What flavor popcorn seasoning? This can affect one's viewing experience.

butter and lots of it

Ahhh, a butter man I see. Myself, I have come to embrace the mixture of a thin layer of butter, followed by a generous shake of white cheddar seasoning. Both good on their own terms, it is with their powers combined that your taste buds will really witness something epic. No giant blue schlong epic, but epic nonetheless.

Luckily, the theater my friends and I hit up have little plastic containers sitting around that you can load up with the seasonings of choice so you don't go high and dry half way through.

I'm quite strange, I butter my popcorn a bit, but I make sure I add some snowcaps while the popcorn's still hot,
melty chocolately goodness

Sadly, at some point the area theaters got hooked on the idea of prefilled bags. You can get it fresh if you make a fuss, but having worked a counter during both the Lion King and Titantic, its hard for me to make that request from someone getting minimum wage, and an inch away from clawing his/her own eyes out. It was a lot easier to get the hotter, fresher, popcorn (and lovingly butter-layered) back in the day. Frankly, I think that's why so many of them have turned to the flavoring salts, less temperature dependent.

Well, my local theater allows customers to ask to "layer" their popcorn, they dump out half of the popcorn, let you add what you want, then refill it

Yep, I remember the layers. Nice to hear of a chain (or most likely a manager) who still believes in the tragically unhealthy, yet tragically delicious procedure.

it's the chain, both of the MJR theaters by me do it