Why All Movie Theaters Should Ban Cellphones
Apr 14, 2016 · As cellphone use has proliferated, movie theaters have divided into two camps: Smaller businesses like the Alamo Drafthouse that make a point of strictly enforcing behavioral rules for its...
Should you be allowed to use a phone in the cinema?
Apr 18, 2016 · A proposal by a US cinema chain to allow phones in some screenings caused such outrage that the company quickly backed down. But is it such terrible idea?
Why is everyone using their phones in movie theaters?
Aug 10, 2023 · The rise of phone use in movie theaters has resulted in complaints across social media, and understandably so. Watching a movie in a theater is intended to be an immersive and communal...
Why Won’t People Stop Using Their Phones In Movie Theaters?
Aug 5, 2023 · Most movie theater chains run a message before a movie begins that tells everyone to silence their cell phones and not talk. Yet during the Barbenheimer craze, people were filming and...
The Dumb Debate Over Cell Phones in Movie Theaters
Jan 8, 2014 · At CinemaCon 2012, a panel of movie executives debated whether it’s time to let patrons use their phone during movies. Most of the panelists were open to the idea of exploring alternatives to the absolute (but hardly enforced) no-cell-phone policy most theaters advertise, offering vague generalities about the changing nature of social ...
Why is everyone using their phones in movie theatres? : r/imax - Reddit
Theaters need to curb this by having someone in the theaters periodically to kick out anyone on their phones/using vapes in the mid movie. It’s not even just young adults and teens. Moms are on their phones texting friends.
Hang up and watch! Movie manners dial wrong number thanks to cell phones
Dec 8, 2013 · It's the cinema trend that's more annoying than sticky theater floors, and can anger a moviegoer even more than paying $7 for a Coke: Theater patrons who use their cell phones during...
Cellphones in public: When it is acceptable — or not — to use
Aug 26, 2015 · Only 4% of Americans say that it is generally acceptable to use a cell phone at church or worship service. Along with using a phone at a meeting or at a movie theater, this is one of the situations that the vast majority of Americans agree are off-limits to cellphone use.
Phones Aren't Only Bad Manners in Movies - NBC News
Jan 6, 2014 · Moviegoers head to the cinema to be transported into a fantasy world -- and they don't take kindly to interruptions that break that spell. Ninety-seven percent of the 28,000 who voted in our...
Cellphones Allowed in Movie Theaters Plan - Business Insider
Apr 15, 2016 · Aron has plans to shake up how the AMC theater chain, the largest in the country, does things, including becoming more millennial-friendly. And to attract millennials, Aron wants to find a way to...