To be fair, why can’t there be texting phones which are quiet and dim enough to be undetectable to a fellow movie patron who is focused on watching the SCREEN and not the AUDIENCE? Many of them go clickclickclick boobala-boobala-boobala and have screens that dazzle neighbors in a dark room, but there is no engineering reason a phone must be that way.
If there were a phone that didn’t glow as you texted, it might be a different story, but I haven’t see one that doesn’t. If it didn’t, I wonder if you’d be able to read the text in the first place.
“To be fair, why can’t there be texting phones...?”
Are you there to watch a movie or text and/or talk on the phone?
Maybe movie theaters should have a sealed, sound proof section in the back of each movie viewing room for all the obnoxious people who are loud, text and talk on their cellphones, smoke and the like.