You do sound like a nut. Watching fireworks is not stargazing, it's never that dark to begin with. And unless you're in NYC on the 4th of July, it's not that ha

You do sound like a nut. Watching fireworks is not stargazing, it's never that dark to begin with. And unless you're in NYC on the 4th of July, it's not that hard to find a spot a few feet away from someone with a camera and ignore them. And yes, cell phones at the movies are annoying. Sometimes people are annoying. If they didn't have cell phones, they would talk, or open loud snacks, or something. It's not a sacred temple, it's a movie theater, get over it.