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Posted: **Sat Jun 11, 2011 5:16 pm**

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.

Posted: **Sat Jun 11, 2011 8:22 pm**

I love the part about "regular theatre, where people are, you know, actually polite."

Posted: **Sat Jun 11, 2011 9:41 pm**

My new favorite theater.

Posted: **Tue Jun 14, 2011 2:11 pm**

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.

Posted: **Tue Jun 14, 2011 6:24 pm**

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.

Posted: **Tue Jun 14, 2011 6:30 pm**

Malcolm wrote:
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.

Posted: **Tue Jun 14, 2011 6:32 pm**

GORDON wrote:
Malcolm wrote:
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.

Posted: **Tue Jun 14, 2011 6:33 pm**

I'd pay just for the chance of seeing that.

As it is, all I can do is keep the pause button within arm's reach.

And no one fetches my beers for me.

Sigh.

I want an Alamo Drafthouse.