I HATE THAT SO MUCH.

ditto

Make that 3...
I mean come on, seriously?

especially when it is a really awesome part....

Though all this being said I think I actually did one thing that was a bit more dickish when this happened to me and that was that I just stopped the movie and then continued to watch the movie in a more comfortable room. The really sad thing though is that they didn't notice

Hahahaha! Thats both hilarious! And very sad...
I'd probably do the same...

Happens way too often. :C

Sounds quite normal...either that or your friends are making out and your alone >.>

Hey, if the movie's boring, I've got other things to do.

Harsh

when in doubt, scream random words and it will get everyone's attention

Chicken! Buttered Toast! Gravy!

Quiet Ed... I'm watching the movie.

I just use a spitz bottle on them. Works every time.

And don't just say normal stuff... be like every youtuber ever and say "blabydoopogoowahtjusthappen?" (quoting markiplier there.)

Or put on a horror flick with plenty of loud jumpscares.

Yeah, that's not a good thing.

Tooie: This is the saddest thing! I totally relate to it!

Movie nights are never the same :(

Awwww why they so cute? :3

Rule #1 of hosting movies, Confiscate all phones

Rule #2: Kill the lights.

Rule #3: Deploy the EMP.

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Rule #210, section 12: ...

orrr just yoink their phones and tell them they get them back at end of movie

*gets out the large tub of individually foil wrapped popcorns* :D

I'm usually one of the people not watching the movie... but that's cause watching things always seems to make me sleepy and pass out... >_>

Ever tried playing videogames with a friend who kept checking his phone?

My sisters does that all the time. It gets really annoying when I'm ready to start the next level or mission and have to wait 15 minutes for my co-op partner to PUT THE DAMN PHONE DOWN!!!

Aw man! We were playing Street Fighter X Tekken…sometimes he'd pause the game to send messages...

Playing smash w/ my friend, I chose bayonetta (naturally) and... bro, u gonna choose a character?... So he FINALLY picks marth and then the match happens, lather, smash, repeat. Slowest gaming night ever. Why? Social Flipp'n Media!

HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!!

OMFG, really? That fucking sucks :c

Such a sad face.

Oh boy...

Whenever me and my friends get together we put our phones into a basket and don't touch them until we leave.

One day you left the basket too close to the river. And thus begins the tale of Phone Moses...

I know this comment is 10 months old at this point, but I wanted you to know I laughed so damned hard I nearly woke up my entire household XD

So thanks for that lol x3

that looks so mean and sad. D:

I'm usually guilty of this myself.

99% of the people who'll comment on this picture are guilty of this, most of which don't even realize it.

Mine isn't a smart phone, and no net connection, no data plan, just calling and texting, and I'm very picky with giving out my number, so unless it's a crappy third party BS telemarketer [how the !@#$ do they get our numbers in the first place?!], it's likely an important reason someone is calling me.

I don't watch movies with friends and therefore cannot be guilty of this. Since there are only 58 comments I am more than 1% and so you are defeated.

STATISTICS WIN!!!

I want to take those phones and throw 'em through the window. Not only when watching a movie, people are absorbed by their phones when talking, eating, 24/7. Oh, and if you don't have Whatsapp then you don't "exist" ¬¬

OMG, right!? Not even just with "Movie Nights" either, people will just be on their phones nonstop regardless of what you're supposed to be doing with them. I purposely never got a cellphone because like 99.99% of people who have one, I don't need one, but I see these zombies clicking away on the phones everywhere I go and it drives me insane! I hope someday something happens and all cellphones crash and never come back on. We somehow survived hundreds of years without them, surely we can do it again.

Yeah, like how we survived millions of years without fire, and I hardly ever use fire so anyone else who uses fire must not need it. Down with fire!

Not much of a movie guy myself, but it seems common sense to actually close your phone during a movie.

At least, the pop-corn's all yours.

