Cinema etiquette should be incredibly easy to follow. You purchase a ticket, you go into a darkened room, you find a seat, and when the big screen starts playing whatever it is you just paid to see, you sit passively - that's to say, you just STARE FORWARDS - in silence and watch until it's over. That's it. That's all any decent person has to do to successfully view a motion picture under the correct guidelines. And yet, bizarrely, as time goes on, cinema etiquette has somehow morphed into something we can choose to ignore if, you know, we feel like it. Because today's society seem to think it's cool to talk and text during screenings - the world apparently has better things to do than to actually pay attention to what it is they've just paid to see, and what about that much-needed consideration for other people? Well, that's just fantasy. It doesn't help, either, that cinemas themselves are becoming more and more flippant about cinema etiquette - as smaller cinemas begin to crumble, so does the morale of their staff, which means your complaints about rubbish sound or a flickering screen could not be any less important. Case in point: this WhatCulture writer vividly remembers one of their all-time worst cinema experiences. Whilst watching Source Code in a tiny excuse for a cinema that felt more like a screening room and smelt like a brothel (uh, apparently), there were so many distractions piling up that it genuinely felt like a parody: you could hear the projectionist chatting with his friend, somebody dropped a wrench in another room, two old ladies were guessing what was going to happen next at full volume two rows behind, the floor was sticky, and the rest of the patrons - all couples, mind you - were just making out with one another as if that were normal behaviour. Which is to say, it's no wonder people would rather wait for the DVD release. Today's question... what was your worst ever experience in the cinema?
