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This is from an article from MSNBC. I'll post the link as well, so you can see the video if you want, but it is not safe for work or even small kids. As for commentary, well, I'm glad this place sticks to it's guns (even if I'm guilty of talking a wee bit during movies).
At the Alamo Drafthouse, a film-lovers' oasis - "cold beer ... hot movies" is part of its mantra - don't send text messages in the theater. Don't say you were using your phone as a flashlight to find your seat. And don't leave the management a voice mail splayed with four-letter words galore. You just might find that voice mail turned into a public service announcement.
"At the Alamo Drafthouse, we have a simple rule: If you talk or text during a movie, we kick you out," says the theater in what has been turned into a NSFW (not safe for work) video as an example of bad customer behavior.
"I didn't know I wasn't supposed to text in your (blank blank) little theater," says the aggravated woman in the voice mail she left after being ejected from the Austin, Texas theater.
"It was too (blank) dark in that place for me to find my seat. Allright? I was using my phone as a flashlight to get to my (blank) seat. So excuse me for using my phone in USA Magnited States of America where you are free to text in a the-a-ter ...i've texted in all the other theaters in Austin, and no one ever gave a (blank) bout what i was doing on my (blank) phone, all right?"
Plus, she goes on to add, her phone "was on silent ... it wasn't on loud ... it wasn't bothering anybody. You guys, obviously, were being (blanks) to me .... and i'm sure that's what you do, you know, to rip people off .... you take my money ... and then you throw me out."
The theater chain says on its website point-blank that:
We have zero tolerance for talking or cell phone use of any kind during movies, and we aren't afraid to kick anyone rude enough to start texting their friends during a show right out of the theater. We also hate it when other movie theaters make you watch advertisements after you've already paid to see the movie, so we're vigilant about never letting ads hit our screens - we've even turned down PSAs for great causes because we don't want ANYTHING to disrupt your experience of the show.
And, just to be clear(er), Tim League, founder of the Drafthouse chain, says on the theaters' blog:
As many of you know, I really can't abide people who talk during a movie. A couple of years ago I was accosted in the Village parking lot by a patron who was warned for talking in a movie. I've nearly come to blows more than a few times over the years with rude customers over the same issue. When we adopted our strict no talking policy back in 1997 we knew we were going to alienate some of our patrons. That was the plan. If you can't change your behavior and be quiet (or unilluminated) during a movie, then we don't want you at our venue. Follow our rules, or get the hell out and don't come back until you can.
Them is fighting words at the Alamo. And we think we know who has won this battle. (Below is the theater's censored version of the video.)
http://technolog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/06/07/6804530-crazed-movie-customers-voice-mail-backfires
At the Alamo Drafthouse, a film-lovers' oasis - "cold beer ... hot movies" is part of its mantra - don't send text messages in the theater. Don't say you were using your phone as a flashlight to find your seat. And don't leave the management a voice mail splayed with four-letter words galore. You just might find that voice mail turned into a public service announcement.
"At the Alamo Drafthouse, we have a simple rule: If you talk or text during a movie, we kick you out," says the theater in what has been turned into a NSFW (not safe for work) video as an example of bad customer behavior.
"I didn't know I wasn't supposed to text in your (blank blank) little theater," says the aggravated woman in the voice mail she left after being ejected from the Austin, Texas theater.
"It was too (blank) dark in that place for me to find my seat. Allright? I was using my phone as a flashlight to get to my (blank) seat. So excuse me for using my phone in USA Magnited States of America where you are free to text in a the-a-ter ...i've texted in all the other theaters in Austin, and no one ever gave a (blank) bout what i was doing on my (blank) phone, all right?"
Plus, she goes on to add, her phone "was on silent ... it wasn't on loud ... it wasn't bothering anybody. You guys, obviously, were being (blanks) to me .... and i'm sure that's what you do, you know, to rip people off .... you take my money ... and then you throw me out."
The theater chain says on its website point-blank that:
We have zero tolerance for talking or cell phone use of any kind during movies, and we aren't afraid to kick anyone rude enough to start texting their friends during a show right out of the theater. We also hate it when other movie theaters make you watch advertisements after you've already paid to see the movie, so we're vigilant about never letting ads hit our screens - we've even turned down PSAs for great causes because we don't want ANYTHING to disrupt your experience of the show.
And, just to be clear(er), Tim League, founder of the Drafthouse chain, says on the theaters' blog:
As many of you know, I really can't abide people who talk during a movie. A couple of years ago I was accosted in the Village parking lot by a patron who was warned for talking in a movie. I've nearly come to blows more than a few times over the years with rude customers over the same issue. When we adopted our strict no talking policy back in 1997 we knew we were going to alienate some of our patrons. That was the plan. If you can't change your behavior and be quiet (or unilluminated) during a movie, then we don't want you at our venue. Follow our rules, or get the hell out and don't come back until you can.
Them is fighting words at the Alamo. And we think we know who has won this battle. (Below is the theater's censored version of the video.)
http://technolog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/06/07/6804530-crazed-movie-customers-voice-mail-backfires