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ChadTower:
I'd put hard cash on the likelihood that less than half the people in there surrendered their phone anyway.  It's not like they can pat people down to go see Star Trek.

EDIT:  a thought occurs... if the point is to avoid cam torrent releases... are there really cell phones that can capture 2 hours of video content now?

patrickl:

--- Quote from: ChadTower on May 15, 2009, 01:05:19 pm ---Man, the info theft potential on a lot of peoples' phones is incredible.  Extend it out to Crackberries... now you have a full inbox, personal or corporate, as well as everything you could need for identity theft.  I'm surprised people would just willingly give their phones to some teenager with a cardboard box.

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There were security guards with bodyguards taking the phones away.

I didn't have a phone on me so I just walked straight through. To be honest, I probably could have done the same if I did have a phone. They never laid a hand on me and I didn't see a scanner either.

I guess most people were just too stunned to think it over too much. My GF was going to walk in right behind me, but she chickened out and handed her phone in anyway. I don't think her phone can even record movies at all.


--- Quote from: saint on May 15, 2009, 02:44:44 pm ---There's no way in Hades I'd have surrendered my phone to them. And if they hadn't posted a sign out front before I bought my tickets that they were doing it, I'd have 1) ignored them and walked in with my phone, and if they tried to stop me 2) made a big fuss with the management, demanded a refund, and made a general ass of myself.


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Well it was a premiere. I guess the alternative options would be to walk through or walk away, but most people probably just rather went in to see the movie.

The VIPs just walked straight in. Of course they didn't hand over their phones.



--- Quote from: ChadTower on May 15, 2009, 03:27:14 pm ---I'd put hard cash on the likelihood that less than half the people in there surrendered their phone anyway.  It's not like they can pat people down to go see Star Trek.

EDIT:  a thought occurs... if the point is to avoid cam torrent releases... are there really cell phones that can capture 2 hours of video content now?

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Indeed, it made no sense at all. Even if a phone can capture a whole movie, the quality is going to be nothing but a moving blur with crappy mono audio.

To be honest, maybe the reason was something else, but I cannot imagine what. I didn't talk to them and my GF didn't really understand what the security people said. Just that they wanted her phone.

Oddly enough before the movie started there were 2 clips remembering us to switch off our phones.

SithMaster:
The movie was quite good.  My knowledge of star trek is probably far more limited than most here but I thought that red shirt death was pretty epic.

Quick questions:

How many movies does this make with the Romulans as the bad guys?

When will star fleet use atmospheric fighters?  Seriously shoot the fragile looking chain with spikes on it with something.

After the Kelvin was decimated why wasn't a fleet dispatched to its last location to retaliate?

Concerning this phone collection gestapo nonsense perhaps it is their intention to steal private info?  Wouldn't be the first time an employee/management did something corrupt.

danny_galaga:

--- Quote from: patrickl on May 15, 2009, 08:51:15 am ---Can you remove popcorn from someones throat with a cell phone that has a connection? Only then?

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 :laugh2:

patrickl:
I missed this earlier, but apparently they are already working on a sequel.

Guardian: Star Trek sequel greenlit before new film's release


--- Quote ---They are aiming to deliver a script by Christmas, with the aim of a summer 2011 release date.
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Box office is already at $79.2M

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