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marcvh
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response 117 of 342:
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Jan 20 00:00 UTC 2006 |
I don't really get that either. When you watch a movie it's not like
you're a "team"; if anything you're adversaries, competing for the best
place to sit and balancing your need to chew loudly with other's need to
hear the dialogue.
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tod
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response 118 of 342:
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Jan 20 00:06 UTC 2006 |
I dunno...I always enjoyed seeing a comedy at the Star Theaters in Southfield
with a packed theater. I guess it just depends on the situation.
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bhelliom
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response 119 of 342:
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Jan 20 07:20 UTC 2006 |
The last time I went to a movie, two assholes, a couple (how lovely),
answered calls. After the second incident I went to go get security.
When I returned with Smith & Wesson (sp), they had gone from using their
cell phones to SMOKING in the damned theater. *facepalm* I am by no
means in favor of the ethnic group from which I'm primarily descended
dying out, but I hope those two don't breed.
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tod
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response 120 of 342:
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Jan 20 07:54 UTC 2006 |
And she's talking about the actors in Last Holiday, not the audience! ;)
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furs
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response 121 of 342:
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Jan 20 11:27 UTC 2006 |
The cell phone thing really bugs me too. I have a cell phone and I
always turn it off or on vibrate. I know you can "forget" but that's
why they have reminders. I don't mind if people yak on their cells
phones in public, it doesn't reallly bother me, but to get calls in a
theaters, church, etc. is riduclous.
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nharmon
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response 122 of 342:
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Jan 20 13:17 UTC 2006 |
College professors are becoming increasingly annoyed by students who
answer their cell phones in class. Students (including me) are becoming
just as annoyed.
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slynne
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response 123 of 342:
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Jan 20 14:11 UTC 2006 |
I think some theaters block cell phone signals. I have been on call
before (with my pager set to vibrate) and have missed pages while I was
in a movie. Personally, even as a person who has to be on call, I think
that is a smart move for a theater to make
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richard
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response 124 of 342:
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Jan 20 15:24 UTC 2006 |
The one thing that does annoy me is when someone brings a baby to a movie.
Then the baby starts crying in the middle of the movie and then stops and
starts again, and the mother is sitting in the middle of the aisle and won't
take her kid to the lobby because then she'd miss the movie. They ought to
ban babies under age one from movie theaters...
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springne
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response 125 of 342:
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Jan 20 16:08 UTC 2006 |
What's worse? Mothers with babies who have cellphones. There ought to be
a law against babies with cellphones in movie theaters.
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slynne
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response 126 of 342:
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Jan 20 16:18 UTC 2006 |
I have seen some theaters have special showings where people are
enouraged to bring their babies and I really think that is a good idea.
They set up changing areas in the back and stuff. That way, people with
babies can see the movies they want to see without bugging the rest of
us.
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marcvh
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response 127 of 342:
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Jan 20 17:11 UTC 2006 |
Theaters can't do much to limit cellphones; jamming is illegal, and passive
blocking is expensive and limited.
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tod
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response 128 of 342:
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Jan 20 17:19 UTC 2006 |
When I went to see Syriana on MLK Day, it was the 11:50am matinee in Factoria.
I expected an empty theater and of course I showed up 5 minutes after start
time expecting commercials to still be running. Instead, I showed up just
as it was starting and the theater was packed. I put myself into the chair
up front in the disabled section. Shortly thereafter, a couple with a baby
in a baby carrier came into the theater. They gave me dirty looks like I
should move so they can put their baby carrier where normally a wheelchair
occupant would park. I didn't budget of course cuz I was absorbed in the
movie and frankly I'm not their nanny. And yea, get this, the guy was on his
cell phone. I'm not joking.
Doesn't that suck?
Theaters and colleges should have signs: Use vibrate ringing and exit the
premises before utilizing/answering your cellphone. Those who decide to still
be dicks will be ejected without a refund.
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happyboy
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response 129 of 342:
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Jan 20 19:08 UTC 2006 |
agreed.
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slynne
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response 130 of 342:
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Jan 20 20:23 UTC 2006 |
resp:127 - This was in the newer part of showcase. I wonder if they
might have included something in the contruction that makes it
difficult for signals to get through. I know that is the case in the
room where I work although I dont think that was intentional. Almost no
cell phones or pagers work in this room...it is weird.
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tod
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response 131 of 342:
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Jan 20 21:14 UTC 2006 |
Perhaps they have RFI shielding built into the ceiling. Its not hard to do
actually.
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albaugh
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response 132 of 342:
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Jan 20 23:40 UTC 2006 |
Until I own a screen as large as one in a theatre, and a suitable environement
in which to house it, both of which I expect to be never, then there are
certain films I want to see at the theatre, for the entirely unique visual
and audio effects that affords.
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springne
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response 133 of 342:
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Jan 20 23:52 UTC 2006 |
Man talk about cheap! Can't even spring for a theater size screen.
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tod
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response 134 of 342:
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Jan 21 00:00 UTC 2006 |
My neighbor has one of those setups with the captain's chair and big screen
and surround sound and all that stuff. One of these days, I'm going to hack
the signal and broadcast a distress message from my Federation starship.
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nharmon
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response 135 of 342:
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Jan 21 01:47 UTC 2006 |
ROFL
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glenda
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response 136 of 342:
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Jan 21 14:13 UTC 2006 |
I had an instructor that told us the very first class that from that point
on each time a phone rang during class, that student would get 10 points
deducted from the grade. If the same student let it happen 3 times, they
would fail the class. He also made it a point to openly check that his phone
was off at the beginning of each class as a visual reminder. The instructor
in a class this semester has a 3 strikes and you're out rule as well. When
one student's phone rang during the 2 class, she immediately called out strike
one and noted which student, then realized that she hadn't checked her phone
and found it still on, dropped the strike against the student for that one
as being only fair. She has to carry hers with her as she is quite pregnant
(we're betting whether she makes it to the end of the semester even though
she insists she will.)
The local theaters where/when I was growing up had crying rooms in the back,
usually in the balcony if there was one. It was and enclosed, sound proof
room with its own speaker system where parents with crying child or thought
that their child might cry could watch the movie without bothering the other
patrons. I thought it was sad when they disappeared from theaters. When we
had to take a small child to a movie one of us would leave if said child
started to whimper, before it got to a full cry (at least we would have if
we had had that problem, the one time we took Damon when he was less than a
year old he slept through most of it, only waking up to nurse once with no
fussing or crying at all, though I was prepared to leave if need be.)
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bhelliom
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response 137 of 342:
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Jan 21 15:14 UTC 2006 |
THe problem is, people don't normally go and report the offenders. So
while we all complain, we seldom do anything do anything about it.
Theaters can't do anything about problem patrons if we don't report
them.
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slynne
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response 138 of 342:
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Jan 21 16:53 UTC 2006 |
That is true, bhelliom, but usually I dont want to have to leave the
movie to complain and there isnt much they can do once the movie is
over.
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marcvh
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response 139 of 342:
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Jan 21 16:59 UTC 2006 |
I suppose you could call up the theater on your cell phone. :-)
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slynne
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response 140 of 342:
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Jan 21 17:12 UTC 2006 |
Hahahaha. That would be beautiful!
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nharmon
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response 141 of 342:
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Jan 21 17:20 UTC 2006 |
I liked that one Marc! :)
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