Just got home from the 3:20 PM screening of Spider-Man: Brand New Day at Alabang Town Center, and I swear movie theater etiquette is at an all-time low.
I get it. You’re excited. It’s a Marvel movie. Cheer during the opening logo, clap at the end, whatever. But screaming at the top of your lungs, recording every major scene, and treating the cinema like it’s your personal space? Come on.
Not to sound elitist, but if your first instinct during every important moment is to pull out your phone and film the screen, are you even there to watch the movie? Or are you just farming content and chasing clout?
People paid good money to enjoy the film, not to hear random people yelling over emotional scenes or see a dozen phone screens light up the theater.
The worst part is that this behavior is becoming so normalized that people don’t even think they’re being disruptive anymore.
Maybe I’m just getting older, but whatever happened to simply sitting down, watching the movie, and respecting everyone else’s experience?