They have a chain of movie/food theaters, and they are serious about people talking or texting during the goddam movie:
according to Tim League, the Drafthouse's founder, a woman was recently warned twice about texting during a screening, and then, in accordance with company policy, was escorted out without a refund. 'I don't think people realize that it is distracting,' says League. 'It seems like nothing, but if you spend as much time as I do at the movies, you realize the entire theater sees it and it pulls you out of the movie experience. It's every bit as intrusive as talking.' The irate customer called up the Alamo Drafthouse and left a profanity-laced (and perhaps slightly inebriated) message decrying the theater's policies, but the theater got the last laugh as they took the audio of the woman's voicemail, transcribed it, and turned it into an in-house preview.
"Happy slaves are the worst enemies of freedom." - Marie Von Ebner
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell
It's friggin' awesome. You get to watch movies while you drink beer and eat bar food. I highly recommend it to anyone. Too bad there isn't one in Ohio.
DoctorChaos wrote:It's friggin' awesome. You get to watch movies while you drink beer and eat bar food.
I can do that at home.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
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DoctorChaos wrote:It's friggin' awesome. You get to watch movies while you drink beer and eat bar food.
I can do that at home.
But, you can't sip a beer and enjoy watching some bitch get thrown out of your living room because she won't shut the fuck up.
I've seen that, too.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."