Let's All Go To The Lobby (Eating At the Cinema)

Motley Crue

I used to work as an Usher years ago in two cinemas picking up garbage and mopping spilt Cola in two different countries, and both sets of customers had different attitudes to what they brought in (you'd be amazed what people will leave for you to find in a cinema) and this differed from day to night, weekday to weekend, busy film to quiet film....the children always made the place worse, but that's another argument.

How do you feel about people who eat in the cinema during a performance? We're not talking a film festival or important film, anything like that, your average run of the mill night out at the movies?

Do you believe that everyone should have their food finished by the time the trailers have concluded and the main presentation is about to begin? Do you know anyone who sits patiently waiting until the actual feature has begun to start snacking on their Hot Dog or Nacho's?

On the subject of cinema food, do you simply refuse to pay cinema prices for food every single time, make the odd exception depending on whether you just can't go without that pick and mix (or you want to impress someone on a first date) or are you the kind of person who, regardless, nips to the local Lidl just before the film begins and stocks up on sweet wrappers and candy at low low prices.

The King of Moo

If I'm watching a blockbuster, I have to have my popcorn, and I'm actually very fussy about waiting till the film to actually start to start eating, in case I finish the popcorn long before the film finishes.
I do try to eat it quietly though and always put my rubbish in the bin.

I hate people eating nachos though, the smell is too strong!

RedXIV

Its not a proper cinema if the floor isn't sticky

stupidusername

now i've that song in my head....

who on earth would finish their junk before the film starts? maybe i annoy a lot of people, but i munch the whole way through a film. though not with some stinky food like nachos. eating doesn't generally annoy me at the cinema. people on phones... now there's a different story.

...to get ourselves some snacks...

FatherLen

i dont give a crap if people eat in the cinema as long as i cant hear them or(if its tuna, i know tuna is a very weird thing to bring to the cinema but ya never know) smell it.

Mr Freeze

Nope, the misses has to have a large popcorn and the pours a bag of malteasers in on top of it, and shakes it up, all before the film starts.

Tis funny when you hear people trying to open a bag of sweets as silently as they can when the film has started and then it busts and the sweets go every where...followed by a whispered "for f**ks sake!" .

GLaDOS

I find eating at the cinema unnecessary, and certainly refuse to pay ridiculous prices in the cinema. Haven't eaten in the cinema in years.

Also:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wev6UaQKtAc

Mr Freeze

Reminds me of Alan in Two and A Half Men* bringing in Deviled Eggs that supposedly stank into the cinema, the cheap fecker.

*Sorry, ya I used to watch it.

Captain Darling

Mr Freeze wrote: »

Tis funny when you hear people trying to open a bag of sweets as silently as they can when the film has started and then it busts and the sweets go every where...followed by a whispered "for f**ks sake!" .

And then you sit on one and walk out of the cinema with a big chocolate stain on your ass and get the piss ripped out of you. :mad:

krudler

I dont mind it so much unless people have gigantic tubs of popcorn and nachos, ffs its a 90 minute movie you're going to starve unless you can consume a weeks worth of popcorn in one sitting. I used to work in a cinema briefly one summer and its a pretty sh1t job cleaning up after a few hundred people decide the best place to leave their rubbish is on the floor or stuff into the seats, people are animals.

Frank Black

Mr Freeze wrote: »

Nope, the misses has to have a large popcorn and she pours a bag of malteasers in on top of it, and shakes it up, all before the film starts.

Tis funny when you hear people trying to open a bag of sweets as silently as they can when the film has started and then it busts and the sweets go every where...followed by a whispered "for f**ks sake!" .

Good God Man!

UglyBolloxFace

Motley Crue wrote: »

I used to work as an Usher years ago in two cinemas picking up garbage....

I stopped reading at this.

I don't care if you're actually North American, but just don't use that word here please.

krudler

black francis wrote: »

Good God Man!

maltesers in popcorn is the food of the gods

Teyla Emmagan

I have often felt very sorry for the cleaning staff when the lights come on at the end of the movie.

People really are disgusting.

stupidusername

Mr Freeze wrote: »

Nope, the misses has to have a large popcorn and the pours a bag of malteasers in on top of it, and shakes it up, all before the film starts.

Tis funny when you hear people trying to open a bag of sweets as silently as they can when the film has started and then it busts and the sweets go every where...followed by a whispered "for f**ks sake!" .

tried the popcorn-maltesers combination, eugh, doesn't go at all.

ScienceNerd wrote: »

I find eating at the cinema unnecessary, and certainly refuse to pay ridiculous prices in the cinema. Haven't eaten in the cinema in years.

prices are ridiculous, especially in dublin. i can't really afford to get much in the cinemas here. i've started bringing stuff in with me.

ronano

I rarely buy cinema food, i bought a large drink yesterday because the shop nearby had no cold drinks. It's overpriced yada yada they got to make their money i guess. I don't mind people eating,drinking whatever really cept mcdonalds/fastfood

Mr Freeze

stupidusername wrote: »

tried the popcorn-maltesers combination, eugh, doesn't go at all.

