Manners at the Cinema

[TwixOwl]

We went to the cinema the other day.

I am noticing that people's manners at the cinema in recent years has really declined.

Adults talking loudly throughout, loud drinks and snacks, kids running around, litter everywhere, phones on, farting, people in/out multiple times, clapping and cheering.

I'm certain in the old days a staff member was standing to attention with the torch of shame pointing at you for doing anything wrong.

What's going on?

It's a bloody nightmare!!

I've had to ask people to stop talking, stop throwing popcorn, stop texting....

It drives me absolutely mad! Why pay all that money to go to the cinema and then talk/text all the way through it?!

I go to the cinema alot I now go during day time or around 4pm or 4pm to avoid the crowds and I don't go on opening week I wait.

Feom my experiences I feel it's the generation below me ( im millennial) who display this behaviour the most. They just don't care and I'd you challenge them they get really aggressive.

I went a few weeks ago and it was manic. Someone had a child in a pushchair on the stairs (next to the seats) and one woman took a call on her phone in the middle of the film 🤯

This is why the ONLY cinema we will go to now is one of those swanky ones with chairs and tables and sofas. People are really well behaved there.

Our local one is the same. The drinks are ’refillable’ too so you’ll get people going in and out to top up. I love my fizzy drinks but you don’t need 2 helpings in the space of one movie! They all need the toilet then too.

We have the monthly pass and try to go Sunday afternoons, or Monday-Wednesday as early as possible, it’s usually quieter.

It's one of the negatives I think from the pandemic when all entertainment was viewed at home.

As you book online, it is probably difficult if not impossible for you to be banned as could have been the case when you just turned up at a counter. So there are limited consequences if any.

Only go to the posh ones now as the behaviour is so irritating.
I do think the cinemas have a responsibility to have an old fashioned usher in each screen considering people are paying to go there.
It shouldn't be up to the customers to go and find a member of staff to deal with antisocial behaviour.

I agree, the posh ones or the very early showings are the only decent ones.

The saddest thing is, this was the posher one with the luxury reclining sofas!

I've noticed it from people of all ages myself. It's weird, I bet most of these 60 somethings, as an example, wouldn't have behaved like that in the cinema as say 30 somethings. People as a whole seem to give less of a shit about behaving themselves.

It drives me mad. I’ve got an unlimited pass so try to go every week, I’ve changed jobs and can now only go at weekends and the difference to mid week is unbelievable! I had to move seats last week as the guy in front was doing enormous burps whilst watching YouTube on his phone, teenagers kept running in and screaming. I went to the loo afterwards and they’d stuffed tissue in the sinks so they’d flooded.

I meant the ones with sofas and at-seat service - Picturehouse, Everyman etc. The chains with recliner seats are just as noisy and disrupted as the regular ones in my experience

It's just so annoying!

I only go to the Queens Film Theatre in Belfast beside Queens University. It's the only cinema I know where people respect each other and, thankfully, they don't sell popcorn or any other of that overpriced crap the multiplexes do.