It's a three hour movie. PEE DURING PREVIEWS.

Preferably, do so in the theater's bathrooms, not in your seat.

Be smart, and know your bladder. Don't drink a giant bucket of soda over the course of the movie if you can't handle it. It takes the average person about 45-60 minutes to process a drink. You're gonna have a bad time if you're the kind of person who drinks a lot early on while having the bladder strength of soggy bread.

Thats a neat bit of information. Thanks for the tip!

Tends to hit people who eat salty snacks (popcorn) the most. You load up on salt and your body naturally wants more liquids so you drink more in response. It's a vicious cycle.

I'm just amused by the amount of people who are like "I can't sit through a three hour long movie without having to go to the bathroom." If you have bladder or medical issues, sure, you get a pass... but I feel like the average person should be able to cope for three hours unless they're loading up on liquids. Those giant theater-sized drinks are literally nicknamed "bladder busters" for a reason.

What theaters should do is provide an intermission about halfway through the movie due to it's length. Watch South Pacific, that movie is nearly 3 hours long itself and there is an intermission around halfway.

...dont they do that in the US? They do here. Sometimes multiple ones.

The local movie theater here used to do it many years ago but they stopped for some reason.

There's a simple reason they stopped including intermissions: Intermissions can mean you have one fewer showing a day per screen. One fewer showing means one fewer theater load of patrons to buy snacks, (it's not like they make any money from the box office).

I'd say no. They def don't do it around here. That'd be great.

Kinda funny in that regard, I like salty popcorn and I've never had to make an emergency toilet break during a film. Helps that I always go before the previews start too :P

"The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder." ~Alfred Hitchcock

If they didn't want me peeing in those half gallon cups, they wouldn't let me purchase half gallon cups.

I do not have a large bladder. So, I peed right before going in.
You don't need to eat in the theater.
You don't need to drink in the theater.
I ate right beforehand, and of course had no interest in eating/drinking during the movie.

I needed to pee after it was over, but I wasn't, like.. hopping from foot to foot in need.

Yeah, but then all the blood rushes to your head and midway through the movie you start to hallucinate. The next thing you know, you're having a conversation between Samuel L. Jackson (who's ONLY saying "Motherfucker? Motherfucker. MOTHERFUCKER!") and the ghost of Jedediah Armisan, a blind 18th century metallurgist your brain invented in an oxygen-starved daze who only wants to talk how the blunderbuss is about to experience a comeback

....Whut.

blunderbuss did make comeback its the shotgun

A lot of these rules are common sense, but don't forget one important thing...

action, horror, comedey and sci-fi/fantasy movies are meant to be interactive and fun to watch and enjoy. If I have to sit through movies that are meant to have audience participation like a statue, then I will find another theater that has no problem with that.

Go to the theater that suits your needs.

Me? I only see movies at the Alamo Drafthouse. They have an insanely strict no talking, no cellphones, not disturbances policy. When I watch a movie I want to be absorbed by it, no interruptions. Other people tend to ruin movies for me. Alamo fixes that. But everybody has their own preferences and needs.

The basic rule, regardless of theater: don't disturb the other people around you.

One thing I do is either shut my cell phone down or put it in airplane mode when going to a theater. But you are right about finding a theater that best suits what you want. But for the love of GOD don't bring your kids and/or babies to movies that are not meant for younger ages (and that includes adult rated animation (Sausage Party is one that has had a ton of parents thinking it was for kids)).

I went to see Natural Born Killers in the theaters when it came out. I remember there being kids in the theater and thinking "What the bloody hell is wrong with their parents?"

Yeah

When I went to see Jurassic Park in theaters, someone thought it would be a great idea to bring an infant. Guess what happened every time a dinosaur made a loud noise?

Ooooh i like that theatre's rules.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1L3eeC2lJZs

You'll appreciate this then. They actually play videos like this before their movies.

Bwaaahaha.

Reminds me a couple weeks ago I saw a post go up of one of my local cinemas on FB, and the photo showed that the screen looked like a damn warzone - popcorn and litter everywhere. Anything I take into the screen with me always ends up in the bin afterwards, it only takes like five seconds to do so, plus it'd help the staff save time when the film's done.

