Hai notato un aumento dei cattivi comportamenti al cinema?
https://www.thejournal.ie/poll-your-say-cinema-etiquette-audience-bad-behaviour-6726332-Jun2025/
di WickerMan111
Hai notato un aumento dei cattivi comportamenti al cinema?
https://www.thejournal.ie/poll-your-say-cinema-etiquette-audience-bad-behaviour-6726332-Jun2025/
di WickerMan111
32 commenti
YES!
Yes. I don’t go to Mahon Point Omniplex in Cork anymore as on weekend afternoons it’s a place for bored teenagers to hangout. Losers hanging out at the back of the theatre during kids movies, vaping and watching phone videos out loud. The other cinema in the city is much better simply because of this.
I stopped going years ago. It’s a den for pigs. 🐷
I’ve certainly noticed (or become more sensitive to) an increasing amount of individually wrapped food being brought in.
Multipacks of crisps? Let me dig through and find the flavour I want!!
Sweets with their own wrappers? Let me slowly uncurl this plastic every 2 minutes!
Large bag of Manhattan popcorn? Let me just continue to crinkle it with every handful!
Drives me up the wall!!
Don’t bother with the cinema anymore, sick of being surrounded with idiots with a worse attention span than fucking toddlers.
It’s not an increase, it has always been bad. I don’t bother with the cinema anymore because of it.
Nah. Probably depends on screening or I’m super lucky
The last time I went to the cinema was 2019 and it was pretty fucking feral then.
Never again.
Edit: Why did I fall for this. A post in r/Ireland by another news reposter.
Jesus if I think back now, a serious amount of my cinema experiences have been ruined recently.
Important to note here I am very confrontational, but I get super super high before most films I see so I’m usually incapacitated for the first hour.
I was sitting in the very back corner for Sinners, and there was a teenage couple taking selfies in the middle of the aisle….with full brightness on their screens where the screen acts as the flash for the camera. I eventually went over to them and told them to get the fuck out (which they did). But even after that when I went to the toilet, as I walked down the steps I could see multiple Instagrams or whatever **on full brightness** being browsed.
At Barbie, there was an Indian couple with their toddler and fucking baby down the aisle from me. The baby wouldn’t stop crying so the parents gave it a phone to play with!!! I was super super baked for Barbie, so eventually I just moved down to the front but the movie was totally ruined for me. When I eventually gave it another chance at home I thought it was brilliant
Went to Godzilla x Kong then after that. And the exact same couple were there doing the exact same fucking thing. Luckily the movie was super loud and not requiring so much attention so it didn’t impact this one as much
And finally, not bad behaviour this time but sheer incompetence from the cinema. I saw Beau is Afraid in a small screen. And for ages I was wondering what the hell is going on with the sound mixing here, surely this isn’t deliberate. So an hour in I stepped outside to seek staff, but immediately noticed the screen beside us was literally shaking. I went inside, it was totally empty and had the M&S protest documentary playing louder than a bloody Slipknot gig
I always get a large popcorn and drink, so my cineba trips aren’t cheap. And now that I look at the rate of bad experiences (I haven’t mentioned the typical minor issues like people talking and having to tell them to shut up) it is making me reconsider future trips
What gets my goat is that I’m practically drooling on myself for a lot of this, what the hell are the people closer to the culprits doing all this time? Where are people’s backbones that they would pay and devote time to this experience and just let all this slide until I snap out of my fog?!
Yes. This generation of kids are cunts.
I’ve noticed an increase of bad behavior in most places tbh
Stopped going around 2018. I got some kind of weird misphonia about the sounds of people eating in the cinema. Like I get that concessions is where cinemas make money but like sitting near someone who is sucking nacho cheese off their fingers and wiping them on the seat is fucking disgusting.
I used to go to midnight screenings in the Lighthouse a lot, but they attract stinky BO neckbeards and my patience with them wore thin.
Yes. More recently someone decided to have a video call in the middle of a fairly quiet scene. I called them out and they stopped thankfully but the fact they thought it was okay annoys me.
In the 30 years I’ve been going to the cinema, it’s always been like this.
Back in the day the issue was more likely to be people kicking the back of your seat and throwing stuff at you as opposed to the modern loud and bright phone use that’s predominant now, but the level of disruption has remained relatively static.
It’s just an inherent risk when going there. You learn to mitigate against the risk. I love horror films but I’m long enough in the tooth to know I shouldn’t go see one on a Saturday afternoon for opening week etc
By far the most annoying thing about going to the cinema nowadays is the fire safety signs that are in most of them to the side of the screen, so they are always in your peripheral vision.
