food in cinemas aaarrgh

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Now that I am getting an idea on whats going on (very recent dx), I was wondering how many of you get totally distracted by people eating in cinemas. In my case it drives me nuts, I could never understand why considering how annoying it was for people they sold the damn things for consumption during movies. Now i reckon that I am a very small minority doing their nut cos the guy two seats back is munching into what seems like a never ending tub of popcorn, then it gets worse as they slurp their coke through a straw. the part that realy drives me nuts is when the tub and the cup are empty, but they have to search interminably, into the corners of the bucket and slurp the last miniscule amount of coke from around the ice.javascript:emoticon('Confused')javascript:emoticon('Laughing')

I often take food in myself, but I try to minimise its effects on others, I cant stand loud chewing but I find it easier if you have something you can eat. I don't slurp, and I try to eat quitly, though I am bothered that the packet can affect people, but I have worked out ways to lower the affect. I always get driven crazy when my brother eats loud and I think has at one time caused a meltdown, yeah such a low thing being the cause release of such a reaction.

Actually, I eat in cinemas. We always buy several things and munch away for the rest of the film. Ice, popcorn and cola.

I only hate that other people eat during the film when I don't have the money to buy myself anything. It's unnerving to hear the munching when you don't munch yourself to drown it out.

That's one of the reasons why I DON'T go to the cinemas

Don't ever go to the cinema in Germany. All through the movie you will hear people dropping their beer bottles, tipping them over or them rolling down the aisle.

I used to buy popcorn, but made a point of finishing it off before the main movie began, so I wouldn't disturb anyone. Pop is out, ever since I needed to take a leak at a really critical point in one movie, and had to miss part of it.

If the theatre isn't too crowded (and I never go when it is) it is possible to munch during the movie without disturbing others, but unfortunately some people are naturally noisy.

The thing that bugs me the most isn't the food, it's talking. I'm always worried when people talk right up to when the main movie begins that they'll keep going. Hey! Stop talking at the beginning of the trailers.

The best policy of course is to go when it isn't busy and don't sit right behind anyone. (And glare at anyone who sits right behind you.)

I don't mind the noise, but I hate when people are eating corn chips or something peanutbuttery...the smell is so completely overwhelming

ah well I'm not totally alone on this one, Yeah Anemone your right I sit there listening to the talking, the lights have gone down, the movie is about to start and their still talking, I get really nervous at this point in case they keep talking and I will have to leave, normally of course it all works out OK. Of course the munching and scraping continues : javascript:emoticon(':)')

I hate cinemas.

To me what's the most annoying in theaters is the price of food and soda's. Paying $4 for a medium coke that is more ice than coke really sucks! As if we don't get raped enough on the cost of tickets, already. I usually dont get food there but i get the above mentioned medium soda just out of habbit.

The sound of eating doesn't bother me too much but idiots that pop bubblegum all the time, yap on their cell phone, talk, or get up and move around a lot. Those are the ones I'd like to strangle.

They make all their profit off the food and drink (which is why they don't want you taking any in from outside). If they didn't gouge people on the food and drink (and they do), ticket prices would be much higher. Of course, ticket prices are already too high. The problem is there aren't many movies worth seeing, so they have to increase ticket prices to keep the theaters afloat.

It's all the fault of the screenwriters, for writing such bad scripts in the first place. (I'm a screenwriter-in-training, so I can say that. )

I rarely go to a theatre on a day or at a time when lots of people will be going, and I rarely sit in front of, behind, or next to other people (except for people who came with me [e.g. my sister]). Even if I do, people eating and drinking has never bothered me...

I never buy theatre food because it's way too expensive. I don't understand why so many people still insist on having it...