Cinema going question or "Are you really THAT f*cking hungry"

[bluemeanie]

Was just upstairs in work fixing someone's pc. One of the girls up there was talking about  how she's going to the cinema tonight and then brought out the fucking HUGE bag of crinkly wrapper sweets she's bought in tescos to munch through the entire thing.

Resisted the urge to hit her with a chair. But only barely

Can anyone explain why it is people feel the need to constantly eat during a two hour movie? Every cinema trip I go on requires me to try and block out the constant rustle and crunch as mouth breathers shovel shit into themselves. Do they do the same whenever they put in a dvd? Cant get through the credits without a box of fucking nachos?

I'd happily pay a premium to sit in a "no food" screen.

Of course I may just be over reacting. I do that   

[Roger Godpleton]

I once saw someone eating KFC in the cinema.

[Molch-R]

Can anyone explain why it is people feel the need to constantly eat during a two hour movie? Every cinema trip I go on requires me to try and block out the constant rustle and crunch as mouth breathers shovel shit into themselves. Do they do the same whenever they put in a dvd? Cant get through the credits without a box of fucking nachos?

I ... I get hungry.

Seriously though, I'm proper addicted to cinema food and it stops my fidgeting. I *do* try and keep the noise to a minimum (saying that, when I went to see the Avengers I'd finished nachos, large popcorn, AND drink before the trailers had even finished).

Kinda backfired when I bought my usual choices for a screening of No Country For Old Men - A FILM ENTIRELY WITHOUT ANY SOUNDTRACK!! Had to suck my way through a massive box of salted popcorn and nearly died of thirst before it had finished.

[Goaty]

You could if you arrived late from work!

[bluemeanie]

It always gets me when they show three or four "Turn your phone off... keep the noise down... dont spoil the movie for other people" ads then sell people nachos.

Fuck it, why not ice-cream sundaes with a sparkler in the top?

The lovely wife is even worse than me though. To be fair she's got a proper medical thing that means she cant tune out background noise so anyone sat behind her eating stuff gets some serious Paddington Bear Stare action

It does actually colour what movies I go and see in the cinema though. Would never go see something like Tinker,Tailor,Soldier, Spy as I know its a quiet, clever film and the distraction would drive me nuts.

[radiator]

I once saw someone eating KFC in the cinema.

A friend of mine told me that where he's from it's a regular occurence to see people eating entire Indian or Chinese takeaways in the cinema.

While that is clearly taking the piss, I don't mind people eating - and almost always have a bag of salted popcorn when I watch a film - it's just not the same without it. I'd even go so far as to say that I quite like the sound of rustling popcorn.

As with anything, it's all about consideration. It's perfectly possible to munch without making a lot of noise.

[JOE SOAP]

They still haven't solved the problem of missing bits of the film while taking a slash. I suggest flat-screens in the jax or a piss-trough below the main theatre screen.

[SuperSurfer]

Yeah, bloody winds me up. I go gaps of years without going to the cinema because I always end up so riled I swear I will never go again.

The film before last that I saw in a cinema was True Git (not the John Wayne version). Can't remember what I saw before that.

In a moment of weakness went to see Avengers. Load of open gobbed uncouth popcorn munchers. One of the worst culprits finished a box, I finally thought I could concentrate on the film then she left to go and buy another box.

I reckon some people say to each other: "shall we go out for popcorn?" and then decide on the cinema.

[von Boom]

They still haven't solved the problem of missing bits of the film while taking a slash. I suggest flat-screens in the jax or a piss-trough below the main theatre screen.

Use your drinks cup.

In a moment of weakness went to see Avengers. Load of open gobbed uncouth popcorn munchers. One of the worst culprits finished a box, I finally thought I could now concentrate on the film then she left to go and buy another box. 

This irks me too. I'm always in the same row and they climb past me in a cloud of salt. I hope they enjoy their salt induced hypertension.

[JOE SOAP]

They still haven't solved the problem of missing bits of the film while taking a slash. I suggest flat-screens in the jax or a piss-trough below the main theatre screen.

Use your drinks cup.

It's never enough and people tend to kick it over then they walk out with pissy feet.

[COMMANDO FORCES]

Death to cinema menaces 

Here is a tip for you wimps with tiny bladders, don't drink anything before or during the main feature.

[von Boom]

It's never enough and people tend to kick it over then they walk out with pissy feet.

You are one considerate and classy gent.

[strontium71]

Kinda backfired when I bought my usual choices for a screening of No Country For Old Men - A FILM ENTIRELY WITHOUT ANY SOUNDTRACK!! Had to suck my way through a massive box of salted popcorn and nearly died of thirst before it had finished.

That is the funniest thing I've heard all day because it's so true

[JOE SOAP]

Here is a tip for you wimps with tiny bladders, don't drink anything before or during the main feature.

I always said you were full of wind & piss.

[Mardroid]

Here is a tip for you wimps with tiny bladders, don't drink anything before or during the main feature.[/color]

That's what I do.

I will eat popcorn while at the cinema though. And other people eating it doesn't bother me. It's not THAT noisy.

I try to be considerate when eating it though. I.e. I feel paranoid about the crackling if I buy that packet popcorn, (although it's tempting being so much cheaper than the stuff in the cinema) but the kind of open packet stuff they sell in the cinema (sugared for me thank you, not salty) doesn't make a whole lot of noise.

*(It'd bother me if they were noisy open mouthed eaters with lots of crunching and squealchy sounds but if you eat with your mouth closed you'd have to be quite close to hear it.)