manwithchainsaw

True story, when I was an usher for the Tom cruise war of the worlds, we received a customer complaint after a showing let out. So we go into the theater, and 3 rows from the top, dead center, is a seat still down, with a huge, freshly laid turd on it. So much shit it actually held the seat down. More confusing to me though, was the lack of shitty napkins or anything else around the turd. Dude apparently just dropped it, pulled his pants back up and then bounced. Fucked up.

That is a standard procedure for theaters owned by Regal Entertainment Group. So any Regal theaters, AMCs, and whatever else they own these days, it's absolute policy that someone has to do a check in a theater with the light stick no less than 3 times per showing. There's even a check list and everything. I promise, I hated it more than you do.

Alright, so I'm gonna blow the lid on this whole situation. You're in love with stale popcorn. I worked in theaters for years, from usher to concession to projection to management and blah blah blah. We cook the popcorn, but it in a bag, and let it hang out till we need it, usually no more than a day or two. We do this to compensate for rushes and such. When we need it, we'll put the bagged corn into a warmer and serve it. True story, the only time I ever got complaints about the popcorn was when we got crazy slammed and had to pop fresh corn. I assume it's just such a standard industry wide practice that people are accustomed to stale popcorn. Also that butter oil shit. People go nuts for it.

Fair enough. I've worked for Malco and REG and that was standard procedure for both, so that's my experience.

Well for one that is incredibly exceptional, that would never happen in any of the theaters I've worked in, also, dark knight RISES came in under its name, but dark knight absolutely came in under the title "rorys first kiss". Still my favorite dummy title. But back when they shipped 35mm prints exclusively, as opposed to digital now, it used to happen a lot more often.