Why are people so gross in the cinema?

[Raffaelli]

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...

or maybe some people could be more mindful of others, and open their packets of whatever rubbish they have purchased before the film actually begins, and try to eat more quietly.

"Whatever rubbish" you sound like such a snob. Cinemas are about films and fun novelty snacks, have been for a long time. If you hate that people pay for the services a cinema literally offers, watch the film at home?

"Fun novelty snacks" @tenenbaums I must have missed that part is essential to sitting, and watching a film for a couple of hours. My bad.

We went yesterday for the first time in ages and the state of the building was absolutely disgusting - rubbish everywhere, someone had vomited in the corridor and they just stuck a cleaning sign over it (still there when we left 2 hours later) the toilets were filthy. It really put me off going back. Is it the broken windows theory - if it’s dirty and messy people are even more rank and careless than they would otherwise be and it spirals rapidly? Back to Prime and Netflix in my own house for me!

It is no doubt the same scruffbags who just drop their litter in the street.

Oh ffs! I want to go and see Conclave next week. I'll have to borrow DH's bicycle clips.

Oh come on , all those saying why do you need to eat and drink while at the cinema, that is probably the best part of it!! Most people don't eat popcorn/ sweets / fizzy drinks every day so it's a treat to do it when going to the cinema. I think it would be boring if we couldn't eat and drink.

Also I always put mine in the bin on the way out and keep everything together so nothing spills. Can't understand people who seem to chuck their food everywhere.

I hate the cinema for this reason and for the noisy eaters. It’s just not enjoyable.
You see the same mess on planes. I never understand how people can be so dirty and slobbish.

Going back years and years and years and...

It has always been thus

No idea why they don't put bins at the end of the rows

I never understand why people need to eat when at the cinema. I go to watch a film not stuff my face.

I really do not care if people want to eat their bodyweight in snacks as long as they're not rustling wrappers or eating crunchy foods.

I went to the cinema yesterday for the first time in an age and my fellow cinemagoers behaved impeccably.

During my last cinema visit, I noticed the seat in the row in front of me had been taped off. Whoever had been sat there had at some point, had been ripping huge chunks of foam out of the seat. I know the snacks can be expensive, but come on....

@EvilsElsasPetSnowman yes definitely, I do the £350 a year one, I go every three weeks on average. I've got 2 young adult DC and one of them (at least) comes along whenever I go. Sometimes I might take a friend instead if the kids aren't interested in a film, usually on a Monday or Wednesday to get a free friend ticket but not always on those days. My local one is quite a sociable place and I've got to know a few people over the years.

I'm not a huge fan of the food menu generally, but we often share the small plates and DC like a sundae.

Our local Vue also asks you to leave rubbish behind so they can recycle it.

That makes sense.
The popcorn all over the floor... not so much.

I work for an airline and i think exactly the same after a flight. Some people are worse than animals.

Went yesterday. The room stank of farts and by the time we left it looked like people had had a food fight in there. £30 to sit in a rank smelling room to watch computer generated stuff. Not any more.

Feel sorry for the kids that have to clean that up.

There's something farty about cinema popcorn.

@SnoopySantaPaws there are audio described showings at the cinema of the films if one of them needed the commentary. No need for a DIY one. I asked them to be quiet and they did stop it. Why should I move from the seat that I booked to sit next to my DH? I also would have been disturbing other film goers in the process of moving during the film to find a free seat in the darkness.

I don't 'stuff my face', but I do eat my body weight in popcorn, they sell it, it's legal, it doesn't make a noise...

I didn't know eating popcorn & watching a film was such a talent when I can do both easily. 💁🏻‍♀️

(pre covid a couple of times a year, not since 2019.)

It’s not just there… People leave hotel rooms trashed, theatres, aircraft - you name it. People are fucking disgusting and utterly disrespectful.

Cinemas are just vile in every way nowadays, it's not surprising they're shutting down.

It's so grim, how is this all allowed to be seen as ok? Yuk!

Never noticed when I went yesterday. I took our rubbish to the bin. Popcorn is pretty messy