People are inherently slobs, even in public. Just imagine how bad some of these people's houses must be if this is how they treat public places?

Ever seen a park after a rally or large event? The amount of trash people leave is shameful.

Indeed - i have a hard enough time keeping my own room tidyish cause of all the travel and moving stuff about, but I do my damnedest to make it look presentable. Was brought up to be clean and tidy, so it's pretty much second nature for me to bin anything I'm finished with.

I've not got much experiences with those, but I've been to a few open-field boot sales where you'll find empty cans/cups/tissues blowing around here and there.

(also found the photo I was talking about: https://tinyurl.com/y4fo43vx )

I saw a few similar pictures on Reddit. People can be terrible. Be a slob in your own house, but in public... oi. No. Yeah, accidents happen, things will be spilled, and that's part of the process. Too many people just leave their trash where they left it like the damn butler's going to come up and go "Good work on those nachos, sir!" and clean up your mess.

Only one movie should the staff at any theater be ready to clean a trashed screen...

The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

Giraffe doesn't deserve the hate ;w;

Necky boys need to be considerate!

Or even better, wait a month or two after release and have no one else in there ;)

I don't get the appeal of watching films with loads of strangers at all. They're getting up, walking around, eating noisily and there are always the kids, all while trying to be as quiet as possible yourself...I watched Jurassic World 2 on opening night, never again.

Meanwhile, watching Into the Spiderverse with my younger brother last month, entire room to ourselves, sitting in the middle of the VIP row in comfy seats while being able to talk and joke about the film, not worrying about anyone else. It was perfect. Would never do that with anyone else in the room of course, but it made it so much more enjoyable.

Cinemas are usually too crowded to be enjoyable for me. Me and my brother want to watch Detective Pikachu next month, ideally I want to wait a week or two for everything to settle down.

I prefer some crowd interaction -- like, when a joke lands, I like to know I'm not alone in laughing. I tend to laugh at things few other people do though, and it's always weird when I'm alone. But that's part of the experience.

I hate it when people are rude at the movies

Just saw endgame. Someone’s phone went off at literally the worst possible time. Max volume

There's special place in hell for people who do that.

I once had a guy sitting next to me reading his text messages about an hour into Deadpool 2. When he was done, he left the phone on his leg. Face up. Screen on.

Not as bad as a ring tone that everyone else can hear. But seriously, guy?

The crinkly chips bag...

So crinkly.

I've been that guy, though with candy. The candy comes in a freakin' box... but inside the box is the world's loudest bag that, for some reason, they sell at movie theaters.

As long as people clean up after themselves and aren't crazy loud I can cope.

I don't think I ever thanked you properly last time for introducing me to Glove and Boots. 8)

I am totally Team Mario. Something about the way he talks amuses me to no end. And the episode with the sushi bazooka forever remains one of my favorites.

I like how the video is okay with sneaking in snacks, the prices are nuts at the movies. Thankfully I never had to experience a baby at the theater, I mean who the bloody hell would take a newborn to a loud dark room?

At the Alamo Drafthouse prices are expensive, but still reasonable (unlike most awful chains). They do full meals there along with waitservices and drink refills during the film. So yeah, you'll pay $10 for a ticket, and maybe $15-20 in food, but you're getting actual food -- like going out to a restaurant.

Our cinemas are't like that as far as I know, I don't exactly get the point of bringing in cooked food to a movie.

The prices are nuts because the theaters literally have to choose between charging that much for snacks or closing their doors. Personally, I just treat the price of my snacks as part of the ticket price.

Now, second-run theaters will often have reasonable snack prices. This is because they show things late enough that they are actually making money from the box office.

funny

Nice I do bring box candy from the Store and put them in the plastic bags for the produce and I turn my Cell phone off before the Previews start

I miss old Glove and Boots, and their streams X3

Their new stuff hit a rough start, but it's gotten a lot better. They've had so many videos over time. I love their old gadget testing videos or their PSAs.

Perfect video to teach people how to behave, I love those guys :D

mainly i just wait 6 months and it on dvd and knowing few folks i know since i am a cheap person get the movie for 5$