If you want to mindlessly second-screen a movie while you scroll, respect. But why not save yourself $25 by doing it at home on your couch and leave the rest of us in peace?

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y favourite thing to do is go to the movies with a large-pour glass of wine and a bag of Burger Rings. Aided by two standard drinks and the best chip product on the market, I sit back and blissfully dissociate to the magic of cinema, the outside world falling away.

Unless, that is, someone sitting near me feels the need to pick up their phone.