Have to agree, salt and chocolate, rank!

I just eat the popcorn and the leave the malteasers for herself.

Sooopie

I used to LOVE UCI Tallaght for their cheese nachos - simply all sorts of amazing, so nice to head up there for a good film & nachos

I miss it

Frank Black

I like that you can buy beer at the cinema in Liffey Valley.
Vastly over-priced, but still, watching Senna in the cinema with a cold beer made me feel like a man for a few fleeting moments.

Mr. Manager

Used to work in UCI and both Movies@ and the stuff you'd find afterwards would be ridiculous. People not even opening their sweets or taking a handful of popcorn from the €5 bag :eek:

Not to mention money, phones, umbrellas, handbags, car keys etc.

I'm an avid cinema goer and love the butter popcorn from UCI (half an half) and would eat it non stop through the film .

You'd be doing well to finish a large popcorn combo before the movie starts!

stupidusername

ronano wrote: »

I rarely buy cinema food, i bought a large drink yesterday because the shop nearby had no cold drinks. It's overpriced yada yada they got to make their money i guess. I don't mind people eating,drinking whatever really cept mcdonalds/fastfood

euuwwww who brings in McDonalds!??

Mr Freeze wrote: »

Have to agree, salt and chocolate, rank!

I just eat the popcorn and the leave the malteasers for herself.

oh i'd eat both, just separately.

black francis wrote: »

I like that you can buy beer at the cinema in Liffey Valley.
Vastly over-priced, but still, watching Senna in the cinema with a cold beer made me feel like a man for a few fleeting moments.

i always thought you were a woman.

jester77

I only bring in 2 x 500ml bottles of beer when watching a movie. Hate the digging around for food that goes on. Had a woman beside me last week who was a loud eater and she must have had the crunchiest popcorn in the world. I thought she had a 10kg tub with the amount of crunching she was doing, but it turned out to only be a small tub :eek:

Mr. Manager

stupidusername wrote: »

euuwwww who brings in McDonalds!??

You'd be surprised. I saw the left overs of a chinese one of the days when cleaning the screen

Agricola

Not eating in a packed cinema is kind of like not drinking on a night out. The fact that everyone else is doing it bothers you slightly. Sitting there listening to dozens of people fumbling with sweet wrappers, munching popcorn etc is annoying until you get into the film and forget about it.

Havent done it in years myself. Never saw the fascination with eating a wheelbarrow of popcorn every time you sit down to a film in a cinema. People are very ritualistic creatures I suppose.

Frank Black

stupidusername wrote: »

i always thought you were a woman.

I'm choosing to take this as a compliment

stupidusername

Cereal Rapist wrote: »

You'd be surprised. I saw the left overs of a chinese one of the days when cleaning the screen

ffs. how could you eat anything that requires seeing it?

black francis wrote: »

I'm choosing to take this as a compliment

hmm, ok.

Mickeroo

Rarely buy grub in the cinema, might get a drink the odd time, but the prices are ridiculous. Don't really go for popcorn. Occasionally I'll buy a bag of yellow M&M's and a bag of Hunky Dorys in the petrol station and sneak them in.

Mr. Manager

stupidusername wrote: »

ffs. how could you eat anything that requires seeing it?

This is the main reason I don't get nachos at the cinema! How the hell can you possibly see if you've dunked your chip in the sauce or if you've got too much and a bit is about to fall on your clothes?!

Ticktactoe

I was under some illusion that you were not allowed to bring any food or drink products into the cinema unless they were purchased on the premises?

stupidusername

Cereal Rapist wrote: »

if you've dunked your chip in the sauce

:pac:

sorry, that kinda mood

krudler

Ticktactoe wrote: »

I was under some illusion that you were not allowed to bring any food or drink products into the cinema unless they were purchased on the premises?

lol

Auvers

Mickeroo wrote: »

Occasionally I'll buy a bag of yellow M&M's and a bag of Hunky Dorys in the petrol station and sneak them in.

why sneak them in

I always walk into the cinema swinging my plastic bag full of goodies that I have just bought in Dunnes\Tesco

cosmicfart

id go to the cinema more often if I cud have a nice cold frost beverage were the cola usually goes

Pherekydes

Motley Crue wrote: »

On the subject of cinema food, do you simply refuse to pay cinema prices for food every single time, make the odd exception depending on whether you just can't go without that pick and mix (or you want to impress someone on a first date) or are you the kind of person who, regardless, nips to the local Lidl just before the film begins and stocks up on sweet wrappers and candy at low low prices.

Who buys sweet wrappers? And who calls it candy (bar Americans)?

I only buy stuff when the kids are with me. The cost of stuff is tantamount to robbery.

stovelid

I wouldn't go to the cinema again if I couldn't eat my nachos and rubbery cheese sauce.

mossyc123

Motley Crue wrote: »

I used to work as an Usher years ago in two cinemas picking up garbage and mopping spilt Cola in two different countries,

How do you feel about people who eat in the cinema during a performance? We're not talking a film festival or important film, anything like that, your average run of the mill night out at the movies?

