Will the shooting of a texter change your cellphone usage in a theater (1 Viewer)

[El Floppo]

While your texting might be quiet, the light coming from your phone is even more distracting. Turn your phone off people. You can do it. I know it's like your little drug, but at least try.

I dont understand how a teeny light can be distracting while you have a huge light coming from the movie screen lol

Really?

It's the rule of Dominant Contrast. The first thing your eye is drawn to is the most dominant contrast in your field of view. While the movie screen is large & bright, a constantly moving small, bright white spot just in the corner of your vision, completely surrounded by the black darkness of the rest of the theater, will always draw your attention away from the central image.

You're telling me if you're home watching a movie on your big screen TV in a dark room, and one of your kids sneaks up in front of the screen, and from a foot or two below aims a flashlight at your eyes, you're not going to notice or find it distracting?

A flashlight to a cell phone light, is that the best you can do?

You're avoiding his point- but yeah, that's not a great analogy.

If somebody asked you to stop texting- would you?

 

[jonessed]

While your texting might be quiet, the light coming from your phone is even more distracting. Turn your phone off people. You can do it. I know it's like your little drug, but at least try.

I dont understand how a teeny light can be distracting while you have a huge light coming from the movie screen lol

Really?

It's the rule of Dominant Contrast. The first thing your eye is drawn to is the most dominant contrast in your field of view. While the movie screen is large & bright, a constantly moving small, bright white spot just in the corner of your vision, completely surrounded by the black darkness of the rest of the theater, will always draw your attention away from the central image.

You're telling me if you're home watching a movie on your big screen TV in a dark room, and one of your kids sneaks up in front of the screen, and from a foot or two below aims a flashlight at your eyes, you're not going to notice or find it distracting?

Some people just like to be #######s. They really don't care if it bothers anyone. I suspect that's why this guy got shot.

 

[JAMES!]

Doesn't technology exist where once inside the theater your phone just won't work? Telling people not to use cellphones in the theater just isn't effective.

 

[Jobber]

No but stories like this have made me rethink how I act in public when a confrontation is possible.

I'm not a dooshpickle so I didn't use a cell in a theater before this event. I echo your sentiment that a grown man has no business getting in fights in the first place. You could end up in the hospital, with a lawsuit, or dead.

 

[LinusMarr]

While your texting might be quiet, the light coming from your phone is even more distracting. Turn your phone off people. You can do it. I know it's like your little drug, but at least try.

I dont understand how a teeny light can be distracting while you have a huge light coming from the movie screen lol

Really?

It's the rule of Dominant Contrast. The first thing your eye is drawn to is the most dominant contrast in your field of view. While the movie screen is large & bright, a constantly moving small, bright white spot just in the corner of your vision, completely surrounded by the black darkness of the rest of the theater, will always draw your attention away from the central image.

You're telling me if you're home watching a movie on your big screen TV in a dark room, and one of your kids sneaks up in front of the screen, and from a foot or two below aims a flashlight at your eyes, you're not going to notice or find it distracting?

A flashlight to a cell phone light, is that the best you can do?

You're avoiding his point- but yeah, that's not a great analogy.

If somebody asked you to stop texting- would you?

Sure i would, like i said ill text up until the time the movie starts then the phone is off in my pocket. I really cant text much during a movie because i am usually there on a date. Texting other chicks normally offends them....

 

[Leroy Hoard]

Band name alert:
Agitated Whiteys

 

[NCCommish]

While your texting might be quiet, the light coming from your phone is even more distracting. Turn your phone off people. You can do it. I know it's like your little drug, but at least try.

I dont understand how a teeny light can be distracting while you have a huge light coming from the movie screen lol

Really?

It's the rule of Dominant Contrast. The first thing your eye is drawn to is the most dominant contrast in your field of view. While the movie screen is large & bright, a constantly moving small, bright white spot just in the corner of your vision, completely surrounded by the black darkness of the rest of the theater, will always draw your attention away from the central image.

You're telling me if you're home watching a movie on your big screen TV in a dark room, and one of your kids sneaks up in front of the screen, and from a foot or two below aims a flashlight at your eyes, you're not going to notice or find it distracting?

A flashlight to a cell phone light, is that the best you can do?

The point remains. The human eye is built for contrast, A human being with average vision can pick out a single candle at 30 miles in the dark. Now that is effectively limited by the earths curvature so it is really only 3.2 miles.

 

[El Floppo]

While your texting might be quiet, the light coming from your phone is even more distracting. Turn your phone off people. You can do it. I know it's like your little drug, but at least try.

I dont understand how a teeny light can be distracting while you have a huge light coming from the movie screen lol

Really?

