Look, people, there is a reason that movie theaters ask that you turn off your cell phones during the movie. They ask that so you don't bother the people in the room who are actually there to watch the movie they payed to see. No one came to watch you play on your phone. It's so rude.
Now, I know that using your phone during a movie when you've actually been asked not to use it doesn't bother some people. But, there are also a lot of people that it does bother. I happen to be sensitive to light and when there is a tiny bright light just randomly appearing in a dark room it's very distracting and bothersome. It's really distracting having a bright light appear somewhere that is not the screen. I mean, seriously, I'm trying to watch a movie and your phone isn't even supposed to be out. If you don't want to watch a movie, why do you even go? If you would rather text, why don't you just stay home? No one will care that you aren't there. In fact, it would make the evening more enjoyable not to be bothered by your texting addiction.
Even if you think people don't notice that you have your phone out, they do. Even if you try to hide it by holding it really low or turning it away, it's pathetically obvious what you're doing and you're not fooling anyone. We are still bothered by the light.
I can understand that if something really important is going on that you have to keep up with and you're communicating by phone, then you need to be using it, but, if that's the issue, you shouldn't be at the movies. And, really, during a movie, if you feel like you need to get your phone out and text someone, why don't you just go out into the hall and text? You can come back in when you've finished and you won't have bothered anyone. If you want to be texting continuously through the entire movie, though, you need to leave. Just get out. If you have that little respect for people, you should not be in public places.
When someone has their phone out, it's really distracting and I have a harder time enjoying the movie I'm trying to watch. Seriously, why can't you just wait? Is it really that hard? If the movie is boring either leave or sit there and wait until it's over without using your phone. Just because you find it boring doesn't mean everyone else does and they would rather watch you text.
Some people might think that I'm being a little ridiculous but I don't care. This is one of my pet peeves and this blog is about me and what I think. Some people might be thinking "if it bothers you so much then don't go to the movies because no matter what you say, people will always use their phones in movie theaters." Well, if that is what you are saying, here is my response: I should not have to stop doing something that I like to do because some people just don't have any common courtesy or don't know how to behave in public. The movies are for people to go and watch movies not for people to sit in a dark room and text. The people who are texting are the ones who shouldn't go to movies, not the people who are actually going to the movies to watch a movie. They need to know that they are bothering people even if they think they aren't. When I go, I expect that people will be mature enough to follow the rules of the theater and understand that texting during a movie bothers people in the audience. But, apparently, that is too much to expect from adults and teenagers who are certainly old enough to know social etiquette.
Look, texting during a movie is pretty much exactly as distracting and bothersome as answering a phone call during a movie. Don't be that person. Just don't.
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I'm serious here, people. And I'm not the only person who thinks this way. Go to YouTube and look up what the Alamo Drafthouse has to say about people who text during movies. Every theater should be like them. Texting during a movie is rude and disrespectful to every other person in the theater.
Come on, people. I dare you not to use your phone for two hours. Or is that too hard?
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