To be annoyed I was accused of recording in cinema

[Welcometonewyork]

Yes I was my phone for a short while as I had received an important email. I think if most of been when they came in to do the checks as she looked toward me then the team leader came in and told me to put my phone away. Aibu to think surely they can tell the difference between a person using their phone and recording and it’s a pretty big to accuse someone of it

Exactly this. It's supremely selfish, and self centred, and arrogant to piss around on your phone when the film is running in the cinema. Like you, and your life, and your fucking EMAILS are soooo important. And your right to look at your phone, trumps the rights of everyone in the auditorium who has paid MONEY to enjoy the film.

As has been said, if an important email was expected, OP should not have gone into the film.

If you want to use your phone, get up and leave the cinema. It's incredibly rude to have your screen shining like a beacon while others are trying to concentrate on a film. I had a bloke the other day whose bloody smart watch keep beaming bright white light in my face throughout the film. Immensely irritating and rude.

My favourite telling off experience in a cinema was to a woman who kept playing on her phone in the row in front of me. After 15 minutes I eventually said ‘Could you put your phone away, this is a cinema’. I was met with ‘im only here cause the kids want to be’. ‘Grand, so if your kids want to be here then put your phone away, otherwise you’ll be put out when I complain.’

Absolutely bonkers.

Why, are people not aware its rud eot use a phone at the pics and the dangers of piracy?

I've not been to the pics for years but i recall seeing signs and message before the movie started

Second thread in a couple of days about ignorant phone users in cinemas.

Jesus, just turn it off and put it away for an hour and a half.

If you can't do that, go to a pub instead.

YABVU
You were "on your phone for a short while" due to an important email?
How is it so important that it can't wait 1.5 hours or 2 hours, however long the film is?!
The usher (I'm assuming that's who you mean) isn't a mind reader, if you're on it a while farting about reading emails they're not to know that.
Not to mention you'll be pissing off others in there who've spent good money going to see.a film they've wanted to watch.
Just put your bloody phone away or stay at home and watch it on Netflix or wherever.

This is so strange - people use their phones in the cinema all the time. You must have been holding your phone in a suspicious way (eg held up in an angle that you’re trying to record the screen) for them to have even taken notice.

Yabu to be faffing about with your phone during a cinema showing.

Nobody else there cares how important your email is, just that you were actively impacting their enjoyment of the film.

They told you to put it away because it’s distracting for other people, not because they thought you were recording the screen.

Have better manners next time

I took ds to films when he was young & if I wasn't interested in the film I read my book on my phone with the brightness turned right down or listened to a podcast on my earbuds. Most times we went to the cinema it was nearly empty & I wasn't bothering anyone.

You were being incredibly unreasonable, selfish, and entitled to be using your phone in the cinema. It's not a cheap evening out nowadays and I would be really annoyed if someone was disturbing my enjoyment of the film by having their phone out. There is nothing so important that it can't wait while you're in the cinema - what do you think people used to do before mobile phones were commonplace?

When I worked in a cinema we asked people to put their phones away during the screening because the light was distracting to the other cinema goers. It’s a pretty rude thing to do

I can near enough guarantee that there was someone in there who will have been wanting to launch popcorn at your head or tap you on the shoulder to pack it in but was too polite to say so
If you're not interested in a film, why go?!
Send your kid with someone who is interested in going to see it too or wait until it comes out on Sky Cinema or wherever.
So selfish.

This

YABU

This.

People have no idea how to behave in public these days.

Was this during the actual movie?? 😦

You should have left if you needed to check an email.

Lights on phones are annoying as hell in the cinema even if turned down.

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Just sit through the movie or don't go. Adults are worse than kids these days, honestly!

turn your phone off in the cinema, then you wouldnt have known about an email, important or not.
totally selfish behaviour.

Don't use your phone in the cinema. Then this won't be an issue.

This

Why go somewhere public if you were expecting an 'important email'? Shouldn't you have remained in work, because clearly you need to be available to recieve ooo communications?
People who use phones in the theatre, cinema or in restaurants should be put in a large sack

People looking at phones in the cinema are one of my pet hates. It drives me mad. That bright little screen in a dark room is so distracting. Good for the cinema staff for telling you to put it away.

This.

You should have stepped out to go check your phone. Unless its the ads/trailers it's rude to sit on your phone and impair the film for others, especially as cinema has got so expensive now.