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I rather have phones in a movie than popcorn. Having people next to you stuffing their faces with smelly greasy popcorn is the most disgusting and annoying behavior in a theater. The smell, the sound of the bag, the chewing and the licking of the greasy fingers, nothing is better at ruining a movie than that.

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You might have Misophonia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misophonia

I do agree that crinkly candy wrappers and noisy chips in a movie are annoying, but not extremely so.

But I do get irrationally angry when people talk during movies - to a degree that makes it impossible for me to watch MST3k[0] at all. I like the premise, the jokes are funny etc - but I just can't tolerate people talking over a movie :D

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_Science_Theater_3000

Nah, I think I just dislike humans behaving like pigs. There must be some strong correlation between buying large buttery bags of popcorn and manners on the table. I would also be annoyed if I was sitting next to people like that in a restaurant talking and chewing with their mouth full, eating with their hands or dropping utensils on the plate, but the proximity in the theater and the length of the movie makes it so much worse (those XL bags and large sodas can last two hours). I rarely go to the theaters in the US anymore for that reason, people in general are just gross, perhaps in other countries is different.

Last time I went to see a film there were only about ten people, and yet I had the twin delights of a phone screen on full brightness and sweet wrappers rustling constantly.

I agree on licking fingers because that's disgusting, and maybe chewing loudly, but popcorn is very traditional in movies. Interesting point though.

Those movie theaters were they serve a full dining experience are incomprehensible to me.

Makes me wonder if people actually care about the movie at all.

Yeah this is like an emperor has no clothes situation to me. Between the hot "butter" smell and the way people eat, it's pretty gross. Plain popcorn doesn't bother me.

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