Alamo Drafthouse Films’ Tim League Disses Texting in Movie Theaters

The Alamo Drafthouse is one of the world’s coolest movie theaters, a place where the cinematic experience comes first and a love of film seems to spill through the entire establishment. They also famously have a strict no talking/texting policy that they actually enforce, unlike most movie theaters which are either too scared or too lazy to do anything about disruptive audience members. The Drafthouse’s tactics sometimes lead to hilarious results, but founder Tim League isn’t laughing today. He’s just posted a blog entry laying out his thoughts against “texting friendly” theater screenings, and he makes some great points. Read on! The Wrap’s Chris Davison wrote an article proposing the idea of introducing “texting friendly” showings of certain films in movie theaters across the country, and NATO (National Association of Theater Owners) passed the article around to their members presumably in an effort to convince some of them to give it …