Munching and rustling during performances.
It is a sad state of affairs when many of the audience in cinemas and theatres cannot last for a couple of hours without guzzling food.
What does it say about consideration for others in the audience.
Cheers ..........K
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I can't honestly say it bothers me particularly. Food & drink has always been on sale at cinemas and theatres so you pretty much know what to expect. Like oneputt, loud talking does irritate me though.
But what I find completely incomprehensible - and this happened several times during the Deacon Blue gig I went to on Friday - is folk who find it necessary to stand up in the middle of a performance, leave the auditorium and pop to the bar for another round
of drinks. Not only disrespectful to the artists performing but you end up missing 3 or 4 songs in the middle of a show you've paid a not inconsiderable sum of money to go and see. Anyone explain that?
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I think some of us have very short memories. As a youth I remember going to the flicks. Worse things would be going on in the auditorium than munching and guzzling but they too were also happening then though! For me it was the guffawing of some at the mildest comedy that irritated as I often missed the following dialogue as a result!
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I don't mind folks eating quietly during a film, always been part of the cinema visit. But ringing phones and talking are very rude. We went to see MrTurner during day for a change, nearly empty cinema. Couple plonked themselves down right in front of us,
and for first 10 minutes of the film, she was doing a running commentary! By minute 11 I had had enough, and asked her if she would mind shutting up! Which she did. Everyone then got on with enjoying a great film.Theatre is different. Distractions spoil things for everyone, not least the actors. People who answer phones, talk, shouldn't be there, complete lack of manners.
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I remember when there was only Ki-ora and ice cream tubs in the interval. Mind you, you couldn't see the screen through the cloud of ciggy smoke.
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Can't say as it bothers me, usually. Went to see Fantastic Beasts last night, plenty of people with drinks and popcorn but didn't bother me.
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Must say, I disagree with the comments that people have always done this.
It used to be that the only thing to eat was a little tub of ice-cream or a mivvi (if you could afford either), bought from a lady with a tray stood at the front and consumed before the film came back on.
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When I was young films were on a continuous loop in a fug of smoke and litter, Saturday morning sessions were considered a bit of a riot and I think things have improved since then.
My experience too, of the flicks mind, the peanut or popcorn kernel , flung at the unsuspecting person in the lower rows, the smoke filled atmosphere, the heckling of the celluloid artist, the whoops of excitement for the heroes and the same from others for the villains. Well that's what it was like where I was 'dragged' up.
On second thoughts it was quiet good fun and that carefully aimed peanut often got that first reaction from the pretty girl in row AA and that first step to 'heaven' up in the gods!
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1970/early 80s cinema going was always a tad fraught. Reel would grind to a halt, bomb warning. Would everyone please look under their seat! Yeah, whatever. No one ever left.
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I'm not surprised that some people have to go pee during the performance when each in-performanc bar visit results in four pints per couple - plus whatever they had before the performance started. My worry is that as the night goes on they become less able
to hold their drink - and it gets tipped over the rows in front. Hence the sticky carpet everywhere. Amazing the cleaners can get the pop-corn off it at all. The hotdog smell, however, lingers everywhere.So we still dress up for the cinema - just it is now in old bin-ready gear and not our latest fashions.
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Agree Brue. Super loud audio at multiplex cinemas. Sheffield has a lovely art house type cinema called the Showroom. It has around four screens I think, but not huge auditoriums, so is a lot nicer for quieter films. They have a lovely bar and restaurant
as well, and do little paper bags of mixed sweets. I don't mind going to big screens for things like the Hobbit and LOTR, where special effects are great part of film, but for quieter films, like Mr Turner and Far from Madding Crowd, Showroom was a lot nicer.
Opposite station as well, so easy for us to get to without car!
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