It's the rule of Dominant Contrast. The first thing your eye is drawn to is the most dominant contrast in your field of view. While the movie screen is large & bright, a constantly moving small, bright white spot just in the corner of your vision, completely surrounded by the black darkness of the rest of the theater, will always draw your attention away from the central image.

You're telling me if you're home watching a movie on your big screen TV in a dark room, and one of your kids sneaks up in front of the screen, and from a foot or two below aims a flashlight at your eyes, you're not going to notice or find it distracting?

A flashlight to a cell phone light, is that the best you can do?

The point remains. The human eye is built for contrast, A human being with average vision can pick out a single candle at 30 miles in the dark. Now that is effectively limited by the earths curvature so it is really only 3.2 miles.

yeah- but how many of his dates will it pick up? he's got a lot of dates.

 

[Two Deep]

Why would anyone feel the need to text in a theater in the first place? I'm not a heavy text user, so find it odd that one can't be out of touch for two hours. And if you *must* text, is it that hard to leave the theater and not bother everyone else?

I'm just astounded at the people who think that they (and their kids) matter more than anything else in public, to the point where they are astonishingly rude.

Based upon the age of the kid, they were probably texting grandma who was watching her as this was her first time without mom or dad around. It's a plausible scenario.

Or the paid baby-sitter, which is what happens with us all the time.

For me- going to the movies is about getting lost in the experience. Loud people, people eating smelly food outside the theater, and now people with their bright screens that they feel they have to check every few minutes annoy the living #### out of me and ruin the movie experience.

But anything goes during the previews, IMO- just shut it down for the feature.

Its already been reported that the 22 month old kid was at daycare.

ok?

Just wanted to establish the guy wasn't texting grandma.

 

[LinusMarr]

While your texting might be quiet, the light coming from your phone is even more distracting. Turn your phone off people. You can do it. I know it's like your little drug, but at least try.

I dont understand how a teeny light can be distracting while you have a huge light coming from the movie screen lol

Really?

It's the rule of Dominant Contrast. The first thing your eye is drawn to is the most dominant contrast in your field of view. While the movie screen is large & bright, a constantly moving small, bright white spot just in the corner of your vision, completely surrounded by the black darkness of the rest of the theater, will always draw your attention away from the central image.

You're telling me if you're home watching a movie on your big screen TV in a dark room, and one of your kids sneaks up in front of the screen, and from a foot or two below aims a flashlight at your eyes, you're not going to notice or find it distracting?

A flashlight to a cell phone light, is that the best you can do?

The point remains. The human eye is built for contrast, A human being with average vision can pick out a single candle at 30 miles in the dark. Now that is effectively limited by the earths curvature so it is really only 3.2 miles.

yeah- but how many of his dates will it pick up? he's got a lot of dates.

This is taking a nerdy turn....

 

[Two Deep]

While your texting might be quiet, the light coming from your phone is even more distracting. Turn your phone off people. You can do it. I know it's like your little drug, but at least try.

I dont understand how a teeny light can be distracting while you have a huge light coming from the movie screen lol

Really?

It's the rule of Dominant Contrast. The first thing your eye is drawn to is the most dominant contrast in your field of view. While the movie screen is large & bright, a constantly moving small, bright white spot just in the corner of your vision, completely surrounded by the black darkness of the rest of the theater, will always draw your attention away from the central image.

You're telling me if you're home watching a movie on your big screen TV in a dark room, and one of your kids sneaks up in front of the screen, and from a foot or two below aims a flashlight at your eyes, you're not going to notice or find it distracting?

A flashlight to a cell phone light, is that the best you can do?

You're avoiding his point- but yeah, that's not a great analogy.

If somebody asked you to stop texting- would you?

Sure i would, like i said ill text up until the time the movie starts then the phone is off in my pocket. I really cant text much during a movie because i am usually there on a date. Texting other chicks normally offends them....

I think you may be over- selling the chick talk.

 

[NewlyRetired]

Recently went to the Hobbit on opening night. Was jam packed with geeks who were really looking forward to the movie.

Right in front of us were two teen boys using their phones to text and look at pics and giggling to each other. We had to ask them three times to stop.

They would stop but then resume later.

Why go to a movie, especially a movie on opening night, if you could care less about watching it?

I certainly did not want to shoot them, but I found that behavior both odd, rude and selfish.

 

[LinusMarr]

While your texting might be quiet, the light coming from your phone is even more distracting. Turn your phone off people. You can do it. I know it's like your little drug, but at least try.

I dont understand how a teeny light can be distracting while you have a huge light coming from the movie screen lol

Really?

It's the rule of Dominant Contrast. The first thing your eye is drawn to is the most dominant contrast in your field of view. While the movie screen is large & bright, a constantly moving small, bright white spot just in the corner of your vision, completely surrounded by the black darkness of the rest of the theater, will always draw your attention away from the central image.

