Posted on 06/07/2011 11:01:03 AM PDT by DemforBush
Ever been annoyed by a loud-talking patron at a film? Had that nail-biting darkened hallway scene ruined by someone turning on their phone to send a text? Well, one Texas theater has your back.
Alamo Drafthouse, a local chain of dine-and-screen movie theaters in Austin, Texas, has long waged a war against impolite moviegoers. And the latest customer to object to their firm rules against talking and texting during an evening out has become the unwitting star of a PSA released by the company on Monday...
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This is a sad comment on community events in general, when there is much less of a sense of, well, community in the community, and more people have chips on their shoulders. If someone won’t be polite and considerate in a movie theater, they likely won’t be in the library, in the grocery, in the post office, while driving downtown, etc. Sometimes I wonder if zero tolerance policies, however, only move the chips to the other shoulder.
Also, it’s easier on the eyes. There shouldn’t be any reason why a texting window can’t be made to fill the whole screen in negative video.
It makes light and the theater is dark.
Besides, it makes you look like an asshole.
“To be fair, why can’t there be texting phones...?”
Are you there to watch a movie or text and/or talk on the phone?
Maybe movie theaters should have a sealed, sound proof section in the back of each movie viewing room for all the obnoxious people who are loud, text and talk on their cellphones, smoke and the like.
Very distrcating, The screen lights up during use and pulls your attention off the screen. And it is never one text it is followed by 10 -12 more.
Nobody said “talk on the phone” — that’s your straw man.
How about I ask if you’re there to watch the audience?!?
Texting is the new socialization. If someone wants to comment on a movie in the middle of it and can do so quietly and invisibly to anyone watching the screen — I say more power to them. “OMG wat a gr8 mv” might motivate someone else not in the place to attend in the near future.
So when people text, they put their phone in your face?
I haven’t been to a theater in about 20 yeras. Between the feral lowlife attending that have no concerns for others, and supporting Leftist Hollywierdos, I just keep my $$$ for other uses.
Another audience watcher...
What you do is leave the theater and then text or talk on the phone. If you feel that you need to communicate with others about how you feel right then and there and can’t hold it in until later just take it outside.
Let everyone else watch the movie in peace.
Why would that be any of your business?
Everyone else will be in peace if they do what they ostensibly came for, which is to look at the screen. Many movie attenders feel they need to be critics of their neighbor’s mode of dressing, etc. And fuming about a neighbor doing anything with something electronic is a particular vent for their sense of self superiority.
It's never bothered me...I just can't believe all the complaining from FReepers no less. Some of you must seek to be offended.
No, calling someone an asshole from behind the safety of their monitor makes them look like an asshole.
He/she already looks like an asshole, this just illuminates the fact.
So are the sounds of people stuffing their face with popcorn, slurping drinks through straws, and laughing at lines that aren't funny. The world is full of little annoyances...someone texting in a theater would rank way down on my list of things that drive me crazy.
Nope, using current phones, black background, white text uses more power than the converse, although it’s probably not measurable.
Slightly simplified explanation follows:
Modern active matrix LCD screens have a constant illumination from behind, which is where all the brightness comes from. If you’re looking at totally black screen on your phone or monitor, the backlight is still shining, it’s just completely blocked because every pixel/filter of every color has become opaque. Opaque being the charged state. To display white, it’s the opposite. The individual pixels are not charged, and the backlight shines through unfiltered appearing white. To display blue for example, the red filter and the green filter are charged allowing only the blue to show through. Purple, only the green filter is charge to block the green light, you get the idea.
See, now with white text on black background, you’re actually using more power, because there is more background than text. Now it’s irrelevant, since your power consumption for your display is almost completely backlight with less than 1/10 of 1 percent being the actual LCD crystals which are very efficient. Still, there is nothing to be gained power wise by using white letters on a black screen.
So when people text, they put their phone in your face?
So, are you twelve or just that self-absorbed? Why are you paying good money to watch a movie, if all you're going to do is text during the movie? It's rude. The light is distracting in a darkened theater. Why is that so hard for you to appreciate?
If you are distracting people by “doing something electronic” obviously you aren’t there to watch the movie. Those people need to have some manners/etiquette taught to them think of others besides themselves.
Any one who thinks it is proper and good to cause a disruption to others has the inferior morals and ethics. Everyone else is superior to them in this fact based on actions and nothing else.
If you need to talk with others on your phone either by voice or text just take it outside the theater. People will appreciate you thinking about them.
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