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Unpopular opinion: I don't trust people who have to have a snack during a movie.


I feel that if you always need it, it's like you need something to do to keep you from getting bored.

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We should take snacks into church. They could over-charge for their own or we could sneak our's in. God won't mind.

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"Hi, could I have a glass of wine? Make it a large. Let's see... I'll also take 3 bodies of Christ. Extra crispy. Oooh and I'd really like a load of bread and some fish for the side."

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Double features plus a cartoon, a featurette and intermission were normal when I was a kid. That meant a long time in the theater.

Munching on a hot dog, buttered popcorn, soda and candy was a necessity!

Snacking remains a carryover from that earlier movie era even though the time spent in theaters dwindled. Now, I only have time to eat popcorn.

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I don't mean just the theatre. I know people who must have popcorn for every film at home.

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The only time I snack at home is during football, but lots of time that ties in with a meal - nachos, wings. etc.

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I do it for sports as well. Although I call it stress eating.

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Yes - stress eating - especially when my Dolphins are on.

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CHERRY COKE & MARIJUANA SMOKE...THATS ALL I NEED.

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They're lacing cocaine with cherries now?

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THE FUTURE'S SO BRIGHT....I GOTTA WEARRRR SHADES!😎🍒

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Well then your going to be super unhappy with me. I only go to this theatre where I can get a full meal and a glass of wine. https://youtu.be/ERNA3lAOO7g

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That's just pretentious. I don't care how classy that place looks.

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Oh its super classy when you press your buzzer and the girl comes over to bring your wine, and then everyone hates you for blocking the movie:)

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But why is it that when I press my buzzer to get my wine my girlfriend gets upset?

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I feel sorry for the wine girls, especially when there’s a jump scare in the movie and she screams and throws the tray of champagne glasses into the air and breaks them all, those crystal flukes are quite pricey.

But it’s always nice when she spoon feeds me caviar.


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Does bringing in your own alcohol count as a snack? If so, guilty as charged.

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I don't think I can ever go to a normal movie theater again....food and alcohol, isn't that what movies are about.

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It's okay if you share. Nobody likes a Greedy Gary.

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D. W. Griffith had a different pet peeve about moviegoers -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORwC7gNyUaY

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And how about those tall people. They should be in the back.

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at this point I'd settle for a 7 ft giant in front of me, and 2 teens talking on their phones if I could see a really really good movie, like Memento, or The Machinist.

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> And how about those tall people. They should be in the back.

I actually do that. I'm 6'3", and I try to find a spot where I won't block someone's view. If the theater is packed and I have no choice of where to sit I'll slouch as much as I can.

I wonder if Griffith's dislike of hats was for the same reason as mine. Like me, he was a Kentuckian. He also lived in Louisville for a while, where the Kentucky Derby happens. By tradition, women here wear hats on Derby day. Some are well done and elegant, but many are fashion monstrosities, huge and garish affronts to common sense and good taste, the sorts of things that would make even the most flamboyantly dressed pimp recoil in horror. Like many traditions, this one shows no signs of ending any time soon.

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I mean, to me it just seems like common courtesy to go somewhere where you're not going to interfere with someone's line of vision. I can only imagine how D.W. would feel for tall people who were also wearing tall hats.

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> I can only imagine how D.W. would feel for tall people who were also wearing tall hats.

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Can we prove where D.W. was at the time of Lincoln's assassination?

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He wasn't born until about ten years later. But that's no problem for the conspiranoids -- they'll tell you that of course DWG shot Lincoln; he was just very clever.

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I don't care if someone is eating as long as it's not a person sitting next to me eating a bag of potato chips.

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When did it become commonplace to stuff yourself silly at the movies? Watching old films from the Golden age that have scenes in a movie theatre it never looked that way, they just smoke!

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BINGO...OUT GOES THE SMOKE,IN COME THE SNACKS...BASEBALL PLAYERS SWITCHED FROM TOBACCO TO SEEDS AND GUMS AND SHIT TOO.

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Unless the movie sucked. Then they'd throw vegetables.

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If people keep eating during movies, they're the ones who are going to need to lighten up. Obesity is not a joke.

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Okay then.

😎

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