No
cell-phones or beepers -
They have their place and the movie theater is
not one of those. This
should go without saying but every single showing without exception
I have to remind people to put them back in their pockets or
purses. If you have to be so connected to the outside world,
then why are you taking two hours out of your life to stop and
watch a film. If your phone goes off and you bother to answer,
you deserve to be escorted out to the room.
Vibrate
mode is the only acceptable mode other than off. If you have to get
to the "vibration",
exit the theater. Don't sit there and talk. If the baby sitter
needs to call you in the theater,
then you probably shouldn't have left in the first place. If you
must make a call, do it away from everyone in the hallway or the
lobby. People tend to forget how loud they can be while wrapped up
in their own little world wrapped around the pretty little blue light.
Certainly,
there are people who must bring cellular phones or pagers into
a movie
theater. That select group may include medical
professionals who might be called to perform brain surgery or parents
who want their babysitter to have a lifeline. And even those people
should have the common courtesy to set the phone on vibrate and
leave the theater to receive the call. Perhaps the most common theater
complaint is people acting as though they are sitting in their own
living room. If what you have to say is more important than what's
on screen, you should consider becoming a screenwriter.
I
had an occassion recently where I watched twenty-two teenage
ladies that came in early and fiften of them promptly lit up their
little blue lights. It must be a "girl thing" where they
have to have more than the others surrounding them to talk to. Go
figure.
Once
the movie starts, I become the 'bouncer' and am tuned in to both
noise and the little blue lights. I usually offer one warning but
if I have to tell you twice, both you and the phone will make a quick
exit to the nearest door wth me right behind you.
