Turn Off Your Phone

[Manic]

I don't think enough of those "turn off your phone" videos tell people what to do when they answer a call. It's all well and good that somebody had the decency to put their phone on silent or vibrate, but that doesn't mean squat when you answer calls and texts in your seat.

Get up, walk down the stairs and into the aisle where no one can see you. Then check your phone.

 

[Ultimatehero]

Yet still there are idiots who don't, someone's phone went off during Man of Steel THREE times.

 

[Pink Ranger]

Why is it so much of an imposition to turn off your phone for a couple of hours?

I don't mean silent, I don't mean vibrate, I don't mean dim screen, I mean OFF.

 

[Ultimatehero]

Why is it so much of an imposition to turn off your phone for a couple of hours?

I don't mean silent, I don't mean vibrate, I don't mean dim screen, I mean OFF.

The people that get to me really and need to go are the gabbers. Middle aged to older women who come in packs of three to talk throughout the entire thing. I mean, if you want to talk don't go to the freaking movies. People don't go to listen to your conversations. Go to a coffee shop or something. Theaters AREN'T for that god darn it. I really wish ushers could kick those people out. And I don't mean to sound sexist, with saying women - it's just from my own personal experiences - I've never seen men doing that (and well, I guess that's because guys don't really talk to one another lol, we grunt as Tim Allen says).

 

[Asteroid-Man]

And that's why you don't...text during the movie.

AD is where I get at least 75% of my ideas from.

You sound like a brilliant young fellow, sawyer my man.

Right back at ya, Anus Tart.

Spoiler

Woah, you've seen my license plate?

 

[ThePhantasm]

I put my phone on vibrate, just in case there's some emergency. I don't ever text during a movie.

 

[Marvolo]

Why is it so much of an imposition to turn off your phone for a couple of hours?

I don't mean silent, I don't mean vibrate, I don't mean dim screen, I mean OFF.

Because people have more important responsibilities than a movie. I love movies, and I like to lose myself in them but they are just movies. If you think I'm gonna put a movie before my loved ones and emergencies you're fooling yourself. My phone stays on and on vibrate. That isn't negotiable. Ill quit going to the movies long before I let someone force me to turn off my phone.

About the only places ill go with my phone off is a hospital and a plane and that is for the safety of those around me.

 

[ThePhantasm]

Because people have more important responsibilities than a movie. I love movies, and I like to lose myself in them but they are just movies. If you think I'm gonna put a movie before my loved ones and emergencies you're fooling yourself.

Exactly.

 

[Ultimatehero]

Vibration is okay. But having a funky ringtone play loudly during a scene when a character is dying is just being an ignorant jack ass to everyone around and is disrespectful to everyone around and the people who worked on it. As said, vibration is one thing - having your funky ring tone playing when a character is dying is downright rude and plain out obnoxious.

Basically anyone who doesn't have it on silence or vibrate so only they hear it are showing a huge level of disrespect for everyone involved and it's even more disrespectul to be a moron and answer the phone right IN the theater. If it's one thing worse than these disrepectful bafoons going to a movie to chat during the whole thing its those who gab on their phones in the theater. It's not an intrussion on one's rights, it's called being respectful.

 

[Pink Ranger]

Because people have more important responsibilities than a movie. I love movies, and I like to lose myself in them but they are just movies. If you think I'm gonna put a movie before my loved ones and emergencies you're fooling yourself. My phone stays on and on vibrate. That isn't negotiable. Ill quit going to the movies long before I let someone force me to turn off my phone.

About the only places ill go with my phone off is a hospital and a plane and that is for the safety of those around me.

Big talk. Every person I've sat near a movie theatre who's pulled out their phone in a movie probably thinks that, but when I have "words" with them, they become Jimmy Carter in three seconds.

 

[Soapy]

I've just stopped going to the movies altogether. I don't understand why people complain about phones though. If you're going to the movies in 2013, you should know by now what you're getting into.

 

[Ultimatehero]

I've just stopped going to the movies altogether. I don't understand why people complain about phones though. If you're going to the movies in 2013, you should know by now what you're getting into.

Because its a clear sign of how disrespectful and self indulgent someone is.

My dad's an important business guy, sometimes he has to check important e-mail from clients. He does it quickly and puts the phone down out of view. When he rarely gets a call, he immediately turns its vibrate off and steps out. THAT is called being respectful.

There is no reason to play with your phone so it makes loud noises. There is no reason to make your funky ring tone play loudly and inappropriately. There is no reason to talk and answer it in the theater. And there is no reason to treat a theater like it's a coffee shop, I'm talking about those annoying people who aren't even commenting on the movie saying "that's cool!" I mean people talking about what they did that morning, seriously? No one freaking wants to hear that.

