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ONE LOVE said:
People eating potato chips in cinema once the movie has started. Absolutely can't stand it. Especially in movies that demand your complete attention, i.e., those slow contemplating movies with lots of quiet scenes. The bag makes that noise when you open, when you put your hand in reaching for those chips, then the chips themselves make loud annoying noises when you start munching on them. This guy was munching on them when I was watching Blade Runner last week and it nearly drove me mad.


Come to think of it, why do theatres sell these anyway? Just stick to popcorn.
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One of the many reasons I don't go to theaters.
 
ONE LOVE said:
People eating potato chips in cinema once the movie has started. Absolutely can't stand it. Especially in movies that demand your complete attention, i.e., those slow contemplating movies with lots of quiet scenes. The bag makes that noise when you open, when you put your hand in reaching for those chips, then the chips themselves make loud annoying noises when you start munching on them. This guy was munching on them when I was watching Blade Runner last week and it nearly drove me mad.


Come to think of it, why do theatres sell these anyway? Just stick to popcorn.
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I read a study a few years back that said if you're annoyed by people eating food audibly, then you're more likely to be intelligent.
 
Archie Moses said:
I read a study a few years back that said if you're annoyed by people eating food audibly, then you're more likely to be intelligent.
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You should contact the researchers with this new data. Turns out they were wrong.

just playin' OL
 
I read about the whole eating noises bothering you thing too. Turns out it is a real condition. It can be socially debilitating. It goes along with people being bothered by certain words and other bodily noises such as sneezes. Personally it drives me nuts when people slurp anything, including through a straw at the end of a drink, and when people sneeze, including myself. I hate sneezing noises and I do not know why. I had a companion on my mission that was so bothered by chewing noises, at any volume, that we always ate with music playing rather loudly or we ate at different time so he could be in a different room, and I do not consider myself to be a noisy eater, because it bugs me on some level too. This is actually pretty common.

And I think we had a brief discussion around this before, but I cannot stand the word "moist". I think it should be eliminated from the language. And when I hear people in church in a prayer after we got some rain say "thank you for the moisture we have received" I want to scream. I am not a fan of the standard mormon prayer platitudes anyway, but the whole "moisture" thing drives me right up the wall.

edit: here you go:

http://time.com/4659308/misophonia-noisy-eating-science/

If you've ever been tempted to confront someone slurping their soup in a restaurant, or if a person breathing loudly next to you in the movie theater is enough to make your blood boil, then you're not alone: You're one of many people suffering from a genuine brain abnormality called misophonia.
Misophonia, a disorder which means sufferers have a hatred of sounds such as eating, chewing, loud breathing or even repeated pen-clicking, was first named as a condition in 2001.
Over the years, scientists have been skeptical about whether or not it constitutes a genuine medical ailment, but now new research led by a team at the U.K.'s Newcastle University has proven that those with misophonia have a difference in their brain's frontal lobe to non-sufferers.In an report published in the journal Current Biology, scientists said scans of misophobia sufferers found changes in brain activity when a 'trigger' sound was heard. Brain imaging revealed that people with the condition have an abnormality in their emotional control mechanism which causes their brains to go into overdrive on hearing trigger sounds. The researchers also found that trigger sounds could evoke a heightened physiological response, with increased heart rate and sweating.
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edit: here is another one:

http://mentalfloss.com/article/64984/science-behind-why-people-hate-word-moist

People really do not like discussing moisture. A Buzzfeed post called “Why Moist Is The Worst Word Ever” received more than 4 million views; when The New Yorker asked readers to nominate a word to scrub from the English language in 2012, the overwhelming consensus was to ditch moist. The seemingly ordinary adjective inspires an excessive outpouring of ire. Why?

A group of psychologists decided to find out. Researchers from Oberlin College in Ohio and Trinity University in San Antonio ran three different experiments [PDF] to figure out how many people really find the word “moist” disdainful, and why. They found that more than 20 percent of the population studied was averse to the word, but that it didn’t have anything to do with the way it sounds. Rather, it’s the association with bodily functions that seem to turn most people off, whether they realize it or not.
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Funny thing is, they mention a study that kind of shows that people dislike the word "moist" because it gets tied to bodily functions and that generally people who dislike that word also have issues with bodily functions and that is totally not me. I have zero issues discussing bodily functions.
 
ONE LOVE said:
People eating potato chips in cinema once the movie has started. Absolutely can't stand it. Especially in movies that demand your complete attention, i.e., those slow contemplating movies with lots of quiet scenes. The bag makes that noise when you open, when you put your hand in reaching for those chips, then the chips themselves make loud annoying noises when you start munching on them. This guy was munching on them when I was watching Blade Runner last week and it nearly drove me mad.


Come to think of it, why do theatres sell these anyway? Just stick to popcorn.
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Why would anyone still go to the theater? Overpriced tickets, overpriced food, uncomfortable seating. I'd rather lay on the couch watching the same quality for a fraction of the cost and try to get some spoon poon.
 
Saint Cy of JFC said:
I dont get why people find this annoying. Do you find two people talking within your earshot annoying?

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I commute the train and I find every boisterous conversation of any kind annoying. The long cellphone ones are typically younger women having the most obnoxious conversations that never seem to end.