You're telling me if you're home watching a movie on your big screen TV in a dark room, and one of your kids sneaks up in front of the screen, and from a foot or two below aims a flashlight at your eyes, you're not going to notice or find it distracting?

A flashlight to a cell phone light, is that the best you can do?

You're avoiding his point- but yeah, that's not a great analogy.

If somebody asked you to stop texting- would you?

Sure i would, like i said ill text up until the time the movie starts then the phone is off in my pocket. I really cant text much during a movie because i am usually there on a date. Texting other chicks normally offends them....

I think you may be over- selling the chick talk.

Seems like a logical explanation from where i sit on why people are texting which is what this thread is kind of about? no?

 

[Sarnoff]

Doesn't technology exist where once inside the theater your phone just won't work? Telling people not to use cellphones in the theater just isn't effective.

Yes. But that technology is illegal.

Some theaters do have a Reward app. You download the app to your phone, and when the movie's about to start the theater puts up a special screen with either a video or audio code for your phone's app. The app then monitors your phone for the duration of the film. If you can go the whole movie without turning on your screen or having your phone make a noise (ringing, text alert, etc...) you get some reward... either free concessions or a couple bucks refund on your admission. Like, charge everyone $13 for the movie ticket, then give the well-behaved patrons $3 back.

But I haven't seen how well these programs have worked.

 

[Maelstrom]

It won't change my cellphone behavior (I don't text during, and tend to not even check incoming calls during the movie, just get them after).

But I frequently won't say something because you never know how crazy the other person is, and this just reinforces that.

**** Offtopic ****

With the advent of the "second screen", I'm wondering if there is a business for tying phone updates in with movies, like they do for TV shows sometimes. If EVERYONE has their phone out, then it isn't distracting if one person is on the texting screen rather than the movie app. Somethings going to have to give though between theaters and texting, just not sure what yet.

 

[Clifford]

No but stories like this have made me rethink how I act in public when a confrontation is possible.

Agreed. especially the Road rage cases of late with people getting shot etc. People are ####### nuts these days.

Thanks to the 2nd amendment and the NRA I watch myself whenever I am around agitated whiteys. They're a national menace.

Good thinking. Black people never have guns.

The last thing in the world I have to worry about is a black person getting annoyed with me because I am too loud in a theater.

 

[Sarnoff]

No but stories like this have made me rethink how I act in public when a confrontation is possible.

Agreed. especially the Road rage cases of late with people getting shot etc. People are ####### nuts these days.

Thanks to the 2nd amendment and the NRA I watch myself whenever I am around agitated whiteys. They're a national menace.

Good thinking. Black people never have guns.

The last thing in the world I have to worry about is a black person getting annoyed with me because I am too loud in a theater.

 

[Two Deep]

No but stories like this have made me rethink how I act in public when a confrontation is possible.

Agreed. especially the Road rage cases of late with people getting shot etc. People are ####### nuts these days.

Thanks to the 2nd amendment and the NRA I watch myself whenever I am around agitated whiteys. They're a national menace.

Good thinking. Black people never have guns.

The last thing in the world I have to worry about is a black person getting annoyed with me because I am too loud in a theater.

Truer words......truer words.

 

[msommer]

This incident and some of the comments in the other thread has made me rethink going to the cinema in the US entirely

 

[Two Deep]

While your texting might be quiet, the light coming from your phone is even more distracting. Turn your phone off people. You can do it. I know it's like your little drug, but at least try.

I dont understand how a teeny light can be distracting while you have a huge light coming from the movie screen lol

Really?

It's the rule of Dominant Contrast. The first thing your eye is drawn to is the most dominant contrast in your field of view. While the movie screen is large & bright, a constantly moving small, bright white spot just in the corner of your vision, completely surrounded by the black darkness of the rest of the theater, will always draw your attention away from the central image.

You're telling me if you're home watching a movie on your big screen TV in a dark room, and one of your kids sneaks up in front of the screen, and from a foot or two below aims a flashlight at your eyes, you're not going to notice or find it distracting?

A flashlight to a cell phone light, is that the best you can do?

You're avoiding his point- but yeah, that's not a great analogy.

If somebody asked you to stop texting- would you?

Sure i would, like i said ill text up until the time the movie starts then the phone is off in my pocket. I really cant text much during a movie because i am usually there on a date. Texting other chicks normally offends them....

I think you may be over- selling the chick talk.

Seems like a logical explanation from where i sit on why people are texting which is what this thread is kind of about? no?

I think it has been said already ...but if you can't cut the cord for 2 hours you are going to have some serious problems in the future. Some day young Linus you are going to fall for one of these chicks as you call them, and by all of this constant texting have established the ground rules for the future. Now later when out with the guys this same chick/wife texts you and you don't instantly respond like you use to... bam.. you are a horses ###!. Don't be a horses ###.