So, why? It's a level of disrespect for those around you and those involved in making it. There is a polite way to do things and then there's being obnoxious. The polite people aren't the problem and they never were. It went from don't TALK during a movie to please silence your cellphone for a reason.

Hugh Jackman being BOSS! :



Someone was disrespectful to have a phone on during his performance interrupting the flow of things, he calls them out for it.

If it was up to me those whose cell phones ring loudly or act obnoxious or chat about random **** should be tossed out. Other people are paying money and they're not paying for the others to act like idiots. Once again, I don't mean doing things quietly or reacting to it - that's respectful or just really getting into it - I mean putting on your own show for the theater because that shows one's lack of respect for those and those involved in making it.

 

[Scarlet spidey]

I went to see a movie about 2 weeks ago, and there was a guy sitting in the front row with his phone out the entire time. I think he was playing a game or something. It was partially amusing, but mostly aggravating.
I mean, why did you spend $10 to go to a movie to play games on your phone?
Stay at home, rent a $1 redbox movie, play games on your phone there. At least it doesn't annoy anyone else.

 

[terry78]

My question is why do you not put it on vibrate in the theatre? Nobody forgets that, **** even the damn Despicable Me psa playing in AMC now reminds them humorously. I honestly believe people that don't put it on vibrate are just doing it to be *******s or they're just older and forgot.

 

[Darthphere]

Do the lights from cellphones really bother you guys that much? I mean, I understand the phone ringing, people talking on said phones but the light from a cell phone ruins your whole experience? Thats crazy honestly.

 

[danoyse]

The light from the screen can be really distracting.

They need better messages about phones in the theater. My AMC shows one from Sprint that asks this "When you turn your phone off, does it dream?" nonsense that actually wants you to text them something before you turn it off, presumably a Sprint commercial that sent to your phone during the movie.

 

[Endeavor]

Do the lights from cellphones really bother you guys that much? I mean, I understand the phone ringing, people talking on said phones but the light from a cell phone ruins your whole experience? Thats crazy honestly.

Yes it does.
The glare can be blinding in some phones, especially during a dark scene in the movie.

 

[Darthphere]

Blinding? Come on. I sit in the back row everytime I go to the movies and I have never been bothered by the light from cell phones. Not that I don't think they can be annoying but I think you guys are exaggerating how distracting they can be. I'm looking at the screen, a light off in the distance isn't going to distract me that much.

 

[C. Lee]

Do the lights from cellphones really bother you guys that much? I mean, I understand the phone ringing, people talking on said phones but the light from a cell phone ruins your whole experience? Thats crazy honestly.

Yes. I've been in a couple of movies where someone close to me pulls out their phone for some reason....and it's like a flashlight shining at me. It is distracting, it is annoying, and it is rude.

And yes....I am one of those people who gets up, goes to the person, and in a loud voice tells them to put up their phone.

 

[Darthphere]

Yes. I've been in a couple of movies where someone close to me pulls out their phone for some reason....and it's like a flashlight shining at me. It is distracting, it is annoying, and it is rude.

And yes....I am one of those people who gets up, goes to the person, and in a loud voice tells them to put up their phone.

I think you're just easily distracted by shiny things.

Also, thats awesome that you do that. That's probably 100x more distracting and rude to the other patrons in the theater. But continue yelling at people in the movie theater, thats going to solve that problem.

 

[Snow Queen]

The cell phone lights especially get to me during a 3D movie.

 

[Endeavor]

Blinding? Come on. I sit in the back row everytime I go to the movies and I have never been bothered by the light from cell phones. Not that I don't think they can be annoying but I think you guys are exaggerating how distracting they can be. I'm looking at the screen, a light off in the distance isn't going to distract me that much.

Yes, blinding. I haven on several occasions been bothered by someone sitting in front or near me who's phone screen lights up like a flashlight in my face. It was so bright I had to squint.

 

[Darthphere]

Yes, blinding. I haven on several occasions been bothered by someone sitting in front or near me who's phone screen lights up like a flashlight in my face. It was so bright I had to squint my eyes.

You must be very sensitive to light. Are you a vampire?

 

[Endeavor]

lol
I've been known to bite certain people, but no, I'm not a vampire.
Plus I wasn't the only person to be bothered. On one of the occasions someone called attendants and the person was escorted out of the movie after refusing to comply.

 

[Darthphere]

lol
I've been known to bite certain people, but no, I'm not a vampire.
Plus I wasn't the only person to be bothered. On one of the occasions someone called attendants and the person was escorted out of the movie after refusing to comply.

I mean, I agree it can be distracting and they shouldn't be doing it but its never been that big a deal to me, it's like "Oh someone is texting." and then I move on and ignore it. It really has never bothered me. Also, it seems counter productive to cause a scene by telling them loudly to shut their phone off. It just went from a personal distraction to distracting the whole theater.