As per topic - I for one often wonder why I pay these people money to suffer. Admittedly, I don't go often but the experiences are almost always highly unpleasant. A few particular low points:

1. The theatres' ridiculous policy of requiring people who have ordered tickets, paid for them using credit card, and have been e-mailed confirmation to collect paper stubs to show their ushers. This resulted in me having to line up for about 20 minutes today. Dear Event Cinemas: great job on turning the online ticket collection queue into a general "Everyone come here" line today! Let's face it, we all know why they do this: they want to tempt you into getting their overpriced junk food. This brings me to....

2. Having to endure the obnoxious noises made by people gulping their drinks and eating their popcorns inside their theatre.

3. Dirty seats - Event Cinemas are particularly poor for this. It's almost as though cleaning is a foreign concept for them.

4. The ridiculous number of pre-screening ads. We endured (actually timed it) nearly 15 minutes of ads before we got to the preview trailers recently when watching Rogue One recently. Ridiculous.

5. Terrible sound systems - often they are not loud enough or are way too loud and with poor sound definition.

Yes, the big screens are nice and the odd theatre still has good sound systems. But I for one won't be too sad if these people were made to disappear like CD stores were. Anyone else feel the same way?