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Re:Can the American mall survive? by jedberg on Monday September 12, 2022 @12:49PM (#32812996)
> people have forgotten how to go to the Theatre

I went to see Top Gun a couple weeks ago, it was my first time in a theater in years. There were five different ads, the gist of all of which were, "Don't forget you're in public, so don't talk or pull out your phone or get up if you don't have to". One of them literally said, "We know it's been a while since you've watched a movie in public, and maybe you've forgotten how that works".

It was sort of condescending but at the same time I totally get the need.

Re:Can the American mall survive? by Damogran6 on Monday September 12, 2022 @12:53PM (#32813051)
And yet some of the audience ignored all that entirely.
Re:Can the American mall survive? by jedberg on Monday September 12, 2022 @12:56PM (#32813115)
In my particular theater that didn't happen since my family was 60% of the audience (well actually my wife kept getting up and doing stuff until I reminded her we were in a theater) but yeah I've heard it happens a lot now.

I think if theaters want people to keep coming, they will need to make the experience better than home, and that will include enforcing no phone/no noise rules.

Re:Can the American mall survive? by Damogran6 on Monday September 12, 2022 @04:00PM (#32816049)
We had the usual cadre of Teenaged boys, but we also had an Indian Couple behind us, I'm not sure if that one was cultural or not.