A couple years ago they built a Drafthouse in our area. We went to it and fell in love. This past year we went so often that my husband earned Top Brass in the Victory club. It’s spoiled us away from any other movie theater and made the movie-going experience fun again. I LOVE their strict no-talking policy but I have a question about it. Hoping someone here has experienced someone getting kicked out for talking or texting so they can tell me what it was like.
A few weeks ago I got someone flagged for talking during a movie. They were driving me batty and when I couldn’t stand it anymore I raised a card on them. After reminding them to raise a card if they needed anything (hint: shut your yaps), the waiter just disappeared. By then it was near the end of the movie and the waiter didn’t show his face again until after the movie ended, or I would have raised another card and gotten them kicked out because they kept yapping after he talked to them.
As annoyed as I was with them, I also kind of wondered if getting them kicked out wouldn’t have been just as disruptive. Wouldn’t the waiter/manager have to stop the movie for a few minutes to haul them out of there?
I was at a quote-along movie were a group was escorted out. It was near the beginning, and fairly quiet. No, the movie wasn’t stopped, they were simply walked out, no muss, no fuss.
Just because talking is allowed doesn’t mean you have carte blanche to say whatever whenever. That’s made clear by the emcee at the beginning of every showing.
That said, it’s possible I was at one of the action movies, I do remember it wasn’t an ordinary, brand-new in theaters only movie.
However, I’m guessing the people who are predisposed to blabber on during a movie so much that other people flag them probably aren’t always the kinds of people willing to be escorted out of a theater with no fuss.