I'm an avid fan of Marvel and I look forward to each new movie that comes out. After waiting MONTHS to finally see Iron Man 3, someone had the audacity to not turn their phone off. And I'm not just talking about they were checking twitter during the previews, their phone went off and continued ringing 15 minutes into the actual movie itself. When they got a phone call and their phone kept ringing in the the MIDDLE of the movie, I told them to turn it off. Because you should at the very least put your phone on silent if you aren't going to turn it off.
Then this woman decided to talk to the employees and I was told to leave. Because I don’t like it when I am watching a movie that I have been looking forward to for months and having it interrupted by someone not turning their phone off. How is that okay!? How is it okay to kick out the person that was watching the movie, phone off, and let the person that can’t follow basic movie rules stay?? Why was she not also asked to leave?
The manager on duty kept trying to pull the "you just don't know how they could react" bullshit but that is a weak excuse to ask me to leave and her to stay. He kept trying to say that I should have just gone straight to the employees and asked for her to leave. But I didn't care if she stayed as long as her phone was off. And guess what? If I had to leave to go talk to an employee about her interrupting the movie, I would still have missed part of the movie. I will never be going to see another movie at AmStar Cinemas ever again.
Not all was lost because I did immediately turn around and go to a different movie theatre. So I did still get to see it opening weekend. And it was a great movie.
