Why are people so gross in the cinema?

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Went to cinema yesterday, was great (though very expensive!). Was quite shocking seeing the mess after. Drink cups all over the floor. Popcorn EVERYWHERE. The majority of rubbish just left strewn all over the seats and the floor. I get it's dark and you might drop a bit of popcorn here or there, but it wasn't even a kids film so no children involved. What is it about the cinema that leaves people thinking it's OK to treat it so badly? There were plenty of bins and someone with a bag collecting rubbish from people at the end...

Its not just cinema. Went to kids footbqll match in a astro pitch. The coffee cups and macdonalds wrapper were disgusting when there was literally two bins at either end of the field

You lot are so miserable re. food in the cinema. "Why do people have to stuff their faces?" It's an expensive treat. When we go to the cinema, the Everyman, we intentionally do NOT eat so as to eat the food there. Everyone else there eats too. "Stuff their faces" is such a revolting way of putting it, lol. I'm a bloody size six and if I want to eat a large popcorn, large ice cream and whatever else - so what. Stay at home if it bothers you rather than going to a place which literally profits nearly solely from its food.

I love Everyman, but I find there can still be people putting their feet on seats, whispering during the film, checking their phone etc.

@Bideshi interesting you say that. When I was a child we used to go to a Saturday morning film club. It was a very old cinema and had a sort orchestra pit place in front of the screen. We used to see mice running about in there all the time. Food wasn’t really available in the cinema those days. Maybe an ice cream from the usherette at evening performances. I don’t know what those mice lived on!

Yup. I used to work at a cinema when I was a student and the sheer amount of rubbish left behind was staggering. And not just food, we found a dirty nappy under a seat because someone couldn't be bothered to use the baby change facilities. A condom. People were sick and didn't tell anyone. Alcohol bottles etc and the amount of people who would turn up with pizza/kfc/mcdonalds and then be annoyed when we told them you can't take hot food in was insane. It's the only socially acceptable place to chuck food and drink everywhere

I love Everyman, but I find there can still be people putting their feet on seats, whispering during the film, checking their phone etc.

Yes and the pizza is annoying

I dont know but it seems some people don't take pride in their environment or value their community spaces. Silly really as we all have to share it and it Spoils it for everyone, including them! If they were forced to tidy their own mess up at the end, they'd likely be more thoughtful!

Most people are fucking cunts

Yeah they announce it at the end of the film.

when I used to go I'd have a carton of 🍿 so not practical to take home (if not going straight home) but I'd always find a bin, but on leaving they always asked us not to & to just put it on the floor. I suppose they have people to deal with it & don't want their other bins filled up & need to be emptied ?!

thats 2 different 'Vue' ones & an odeon.

i used to live near an independent in a pretty high street of a small village which sold 'classy' snacks & alcohol or coffee in cups!! I miss going there.

In ours the popcorn is all over the stairs when you go in, is grim. I just dont understand it all other than concluding that people willfully chuck it about .

I don't think the majority of it ends up on the floor because it's been thrown, just dropped in the dark or accidentally kicked over when placed on the floor AS ASKED.

what''s iit to you?

@EvilsElsasPetSnowman

you really don't need to. They use industrial machinery to do it, and the tiny amount you pick up will make no difference! I wouldn't be putting my hands on the floor there!!

I keep thinking of getting the membership. Especially because you can take a friend on a Monday for free it would be so nice to have a regular trip with 11yo DD! Do you find you get use out of it?

It’s the Britishness in me I just hate the thought of other people cleaning my mess even if it’s easier

I was going to say this. It's just the current culture of having a permanent drink/snack in your hand. No wonder most people are overweight. I can survive 2 hours in a cinema without stuffing my face - especially at their prices.

I'd have just moved, I'd have assumed one or both of them needed the commentary.

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I haven't been to the cinema since before covid. I cannot stand people using their phones or lots of people talking & that's what everyone's complaining about & there hasn't been anything I'm so desperate to see before I can stream it. I miss the cinema popcorn though!!

Well, many people have fallen for all the marketing that goes along with public cinema viewing and just "have to" have popcorn and a massive drink simply becaues they're at the cinema. I don't tend to go to the cinema at meal times so I have never seen the point of big buckets of popcorn just because "it's what you do, innit".

I'm sorry but I wasn't brought up like that and would need a gun at my head to leave my mess on the floor.

What has your size got to do with anything? I object to the noise that people make, whilst eating their giant sized snacks, and drinks, which will obviously take longer to consume. I care not if they are a size 6, 10, 12, or 22.

I will never forget the noise of people munching and unwrapping sweets in a scene where a woman gets viciously whipped in 12 years a slave. I was nearly sick.

What a strange, miserable thread. At our cinema you order drinks and food at your seat then leave rubbish on the floor afterwards. Even in the 80s people were munching popcorn at the cinema its a nice treat!

I go to Cineworld most Saturdays and have never heard it announced before or after the film so it must just be general knowledge for the viewing elite.

I took my 4yo DD to see Moana 2 on Friday morning and went to see Wicked with my friend last night.

As you can imagine the Moana 2 screening had loads of little kids. Not once did I hear one of them shouting or anything like that unless it was an exciting bit or cheering Moana / Maui on or gasping when something went wrong, just the odd whisper and the odd parent taking their LO to the loo and at the end, I could hardly see any mess at all.

Wicked on the other hand, filled with adults was absolutely fucking shocking! Phones out constantly, talking / shouting at each other, a good few were clearly drunk and were singing along like a fucking cats choir with a bit of bad dancing/ drunk swaying thrown into the mix and my god the mess!! Absolutely filthy animals!!! Honestly, give me a film filled with LO’s over grown adults any day!!

Considering there are people on this thread saying "no wonder most people are overweight" - that's why I mentioned my size. "Stuff their faces" is such a gross way of describing someone indulging at a rare treat. If you object to the noise, don't go to a cinema that serves food. They rely on people eating these "giant sized snacks" to actually stay open!