Will You Use Regal's New Bad Behavior Beeper at the Movies?

Tell you what I'll rat on...people talking on their cellphones during the movie. The eating/drinking/whispering noises bother me, too, but I think I'd try to overlook those in the hopes that it's part of their enjoyable movie experience. Cellphone talkers, though. Go outside, dang it! I'm glad they're at least trying for a better movie experience, though. Unfortunately, I usually don't have a problem at the Regal I go to...it's an arthouse theatre, and arthouse audiences tend to be more considerate in my experience. I want a buzzer thingie at AMC, Hollywood, Starplex, Carmike, Wehrenberg, the big multiplexes--that's where the annoying audiences are.

On the problem of getting too many calls, simple--build a tazer in the thing, let people duke it out themselves. (Can you imagine the anarchy!) :o

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I dont know about that adult swim idea, a lot of college kids are worse than the 14 year olds.

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Oh sweet Sean Hannity, you can bet your ASS I'd "rat out" my fellow movie-goers! I'm pretty much of the opinion that the vast majority of the American movie-going public are obnoxious, inbred mouth-breathers and it would be of significant benefit to the gene pool to gas 'em all.

...but maybe that's just me. *shrug*

Suffice to say, a resounding HELL YES! I would probably abuse the f**k out of this opportunity. Every time the asshat in the seat behind me decided to kick my headrest, or the punk highschool jocks decided to have an at-full-volume discussion about todays football game, or some ignorant f**k comes to see the third film of a trilogy without having ever seen the first two so that he has to ask his wife every three minutes to explain what's going on.

Seriously, movies would be awesome if not for the other evil humans I'm forced to share my oxygen with.

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One of the reason's I don't go is because of some person being rude. Why do they pay the money they do and end up being ill mannered? I plan to go watch Knocked Up this coming Monday. I'm going during the day. Hopefully the young adults that normally would be watching this type of movie will be at school or at work.
Donna A.

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Okay, I have to ask why the F**K do people even go to movie theaters anymore? My wife and I just left the theater and I can tell you that the only thing that would've made me happier than having a beeper would've been having an effing TASER! I have never, never been so distracted at a movie in my entire life! People getting up and walking around, an entire row of tween girls text messaging the boys on the other end of the row, a girl sitting next to my wife that (I shit you not) spent the entire movie popping her damn gum, and three young girls behind us talking on the phone.

After telling the girls (more or less politely) to shush with no effect I notified an usher, who promptly went to get the officer that supposedly "secures" the theater. Well Officer Friendly never showed, so when that same usher came into the theater and asked us if everything were alright now (thereby further interrupting our viewing of the film) and I said, "No, not so much," the manager finally came in and removed a few of the girls with the text messaging, and stood in the corner looking what I can only assume he thought was menacing, but totally ignoring the little phone-talking bitches behind us. Finally I stood up and told them no more talking... we're done talking, ladies. That worked for awhile, as they left the theater... only to return twenty minutes later with someone else (their dad?) to sit with them while they continued talking.

I hate people. No, really... I'm not lying. I pray every single day that Shepherd Book is right and there really IS a very special Hell reserved for people that talk in movie theaters.

If anyone reading this happens to enjoy indulging in any of the obnoxious behavior I've cited above, know this... you're in my f***ing crosshairs, m*****f***ers!

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'I find it kind of hilarious to think you'd need more than one button for this doo-hickey. How about a single button that says "Manager Come Here."'

For Sound & Picture it's probably faster to notify the projectionist up in his booth ... I imagine Piracy might require some level of stealth on the management's part, and other disturbances are just freaking annoying and could benefit from a big angry usher coming down the aisle.

I would totally rat out other moviegoers. If they wanted to talk on their cellphones, etc, through the movie, they can rent the freaking DVD. I forgive the ice-crushing mouthbreathing, you can't control EVERYTHING that other people do, and anyways, that stuff is easy to tune out. m

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As long as the theatre staff handles the situation discreetly and expeditiously, I would use the pager, but I'd be afraid the cure might be worse than the disease..

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