I feel your pain. This is why so many people don't want to go to the movies these days--because idiots like this either don't care that they're ruining the experience or they just can't stop themselves. Is it that they have no attention span? That they have never been taught manners? That they see the movies as no different than any other public space where they live on their phones? I take your point that there's no point in tattling to the low-paid theater staff, but what else can we do? Embarrassing them with a direct comment doesn't seem to have any effect--otherwise they wouldn't do it in the first place. I guess my only solace is that I typically attend movies at theaters that appeal to older crowds, like the Kendall Square theater.
This brought me great joy Skylar. I also sympathize, as I am a teacher of these phone addicted zoomers. The great battle of our time may just be figuring out how to escape aldous huxley's digital world we find ourselves in.
I feel your pain. This is why so many people don't want to go to the movies these days--because idiots like this either don't care that they're ruining the experience or they just can't stop themselves. Is it that they have no attention span? That they have never been taught manners? That they see the movies as no different than any other public space where they live on their phones? I take your point that there's no point in tattling to the low-paid theater staff, but what else can we do? Embarrassing them with a direct comment doesn't seem to have any effect--otherwise they wouldn't do it in the first place. I guess my only solace is that I typically attend movies at theaters that appeal to older crowds, like the Kendall Square theater.
This brought me great joy Skylar. I also sympathize, as I am a teacher of these phone addicted zoomers. The great battle of our time may just be figuring out how to escape aldous huxley's digital world we find ourselves in.