I hate phones.

Aside from the hypothetical, the assumption that it's causing offense is nonsense...it's called being rude and inconsiderate. If you need to use the phone do it elsewhere.

It's a really simple concept.

Apparently, the small percentage of people who need their cell phone on at all times, and the people that might receive a call that their wife is in labor, their child is hurt, etc etc is less important than the people who would like to watch a movie in total silence.

I've been to quite a few movies in the last few months, and not once was my viewing experience ruined by a cell phone going off. However, if one went off and was an annoyance, i'd politely ask the person to turn it off. Grow a pair here, people.

Well, we had to know the “do it for the kids” line was coming...
 

For a liberal, you sure are selfish.

How the heck did we SURVIVE before cell phones?

If someone picks it up after one ring and walks to the lobby to complete the call it's hardly an annoyance at all but the people who sit there on the phone while people around them are trying to hear the movie, inconsiderate of all that's around them...these are the people who need to be shot, and they seem to make up the majority.

If cell phones are jammed, there should be a playpen in front of all doors to theaters that say "Check your Babies here". Hell, any child under 3 should not be allowed, unless its a childrens movie that will captivate them for the entire viewing.

Oh..and if you have a cold and you are going to cough and sneeze, stay out.

You don't live in Denver. :D

Maybe we should just ban phones all together and go back to Pony Express. Would that make you whiners happy? Atleast you wouldn't have to hear my phone ring.

FTR I have been to 4 movies in the past 2mos. Not once did I hear a cell phone ring in any of them.

I'll agree with that statement. Inconsiderate people suck, but they can be dealt with.

As long as they aren't 6'5 and 265 lbs of muscle.

When I was a child, we survived with the telegraph. If it was good enough for us, it should be good enough for the rest of you.

Talk about a small percentage...I love this framed hypothetical that ALL cellphone calls are 'important' matters of life and death.

What if their response is: "Im one of 'the small percentage of people who need their cell phone on at all times and besides I might receive a call that my wife is in labor, or my child is hurt, etc'? What do you do with your 'pair' then?

Ask him why he is still sitting in his seat when his wife is in labor.

That's because most people are more considerate than you are, apparently.