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'?

This is my local cinema that serves food and cocktails...it's got great space between seats so you don't get all the noise etc.
www.stellatheatre.ie

I agree @noeffingidea the rest of us didn't snack (I did steal a Haribo) but if it means youngest sits still and quiet then I'm for it as the rest of us can watch the film without her chatting and fidgeting. Although this was her first trip for a good few months and she sat really well so I think the 'snack phase' will be ending soon.

Hello to Jason isaacs. Soft bread rolls all round!

There have been umpteen threads on this on MN over the years. They're always the same. It appears that everyone's cinema experience is entirely full of starved pigs (excepting the posters, naturally) in people costumes who are being binge fed by the farmer with a film in the background. Everyone is guzzling, crunching, rattling, insert negative adjective.

I don't understand why no one seemingly ever petitions the cinema chains to offer snack/drink free screenings. Why not? Groups I'm involved with have managed to secure autism friendly screenings at two local cinemas (no trailers, volume stays the same and is lowered for the screening, lights not fully out, etc). Why don't all these offended patrons start banding together and putting pressure on cinemas to offer food/drink free screenings?

expatinscotland the petition for autism friendly screenings increases profit by making the cinema accessible to a new audience who wouldn't already go. Parents are rightly passionate about enabling their kids to access normal life experiences like the cinema and reducing barriers to disability.

The potential petition for snack free filming would lose the cinema vast amounts of money. The people who would organise that petition simply don't care enough. They either go anyway, and grumble but tolerate it as price of admission to the expedience, or they don't go to the cinema at all. Few people are passionate enough about wanting to attend a snack free movie to create a petition, especially when there's zero chance of it working as the cinema is actively disincentivised to provide snack free showings.

It may seem like a similar situation with a similar solution but clearly, if you think a little further, it is not.

It isn't just about an age divide. We do screenings for those 60+ where free popcorn is available and the takeup is amazing (the cleanup less so).

I'll eat my own body weight in nachos if I won't and none of you are going to persuade me otherwise. People who are constantly up and down to the toilet, on the other hand...

The potential petition for snack free filming would lose the cinema vast amounts of money. The people who would organise that petition simply don't care enough. They either go anyway, and grumble but tolerate it as price of admission to the expedience, or they don't go to the cinema at all.

I only go for movies I really want to see on the big screen. Otherwise I wait for them to come round on Sky. So I go less often than I would if the experience was less smelly and crunchy/rustly.