The Top 3 Sins of Cinema Audiences

Whilst at the cinema we all look forward and embrace the atmosphere of the whole movie going experience. However, on several occasions this has been ruined, resulting in the movie forever reminding you of that one time you were at the cinema and the big guy next to you fell asleep and continually kept falling on to your seat. So I thought I would write the top 3 sins of those who go to the cinema and ruin it for the rest of us.

  1. People eating too loudly

Without fail this happens every time I go to the cinema. It's understandable that when it's dark people may think that suddenly because people can't see them that they can't hear them, but that's not how it works! If that's not bad enough they might even sit next to you and end up hitting you with the food shrapnel. For someone that already has an issue with loud eaters, for me, this is one of the worst sins to commit whilst at the cinema.

   2. The Seat Kicker

You sit down. Feeling quite pleased with your seat selection skills. Then you see them. You don't know them but you just know where they're going to sit... yes, right behind YOU. Now that's fine until you feel a sudden pressure on the back of your seat, but it's when the movie starts and you feel two feet sitting at the top of your seat and now your going to be put through hell for the next two hours.

 You confront the person, and trust me I've done it before and it's never turned out well. Especially when your sitting quite happily in a quiet Glasgow cinema, until some child starts purposefully kicking your chair (with extreme force) so you turn around to give them "the look" and then eventually you find the courage to ask them to stop. Not realising the child's mother is five times the size of you and threatens to, I quote, "batter me" if I don't stop disturbing them during the film (Obviously I'm putting it more politely!), only to be faced with the smug look from her child and quite extreme abuse after the film. Ugh.

  3. The Talker

We've all been there, that irritating whisper you can just hear under the movie. "Shhhhh!" coming from the rest of the theatre. I was unlucky enough to have "the Talker's" sit right behind me when I went to see the hobbit last year in Glasgow. Non-stop throughout the film all I heard was shrieking and "OMG! IT'S FRODO!!!" even though it was not Frodo but in fact Bilbo (I know *facepalm*). Even though both me and my sister both, more than ten times, asked them to politely shut up, it didn't stop. I think that has to be the worst cinema experience I've ever had. Fair to say the death stares they got after that film were, well, let's just say if looks could kill.
Here is a perfect example from Scottish comedy 'Still Game' of how annoying "the talker" can be. The full YouTube clip can be found here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PvB8NrCRPk





So there you are, the 3 sins of cinema that I believe are the most common and the worst that we have to deal with today. 
If you have any funny stories or any sins from the cinema that I haven't mentioned, feel free to put it in the comments!