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For those of you taking the position that anything goes before the feature actually starts, all I can say is that I disagree - strongly. Where did this idea come from?
As far as I'm concerned, the movie - that is, the movie experience - starts when the curtains open and the lights go down. Any filing in and out, talking, texting, etc., etc., etc. after that is disruptive, annoying, and rude.
People should be in their seats and quiet....having finished their bathroom breaks and settled in with their food....when the lights go down and you hear the curtain motor begin to run.
Your theater hasn't existed since well before the advent of cel-phones and texting. Curtain? Are you being serious? They abandoned the curtain when too many motor driven articles in theaters could fail and disrupt the viewing pleasure and timing. No one noticed the absence of the curtain.
The lights don't go down until a good twenty minutes of previews and announcements then they partially dim while the warning about cel-phone use and other disruptive behaviour, then the leaders to the main feature starts with louder volume so that those later arriving patrons still walking up the ramps and climbing loge stairways get the message to hurry up and get seated, THEN and only then do the lights go to full dim.
The only thing wrong with the old fella is he's sick to death of young know-it-alls taking their noisy toys into places where people pay to enjoy what they went there for. The young fella was showing ZERO respect to other patrons
I do agree..... People are zombies!!!!
They have those stupid phones EVERYWHERE!!!! -- You cant get away from them!! (I goto a restaurant and all the sheeple are staring into thier phones!!)
They have those stupid phones EVERYWHERE!!!! -- You cant get away from them!! (I goto a restaurant and all the sheeple are staring into thier phones!!)
DISGUSTING!!
I had to ask my adult daughter to put away her phone at our Thanksgiving dinner table.
The ignorance on this thread is amazing. So what if you don't like cell phones? It is not disgusting to see someone on a phone. It is rude in certain instances, but we don't shoot someone for being rude. If we did most of the snowbirds that visit my area would be dead. During Mardi Gras they fight over moon pies and beads even ripping them out of the hands of small children. I have heard them complain year after year that the kids are there. Who do they really think the parades are for? Being elderly does not give anyone the right to tell others what to do, how to live, or to try to enforce the rules.
This old age entitlement crap really galls me. I suppose I don't look my age (65) because these old coots give it to me too with their I AM OLD and DEMAND my due. Oh, spare me, you morons. Wanna see MY Medicare card? Your 2, 3, 4, 5 year age difference means crap to me. You are entitled to NOTHING. You want your respect, then GIVE it.
Florida where America goes to die, or lately KILL everyone else.
Both men felt entitled to violate theater rules. A difference is, the younger one felt entitled to continue after told it was annoying by another patron. He also felt entitled to escalate from words to throwing popcorn. No, he didn't deserve to die, but ease up on the 'old age entitlement.' The younger guy had more of an entitlement mentality in this case.
Both men felt entitled to violate theater rules. A difference is, the younger one felt entitled to continue after told it was annoying by another patron. He also felt entitled to escalate from words to throwing popcorn. No, he didn't deserve to die, but ease up on the 'old age entitlement.' The younger guy had more of an entitlement mentality in this case.
So you don't think it's more of an "entitlement mentality" to shoot someone over a petty argument? WOW!
Both men felt entitled to violate theater rules. A difference is, the younger one felt entitled to continue after told it was annoying by another patron. He also felt entitled to escalate from words to throwing popcorn. No, he didn't deserve to die, but ease up on the 'old age entitlement.' The younger guy had more of an entitlement mentality in this case.
For texting BEFORE a movie?
Come on.
Was it because of the light? The light from the phone was irritating the man
Was it because of the light? The light from the phone was irritating the man
I understand the theater doesn't allow cell phone use In The Auditoriums. Period.
Sure, the shooter could have moved, kept his mouth shut until the movie started, done any number of things. Just as the younger guy could have. The entitlement, rudeness prior to the shooting was worse by the texter.
Oh, he didn't deserve to die.
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