I hate that so much. It makes me really sad, like actually hurts.
Like I understand if it's something everyone's seen before, cuz even I will check my phone now and then when watching something everyone has seen before. But like, trying to show a friend something or if it was supposed to be a night to spend quality time together and all they do is talk to other people on their phone or scroll through Facebook.
It's like, you could at least tell me you're not interested in whatever we're watching :/

I'll admit if there's wifi, I'm probably going to be on my phone a lot.
That doesn't mean I'm not talking to people, or paying attention to the movie.
It just means that I can multi-task, and sometimes I just need a teeny escape because I get SUPER stressed out in social situations.

^This. I've always multi-tasked my whole life doing stuff like this. I listen and focus better.

You need to come over to my place for movie night... no wifi, so no dicking around on the toys

Just dicking around with a qilin!

Hence why on movie night everyone puts their phone in a bowl. Whoever grabs theirs first buys the pizza. Just like I do when at a restaurant with friends. First to grab their phones pays the bill.

Surrounded by telephone zombies.

I sometimes feel embarrass when ever I watch alone with friends or family
kinda weird really I must say x'D

i agreed long ago with my freidns that at movienight teh phones are on alarm, only ringign when special numbers are available and wifi is turned off

it's the same when we go to restaurant, on the dam phones >.<

coffee shops all the time, a couple walks in they sit down and they don't talk or look at each other just text away the whole time >.>

coffee shops all the time, a couple walks in they sit down and they don't talk or look at each other just text away the whole time >.>

All those phones. O.O

hell yes, I damn hate when this happens ;w;

People need to lay off those phone addictions!

Turn off damn phones!

For every second you stare at your phone instead of the movie is a second I get to plan on destroying you for being a bad friend and lousy movie buddy.

I'll watch with you. I am down for almost any movie.

My cell phone is not more important than watching a movie with my friends.

*turns off movie. . . no one notices. tosses popcorn into the air and watches it fall on everyone. . . no one notices. chloroforms them one by one and turns off their phones and hides them in a kitchen drawer. . . the police are called because everyone on their friends lists notices*

that's why whenever I want to watch a movie, I'll try to make it so that we are watching something new and is only available in theatre so they can't randomly start playing with the cellphone.

Been there, got driven nuts by it.

Because they're the first to complain they don't know what's going on.

Solution: watch movies by yourself and have no friends. then you get to eat all the popcorn,

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

In cases like this, I usually turn off the movie, then turn on the lights, and wander off to the comp to write. Especially if I'm hosting.
If I'm a guest, and the movie's a bore, i comment that it's something I'm not interested in, and simply leave instead of drag out the uncomfortable feeling between myself and the host.

1) This is one of the minor reasons I don't have nor want a cell phone or iFad. (The main reason is that I hate talking on a phone.)

2) This is also one of the minor reasons why I don't do movie nights with other people. (I don't want to risk watching things I don't like.)

3) This is another reason why I don't socialize much. I'm ignored all the time anyway. Why should I attend a social "event" where I'm still ignored?

*lowers ears*

Tch. This is part of the reason I HATE cell phones and REFUSE to ever get one...

You see, when you're hanging out with friends, you're supposed to interact with each other, not just occupy the same space. I'm definitely guilty of checking my phone, but not glued to it like I've seen others.

erf... that sucks. but at least in this case he got them to the same location...

sometimes it's hard to even manage to do THAT these days.

Life is full of busy it seems....

*eyetwitches in rage*

OMG that's the worst D: It's not just movie night neither. Literally almost every function of life can be replaces with a room of people staring at their phones these days.

Awww dats saaaads D:

Seeing it in art form just makes it even more upsetting.

way too often...

ouch

I'd never do that. Until recently I never even owned a cellphone.

Of course, I don't have any friends to watch movies with either.

Or talking, eating, hanging out and pretty much everything else. For that amount of scocial enjoyment I can sit allone in my home. Its sickening how isolated we've become from the tec that is marketed to keeping us closer!

all of my friend, if we all watch movie at movie night
just a 1-2 of we watch it, and the 7 is just like to see there phone
we all hate it

My feeling to everything when I'm with friends. ;n;

oh wait... the ones I am friends with live in different states then me. T~T

It's rude to have your cell phones on in the theatre.

