Cinema woes.. people eating food LOUDLY - GRRRRR..

sporina

So, this is cropped up in various threads.. but after last night I thought that I would start a thread specifically about eating food in the cinema.
Last night a guy behind me had a large bag of popcorn (Manhattan I think),, and he munched loundly and rattled the packaging for the whole first half of the movie..
It was soooo annoying... so distracting.
I looked back at him a few times with the hope that he might cop that he was being annoying but he was oblivious; seemed to be glued to the movie - lucky him.
Really... I have nothing against people eating during a movie.. as long as it does not take away from other's cinematic experience.

I wish people would have more consideration...

What do ye think?:mad:

silverharp

if you are going to smuggle food in at least think in terms of what a cinema sells. there is nothing worse than sitting behind some cheapskate family when they break out oversized packets of hunky doreys and the next 10 minutes is their ignorant chomping and rustling :pac:
Thankfully we mostly go to the Point cinema so its nice and empty most of the time

Mr E

Half the movie to eat a bag of popcorn? Was he eating one piece at a time?

I'm more annoyed by the lightsabers from peoples' phone screens. Would it kill you to leave it in your pocket for 90 minutes?

RoyalMarine

Nothing wrong with turning around and loudly saying "stop eating so loud, it's a movie, not a buffet".

In a polite way of course

Banjoxed

Hearing other people eating is relaxing compared to conversations, phones going off, loud remarks and general muck savagery. OP, you must go to a far more civilised cinema than my old one in Dublin..

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000

I sat in front of some fella one time who smuggled in a six pack of monster munch. One by one he crunched and munched his way through all six. SIX!

It's these type of inconsiderate **** that mean that going to the cinema is only viable early morning or very very late at night to avoid the general scum.

sporina

silverharp wrote: »

if you are going to smuggle food in at least think in terms of what a cinema sells. there is nothing worse than sitting behind some cheapskate family when they break out oversized packets of hunky doreys and the next 10 minutes is their ignorant chomping and rustling :pac:
Thankfully we mostly go to the Point cinema so its nice and empty most of the time

it was one of the large bags.. era maybe he had two of them.. but i remember thinking "ok - the bag has to finish sometime soon.. " but its went on and on.. for half the movie - almost an hr..

RoyalMarine wrote: »

Nothing wrong with turning around and loudly saying "stop eating so loud, it's a movie, not a buffet".

In a polite way of course

ha ha v good

I go to omniplex in cork - its usually ok..
How people are not aware of it is beyond me.. I bring sweets in - wrapper free.. and I am so mindful not to make noise when chewing...

malcy

I usually go to my local cinema during the day and i'm lucky if there is anymore than 3 other people in there so it isn't an issue. At a recent trip at night it was ridiculous. I rarely eat at the cinema. If at all it's a cup of tea and a sandwich. Quiet food!

Must say that the Gate Cinemas stupid bloody cartoon at the start telling you to switch off your phone etc is by far the most irritating and rage inducing thing i have ever had to deal with in any place while watching a film.

sporina

malcy wrote: »

I usually go to my local cinema during the day and i'm lucky if there is anymore than 3 other people in there so it isn't an issue. At a recent trip at night it was ridiculous. I rarely eat at the cinema. If at all it's a cup of tea and a sandwich. Quiet food!

Must say that the Gate Cinemas stupid bloody cartoon at the start telling you to switch off your phone etc is by far the most irritating and rage inducing thing i have ever had to deal with in any place while watching a film.

yeah i thought of that last night actually - its a Cork thing..

malcy

sporina wrote: »

yeah i thought of that last night actually - its a Cork thing..

I had family over last year and my dad and brother went to the cinema. I asked how the film and they said 'what the hell was that stupid thing before the film'? I explained that not even Irish people find it funny! It's usually met with a 'f off' or a sigh...

sporina

malcy wrote: »

I had family over last year and my dad and brother went to the cinema. I asked how the film and they said 'what the hell was that stupid thing before the film'? I explained that not even Irish people find it funny! It's usually met with a 'f off' or a sigh...

i think its a character from "sminky shorts" which is a cork thing..

Penn

If everyone in a 10 seat radius around me was eating popcorn loudly, I'd manage. But if one of those f*ckers had that cheese-flavoured popcorn, that's game over. Cheese on nachos you barely notice, but the smell of that cheese popcorn is beyond disgusting.

mikhail

While there is no shortage of inconsiderate people, what these threads usually show is that there is also no shortage of people too irritable to be allowed out in public. If someone eating popcorn genuinely bothers you that much, watch a DVD in your living room.

eeguy

If cinemas were meant to be quiet, then why do they sell the noisiest, smelliest food going?

Popcorn, nachos and cheese, hotdogs, slurpees, bags of sweets and icecream?

I only go to the cinema to see films that have been out a few weeks for this very reason.

sporina

eeguy wrote: »

If cinemas were meant to be quiet, then why do they sell the noisiest, smelliest food going?

Popcorn, nachos and cheese, hotdogs, slurpees, bags of sweets and icecream?

