This is really funny – the latest “Don’t let a mobile phone ruin your movie” spoof from Orange. Take a look if you haven’t been to the cinema in the last few weeks. It’s the introduction of a two-minute ‘phone break’ every fifteen minutes during the showing, so that the film is put on pause and you can check your phone. The gushing responses from the audience as they leave are hysterical.
It’s funny because it is so painfully near to the thoughts we almost think. Maybe your child really does need to hear from you every fifteen minutes when you go to the cinema and leave them in the hands of a trusted babysitter? Maybe your friend will think you have died if you don’t call them back within a couple of minutes?
So I wasn’t surprised, a few minutes into Contagion (4/10 – very disappointing), when the guy in front of me pulled out his mobile to reply to a text. The problem is, with smart phones, that his screen was so ‘Amoled Supercharged’ (or whatever the term is) that it seemed to light up the whole cinema and force the rest of us to join in his own personal phone break.
I’d better stop, before I start sounding like ‘Disgruntled from Tunbridge Wells’.
Yes I saw this t’other eve, very funny
Being a technophobe I under utilise my iphone. I turn my phone on silent when I go to Mass in the morning and always simply forget to turn it back on. Sometimes until the following morning. :O)
It’s the only way. It silently vibrates when it wants me, And I respond when and as I am in tune with its vibrations. People who used to despair of me astonishingly quickly got used to communicating with me when my apple and I are in sinc. And that is just how I like it.
you may already be aware of the Wittertainment Code of Conduct – but just in case… http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00lvdrj
Tony
No I hadn’t seen this! Thanks
Reading this reminds me of a colleague who, when asked what we did before we had mobile phones replied “We had a life”.
I think it’s nice to be able to relax and turn my mobile off. The problem is that noone else agrees; I’m expected to be contactable 24/7. I value the times when I have to recharge the battery!