From the “you must be joking department” comes the revolutionary Regal Guest Response System. Sounds like something Homeland Security came up with. It’s a freaking pager people. The idea being, a select person would get to be a member of the movie police in the audience, just like an air marshal on flights. (Maybe DHS did hatch this idea.) Like, if someone’s too loud, or the film is blurry, sound is bad, whatever; you page a member of the staff and they’ll come running. WTF? Let me repeat: WTF? By the time you have to page someone because they won’t shut up, the movie is ruined. By the time you have to page someone for poor audio, the movie is ruined. I’m all for improved customer service, but most theatres have digital sound and audio so I don’t see a problem there. As for loud patrons? Me telling someone to be quiet works better than a pager anyday.How about we page someone every five minutes and bitch about soda prices or why there’s 20 commercials before the movie even starts?
(via Drudge)
4 comments:
What makes it even more ridiculous is the fact that they refer to it as a "high-tech" device. I'm pretty sure this technology has been around for decades.
Yeah, Applebee's uses it to page you when your table is ready.
And patients to page nurses to their hospital beds. =P
This is almost as bad as the lecture the theater got this past Monday when I went to see a movie.
You would be kicked out of the theater if someone saw your cell phone open.
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