I only go to the cinema to see films that have been out a few weeks for this very reason.

thats capitalism for you.. but thats the world we live in,..

but one can still have their food and not behave like wolves in the woods... one can eat without making such a racket.. its a case of having some awareness and consideration for others..

TerrorFirmer

In fairness, eating cinema popcorn, sweets, a Tub of ben and Jerrys or drinking your drink shouldn't cause any real noise levels unless you're being an absolute primate.

However a jumbo sized bag of Manhattan is going to be incredibly loud no matter what you do. That's pretty irritating.

I remember there was a thread here before and someone actually witnessed a family smuggling in a take away.

An ex of mine bough nachos in one day and set them down on the seat beside her while she was taking off her jumper, another woman came along at that exact moment and sat down right on top of the salsa and cheese laden heap.

Best moment though, will never forget Darko's post from years ago, think he was watching Mission Impossible when a teacher decided to turn a quiet afternoon showing into an interactive language session for a load of Spanish students.

The resulting arguments ended up in staff becoming involved and a Spanish student saying to him in broken english afterwards 'you are worse than the Hitler'.

Ericdravancrow

I like to bring in a huge bag of Prawn Crackers and eat them as loud as possible

pinksoir

Whose idea was it to start selling nachos in the cinema? Really. Popcorn is fine, it's a staple, and it's relatively low noise. Hey, the repetitive way that you eat it might even aid in concentrating on the movie (tenuous reasoning). But nachos are the noisiest foodstuff imaginable. Plus the squeezy 'cheese flavoured condiment' smells revolting. The fact that cinemas sell that crud shows total contempt for their patrons.

megaten

I don't really mind. Especially in multiplex's were the speakers are so loud you'd never notice anyway.

Heckler

For me its the people who think that by slooooowly unwrapping their goddamn sweets that they will make less noise.

No, you won't. You just drag it out 5 times longer asshole. Although they try I suppose..

Can people not last a couple of hours watching a movie without stuffing their faces ? Do most people sit down at home to watch a movie of a night with goddamn nachos, popcorn and a bucket of coke ?

Arghus

I'm okay with people munching on popcorn or sweets or whatever. It's usually drowned out. I can't remember a single time where I've been seriously put out by it - sorry.

Yeah, the phone can be a bit much from some people sometimes, but I think it's prevalence is a bit overstated. Obviously, if someone is constantly using it throughout a film it can test your patience, but I don't begrudge people sneaking a peek every now and again. We're all just people trying to negotiate our confused way through life, sometimes you've got to look to your phone for reassurance. Not as far as sending a text or anything more time consuming, but I don't think it's crime to check the time or if you've missed a call from the police or something - something fairly trivial like that - sorry.

The one thing that really turns me into an unreasonably cranky person is people talking loudly enough to be heard over the movie. Christ. In the moment I wish those people would die, by my hand... Fantasies of clutching them by the throat and watching as the dumb, uncomprehending fire in their eyes dimly peters out into a still black void and I whisper, Why couldn't you just be quiet? See what happens? See what you made me do?...

In the moment of course.

I especially hate the loud whisper conversation. You know, where people are trying to be discreet by whispering to someone else but are somehow desperately loud to the point where they may as well just be honest about it and roar out whatever has just come into their tiny imbecilic brain.

Mizu_Ger

Food doesn't bother me that much. Phones are really bad though. Very distracting.

The last time I was at the cinema in Vue Liffey Valley there was someone a few rows in front smoking an ecig. Every now and then a puff of smoke would rise up into the air in front of the screen. Very annoying too!

sporina

i was at a movie once (Calvery - which requires silence).. there was a guy behind me munching on a bucket of pop corn - he was as loud as a full piggery.. snorting - the lots..
Then his phone rings.. and he answers it and says "i'm in the cinema...".. i kid you not..

Mark Hamill

If I bring in outside bags of food, popcorn or whatever, I always grab a pick'n'mix bag from the cinema itself and transfer the food into it before the film starts. The paper pick'n'mix bags are usually much quieter to eat out of than the plastic foil bags that popcorn, crisps and nachos come in.

connollys

quad_red

silverharp wrote: »

if you are going to smuggle food in at least think in terms of what a cinema sells. there is nothing worse than sitting behind some cheapskate family when they break out oversized packets of hunky doreys and the next 10 minutes is their ignorant chomping and rustling :pac:

Have you seen how much they charge for food at the cinema? Now bring 5 kids.

Anyone with kids who doesn't bring their own stuff in needs their heads examined!

Shouldn't be super noisy though.

sporina

quad_red wrote: »

Have you seen how much they charge for food at the cinema? Now bring 5 kids.

Anyone with kids who doesn't bring their own stuff in needs their heads examined!

Shouldn't be super noisy though.

absolutely on all of the above.. out of principle I would never buy food at the cinema.. the prices are so extortionate its hilarious... i think anyone who pays what they charge has more money than sense..

Nothing wrong with going to Tesco and getting your nibbles - as long as you choose something not too noisy or at least that you can eat with some discression