Do you believe that everyone should have their food finished by the time the trailers have concluded and the main presentation is about to begin? Do you know anyone who sits patiently waiting until the actual feature has begun to start snacking on their Hot Dog or Nacho's?

On the subject of cinema food, do you simply refuse to pay cinema prices for food every single time, make the odd exception depending on whether you just can't go without that pick and mix (or you want to impress someone on a first date) or are you the kind of person who, regardless, nips to the local Lidl just before the film begins and stocks up on sweet wrappers and candy at low low prices.

I sincerely hope you are American or spent some of your early life in America.

Frank Black

mossyc123 wrote: »

I sincerely hope you are American or spent some of your early life in America.

or are a member of Jedward.

Mickeroo

Auvers wrote: »

why sneak them in

I always walk into the cinema swinging my plastic bag full of goodies that I have just bought in Dunnes\Tesco

I'm enough of a moron to feel guilty about that kind of thing, and I have an irrational fear they'll take my sweets away.

I also flagellate myself for an hour everytime I download a film. :pac:

emeraldstar

Motley Crue wrote: »

Do you know anyone who sits patiently waiting until the actual feature has begun to start snacking on their Hot Dog or Nacho's?

Yep, I do. I want it to last as long as possible throughout the movie itself. I don't buy hot dogs or nachos though (ew). Popcorn, with the yumminess that is Maltesers or some other chocolate mixed in. Amazing.

Sooopie

I was in the cinema in Cork one time & this aul wan got in and sat behind us, and proceeded to eat a snack box.

padd b1975

I once saw a couple break out a cooked chicken.

plein de force

there was a woman beside me before who had a 2ltr bottle of coke a huge back of doritos then took out a jar of the sauce for them. the way she balanced those 3 was nothing short of olympian skill

RichieC

3 euro for a bottle of water in liffey valley last week... 3 fking euro... 5 quid plus for a crappy little ice cream.

To see a 3d film in the "premium seats" it's 16 euro! inc the classes.

These companies deserve to go down in flames.

Gougery at its finest.

chillywilly

I brought in a double cheese burger from McDonalds before. I have no regrets.

whatcartoget

I don't mind what people eat at the cinema providing they don't spill it on me. Once I was in the cinema in Cork and there was about 15 Spanish students in the cinema and they kept on offering complete strangers sweets and popcorn through the whole movie.
I always get a large coke, a large popcorn and I spend about 6-8euro on pick and mix. The odd time I might get a few scopes of hagen dazs. It wouldn't be the cinema to me without over priced food.

FortuneChip

Went to see Max Payne in Toronto. Brought in a Triple Stacker Meal from BK. It had more substance than the movie.

I find phones going off and people talking a hell of a lot more annoying than people eating. That being said, I've seen the state of some cinema theatres afterwards, and yeah, it seems a lot of people are incapable of eating in the dark...

Sooopie

padd b1975 wrote: »

I once saw a couple break out a cooked chicken.

Jesus Christ!

:eek:

Malari

I get food in the cinema about half the time. If I'm going in the evening after I've eaten dinner I'm not gonna get a load of goodies, but I like popcorn and sometimes pick'n'mix.

I can't wait for the movie to begin though. It's a virtual impossibility to stop eating popcorn once you begin, it's like trying to stop peeing mid-flow. Also if I'm with my boyfriend and I wait until the movie actually starts I won't get anything. :pac:

What really is annoying is people who bring in a bag of sweets in a plastic bag, or popcorn in a foil bag, and decide after a few mouthfuls that they don't want anymore. So they close the bag and crinkle down the top of it to prevent further temptation. But they just can't resist!!! So at 10 minute intervals through the rest of the movie, they noisily open the bag, take ONE sweet, then noisily close the bag again - thinking they are closing the door to temptation...JUST EAT THE DAMN SWEETS, PORKY, STOP FOOLING YOURSELF! :mad:

Celly Smunt

RichieC wrote: »

3 euro for a bottle of water in liffey valley last week... 3 fking euro... 5 quid plus for a crappy little ice cream.

To see a 3d film in the "premium seats" it's 16 euro! inc the classes.

These companies deserve to go down in flames.

Gougery at its finest.

you still bought it,you deserve to go down in flames.

Wolflikeme

emeraldstar wrote: »

Yep, I do. I want it to last as long as possible throughout the movie itself. I don't buy hot dogs or nachos though (ew). Popcorn, with the yumminess that is Maltesers or some other chocolate mixed in. Amazing.

Snap. Or perhaps minstrels. But I won't deviate further!

I usually eat very slowly before the movie and then get stuck in when it starts. Good eatin'!

Sooopie

anyone who likes their cheese nachos - the cheese in Cineworld tastes like cold mushroom soup