream, modern theaters.
Understood. I haven't been to a theater since The Phantom Menace came out. I had a bad experience with some broad and her talkative 3 year old behind me that believed movie theaters are baby sitters......let's just say I wait for the DVD's now. My posts on this thread are directed more towards ways to allow cell phone users and movie patrons a symbiotic relationship.....frankly I couldn't give a crap one way or the other....