To wish people could sit through a film without stuffing their faces

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No problem with people having a bar of chocolate, or quietly eating some popcorn. But people who spend half the film guzzling and slurping and chewing and munching and rustling through paper bags and stinking the place out with greasy hot dogs and stinking nachos drive me mad.

AIBU and trying to deprive people of the full 'cinema experience'?

HarrietKettleWasHere you are my kind of woman. Unless the cheese is stinky!

I hate the smell of popcorn. It does put me off going to the cinema.

YABU, why should anyone forgo the food on offer just because you don't like it?

Too bad for you and the others on this thread, this is the cinema experience! I'm not a hot dog or nacho person myself but they don't bother me.

I do have a friend who only sees films at the local art house cinema because they don't allow any food or drink in the cinema. There is a lovely cafe attached to it though for a snack or meal before/after.

I think YABU

I hate it personally because it's quite distracting. But it's seen as the social norm and the food is sold by the cinema to help them make the profit to keep going. Therefore it's the noise/smell haters who are BU, not those eating.

One of my biggest hates is food in the theatre but that, in my opinion, is not unreasonable because that's still not the social norm (presumably because of fairness to the actors, price of tickets and the louder noise level in the cinema covering the noise.)

Also, I doubt they're 'stuffing their faces' - they're just having a meal/snack.

Bit - it isn't actually up to you to decide what noise is necessary. I think that it is common decency to stop talking and using phones, but why should you be allowed to decide which out of the foods sold at the cinema are allowed?

BitoutofPractice never!

The Stinking Bishop stays at home

Well quite obviously it's not up to me is it? I'm not sure where I said I own all the cinemas and set the rules But I think it's OK to say, on a thread about food in the cinema, that I personally find it annoying, that it detracts from my enjoyment and I find it rather rude. Unless it's up to you what I can and can't post?

Equally irritating are the people who drink a bucket of coke and then keep getting up and down to go to the loo.

It's the smell that gets me. I'm vegetarian and the smell of the hot dogs is enough to make me heave. I refuse to go to the normal cinema now, but go to the Screening Rooms instead. No rustling. No one kicking the back of your chair and no mobile screens that are visible from outer space. It also makes you choose your films wisely as it's so expensive .

Another one. Never understood how people can hear all this guzzling, slurping, insert negative adjective over the volume in cinema. Wish all you want, the cinema sells all the foodstuff and people buy them.

I can hear it expat especially if the person is sitting beside me or behind me.

Stinky hot food shouldn't be allowed in cinemas. And people who can't manage not to go to the toilet for the duration of the film should be shot by a sniper (located at the back of the cinema).

My dad's cinema rules for us when we were little were:

• no hot food (too smelly)
• popcorn is ok but no butter (too smelly)
• non-chewy sweets ok but chew quietly (opal fruits a bit too smelly)
• no chewy sweets
• chocolate ok but we had to pick minstrels out carefully as they rattle together in the packet and are quite noisy. Malteasers were quieter and were encouraged.
• crisps were absolutely banned
• bottles of pop ok, not cups. Small sips only, no slurping.

Heaven forbid that man bother anyone.

If I go to a theatre or a cinema I want to immerse myself in the play/film. Not be brought back down to the everyday reality of being around annoying people. God forbid you should go through a film without stuffing your face.

You are never going to get complete silence in a room full of people

Rubbish. If you go to the ballet or a concert or even the theatre, people sit quietly. It's really frowned upon to make any noise or disruption at all. So why can't we do it at the cinema?

I hate it too, hate the smell and the noise. I find it really distracting. But the cinemas make a lot of profit from food, more than from ticket sales I think, so if they stopped selling food they’d have to increase their prices (and it’s already expensive enough!).

I took DS to the cinema a few weeks ago and someone behind us got bored and started watching a different film on their ipad - at full volume.

The manager refunded our seats but didn't tell the person to turn the ipad off so we left!

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Pisses me off too OP, and this is why I rarely go to the cinema, unless it's on a day off and at 12 midday, and it's really empty. No idea why people cannot sit through a 2 hour film without stuffing their fat faces.

It's one of the reasons I rarely go nowadays, the eating, slurping, rustling, talking, messing with phones, I just can't bear it. I might occasionally go to a very early showing eg 11 am on a Saturday. If nothing else, it's now too expensive to have to put up with all that.

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Stinky hot food shouldn't be allowed in cinemas. And people who can't manage not to go to the toilet for the duration of the film should be shot by a sniper (located at the back of the cinema)."

Yes. Let's exclude people who suffer from incontinence, those with crohn's or IBS, men with prostrate problems, heavily pregnant women, and everyone else who might need to use the toilet during a movie.

I sincerely hope you were being sarcastic throughout the whole post, not just the sniper bit.

I’m surprised you can hear any slurping/munching etc when it’s so loud in there. I don’t notice at all. But fuck me the woman behind us during Paddington 2 talking to her grandchildren the whole way through did my tits in! “Awww that’s sad!/oh look at that girls isn’t that funny?!/oh no he’s in trouble now!” The kids were no bother btw. Yep a running commentary is far worse.

People who are noisy in the cinema are the spawn of Satan! I will sit and eat a bag of pic n mix or popcorn and I am mindful of the fact there are lots of other people around me who have paid good money to be there so I try and be as quiet as I can. I don’t mind the odd bit of hushed chatter or quiet rustling sounds, but when people start having loud conversations, having their phones go off, eating loudly and making no effort to even attempt to be quieter, I feel livid!

Or even.

Oh yeah and don't even get me STARTED on the cunts scrolling through their fucking smart phones! (When the bastard film is on!)