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Two words: Home Theater. Blue Ray + 63" HD Plasma (now old and due for a 4K replacement one of these years) + full surround sound system + Netflix.

Why bother subjecting myself to overpriced movie theaters (and they've gotten expensive here.)
 
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I don't remember the last time I darkened the doorway of a movie theater . Late 90's probably . Those jerkoffs in Hollywood don't get any of my money except for what they squeeze out of the cable company . None of that HBO shit either .
 
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I agree. I haven’t been in a movie theater in 10 years.


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Millennials and cell phones didn't ruin anything. The blame lays squarely on the generations before them for not teaching their kids manners.

Though I will say that I go to around 6 movies a year and can only think of twice where someone was using a phone during the movie and only one of those was talking on it. He was removed rapidly by other people in the theater.




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I don't understand. You thought you could talk sense to the guy after the repeated official requests by the theater?

And you had a flashlight all this time and didn't use it until he tried to pull on you what you pulled on him?

I would have pulled out my flashlight and shine it on my watch to see what time it is while making sure his eyes were in line. That's what I did when a guy two chairs over kept pulling out his phone and looking at it. He got the hint and didn't pull it out.



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Originally posted by Rey HRH:
I don't understand. You thought you could talk sense to the guy after the repeated official requests by the theater?


I asked the guy to put it away, he didn’t and wanted to argue about it. That’s when I left and got theater staff involved. I wasn’t going back in there after that. If I have to leave to get staff involved I’m out.

Issue is bad here. Unless staff comes in regularly some clown will pull out a phone. They have ADD.



What am I doing? I'm talking to an empty telephone
 
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