Nice try! But that never happen to me! I don't have friends! èwé/ ... o_o/ ... ;n;/
XD More seriously that's very adorable. And a bit true. :)
Nice work. :D

*taptaps clicks webpages randomly*

O sry there, I missed your picture about movies because I was busy playing Fallout Shelter on my phone as it scrolled by. >.>

SO TRUUUUUE QWQ

that is so true.....

I wanna give him hugs so much

This makes me sad, mostly because I have been the person in the middle so often and seen this happen way too much.

Yep, this sort of thing drives me spare, depending on which part of the movie it is.

SOLUTION TO THIS PROBLEM.

Announce as the movie is starting that no cell phones are allowed. If the movie is not being streamed online, TURN OFF YOUR WIRELESS ROUTER UNTIL THE MOVIE IS OVER. If you catch anyone using their phone, CONFISCATE WITH EXTREME PREJUDICE.

Maybe your friends might be a little peeved that you actually want them to watch the movie on movie night, but if they're actual friends, they'll understand. if all else fails pelt them with couch cushions to distract them from their phones. x3

i have a policy about cellphones during moving night.
they either go in a box by the door, or you dont get to come to movie night.

I'm guilty of this...my boyfriend pointed it out to me and we have a rule that the phone is muted and on the counter out of reach so I can't reach it.

I'm lucky enough to have awesome friends who hate taking out their phones when their hanging out with me

This is the time to change the movie to something you actually want to see, and wait until someone notices.
It doesn't really change the situation, but it's something to do.

I'd really love to know where you get these inspirations from!

That's the 21st century in a nutshell. :P

I'm guilty of doing that during movies way too much. I have difficulty doing anything without being distracted by Twitter and Telegram, and when I don't have my phone on me, I become antsy and irate. Worse than back when I quit smoking

God damn it it's true.... I maybe using my phone often but not during watching a movie. This is so sad but very deep true.

I admit with ao much envy that I do that and I feel bad about it now.

Am I the only person who's fine with this? I'm not really social myself, and when I'm visiting my cousin, our idea of hanging out is sitting next to each other on the couch on different electronics. And we're fine with it. It's how we bond.

The only time I find phones to be an issue when with friends is if we're playing DnD and they're getting themselves killed or slowing us down because they were too busy checking their phones to pay attention.

That moment when you realize you don't have any friends to get annoyed at in the first place.

#blessed

This is sadly what the world if devolving into... and not just movies but dinners, hanging out, everything, even time with family.
It's disgusting!

True... :( They missed an few awesome scenes.

All your chibis are so saaad! QnQ
I just wanna hug em!
You send really good messages though.

Had this happen to me in my Sci-Fi Club.

I showed off Terminator, the ORIGINAL Terminator, one of my favorite film series, figuring a Science Fiction Club that frequently got into arguments and discussions about everything from cyborgs, the apocalypse, ninjas, pirates, and all that stuff, would be all over it. I was so excited to show it off!

Instead, every single person had their face buried in a laptop or a Magic game. :(

Really felt underappreciated...

Bah!

Sadly I can agree with this, my husband shows his phone more attention than he does me a lot of the time.

I know the feeling....

yeah I getcha.. D: i invite my friends and/or family to a movie i think they'll love and they either talk to themselves in the middle of it, walking off to do other things, go on other electronics, and the most commonly.. falling asleep during the middle of it >.< sometimes snoring louder than the movie playing and i'm like "psst, wake up we're getting to the best part" or "hey could you not snore so loud..? -_-;"

some don't even care enough to go "hey could you pause it for me? i just need to do a few things, i wont be long", i mean i would do that because i'm interested in the movie and don't really wanna miss it, but i might need to use the bathroom or grab more snacks, i love to eat while i watch things i enjoy

i mean the only time i'd go and do other things is because the movie doesn't interest me and i get bored. it's my way of hinting that i don't really like the movie but you can enjoy it if you want to. i mainly do this to boring live action movies as i tend to have more interest in comedy animated movies with epic adventures, i stay and watch through it all if it interests me

Honest question: When this happens, does anyone call them out? Say "hey, wtf are you doing?"
Because it seems like no one ever does, ya'll just complain in private. Say something!