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Alamo Drafthouse Owner Responds to AMC’s Texting During Movies Idea
The Alamo Drafthouse is synonymous with an excellent movie experience, and that’s why Tim League’s comments on no texting in the movies matter.
Recently, AMC announced that, under Adam Aron, they would be allowing cell phone use during movie showings because it is complicit with millennial behavior. This statement, naturally, was met with both support and opposition. Tim League stated why it’s such a bad idea in an eloquent article on the Alamo Drafthouse website.
He has two main objections, the first being that being able to use a mobile device during a screening defeats the purpose of going to the movies in general because as a viewer, you can be easily distracted and pulled out of the story. He writes, “You can only be immersed in a story if you are focused on it…I find that to be disrespectful to the creators, those who make the very existence of cinema possible.”
His second objection is his most broad as it focuses on the media’s continual grouping together of all millennials to create an idea of millennial behavior. League writes that when it comes to being a cellphone, “this isn’t just a millennial behavior, it is a global attention span epidemic” and “turning off your phone and focusing on a good movie is much-needed therapy.”
The Alamo Drafthouse, in short, will never allow a lit phone screen in its audience and for that, we are actually grateful.
