the major downside in comparison to a cinema is that there's nothing stopping me from pulling out my phone
That doesn’t seem to stop the people I’ve seen at the cinema, tapping away on their phones for the entire movie. I would love to go to a movie theatre that is:
1) tastefully decorated like an old-timey cinema and spotlessly clean
2) reasonably priced, both in food and ticket prices, so that families can afford to go
3) strict in its policies of restricting technology (no phone use in the theatre whatsoever) and mandating parental accompaniment for children
4) offers both healthy snacks and classic ones like popcorn, and does not use any fake butter or garbage like that
I have never been to a theater that would not swiftly eject anyone disturbing the movie in the united states. Where exactly do you see films? Are you not reporting it and expecting things to magically be resolved?
I think if you’re going to see “films” this is not a problem. If you’re going to the movies that the average person is seeing at the average mega theater, it’s a different story. Where I live it’s extremely common for people to text message during movies and even answer their phone and chat with some friend about the movie they are seeing. If you were going to try to get all these people kicked out you would be spending most of the movie going back and forth complaining to management. Not really worth going in the first place.
That doesn’t seem to stop the people I’ve seen at the cinema, tapping away on their phones for the entire movie. I would love to go to a movie theatre that is:
1) tastefully decorated like an old-timey cinema and spotlessly clean
2) reasonably priced, both in food and ticket prices, so that families can afford to go
3) strict in its policies of restricting technology (no phone use in the theatre whatsoever) and mandating parental accompaniment for children
4) offers both healthy snacks and classic ones like popcorn, and does not use any fake butter or garbage like that