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‘I always confront’: Guardian readers on the decline of cinema etiquette

A cinema audience in 2023
A cinema audience in 2023. Photograph: Tom Nicholson/Shutterstock for Mediterrane Film Festival

I walked out of a showing of Barbie at the Odeon last week due to the behaviour of other people in the cinema – they were scrolling through phones, chatting as if they were in their own front room, waving their arms in the air during the musical number and whooping every time Ryan Gosling’s face appeared on screen.

I enjoyed the opening 15min but was getting so stressed I had to go. Will try again in a few weeks time when the hype has died down. ali3240

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