Kicked out for texting at movies. Her voicemail is used for a pre-show PSA

Serves her right.

http://www.joblo.com/movie-news/cool-videos-the-drafthouses-latest-genius-attempt-to-curb-talking-during-movies

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Updated On: 6/6/11 at 08:16 PM

It really is management's job to enforce these things. I dont mind a little comment here and there between people, but the conversations at full volume, texting and crap need to stop.

Its really unpleasant for me to have to police other people, get into arguments and then have my film going experience ruined due to the upset.

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Yeah I am with you on how tired I get about having to police other people. Which is why more and more I watch my movies on my big screen.

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That girl is gonna sue if she ever sees that!

I'm pretty sure she has no rights to the voicemail.

A great commercial! I would go out of my way to see a movie at a theater that did this. I had heard some theaters have cell phone blockers in them,meaning you can not send a text,receive or make a call. Basically, your phone is useless in the theater.If you have to check messages or make a call you have to leave the theater and go outside and join those who are having a cigarette.

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That would explain why more theaters don't use them. I wonder why they are illegal? I went to a movie one afternoon and I was the only one in the theater. Then during the credits about four teenage kids came in. They had the entire theater and could have sat anywhere. So, they decided to sit right in front of me. They did not whisper,they talked. They were laughing out loud,throwing popcorn at each other,and just being rude. I eventually moved but I experience things like this all the time and I refuse to go to a movie on a Friday or Saturday night. I'll do a matinee or go during the week but the crowd is always way too rowdy and the theaters act like they really are not wild about doing anything about it.

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Updated On: 6/6/11 at 10:34 PM

I didn't say she was going to win...won't stop her trying though.

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If you ever find yourself in Austin, it is an awesome theater. They even have waitresses who will serve beer/wine/cocktails at your seat! :)

eh... stuff like being a doctor still isn't an excuse... i'm pretty sure they have days off... and those are the days they should go to the movies or the theater... i used to be a 24 hour on call professional for a college campus but on my days off i refused to answer my phone because I wasn't working! and if i was on call i never went to places where I knew i had the potential of leaving if i had paid... why ruin my own night out?

Because when your heart patient has a heart attack in the middle of your movie and needs Emergency Triple Bypass done by YOU they aren't going to wait for you to get out of the movie to call you.

So don't go anywhere you may disturb those around you? That's a bit of bull. You don't know when you'll be on call for an emergency with one of your patients, you get a doctor who gives a "It's my day off, someone else can handle it." excuse, that is a bad doctor.

Updated On: 6/7/11 at 03:05 AM

You know, the world used to function fine before the days of cell phones and pagers. If someone is so important that they can't be offline for 2 hours, they can most certainly give the cinema's number to their advisor/broker/office/whoever-the-hell and be quietly escorted by an usher to receive the call in the event of an emergency. Isn't that what people used to do in the days when people didn't have cellphones?

I wonder if a monetary fine would help.

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I wish. But the best way of punishing them is to discourage people from going. I think with the texting in a public theater it could fall under public disruption?

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