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Denise and I went to see HARRY POTTER & THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX last night -- one of the better HP films, I think, though there are niggling details of the worldbuilding that bother me (for instance, since it's canon that there is a 'truth serum' (a "veritas potion," I believe) in this world, why bother dragging Harry before a court of wizards for using magic in front of muggles and bringing witnesses forward to substantiate Harry's version of the event? Just use the damned truth serum and get the truth -- no need for court, no need for witnesses. For that matter, why keep accusing him of lying about Voldemort's return? Use the serum... I haven't read the books except for the first one so maybe there's an explanation I'm missing, but this makes no internal sense within the movie....)
Anyway... niggles aside, it's a decent movie. But...
About half an hour or so into the film (in a sparsely-filled theater) some guy a few rows back decided to answer his cell phone. It's rude enough that he left his cell on in the theater, but hey, occasionally we all might need to do that to catch a vital call. It was really rude to answer it without leaving the theater first, but we might have forgiven that if it were a ten-second "Look, I'm in the theater and I'll call you back later."
But no. This clown proceeds to have a conversation with the person on the other end. After about a minute or so, I turned around and gave him a loud "Shhh!" He ignored that and kept talking. After another 30 seconds or so, I said (loudly) "Be quiet!" -- and another person further up did the same about ten seconds later when the guy still kept talking. Ironically, the guy kept telling the person on the other end that "You need to stop calling me..."
He continued to talk for another half-minute or so, enough that I was ready to go find a theater attendant, but finally stopped.
I found myself amazed that someone would have such a total disregard for common politeness as to carry on a phone conversation while sitting in a theater. How does someone become that clueless?
The fool was back on his cell phone as soon as the end credits started to roll...
Anyway... niggles aside, it's a decent movie. But...
About half an hour or so into the film (in a sparsely-filled theater) some guy a few rows back decided to answer his cell phone. It's rude enough that he left his cell on in the theater, but hey, occasionally we all might need to do that to catch a vital call. It was really rude to answer it without leaving the theater first, but we might have forgiven that if it were a ten-second "Look, I'm in the theater and I'll call you back later."
But no. This clown proceeds to have a conversation with the person on the other end. After about a minute or so, I turned around and gave him a loud "Shhh!" He ignored that and kept talking. After another 30 seconds or so, I said (loudly) "Be quiet!" -- and another person further up did the same about ten seconds later when the guy still kept talking. Ironically, the guy kept telling the person on the other end that "You need to stop calling me..."
He continued to talk for another half-minute or so, enough that I was ready to go find a theater attendant, but finally stopped.
I found myself amazed that someone would have such a total disregard for common politeness as to carry on a phone conversation while sitting in a theater. How does someone become that clueless?
The fool was back on his cell phone as soon as the end credits started to roll...