Have you had to contend with any of this?
Cinemas can be transcendent places.
Sitting elbow-to-elbow with your fellow man and basking in the glow of other human imaginations?
As long as everybody behaves.
If hell is other people, then cinema multiplexes are where those other people hang out.
Here are my movie theatre horror stories.
playing Egyptian pharaohs and wearing eyeliner that made them look like 15-year-old girls trying to get into a nightclub.
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His protests started small but escalated, as the saying goes, quickly.
This man was not happy and wanted everybody to know about it.
A woman quietly crept out after him.
I think about her sometimes.
Shes my best friend and we havent seen each other for MONTHS!.
So go outside then.
Weve paid to be here!
and an extended stropping-out panto soundtracked by theatrical muttering about how some people need to get a life.
Once the door swings with them on the other side of it, a polite patter of applause.
If I told you we ran them down with our car later, would you judge us?
The clues in the name.
In a screening of a Norwegian comedy-drama?
Except, of course they hadnt.
Everything once again awful.
I hope you enjoyed this TED Talk.
