Ban food in cinema

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colinh90

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Mentioned this in a previous post but here goes again but under a better thread I hope...BAN popcorn, natchos - ALL food except suckable sweets and drink.
Popcorn eating 'chav' ate a whole tub of popcorn all the way through 28 Weeks later next to me - totally ruining the film.

Plus lock the doors when film starts to stop latecomers.
Sorry for second post but really still angry as it is now twice this has happened in succession. If you are that hungry, eat a f**king pizza before you come in.
 
The cinema make their money from food so they never would and if it bugs you so much wait till it comes out on dvd and watch it wiuthout anyone else
 
Overpriced snacks help keep the price of tickets down due to their massive profit margin. I'd rather pay less for a ticket and don't eat food they sell there anyway - bar the rare tray of nachos or small drink.

Ushers can usually small/spot whether people have food going in and it should be taken of people - unless it's stuff like sweets - but fooRAB with an odour should be banned.
However, they're very busy and not paid a great deal so probably can't be arsed (who can blame them really - I did that job as a student many years ago and arguing with these idiots was a fruitless task).

Anyone carrying it should be refused entry unless they surrender it - cinemas have the power to refuse entry whatever the reason even with a vaild ticket. They should exercise that right.

If more people complained and demanded their money back they would have to listen as they'd start losing money.

Everyone should send a letter to head office of the chain wheh they come across this problem pointing out how much revenue they lost as a result of your walk out (
 
Nooo, don't allow suckable sweets. They have those wrappers that people make a noise with.

As for waiting for the DVD to come out, why???

You pay to see a movie and hear it. You don't expect that people rustle, slurp and crunch through a movie while kicking you in the back of your seat.

It's just manners that the OP asks for. Is that too much?

Cinemas are for watching movies, restaurants, cafes, take aways are for eating and drinking.
 
There's a cinema near here where, before the film or the trailers start, they project adverts for the "fine wines" available in the bar (and you can take your drinks in to the auditorium - in a proper glass). Result: I spent
 
As has already been discussed in another thread in this forum, totally blocking mobile signals within a cinema is completely over the top. I, and many other people in my situation, are on call 24 hours a day via my mobile phone, and therefore I cannot afford to spend two or so hours in a cinema without being contactable. However, I always switch my phone to vibrate only and put it in my pocket when in a cinema so that there is no sound or lighting up of the mobile screen if the phone rings and I then go to the foyer to take the call. Banning mobile phone signals completely just stops a lot of responsible people, who would never dream of actually making a call or sending a text whilst watching a movie, from actually attending a cinema. And the cinemas will thankfully not do that.

Presumably your "college" refectory and library has got away with this because you and your frienRAB are all students, and therefore don't have jobs which demand that you are on emergency call throughout the day and night. When you graduate, and join the real world, you will realise what an impractical suggestion you made.
 
Hang on a minute. I used to have a job where I was keyholder and was frequently woken in the small hours by the Police. But they couldn't have rung me on my mobile because mobile phones hadn't been invented then. This idea that everyone has to be contactable 24/7 is ridiculous and an invasion of the privacy of those who have to sit next to people whose phones start ringing during films, plays etc.

Sorry to be unsympathetic and I appreciate your doing whatever possible to prevent your work spoiling other people's enjoyment, but it's fundamentally wrong for this to be happening in the first place. Anyway, not all cinemas have mobile phone reception - are you forbidden to attend them if there's no signal? What about pubs and restaurants that have a "no mobiles" policy?
 
Where I live, there are no cinemas that don't pick up a mobile phone reception - but then I don't live in London, thank God. Luckily the pubs and restaurants that you are talking about that have a "no mobiles" policy don't frisk you as you walk in, and demand that you leave if you happen to have a mobile phone on you. They would only raise an eyebrow if I made or answered a call whilst in the restaurant area - and as I have already stated, I would not do that. I would put the phone on "no-ring", as soon as the phone vibrated I would leave the restaurant and go to the toilets or outside to take the call. I have no intention of disturbing others with my phone, but I cannot afford to not be contactable as that is the agreement we have with our 24-hour operation customers.
 
This is just stupid. I get annoyed by loud people eating food in cinema's buy banning it is stupid IMO.

I'm all for manners, but it's ott.

Oh well, I'd rather have noisy people than see the ticket price double.
 
Drinks are just as annoying that rotten "sloooooo" noise and the repeated poking the straw up and down through the lid and slushing the ice around and then that obnoxious gulp and "aaaaaah" combination followed on by some obnoxious lip smacking :mad: :mad: :mad:
 
When I eat popcorn I do eat it in the noisy parts of the film! Though others aren't so conscious. And I don't like the lighting up of mobiles all over the place. Is there attention span so short they can't sit and watch the film?
 
The problem I had really is that the lad ate through the quiet parts - crunch, crunch - anyone seen 28 Weeks Later? great film but do you remember the first 5 minutes when it was all quiet and tension was building? imagine hearing crunching crunch bloody crunch throughout and being in front of me he had the annoying habbit of throwing back his head back to aid them being chucked down his throat - he was like one of those bobbing bird things.
Also, the bucket he had was bottomless! no kidding, it took him nearly an hour to eat it....or so i thought, after a few minutes he started again! where the hell was the bottom??
No, it is beyond a joke now. Good on you to those like me, who open a sweet when noisy parts are on.
Put me in a bad mood all night.
I went to see Sunshine a while ago, 10 Japanese students talking through most of film (plus phone going off) I am usually a wimpy bloke but I just could not stand it any more and told them loudly to be quiet....they stopped.... well, not totally but I had to say something.
I suppose the answer is to really pick your times to go carefully, don't go in first 3 weeks or if you do, go in afternoons.
 
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