For Those In Support Of Banning Things, Should We Ban Mobile Phones From Theatres?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2792782/comic-michael-mcintyre-walked-stage-sold-told-security-sort-row-woman-kept-using-phone.html

[Old_Geezer]

BAN MICHAEL MCINTYRE !!!!!
EVERYBODY OUT !!!!

[janbee]

Yes, and in cinemas. Actually, no, don't ban the item just have the sense to turn the darn thing off for a couple of hours. Basic manners and decency and courtesy.

[janbee]

OG, yes, even better Ban him , he 's too noisy for me. !

[Slapshot]

What JB said ^^^ but yeah... BAN MICHAEL MCINTYRE!!!

[Henrietta]

Everyone should be encouraged to put their phones on vibrate so those that need to be kept in contact with others can be alerted without troubling others.

[naomi24]

No, but people should have the courtesy to switch their phones off in the theatre.

[ChillDoubt]

I can't comment about the theatre as it's some time since I've been but if anyone persists in using one once the film has started whilst in the pictures, is offered one opportunity to take the conversation outside, after which I inform that they'll incur my wrath, or words to that effect.
Use you imagination.

[gness]

While I would say yes it wouldn't work....I take my phone to London when I go to the theatre....I need to.

But I would support a rule whereby there are no warnings....if your phone rings or shines....you are ejected.....

[woofgang]

and do you enjoy yourself in the cells chilldoubt?

[andy-hughes]

With increasing frequency, I refer to the proverbail 'age thing' on this site, and here it is again.

I have been a fan of live performances, musical and dramatic for a very long time, but recently, I find myself distracted by the constant waving of phone cameras and tablets in the general direction of the stage. In 'my day', you watched the gig because it was a one-off experience, no technology to preserve it, ixcept your own memory.

What annoys me more, is that when the lights go down in a cinema or theatre, all sorts of glows light up around the audotorium as tablets and texts flash to and fro.

I know that people today feel they cannot be out of communciation even for a few seconds, but really, for the sake of courtesy to other audience members, can they not just leave the bloody things alone for an hour or two?

I am entirely with performers who humiliate audience members who have managed to ignore the standard warnings about turning phones off - and as for ringing someone in the middle of a performance, that deserves as much hostility from the performer as can legally be mustered.

I find MM as funny as dysentary on a coach holiday, but i am entirely with him on his actions here.

[stuey]

I can see the headline, woofgang: "Cell Phone User Abuser Ends Up In Cell.":)

[andy-hughes]

My wife and I attended a Liza Minelli show at the Montreal Jazz Festival last year.

Because i am press, we got free seats, but that didn;t stop my wife politely asking the woman next to her to stop typing into her tablet, which cast a weird green glow for some distance.

the woman carried on, so my wife approached an usher who asked the woman to turn off her device.

At this point, the woman created a massive scene, including advice in a shriek that she was now leaving the theatre.

If the idea was that the present Mrs Hughes was going to retract her request and beg the lady to stay - it failed!!!

[anotheoldgit]

Henrietta

/// Everyone should be encouraged to put their phones on vibrate ///

Make your own jokes up, I wouldn't dare. :0)

[Tuvok]

Glad to say I don't have a mobile.

[ToraToraTora]

Yes absolutely in fact I'm amazed the theatres have not got some sort of phone blocking tech.

[ToraToraTora]

I rarely go to the cinema these days, I just know I'll get into some sort of fracas with some brain dead idiot. Too stressful.

[Henrietta]

"Make your own jokes up, I wouldn't dare. :0)"

Trust a guy to think of that :)

[piggynose]

I went to the cinema the other day, well actually at night, 1st time in about 7 years, and was expecting the usual noise of rustling plastic bags, fizzy cans, whispering etc, guess what, you could hear a pin drop. The film was " el niño" the audience i noticed when the film finished were 40plus, and i beleive cultured.

[andy-hughes]

piggynose - I often prefer to see films at the local Film Theatre - it usually features releases that have not made mainstream distribution, and it is a quiet and intimate venue to enjoy films.

My last visit lived up to all expectations - there was no-one there apparfently under thirty - most I would say were senior citizens, so no mobiles, tablets, talking, and all that guff.

And the film we all watched?

Lovelace!!

[ummmm]

Yes....or insist they are on silent and no calls are to be answered.

I don't blame him for walking off. He asked her enough times.