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This is a link post Cinema's anti-texting methods
Nice story about a US cinema ejecting a customer for texting during a film, then using his angry voicemail as an anti-texting campaign.
 (Smale is stuffed, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 15:55, Reply)
This is a normal post This is WIN!
And also one reason I rarely go to the flicks these days
 (I helped save b3ta! Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 16:00, Reply)
This is a normal post I stopped for a few reasons
the main one being it got very expensive for zero service, they seem to think so long as one wall is flickering with pictures you should be grateful and shut the fuck up, who cares if it's out of focus or it smells of shit in here, what do you expect, a nice night out or something!?

Since all the huge multiplexes have taken over your lucky if you SEE staff once you've paid your money and if some cunts texting, beeping, chatting and generally shitting all over the movie, you have 2 choices: fight them or ignore them.

Neither is what I just paid 8 fucking quid for.

I still brave it now and then but I go for late night showings midweek as they tend to be a lot quieter and there's less ice cream and gum on the seats, but if they all had decent policies of ejecting twats who don't know how to respect their fellow man in crowd situations like these guys do I might start giving them my money regularly again!
 (I helped save b3ta! ..wil, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 16:12, Reply)
This is a normal post Oh god yes.
Last film I saw in the 'proper' cinema was Tim Burton's Alice (in 3D).
Two tickets = virtually no change from £20.
And it wasn't proper 3D.
(I'm waiting until "Attack the Block" comes to the Cube (one of Bristol's many little arty cinemas))
 (I helped save b3ta! Tab Hunter Make this useless process end and so, begin again, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 16:19, Reply)
This is a normal post I seem to remember reading
that the cinemas don't get much say in how tickets are priced (hence the huge mark up on snacks) though whether that's true or just an excuse I'm not entirely sure.

Unfortunately my nearest cinema now assigns you seat numbers which makes it trickier to avoid being sat next to or behind someone with no consideration for others. The last film I saw was Source Code and the girl next to me spent the entire time sending text messages only to proclaim to her friends at the end of it that she hadn't understood any of the film whatsoever. Gah.
 (I helped save b3ta! benryves Now I'm radioactive! That can't be good!, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 16:29, Reply)
This is a normal post RE the last point
WHY do they go!? Is it purely to annoy everyone? Are they REALLY that lacking in any attention a room full of people cursing their very existence to them is better than nothing!?

Same as folks sticking their speakers in the windows and taking a can of lager out to wait for the first person to ask them to turn it down so they can have a fight about it; or wankers who make their tiny pathetic vehicle make as much noise as humanly possible so everyone notices them and what a shite vehicle it really is, I mean, GET A FUCKING LIFE!
 (I helped save b3ta! ..wil, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 16:38, Reply)
This is a normal post Her friends seemed to have been paying attention, at any rate,
so I can only guess she just tagged along but wasn't really interested in the film. Judging by the price of tickets I'd have thought that they'd at least try to make an effort to enjoy it, though, and certainly not disrupt things for others.

I really can't understand people who persist in their behaviour when asked - repeatedly - to stop, but I guess we'll just have to live with them.
 (I helped save b3ta! benryves Now I'm radioactive! That can't be good!, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 16:58, Reply)
This is a normal post Aye guess so
in every biscuit selection there's at least 1 hard ginger everyone ignores... ;)
 (I helped save b3ta! ..wil, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 17:04, Reply)
This is a normal post What was Source Code like?
I liked moon and have high hopes :-)...
 (I helped save b3ta! JamTallons, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 18:26, Reply)
This is a normal post It's a bit late, sorry,
but I rather enjoyed it. It's definitely one I'd like to pick up for repeated viewings as I'm sure there's stuff I missed.
 (I helped save b3ta! benryves Now I'm radioactive! That can't be good!, Wed 8 Jun 2011, 3:50, Reply)
This is a normal post That's great!
...but read the last paragraph. wtf? merkins...
 (I helped save b3ta! pixel_fucker is going to need a bigger brush, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 16:10, Reply)
This is a normal post
merkins latvians
 (I helped save b3ta! Tab Hunter Make this useless process end and so, begin again, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 16:30, Reply)
This is a normal post d'oh
to be fair the entire rest of the article is about merkins...
 (I helped save b3ta! pixel_fucker is going to need a bigger brush, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 16:46, Reply)
This is a normal post I expect that'll be autotuned over some drum & bass
before this day is done.
*I liked it*
 (I helped save b3ta! Three Dog Man, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 16:16, Reply)
This is a normal post That is awesome,
and would make me want to go to that cinema again, mucho kudos :D
 (I helped save b3ta! Jeccius Steam Borderlands 2 junkie, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 16:36, Reply)
This is a normal post i always wept when i had to pay £9.20 to see X-men on Sunday
I don't have much money and it's quite a bit for 2 hours of entertainment. Please have some consideration!

Same with gigs too. Seriously, what the fuck is wrong with people that they can't go 15 minutes without checking their phones or talking?

I miss the Little Theatre in Bath :( stupid Odeon...
 (chocolatelemming, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 17:58, Reply)
This is a normal post Good for them
There's a special level of Hell awaiting cinema texters / talkers.
 (Leemondus, Tue 7 Jun 2011, 18:10, Reply)