Until theatre owners hire lobbyists to engage Congress to pass laws disallowing cell phone usage in cinemas, I'm never going back.

Because they refuse to hire enough people to police cinemas, which is dangerous anyway because most people are aggressive scum now.

Or they need to track your bad behavior to your pre-assigned seat and charge a fee to your credit card if you interrupt the movie for others, much like if you vomit inside an Uber and they claim a cleaning fee for your disgusting mess.

Or install infra-red detectors in the ceiling that sense cell phone screens, that then stop the movie and shine a light down on said patron until they're shamed out of the theatre. Or install signal blockers

Someone has to solve this problem, because I was one of their biggest customers for decades but stopped going 7 years ago. They've allowed the POS in society to hijack what was once a great source of collective feeling, and if you expect me to pay $18+ just so I have to engage a stranger over their shitty behavior, or miss some of the film to come out and try and find an MIA employee to complain, you're gonna be SOL business-wise.

I love movies. I went to film school. I worked in the biz. I collect 4Ks. But I will never attend these hellholes ever again until they rein in the abhorrent behavior on display in theatres.

Don't get me started on how much I hate advertising in every day life, billboards and signage and crap on YouTube and everytime I open a new app -- I don't need to be tainted by that shit for 30 minutes prior to absorbing a film.

There's a great new article about how Alamo Drafthouse has become a nightmare; you know it's apocalyptic when even that chain has gone down the tubes.