Chavs in the cinema
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Eleanore L
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THIS i wholeheartedly agree with. Nothing more annoying than the lights going down and some latecomer coming along saying excuse me, excuse me grrrr 
I went to see 'Nine' with a friend last week. We sat in a row next to a group of 7 people who talked through half of it before walking out.
Did they not look to see what movie they were going to see before buying their tickets?
And I remember seeing Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Two grown women were sitting behind us and chatted through the WHOLE movie. Why buy cinema tickets if you're just going to talk?
Edit: I remember going to a gold class screening with two frienRAB once as well - it was just us!!!
And you have over - 18's screenings now too, so I suppose that's a way to avoid it. Shame you have to pay more though. When it's the chavs' faults.
Did they not look to see what movie they were going to see before buying their tickets?
And I remember seeing Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Two grown women were sitting behind us and chatted through the WHOLE movie. Why buy cinema tickets if you're just going to talk?
Edit: I remember going to a gold class screening with two frienRAB once as well - it was just us!!!
And you have over - 18's screenings now too, so I suppose that's a way to avoid it. Shame you have to pay more though. When it's the chavs' faults.
sara_jane_12
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I agree too but this is another problem which is caused by bad cinema design. There should be much better control over where people (chavs or not) are allowed to roam, but the way multiplexes are designed makes that impossible. If they didn't build in these problems we, the customers, wouldn't be complaining about them. It's not just the fault of bad behaviour.
Lol, reading back through these posts, that does seem to be the logical conclusion! 
Although I'm surprised by this - I wouldn't have thought Sherlock Holmes would be appealing to chavs, but I suppose my own trip to see it proves otherwise. That said, the first time I saw it I know a lot of the people there "looked" like chavs but they were respectful of the audience and there were no distractions while at my second showing with the brat on the phone, they didn't look like chavs at all. Hah, that proves the stereotype wrong I suppose.
(Obviously I mean "looking like a chav" in my opinion. That said, if someone asked me to describe a chav I couldn't. It's irrelevant though, as clothes and appearance don't make you "chavvy" or anything else - it's the attitude.)
Although I'm surprised by this - I wouldn't have thought Sherlock Holmes would be appealing to chavs, but I suppose my own trip to see it proves otherwise. That said, the first time I saw it I know a lot of the people there "looked" like chavs but they were respectful of the audience and there were no distractions while at my second showing with the brat on the phone, they didn't look like chavs at all. Hah, that proves the stereotype wrong I suppose.
(Obviously I mean "looking like a chav" in my opinion. That said, if someone asked me to describe a chav I couldn't. It's irrelevant though, as clothes and appearance don't make you "chavvy" or anything else - it's the attitude.)
Matilda Rose
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Christ - ive got all this come. been out the country to long. jsut come back to the uk after a spell in NZ. the only annoying thing in the cinema over there is people in my eye shot using a mobile and the light from it annoys me something rotten. nothing compared really! such a laid back country! and now i am back here!
only intent to go the cinema in off peak times only - which doesnt matter for these oxygen bandits, who dont ****ing work anyway.
only intent to go the cinema in off peak times only - which doesnt matter for these oxygen bandits, who dont ****ing work anyway.
ricardo9505
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I definitely agree with no eating in cinemas. At least popcorn that smells and makes so much noise. If you want to take a packet of fruit gums in then fine, but the rustling and chomping, in a crowded screening it's a huge distraction from the film until they all scoff it down after the first 30 minutes.
I go to the cinema a lot with a Cineworld Unlimited card. All people ask me is about the cost - "but what about buying popcorn every time" as if it's some kind of essential thing.
I go to the cinema a lot with a Cineworld Unlimited card. All people ask me is about the cost - "but what about buying popcorn every time" as if it's some kind of essential thing.
I know it is years ago but I remember going with a girl, my mate and his girlfriend to see Ghost and these two fat blokes were in front of us having a farting competition.
Then another time two girls dropped a huge bag of maltesers and were scrabbling about under the seats retrieving them and giggling and shrieking
Then another time two girls dropped a huge bag of maltesers and were scrabbling about under the seats retrieving them and giggling and shrieking
Proud2BAMuslim
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Chavs are bad enough but my absolute hate in the cinema is people who eat in the cinema. I mean people that go in and sit down to bascially their evening meal followed by dessert. Friggin Nachos, hotdogs, popcorn, sweeets, bags of Doritos. I feel like shoving them in their face. Am I the only person that thinks eating and the cinema should not be mixed. Can these people not wait 90 minutes to fed their face.
carrcarr010100
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The beauty of being a student, you get to pick and choose the times you go to see a film. 
It isn't the majority who are the problem, it's the minority. I go to the cinema once a week and I never encounter the problems people here are claiming to be commonplace. Since my local Cineworld is vile I can't see any benefit in an unlimited card so I either go to the nearest Vue or to whichever independent is showing a good film.
