2011
06.06

texting-movie

The movie-going experience has gone to shit. Along with outrageous prices and horrible service, theaters are plagued by those who would rather be tweeting and texting on their smartphones than watching the film that you have dropped $14 to see. It’s enough to make you want to hurl your $6 Icee at their heads … if it hadn’t cost you $6.

What’s worse is you can’t profile these douchebags. They’re old and young, male and female, and of all ethnicities. It happens at horror flicks, action movies, rom-coms, comedies, and even documentaries. Ask the theater managers to do something, and all you get is a return ticket so you can suffer through the same shit at a different date.

If only they could take a cue from the folks at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, which has a strict policy of kicking out texters without refund if they don’t comply to warnings. The following is a PSA the theater has created utilizing an angry call they received from a booted patron:

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