Yes! I’ve been going to the cinema weekly or more most of my life, and it has gotten much worse. I live in Paris now and it’s just as bad.
I attribute it to phones. We already have pretty decent data that phone use fucks our attention spans, so it makes sense that more people can’t handle two hours without grabbing the scrolling machine.
Edit: additional info.
There are cinemas in Paris now that block network signals in the theatre rooms to stop this. I think more places, not just cinemas, should try it.
It’s why I stopped going to them. I will only go for a screening time where there will be less people overall or no one.
Yep. Post pandemic dickheads who no longer know how to act in public, and broccoli heads who were too young to experience the cinema before the pandemic. Couple that with gnat attention span TikTok dick heads. It’s just a bullshit soup.
yea, the clouds of vaping was the last straw. I liked the cinema. I actually wrote to customer service but they didn’t care.
It’s cost them a nice few quid over the last few years. But they have millions so they don’t care.
The Chicken Jockey fiasco only raised the bar for it
It’s been awful since Covid
Yeah it’s insane how people just talk now. They don’t even whisper. They just talk like it’s expected or they are the thing we came to see.
I go still because I love reading the Facebook feed of idiots in front of me on full brightness. Then I play a game where I guess how long they can go without checking for any updates on the same feed. Good times. /s going through covid was actually class though.
its intolerable, and has always been there but gotten far worse in the last 10/15 years.
I cant go anymore. Anytime I go I feel angry sitting in the cineme. Cant be dealing with teenagers on their phones making noise.
in the past 10 times i’ve gone to the cinema, id say only once or twice was it an enjoyable experience. i don’t go to the cinema too often, but every time i do, i’m always on edge before the movie even starts in case some cunt or cunts decides to act up and i can’t properly enjoy it. i went to see sonic 3 at the start of january with two others and there was a huge group of scumbag teenagers throwing food at people, shouting things, taking pictures. it was a good movie, but i had to watch it again at home to fully enjoy it. i told a staff member, they asked me to point them out and then didn’t do anything about it. i don’t blame them for being sick of dealing with it (i used to work in a cinema myself).
Go earlier. Usually the cinema is empty. Couldn’t be tolerating a bunch of sham teenagers acting the clown while I sit and watch a movie.
I haven’t noticed any bad behaviour at cinemas. I don’t go very often though, only a few times a year. I’m either going to kids films with the kids, or typically the grown up films wouldn’t necessarily be blockbusters (superhero films etc).
But yeah, I haven’t noticed anything. Even when I went to Minecraft there were rounds of applause at the bits where I’d seen clips of people going crazy. I found the applause amusing as I didn’t know what was going on. I like that as it just seemed people really like the quotes/those moments.
I remember years ago being at There Will be Blood and in one of the final scenes, at a very tense moment, the person beside me answered a phone called. I couldn’t believe it and turned to him and said, “turn that off!” He panicked and hung up straight away. I think he just went on autopilot and just was like, ‘phone ring, must answer’. This was back before smartphones and I think most people used to completely switch off their phones then, which no one does anymore.
I do believe that behaviour at the cinema has degraded from stories I hear, I’m always on alert for it, and expect it. Think I’m just lucky being outside Dublin and typically go not at peak times.
I think a big part of the problem is phone addiction also. A lot of people just compulsively pull out their phone and start scrolling through Instagram and tiktok if their brain goes blank for a fifth of a second.
No
Personally no. I don’t go often though. Last few movies I’ve seen were the previous Mission Impossible, James Bond, Bridget Jones, Mickey 17, couple of Marvel movies and some others I’m forgetting. They wouldn’t have many teenagers except Marvel ones but nothing happened. This is between Omniplex Rathmines, Savoy and Parnell street
Nothing anti-social as such. But I hate being stuck behind someone who can’t stop checking their phone. In a dark cinema those main characters really underestimate how bright their screen is for everyone behind them.
If I really, really want to see a movie in the Cinema I try to choose a screening time when very few people will be going to the Cinema. If I can’t find a time that suits I don’t go. As the weeks go by after release date the less likely I will go to the cinema to see the movie and will wait for it to be released through other “unofficial” channels with good audio on a large screen in my own home.
I will pay for a good quality experience. If that is not to be had in the Cinema then I will not go to the Cinema. Their loss, not mine.
It’s no coincidence that there’s no longer ushers in the cinema enforcing the rules. Saving a few quid will end up costing millions.