AMC Theatres allowing texting

There's...so many things wrong with this that I'm leaving the thread with that.

I guess I'm playing devil's advocate here, to a certain degree.

There seems to be a misunderstanding of what they're trying to do. Granted, I'm not defending the idea outright. I think it's dumb, but not for the reasons you guys seem to be thinking. It's more dumb for the theater owners, from a business stand point. They didn't say they were changing the rules for cell phone use. They said they would try opening specific auditoriums that would allow cell phone use. Maybe it would even be like a once a week or once a month type of deal. For a comparison (although more understandable), some theaters do set aside auditoriums for families to talk/sing, have the lights up and the audio level adjusted. It allows families with autistic children (or just general noisy children) to go see a movie without affecting the rest of the general movie going public. Funny enough, cell phone use is allowed in these cinemas as well, for obvious reasons.

The reason it's dumb for theater owners, is because the people who are annoying and inconsiderate enough to use their cell phones to begin with, are probably not going to think about whether or not they should make sure to buy tickets for those specific auditoriums. It wouldn't affect most of us even if they try it out. In their mind, it would help with the rest of us, in hopes that those who want to use cell phones while watching a movie, they will go see their movie in said auditoriums, so they aren't with the rest of us. It would probably be in some of their smallest auditoriums, because it wouldn't prove to be popular at the end of the day. What theaters who try it will find, is that few people will purchase tickets for it and it will lead to mostly empty auditoriums. People who are inconsiderate with their cell phone use are not going to be considerate enough to go out of their way to buy tickets for these specific shows.

I don't think it will work, but there's no real harm in them giving it a go. Going by their point of view, if by some bizarre reason it proved to be a success, it would help the rest of us by removing some of the cell phone using crowd in movies that we see.

The people that are dumb enough to not tell the difference, aren't going to be going out of their way to buy for these experimental auditoriums to begin with.

Either way, it's unlikely to work or spread. If they end up making less money by occupying an auditorium that they could have normally sold regular tickets for, theater owners and GMs are not going to like it.

Not sure how that's gonna help.

But are they saying I can't sell my AMC nfts without them getting a cut of the sale?

Yikes.