On a related note, my co-worker who sits across the isle from me has developed this habit of humming all freaking day long. I have to wear earplugs just to function. If he's not doing that he's chomping his gum with a wide open mouth during conversation.
 
franklin said:
Why would anyone still go to the theater? Overpriced tickets, overpriced food, uncomfortable seating. I'd rather lay on the couch watching the same quality for a fraction of the cost and try to get some spoon poon.
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While I agree with most of your post, the seats at the theater are way comfortable and nice now.
 
franklin said:
Why would anyone still go to the theater? Overpriced tickets, overpriced food, uncomfortable seating. I'd rather lay on the couch watching the same quality for a fraction of the cost and try to get some spoon poon.
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There are movies I would rather watch in a theater for the large screen experience. Also I don't have to make my own snacks or clean up the mess and I get out of the house for a while. In some ways it is the experience and it is somewhat nostalgic for me as it was an event when I was a kid. I will never forget seeing Star Wars and E.T. and other films like that on the big screen with my family. So that plays into it as well. I definitely don't go to the movies as often as I once did, but it is a nice escape once in a while.
 
franklin said:
Why would anyone still go to the theater? Overpriced tickets, overpriced food, uncomfortable seating. I'd rather lay on the couch watching the same quality for a fraction of the cost and try to get some spoon poon.
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Reasons for me:

1. Wanting to watch latest movies as soon as they come out instead of having to wait 6 months for it to come on DVD or streaming.

2. For some movies, as Log had alluded to, it's actually a better experience to watch it on a big screen. Movies like Blade Runner for example is really great on a big screen. I watched Dunkirk on the IMAX screen a couple of months back and oh my goodness, I would never dream of watching THAT on a TV screen (I have a large flatscreen at home with complete surround sound system but even that won't do). It's the immersive experience you simply don't get at home.

3. It's more social


I do have to put up with the odd people eating potato chips loudly, (and the smell of hot dogs and fries in some countries), but 80% of the time it's pretty pleasant.
 
I have a candy dish on my desk full of individually-wrapped Lifesavers and Jolly Ranchers. It makes me crazy when people take them, open them, and leave the wrapper on my desk, especially since the trashcan is very close.
 
ONE LOVE said:
Reasons for me:

1. Wanting to watch latest movies as soon as they come out instead of having to wait 6 months for it to come on DVD or streaming.

2. For some movies, as Log had alluded to, it's actually a better experience to watch it on a big screen. Movies like Blade Runner for example is really great on a big screen. I watched Dunkirk on the IMAX screen a couple of months back and oh my goodness, I would never dream of watching THAT on a TV screen (I have a large flatscreen at home with complete surround sound system but even that won't do). It's the immersive experience you simply don't get at home.

3. It's more social


I do have to put up with the odd people eating potato chips loudly, (and the smell of hot dogs and fries in some countries), but 80% of the time it's pretty pleasant.
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One of the best movie experiences I ever had was watching The Dark Knight on iMAX. Went there to see it 3 times actually. Loved it.
 
JazzGal said:
I have a candy dish on my desk full of individually-wrapped Lifesavers and Jolly Ranchers. It makes me crazy when people take them, open them, and leave the wrapper on my desk, especially since the trashcan is very close.
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Throw one at them next time. That'll learn'em!
 
LogGrad98 said:
One of the best movie experiences I ever had was watching The Dark Knight on iMAX. Went there to see it 3 times actually. Loved it.
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Nice. I like that Nolan keeps shooting films on the IMAX format. It really is much better than the typical cinema screen. Just so immersive.
 
LogGrad98 said:
One of the best movie experiences I ever had was watching The Dark Knight on iMAX. Went there to see it 3 times actually. Loved it.
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Me too!
 
One of my best IMAX experience was watching Beowulf on 3D IMAX years ago.... no way I'd be able to re-create that experience at home.
 
Wes Mantooth said:
I don't. IMAX is garbage because the sound quality is laughable.
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Did you go to a crappy imax theater? I went to the one at the Jordan Commons (is that where it is? the Larry Miller theater there by crab shack or whatever) and I thought everything about it was top notch. I had seats dead center in the middle of the theater (if anyone has been to this particular one, right at the top row of the lower seating area). It was an unbelievable experience watching The Dark Knight there. Just sucked you in in a way I have not experienced much in movies at all. One I will never forget.
 
Wes Mantooth said:
Wtf? That movie looked retarded and was roundly panned by critics iirc.
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I judge each movie based on its merits... I always avoid reading what critics say before watching a movie.


But since you think highly of what critics think here's what Wikipedia say:


Giving Beowulf three out of four stars, Roger Ebert argues that the film is a satire of the original poem.[41] Time magazine critic Richard Corliss describes the film as one with "power and depth" and suggests that the "effects scenes look realer [sic], more integrated into the visual fabric, because they meet the traced-over live-action elements halfway. It all suggests that this kind of a moviemaking is more than a stunt. By imagining the distant past so vividly, Zemeckis and his team prove that character capture has a future."[42] Corliss later named it the 10th best film of 2007.[43] Rolling Stone critic Peter Travers argues that “The eighth-century Beowulf, goosed into twenty-first century life by a screenplay from sci-fi guru Neil Gaiman and Pulp Fiction's Roger Avary, will have you jumping out of your skin and begging for more... I've never seen a 3-D movie pop with this kind of clarity and oomph. It's outrageously entertaining."[44]
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