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Rather than go on a Rant I thought I'd bullet point my top annoyances:

Food and Drink: Nachos and hotdogs stink the place to high heaven, massive slurpy drinks noises, rustling sweet wrappers, noisy food ingesting by the punters, Popcorn spilling everywhere and having to brush it off my seat because it hasnt been cleaned between showings. And how dumb do you have to be to pay £6-7 for popcorn and a drink? Talk about a rip off

Starting time: the starting time is never as advertised. You turn up as advertised and then have to sit through 20 minutes of advertising and then another 10 of rubbish trailers. At this point you are beginning to wonder why you have just spent 10 quid to watch Ads.

Cinema Ads: they now advertise before the film something along the lines of "Hey, why not come to the cinema?". I'm already there you Ars*!

Taking phonecalls, texting and conversation: speaks for itself

Latecomers: Once the BBFC certificate is up on screen shut the doors and no one is allowed to come in late.

Kids - If your child is bored or distressed then please remove from the cinema. Can you believe I once saw a woman with a baby sitting watching a film at it cried for a good hour of the film.....ruined! They banned smoking in cinemas, ban kids or have special showings for people who dont like brats

and finally - People laughing at those awful Orange mobile ads with has been stars.

Rather than go on a Rant...<rant snipped>

A-ROO-gahhhh, a-ROO-gahhhhh!

Gotta agree with everything Greedoniz.

Question; why do these people with popcorn never take a piece from the top of the box? Why do they insist on pushing their hand in and rummaging around? Are they looking for a golden piece? A winning ticket that will gain them entrance to a confectionary factory?

AND ANOTHER THING.... #hiccup#

Tomo wrote:Anyway, who'd have thought it. Tom Hanks has now made two great films: Apollo 13 and The Terminal. That's got to be some sort of record.

Heathen!

A guy in front of me decided to have a discussion via. text message the last time I went to the cinema. Again, he carried on after I politely asked him not to.

And ban popcorn? Never!

Aaaaah!!! Don't get me started on this one!!!! I'm normally a placid, live and let live, open toed sandal, liberal type of person, but I can't actually remember the last time I went to the cinema and didn't have some sort of 'altercation' or had my 'viewing pleasure' marred my coke swilling, popcorn munching, cheesy nacho crunching (is it me or does the melted 'cheese' smell like vomit?) morons!!!!

At 'Letters From Iwo Jima' two huge blokes a few rows away brought out a tupperware box full of sandwiches followed by a family pack of Walkers crisps and a 2ltr bottle of coke!!!!!

At 'There Will Be Blood', a woman and her young daughter sat behind me and whispered (although I suspect they may have learned to whisper in a helicopter) for 30 minutes before prodding me in the back and shouting, "Is this Hanna Montana?" Ye Gods?!?!?

I can't even remember the name of the film where the canoodling couple behind me were feeding each other, giggling loudly and 'accidently' banging the back of my seat.... I tried a couple of 'sshhh's' to no avail... Eventually my blood pressure rose high enough that I felt my eyes were going to explode from my head and I'd ground my teeth down to sand.. I jumped out of my seat and bawled "You are such a ******* ****!!", at the top of my voice. I then told them that every time the girl made a noise I'd punch her boyfriend in the face (I'd lost my sense of perspective by this point)..... they left a few minutes later...

Anyway I'm going to see 'Defiance' tonight and already I'm working myself up into a lather thinking about all the eejits I'll be forced to sit next to...... Woe betide them if....

flashman wrote:At 'There Will Be Blood'...

How apt.

As Peter Finch said, "I'm mad as hell and I'm not gonna take it anymore!"

Seconded, that man - and I'll raise you a:

"I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered... my life is my own"

flashman wrote:I can't even remember the name of the film where the canoodling couple behind me were feeding each other, giggling loudly and 'accidently' banging the back of my seat.... I tried a couple of 'sshhh's' to no avail... Eventually my blood pressure rose high enough that I felt my eyes were going to explode from my head and I'd ground my teeth down to sand.. I jumped out of my seat and bawled "You are such a ******* ****!!", at the top of my voice. I then told them that every time the girl made a noise I'd punch her boyfriend in the face (I'd lost my sense of perspective by this point)..... they left a few minutes later...

aww poor couple, I feel sorry for them. I'm sure that you must have been that canoodling couple at one time?

Nope... I go to the cinema to watch a film, not for hanky panky. In my youth, perhaps, I may have nervously held my girl's hand.... but there has to be a line drawn in the sand somewhere!!

Evil prospers when good men do nothing!!

flashman wrote:
At 'Letters From Iwo Jima' two huge blokes a few rows away brought out a tupperware box full of sandwiches followed by a family pack of Walkers crisps and a 2ltr bottle of coke!!!!!

At 'There Will Be Blood', a woman and her young daughter sat behind me and whispered (although I suspect they may have learned to whisper in a helicopter) for 30 minutes before prodding me in the back and shouting, "Is this Hanna Montana?" Ye Gods?!?!?

I can't even remember the name of the film where the canoodling couple behind me were feeding each other, giggling loudly and 'accidently' banging the back of my seat.... I tried a couple of 'sshhh's' to no avail... Eventually my blood pressure rose high enough that I felt my eyes were going to explode from my head and I'd ground my teeth down to sand.. I jumped out of my seat and bawled "You are such a ******* ****!!", at the top of my voice. I then told them that every time the girl made a noise I'd punch her boyfriend in the face (I'd lost my sense of perspective by this point)..... they left a few minutes later...

Forgive me for finding all of that rather funny flashman, though im sure at the time it was far from it.

You sum it up when you say that you go to a cinema to watch a film. That really, should be it. If you think you're going to be hungry in the film, eat beforehand. If you think you're going to get horny, sort yourselves out beforehand. If you think there's going to be something so important on your phone you can't do without it, it's probably best not to sit in a cinema for two hours, just in case.

flashman wrote:At 'Letters From Iwo Jima' two huge blokes a few rows away brought out a tupperware box full of sandwiches followed by a family pack of Walkers crisps and a 2ltr bottle of coke!!!!!

Where the complaint? they wernt gormless enough to pay the cinema £40 for snacks horay! and the chance of a sandwich 'rustling' is definatly reduced as opposed to popcorn

Yes I agree the melted cheese smells like vomit lol

I really can't believe that none of you have ever gotten 'friendly' with anyone at the pictures????? Surely I'm not the only one!?

Tomo wrote:Anyway, who'd have thought it. Tom Hanks has now made two great films: Apollo 13 and The Terminal. That's got to be some sort of record.

I think you're forgetting such classics as;

Dragnet
The Burbs
A League of There Own
& Toy Story 2