10 Things They Don't Tell You About Working In A Cinema

"I'm always angry" - Bruce Banner, Avengers Assemble

Going to the cinema should be a happy occasion, a chance to escape from the stresses and strains from the working day. When the lights go down, you can lose yourself in the big screen experience. Unfortunately, some people see the cinema as an excuse to vent their frustrations at people earning minimum wage, or at their fellow cinemagoers. Some are furious about how their ice cream sundae doesn't look like the picture, whilst others take seating issues and noisy punters into their own hands.

In Glasgow, for example, a man was attacked during a screening of Fifty Shades of Grey for suggesting that the group of women in front of him stop talking. One woman was arrested, and local papers misreported the insane story that the gentleman in question had a wine bottle smashed over his head in the affray. Similarly, a group of literal Bad Moms were once caught vaping in the middle of a crowded screening, when challenged they defended themselves with "this is our night away from the kids and we're trying to enjoy ourselves, don't ruin our night!"

Men are, obviously, just as bad. If not worse. A brawl broke out recently at a screening of No Time to Die when one audience member sat in the other's reserved seat and refused to leave. And it's youth orientated movies like Blue Story, about the destructiveness of gang violence, that are the apparently the real problem...