First Time In A Cinema In Many A Long Year.

[sandyRoe]

I was surprised by the number of people buying giant buckets of popcorn and large soft drinks in the foyer.

All those empty calories can't be good for anyone watching their weight.

[bookbinder]

That's normal procedure nowadays, sandyRoe. I sometimes wonder if they go to eat or to watch a film. As regards watching their weight, it's fairly obvious that they simply don't!

[elliemay1]

One of the reasons I go to the back row, couldn't stand all the munching and rustling

[brainiac]

That's one of the reasons I haven't been to a cinema for over two decades.  That and the talking and constant mobile phone use.

[webbo3]

I take my own in, a small bottle of water or a cup of coffee and some chocolates

[barry1010]

In my courting days it was the norm to give the lady a lovely box of chocolates to be enjoyed in the cinema.  Proper, beautiful, fancy boxes, not sharing bags or those dull boxes of today.

Ice cream from the usherette during the intermission, bag of chips on the walk home.

I knew how to treat the ladies 😎

[SIRandyraven]

I gave up cinema years ago.

'The Day The Earth Stood Still' and two women chatting to each other for the whole film.

Then next time was for a Star Wars Film in 2016 and some idiot had a laser pointer and kept pointing it on the screen. The 12 year old staff didn't seem bothered.

So since then I simply buy and watch films via Blu-ray on home cinema system away from the idiot general public around me.

 

[barry1010]

I am told my local cinema has proper lazy boy style reclining chairs with a to your seat hot food service.

That's enough to put me off.

Bring back the usherettes hushing loud whisperers and kicking out the rowdies

[Maydup]

I'm always surprised by the lack of people in the cinema to be honest. 
 

Maybe because I go to the one in the small town and likely to be a handful of seniors only!