Eating at the cinema

I agree with all the posters who think it is unnecessary to eat nachos, chips, noisy crisps, popcorn etc and drinking large cups of coffee or glasses of wine continuously during a film. I have no objection to folks eating a few quiet sweets - fruit pastilles are an excellent example, but not a whole meal!

I wonder how cinemas would feel if the local McDonalds, Prezzo, Subway, Pub etc started showing films? Cinemas should be for watching films and Restaurants/Pubs should be for eating and drinking. One can only wonder how clean the cinema seats are after previous visitors have spilled their drinks or food over the furniture and floor! ?.

Love it JackyB should be compulsory

I'm surprised no one has posted this yet. It's a topic which comes up very often on the Kermode and Mayo film programme.

I don't understand why people have to eat at all. Its why there is an intermission when they come round with the ice cream. It especially annoys me that its not just a bag of popcorn. People sit down with a bucketful of the stuff each! I try to avoid sitting anywhere near anybody else when I go but thats not easy these days when you have to buy an allocated seat. I also hate people who talk through the previews for coming shows. If someone around me talks during the main film I do shush them and they usually stop.

Fruit pastilles. Ah yes. Perfect cinema sweets, imho. Or even eating in bed sweets.

I really am craving fruit pastilles now.

I'm afraid I'm a crisp fan.

They sell warm, freshly made crisp things at our cinema.

Lovetopaint, the things I like to eat in the cinema are things I dont like to eat in other contexts ?

E.g. bonbons

Loved 1917 and ate fruit pastilles throughout. I hope there was no sound but there is something compulsive about them while enjoying time at the cinema. I never eat them outside a cinema. I wouldn’t eat sweets with wrappers and I always open the packet before the film begins.

Shortly before the film is due to start at Vue cinemas an announcement is made reminding us to turn off our phones, to stop talking and to sit back and enjoy the film. It works!

Yes, but I don't think crisps bought from outside make any more noise than the things they sell inside.

People eat nachos and hot dogs in place that sells nachos and hot dogs

Shocker.

aibu to find this constant munching and guzzling and bringing in smelly nachos, hot dogs etc really annoying.

Your OP.
HTH.

Did you read my op misadventure?

Perhaps its lacking in people who visit somewhere that sells sweets, chocolate, popcorn, hot dogs and crisps, and then complain when people eat them.

Awareness of where it is appropriate to eat is only lacking in posters who expect no eating in places that have food and drink serving licences...

As others have commented, why the need to constantly eat anyway....have we become unable to function or think without shovelling food all the time
We dont eat constantly. If we go to the cinema we eat there instead. Not as well as.

No awareness of how to behave in different situations
People eating in a place that serves food and provides facilities to eat it (cup holders, food trays in upgrade seats) are behaving exactly how the establishment expects them to.

Exactly Maccy. People treating a cinema like a restaurant presumably have no problem with people watchi g films on their tablets in restaurants. No awareness of how to behave in different situations.

I always eat popcorn and have a bottle of water.
I make no apology either, I believe 5hey make plenty of money from the stuff although I resent prices and try to take my own water. I wouldn’t chat either.

I have read other posters.
Complaining about this has got nothing to do with age.
It’s a question of good manners, and thinking about other people.

Novella
Were you watching the film at Bluewater last Sunday?
I was going to post exactly the same thing.
The film was totally unsuitable for the children who were not interested in it, and totally disrupted the film.
They left before it finished.
Afterwards I thought about it, and sadly concluded that some mothers use cinemas as a warm refuge, a place to take their children when they don’t know what else to do with them.
I wouldn’t be surprised if they buy tickets and then stay in the cinema for the afternoon, moving seats if necessary.
It’s really sad.
Talking of loud and smelly crisp crunching....I once told a group of three middle aged women who should have known better, to be quiet. They were completely spoiling the love scene in ‘Brokeback Mountain’.
As others have commented, why the need to constantly eat anyway....have we become unable to function or think without shovelling food all the time. And don’t get me started about talking please!

Yes, must have room for the large wine glass, otherwise, you lose half the wonderfull experience of going to the cinema. ?

Its far more "ignorant" to think people wont be eating at a place that serves food and provides facilities for eating it!

Oh Beswitched, its the oposite of ignorant. Its knowing well enough that the kind of people who go to public places only to get offended about the slightest awareness of others around them, are the type of people who will find something to moan abouy regardless, so the rest of you may as well just get on with enjoy their own outing.

Or for your wine glass.
No need to chose, there's room for it all ?

Or for your wine glass.