You’re sitting in a theater watching a play that you paid a lot to see — and it’s a good play, intense and riveting. You hear everything that everyone has said, and you’re captivated, immersed in the story, unaware of the people beside you and around you.
Then the crinkling starts.
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I can't believe there are no comments posted on this article yet. I have to agree after just coming home from another annoying "noise" experience at the movies. What a timely article!! I wish I had read this before seeing the movie. I would have made copies to hand out to the noise making offenders! Hard to believe that they don't realize how loud they are. I realize that movies and theater productions have two different dollar values for the consumer, so after paying the high price for a theater ticket this might be more of an issue, but I find, since I go to movies more often, that movie goers are the rudest bunch of people around. I agree that part of the problem is that movie theaters sell items to be eaten while watching a movie. The bags that hold the popcorn make so much noise...how about bringing back the firm sided round tubs. They're quiet!! Crinkle, crinkle, crinkle....so distracting....that's all I can hear...I have decided to watch Netflix from now on, no more movie theaters, I can't stand all the noise. I can wait until a movie is released on DVD where I can enjoy movies at home without distractions. "Please, for the love of God, STOP EATING!!" Love that!
Me too--- I have so many such examples all pent up in my head!!
In New York at the theater, I finally had complain to the usher, who moved me down front at intermission to an empty seat. The culprit was a family next to me with a very young child sitting on top of the folded seat and crinkling a full sized bag of chips AND a whole row of young women on the other side that just could not put down their cell phones and stop checking messages. The cell phone is the most aggregeous offense, and all of those that do it are fully waare of what they are doing, they just want what they want at the moment.... a sign of the generateion. I challenge the theaters to "patrol" the aisles (keeping visual guard from the top of the aisle) and have a zero tolerance policy for this behavior, so that we don't have to struggle with what to do, and miss half of the show.