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

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.

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.

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

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

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...

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:

I'm partial to a Popcorn/Munchies combination myself. Theres nothing like a mouthful of salty popcorn, chocolate, biscuit and caramel washed down with ice cold coca cola.





I want it now.