 

[MCguidance]

The victim was shot during the previews. Just shows how crazy the ex-cop is.

 

[LinusMarr]

While your texting might be quiet, the light coming from your phone is even more distracting. Turn your phone off people. You can do it. I know it's like your little drug, but at least try.

I dont understand how a teeny light can be distracting while you have a huge light coming from the movie screen lol

Really?

It's the rule of Dominant Contrast. The first thing your eye is drawn to is the most dominant contrast in your field of view. While the movie screen is large & bright, a constantly moving small, bright white spot just in the corner of your vision, completely surrounded by the black darkness of the rest of the theater, will always draw your attention away from the central image.

You're telling me if you're home watching a movie on your big screen TV in a dark room, and one of your kids sneaks up in front of the screen, and from a foot or two below aims a flashlight at your eyes, you're not going to notice or find it distracting?

A flashlight to a cell phone light, is that the best you can do?

You're avoiding his point- but yeah, that's not a great analogy.

If somebody asked you to stop texting- would you?

Sure i would, like i said ill text up until the time the movie starts then the phone is off in my pocket. I really cant text much during a movie because i am usually there on a date. Texting other chicks normally offends them....

I think you may be over- selling the chick talk.

Seems like a logical explanation from where i sit on why people are texting which is what this thread is kind of about? no?

I think it has been said already ...but if you can't cut the cord for 2 hours you are going to have some serious problems in the future. Some day young Linus you are going to fall for one of these chicks as you call them, and by all of this constant texting have established the ground rules for the future. Now later when out with the guys this same chick/wife texts you and you don't instantly respond like you use to... bam.. you are a horses ###!. Don't be a horses ###.

Its too late....

 

[Sarnoff]

The victim was shot during the previews. Just shows how crazy the ex-cop is.

Sometimes the previews are better than the movie.

 

[Fennis]

I'm watching the movie "Her" right now and some rude guy keeps telling me to stop texting. But I'm not texting I am posting here. What should I do?

 

[Parrothead]

I'm watching the movie "Her" right now and some rude guy keeps telling me to stop texting. But I'm not texting I am posting here. What should I do?

pre-emptive strike- shoot him!

 

[LinusMarr]

I'm watching the movie "Her" right now and some rude guy keeps telling me to stop texting. But I'm not texting I am posting here. What should I do?

That huge light from your phone is real offensive ya know....

 

[Fennis]

I'm watching the movie "Her" right now and some rude guy keeps telling me to stop texting. But I'm not texting I am posting here. What should I do?

That huge light from your phone is real offensive ya know....

is the youporn im watching OK?

 

[Joe T]

I'm watching the movie "Her" right now and some rude guy keeps telling me to stop texting. But I'm not texting I am posting here. What should I do?

Throw your phone at his ear hole.

 

[LinusMarr]

I'm watching the movie "Her" right now and some rude guy keeps telling me to stop texting. But I'm not texting I am posting here. What should I do?

That huge light from your phone is real offensive ya know....

is the youporn im watching OK?

Its ok with me, ask the phone nazis in here...

 

[msommer]

There's a guy in the movie theater asking me to stop fidgeting during commercials. What do I do, I think he has a gun but I have a case of poison ivy...

 

[cstu]

No to any since I don't find muted texting as a distraction in a theater.

 

[T Bell]

There's a guy in the movie theater asking me to stop fidgeting during commercials. What do I do, I think he has a gun but I have a case of poison ivy...

You mean that you're carrying it around in an enclosed container to use as a weapon, or is this a condition your doctor diagnosed?

 

[Niles Standish]

No because I leave my phone in the car when I go in to a movie theater. Started doing that back when I was given my first beeper 20+ years ago. I am there to watch the movie not talk, text or see cat videos. Unless cat videos are part of the movie.

This....Why can't you texters put it down for 2 hours and enjoy a movie without distraction? I just don't get the phone addiction. That is what it is....an addiction.

We have a bunch of womenz texting us is why

Yeah I find women like it better when you don't act like you are waiting on them to contact you because you got so little going on. A little hard to get goes a long way.

Thanks for the advice but i am doing ok with my current strategy. The "snooze you lose" theory is correct when it comes to online dating...

Yeah I never online dated. And really I am supposed to be worried that some chick can't wait two hours to hear back? Plenty more where that one came from.

Well normally i am trying to keep up with 8-10 so they keep me busy. I am sure they would wait but if someone wants to get all bent over a silent, little light during previews he has the issue, not me...

If you're immediately responding to every text you seem like you have no life. You don't want to go too far the other way either. I'm routinely in the mountains for a couple days to a week with no service. And that works poorly. The girls dont dig that too much. But a few hours when you're at a movie, or hanging out with a friend, or on a date. That makes you look better.