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Lady of Mystery wrote:

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!?

Get a room!!

Considering the cost of a cinema ticket these days, I'd say concentrate on the film and get friendly later on!

lozey wrote:

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 Wink

Whilst I applaud their spendthriftiness and their semi-silent sarnie gobbling, I'm afraid my nerves were a bit frayed by the 8th bag of crisps...

Anyone ever had a cinema hotdog? I did once (don't ask). Never again. I don't know what was in that "sausage", but it didn't taste like any meat I've ever had before.

(I still ate it, mind. I'm a "gannet", apparently).

Replicant wrote:

I don't know what was in that "sausage"

Eyelids and elbows..... and other delightful pieces of mechanically recovered 'meat'

Lady of Mystery wrote: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!?

I tried once, but the mobile phones and eating were just too distracting. If there's one thing that's going to turn me off it's slurping and gobbling noises.

Well you do need to findyourself a nice quiet little corner somewhere with not too many people around. Either the back or front corners are usually good

How distraught was you Grimshaw Over Popcorn!!! Telephones and chatter rightly so but popcorn I wish i had enough time in my day to be distraught over such matters

Lady of mystery as for kissing in the back row - of the movies on a saturday night with you this may be a strange concept for most male magi here on this board Excluding myself

I will glady admit my sorry sorrid past of cheap thrills in the back row of the flicks With a woman obviously

Should we ban magic from places of eating if we were to ban popcorn from places of viewing

I've got blood pressure problems that play up if I'm sat for too long so I usually take sweets to keep it in check. But being aware of how it annoys people I'll fully open the pack so I keep rustling to a minimum. However mobiles should always be off. Pretty much everyone can get by for two hours without contact from the outside world. Its part of the idea of going to the cinema. A bit of escapism. It is definitely time for mobile phone jammers to be introduced to cinemas.

I miss the art cinema at Uni. I do like being able to take a bottle of wine in to watch the movie. Withnail and I being one of the best for this.

There's a great cinema in the Notting Hill area that I can't remember the name of... but the seats are amazingly comfy, you get a nice table between seats and you can sit there with a nice glass of wine and munch on some olives. Very civilized..

Underage restrictions are also pleasant. Watching batman would have been a lot nicer if there hadn't been lots of very young kids there.

Phone calls, conversations and texting - I'd happily tell them in no uncertain terms to cease and desist (why do people think that they can text without anyone noticing? It lights up the whole flaming row!). However, it does annoy me when I might need to send a few essential texts or want to share a choice witticism with my cinema buddy during the ADVERTS, and someone starts harumphing. It's the adverts for crying out loud - when the BBFC frame comes on, it's time to shut up, but before that, who cares?

Re. popcorn - sorry, it's a cinema tradition. Can't ban it. My main complaint with popcorn is a) the price and b) the worsening quality... I remember when you got popcorn it was warm, buttery, sugary, crisp and soft at the same time... wonderful. Now they just haul it into the glass counters in ready-popped bin bags - it's stale and chewy before it ever went into your box.

But in terms of noise - everyone knows popcorn is for the adverts! A good film should be too engrossing to have you worrying about stuffing your face anyway. No, food is to get you to the opening credits, then it's time to shut up.

That said - there are different kinds of films. If someone had sat munching through a decent, thoughtful, worthwhile film I'd get very annoyed indeed. But there are "popcorn films" too - if someone wants to eat during Transformers, let 'em

As for cinematic intimacy - what?! Why?! Perhaps it's just me not being into the whole public places fetish, but why pay a fiver each to do something in public you can have much more fun doing at home, in privacy and comfort?! I just don't pay to see films only to ignore them, plain and simple. Anyone who does is clearly a moron

Has the fantastic trend of mothers bringing the 2-3 month old child in a stroller for the 10 or 11 PM movie, hit the English theaters, yet?

If not - just wait. I swear you will be begging for a theater full of popcorn bags crinkling away.

The people who drive me absolutely insane - are the ones who think that crinkling the bag very slowly somehow makes it better. Rather than a quick rustle, we have to deal with secret agent eater thinking the slow method actually diminishes my impulse to show them my impression of one of the apes from 2001.

Popcorn bans just won't happen. Now if I could just get them to ban other people from the theater... life would be grand.

Tomo wrote:

had to sit through Apollo 13 next to a fat man with a nose that whistled with every breath. Not being the passive aggressive type I told him his whistling conk was annoying me and that I thought he should sniff sharply. Did he remedy the situation? Did he hellers like, the ignorant git!

If only you had said inless of a passive aggressive tone - I'd have stopped whistling

I once got told off by a surly woman infront of me for "jiggling my leg"...

i told her it wasnt my leg that i was jiggling, and she didnt ask me again..

cinemas..well, if i want to go to one in london, most are around thirteen quid...

so...NO.

Though, recently i was talked into going to see The Day the Earth Stood Still...cos i'd not been to an iMax before, i went...

oh dear...what a truly stagnant, no real point, and destruction of a good original film...again!

anyway, what i hate most of all in cinemas is just other people..i wish they'd all go away...let me watch it in peace, i'd ban people inhaling their snot back down their throat via their nostrils if anything...charming noise that is...

i dont like strangers sitting next to me...give me my elbow room...