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Author Topic: Cell Phone Announcement At Rave Frank Angel Film God Posts: 5305 From: Brooklyn NY USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 01-11-2010 05:19 PM                        quote: Mike Blakesley They quieted down immediately and never came to a movie again.  |  IP: Logged John Hawkinson Film God Posts: 2273 From: Cambridge, MA, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 01-11-2010 09:50 PM                      |  IP: Logged Ed Alvarado Film Handler Posts: 60 From: Fort Worth, TX,usa Registered: Oct 2004 posted 01-12-2010 07:53 PM                        ahhh yes RAVE i was at the midnight release of avatar 3d here at the RAVE theater in texas and before the movie started the manager was giving out posters and as he ended his long speach he added the whole thing about the cell phone being shut off or you will be asked to leave with out a refund and of course there's always gonna be a a guy who said YEAH RIGHT and the manager said well keep it clean and if you talk or text on your cell phone you will be told to leave. I think its a good thing that they do promote that but its also bad because what if your out watching a movie and then you get a call or text informing you that your kids are at the hospital or even worse! so i guess you cant even take the time to check because they said if you get caught on your phone you will get kicked out. its a double edge sword if you ask me  |  IP: Logged Martin McCaffery Film God Posts: 2481 From: Montgomery, AL Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-12-2010 07:58 PM                        If your kid is in the hospital you're going to be leaving anyway.  |  IP: Logged Claude S. Ayakawa Film God Posts: 2738 From: Waipahu, Hawaii, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 01-12-2010 08:41 PM                        When I go to the movies, I always turn off my cel phone as soon as I sit down and if someone wanted to talk to me during that time, I will always return their call as soon as the movie was over. If an unexpected family or other emergency should occur while I am watching a movie, I can only deal with it after the movie. If I know in advance there might be an emergency, a motion picture theatre is the last place I would rather be so the argument of allowing the continued usage of cel phones because of the possibility of a emergency is a rather weak one. When I went to the movies when I was little, the Waipahu Theatre would project emergency messages on the bottom of the picture for a couple of seconds such as "Dr. Wallace Honda, please come to the lobby" and the good doctor or anyone would immediately know there is a emergency This did not happen too often and it might be something modern theatres today could do to handle emergency situations if the banning of cel phone use in a motion picture theatre became a reality. -Claude  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-13-2010 11:13 AM                        quote: Claude S. Ayakawa When I went to the movies when I was little, the Waipahu Theatre would project emergency messages on the bottom of the picture for a couple of seconds such as "Dr. Wallace Honda, please come to the lobby" and the good doctor or anyone would immediately know there is a emergency We still do that today. We have a doctor here in town who simply doesn't bring his cell to the theatre...if the hospital needs him, they call us, we put his name on the screen and he comes to the phone. It takes maybe 15 seconds longer than if he had his phone. So far he hasn't lost a patient yet.  |  IP: Logged Edward Havens Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 614 From: Los Angeles, CA Registered: Mar 2008 posted 01-15-2010 05:00 PM                     Outside of drive-ins, I can only remember one hardtop that ever had... or probably more proper used... an on-screen paging/announcing system, and that theatre has been closed for almost 15 years. If I've ever had the ability to do that at any of my theatres over the past 24 years, I've never been made aware of it. Why do we go to the movies in the first place? To enjoy an experience we cannot properly duplicate at home, and to get away from the rest of the world for a couple hours. And as cell phones have become more pervasive in modern society, I always wonder why anyone would pay money to have an experience and then ruin that experience by engaging in activity that interferes with that experience. Forget about how it affects anyone else. You got out of your house, dealt with the traffic and the parking, buy your ticket and your concession items and all the other stuff that goes with going to the movies, and then you don't pay attention. It just doesn't make any sense to me.  |  IP: Logged Frank Angel Film God Posts: 5305 From: Brooklyn NY USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 01-15-2010 10:33 PM                        Ed, there are LOTS of things patrons do that don't make ANY sense! From our website -- "Evil, Patron-Disturbing Devices: Cell phones, beepers, "i"s of any type, be they -fones, -pods, -tunes or berries, and wrist-watch alarms must all be turned OFF during performances. It is easy to forget this little nicety, but neglecting it can cause an unnecessary and easily avoidable, major distraction for the patrons around you. Even setting them to vibrate can ruin a quiet moment in a performance, as will looking at the glowing screen to see who is vibrating you! Avoid rude; avoid uncivilized; avoid whole groups of people looking at you as if you had just drowned a kidden. Please turn these devices OFF in the Grand Lobby before you enter the theatre." I also wrote a section specifically for doctors. It remained published for two months until a doctor called up screaming bloody murder to the GM who then gave me stern looks and had me remove the offending sections (that will teach him not to proof my stuff). I guess I won't have to tell you what sentences I had to clean up -- "Doctors: Although doctors can now rely on cell phones for emergencies, be aware that our theatre construction has been known to make cell reception intermittent at best. We strongly suggest doctors honor that long-standing tradition of leaving your name and seat location with the House Manager before the show so that you can be reached in case of an emergency. And practically speaking, surely there are others at the hospital who can cover for the two hours while you are at the theatre -- let's face it, if someone's life is hanging in the balance and depending on you to make life and death decisions for them, perhaps you should rethink being out partying on the town in the first place, eh?"  |  IP: Logged Kevin Ziemba Film Handler Posts: 2 From: Enfield, CT USA Registered: Jan 2010 posted 01-17-2010 01:59 AM                    A bit off topic, I know, but what's it like working for Rave Dominic? I am at one of the recently bought out National theaters... still awaiting any changes, havent seen much yet. Like most theaters, ours is notorious for the teenage crowd talking and texting through the whole movie. We will sometimes go in before those shows to mention the talking and use of cell phones, but not often. I guess I misinterpreted your post Dominic, I now see you don't actually work at Rave! Anyone out there work for Rave?  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-17-2010 02:28 AM                        quote: Kevin Ziemba ours is notorious for the teenage crowd talking and texting through the whole movie. We will sometimes go in before those shows to mention the talking and use of cell phones, but not often. SO...... Why aren't you more aggressive with that problem?  |  IP: Logged Kevin Ziemba Film Handler Posts: 2 From: Enfield, CT USA Registered: Jan 2010 posted 01-17-2010 01:27 PM                    Well, I can throw out many excuses why we don't make an effort to make an annoucement before the all younger crowd films. I will admit some of it is laziness, however a big part is how much staff we are allowed and the quality of said staff. As Dominic noted there is only that 1% that can always be counted on. Then between trying to keep a huge complex clean, collecting IMAX glasses, having several theaters where we have staff seating patrons, we are always strected thin. I will be curious to see what happens when Rave takes over in regards to this topic.  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 01-17-2010 02:06 PM                     I have no sympathy for the point of view coming from people who insist they need their phones left active/on in case of an emergency. My response to that: if that's really the case then stay out of movie theaters. 99.99% of the cell phone activity happening in movie theaters is the useless, chatty Kathy syndrome, OCD-infected phone misuse crap. Nearly all the time all that cell phone activity is fixated on unimportant drivel. If someone's need for immediate phone contact is more important than keeping the movie-going environment free of distractions then that person just doesn't have any business being inside of a movie theater. Period. The rights of other audience members to have a disruption-free movie going experience has to come first. If a doctor is on call he just needs to stay out of the damned theater. BTW, stay out of restaurants too while you're at it, Doc. I have an extreme hatred of cell phone use in movie theaters, but I'm getting ever more annoyed by mobile phone use in restaurants. BTW, many doctor and dentist offices make their customers/patients turn off their phones while in the clinic. Many have signs posted demanding this. So there's a certain kind of hypocrisy present if any doctor insists on disrupting a movie presentation with his/her phone. If a parent is worried their kids are going to be up to no good or going to get hurt or whatever that parent doesn't need to be isolated in a dark movie theater away from the situation. If the kids have to check in with that parent constantly then the parent needs to be in an environment where the kids can check in easily. That parent doesn't need to be in a movie theater. I hear phones going off in all sorts of places where phone use is pretty much obscene. They should never be in use during a church service. Cell phones absolutely need to be turned off during a wedding or funeral. Anyone whose phone rings during a wedding or funeral really ought to be punched in the face really really hard. Most people still have good manners, but there's just that certain bunch among the general public which seems beyond retarded when it comes to the concept of good manners.  |  IP: Logged Chris Slycord Film God Posts: 2986 From: 청주시, 경북도, South Korea Registered: Mar 2007 posted 01-17-2010 02:16 PM                     I know how you guys feel. In our orientation for clinic observation they said that we should just leave cell phones turned off, because it would be inappropriate/distracting to have the thing go off while in the room with a patient. Then one girl just starts getting agitated saying "But my girl is in daycare. What if something happens to her?" When I said "Can't you leave the clinic phone number with the daycare?" that only got her more angry as if it was somehow a ridiculous idea that the office manager could page someone to the front desk (which is less distracting than a cell phone as patients expect people to get paged to the front).  |  IP: Logged Martin Brooks Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 900 From: Forest Hills, NY, USA Registered: May 2002 posted 01-20-2010 10:25 PM                        Some years ago, I went to the movie theatre in the basement of the train station in Washington, DC. Before the movie, they announced that there was absolutely no talking in the theatre. Anyone talking would be thrown out and there would be no warnings. They need to do exactly the same thing with cell phone users, whether it's calls or messaging. Once they throw out a few people, the rest of the audience will get the message (sic). The addiction to cell phones and texting has gotten completely out of control. There are teens who get/send 500 message a day! 500! If someone forced me to text, I couldn't think of five things a day to write and I probably couldn't think of five people to send it to. But I don't want to place all the blame on teens. I see people of all ages checking their cell phones constantly during movies. It is incredibly annoying to me. If you can't be away from your phone for two hours, perhaps you should watch movies only at home. Now while theatre owners might say that's exactly what they don't want people to do, if the texters don't stay home, the people who are annoyed by the cell phone users might instead.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-20-2010 11:10 PM                        This is a case where a slope-floor is better than stadium. At least here, the text-addicted teens have gotten pretty good at hiding the phones in their laps or under their shirts or whatever while they feed their habit. So at least they're only annoying their seatmates, who are usually other teens anyway who don't care. We still go around and check frequently and bust the phoners, but it's pretty amazing how stealthy they have become.  |  IP: Logged

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