Independents tend to be more expensive and have only one or two screens so the ratio of staff to customers is much higher. You can buy popcorn if you must but there are usually more appropriate snacks like cookies, and instead of huge containers of fizzy drinks you can buy tea, coffee, premium beers or wine to take in. By promoting the cinema as a pleasant, relaxing place to see a film these cinemas make antisocial behaviour far less acceptable. Presumably this is why Odeon are experimenting with premium facilities, but since Odeons are soulless, unfriendly places it's unlikely to make potential miscreants think twice about misbehaving.
Vues are somewhere in between since they are designed to make the filmgoing experience more enjoyable - tiered seating, good sound - but they are understaffed and determined to sell sugar-filled drinks and confectionery until everyone in the audience is in a hyperglycemic coma. As others have pointed out they need to be much stricter in ensuring that kiRAB only get into the film they've paid to see.
But compare independent cinemas to multiplexes of any breed and you can immediately see the root of the problem: multiplexes are designed with large communal areas where people mill around without any real purpose. They're like overlit clubs, with everyone hanging around in little groups and a feeling of tension because no one is really relaxed. Independents, on the other hand, don't have the space to allow this and whilst they can feel crowded before and after the screening they fill and empty quickly. Surely the cause of much of the bad behaviour people report here is bad cinema design?
The fact that so many posters believe there's a problem can't be ignored but it does seem to affect some cinemas and some areas much more than others. I can't imagine a time when I wouldn't go to the cinema; it's part of the weekend and it's still better value than an evening in the pub. As long as you don't buy popcorn, of course.
Independents tend to be more expensive and have only one or two screens so the ratio of staff to customers is much higher. You can buy popcorn if you must but there are usually more appropriate snacks like cookies, and instead of huge containers of fizzy drinks you can buy tea, coffee, premium beers or wine to take in. By promoting the cinema as a pleasant, relaxing place to see a film these cinemas make antisocial behaviour far less acceptable. Presumably this is why Odeon are experimenting with premium facilities, but since Odeons are soulless, unfriendly places it's unlikely to make potential miscreants think twice about misbehaving.
Vues are somewhere in between since they are designed to make the filmgoing experience more enjoyable - tiered seating, good sound - but they are understaffed and determined to sell sugar-filled drinks and confectionery until everyone in the audience is in a hyperglycemic coma. As others have pointed out they need to be much stricter in ensuring that kiRAB only get into the film they've paid to see.
But compare independent cinemas to multiplexes of any breed and you can immediately see the root of the problem: multiplexes are designed with large communal areas where people mill around without any real purpose. They're like overlit clubs, with everyone hanging around in little groups and a feeling of tension because no one is really relaxed. Independents, on the other hand, don't have the space to allow this and whilst they can feel crowded before and after the screening they fill and empty quickly. Surely the cause of much of the bad behaviour people report here is bad cinema design?
The fact that so many posters believe there's a problem can't be ignored but it does seem to affect some cinemas and some areas much more than others. I can't imagine a time when I wouldn't go to the cinema; it's part of the weekend and it's still better value than an evening in the pub. As long as you don't buy popcorn, of course.
You guys realise that most chavs are actually yellow bellied fairies who cower when confronted?
The last time i went to the cinema some shite-hawk through popcorn at my head. I personally kicked him out of the theater.
Now if you're female that's probably not an option, but if you're a male just grab one of them and drag him down the steps and out of the theater. That easy.
Most chavs are weasels. Annorexic looking breeRAB resembling crack heaRAB. Most men are physically superior.
You've got to understand these people get off on intimidating others. If they got a knuckle-sandwich everytime they acted like idiots they'd soon grow up.
The last time i went to the cinema some shite-hawk through popcorn at my head. I personally kicked him out of the theater.
Now if you're female that's probably not an option, but if you're a male just grab one of them and drag him down the steps and out of the theater. That easy.
Most chavs are weasels. Annorexic looking breeRAB resembling crack heaRAB. Most men are physically superior.
You've got to understand these people get off on intimidating others. If they got a knuckle-sandwich everytime they acted like idiots they'd soon grow up.
I've been irritated by groups of teens talking now and again at the cinema...
...but if If I'm honest I've been more annoyed with adult couples where the women is constantly asking the bloke for the plot to be explained (they should go to one of the screenings with Audio Description for the visually impaired. I know they are intended for the blind..but it would likely benefit the thick as well).
Some seem incapable of following what's happening and want their partner to narrate the entire movie to them. I'd pick a group of chavs over couples like that.
...but if If I'm honest I've been more annoyed with adult couples where the women is constantly asking the bloke for the plot to be explained (they should go to one of the screenings with Audio Description for the visually impaired. I know they are intended for the blind..but it would likely benefit the thick as well).
Some seem incapable of following what's happening and want their partner to narrate the entire movie to them. I'd pick a group of chavs over couples like that.