Popcorn is Overrated

Traditionally, we carry the bag of kernels into the theater and munch away as the trailers roll by into the feature film. There are huge advantages to what popcorn can provide. It’s not a loud snack, and it doesn’t make the annoying ruffling noise. However, most importantly, it comforts me as I walk into the theater and smell the tantalizing scent of butter that fills the air; but therein lays the evils of these mutated micro waved corn. Although we find solace in eating popcorn in a movie theater, I find it incredibly overrated and incredibly offensive to movie watching.

If you don’t know already, I’m an avid moviegoer, not because of the social reasons, but in layman’s term, I enjoy movies and their powerful ways of evoking emotions. That’s why we pay in order to feel something that’s not often felt in real life. Because we pay 10-11 dollars, as oppose to the 7 dollars, I better get my money’s worth. Those 10 dollars are there to transport you into different worlds, fantasies of others, or sometimes the cold bitter reality of some, which seems fitting being that you’ll have to pay billions of dollars in order to go into space. When you see the intro to the AMC movie theater skit, you see the audience being transported away from the theater and into something that resembles the wilderness, and to me that’s what defines and represents a movie. Watching the movie is like an out of body experience in which the mind will cease to be aware of being in one’s body. When we do these out of body experience, we will feel for the character and be a part of his/her adventure by being inside the movie, or be captivated in its surrounding setting, like Pandora from Avatar.

Ingesting any type of food or drinks consumes energy and energy is not created. It’s transferred. Therefore, some of the energy in our mind is transferred to our stomach, being that a great deal of energy is required for digestion. With this in mind, our concentration will lessen, and our bodies will not be in the out of body experiences. It will focus on its survival needs and our body will be working when it should be at rest. Movies are all about living while digestion is about survival, and there is a huge difference between living and surviving.

When watching a movie, we should transport our minds into the movie and disregard the outside world, or in other terms, reality. Documentaries and Neo-Realist movies are some of the exceptions, but when we watch movies, we cannot let the outside world leak into the movie experience. But exactly, how do you leak the outside world into the movie experience? When we text to our friends, we take ourselves out of the movie because the friend is part of the outside world. Even talking to our neighbors is considered leaking the outside world because your neighbors have no part in the movie. With that being said, when we hold our food containers, move our hands, and rustle through the remaining kernels, our mind is slightly taking out of the movie experience, but nevertheless, it’s still taken out of the experience.

Again, popcorn is salty and salty foods require water in order to obtain neutrality in our bodies. Because of this, we will either feel really thirsty and feel the need to get up and buy the drink, or be a hero and endure the feeling of not being quenched. Because so, we will either miss out on a chunk of a movie, and a movie is defined by a whole, or, we will feel agitated and start resorting to our bodily needs rather than the movie. In order for this to not happen, it’s just best to stay away from popcorn or anything salty.

So with all this being said, I will CONSIDER THIS INSTEAD. I consider you not even having an alternative snack. I consider that you have nothing in your hands and in fact not having your phone at all. Your phone is a vessel to the outside world and it’s best to shut it off completely. I would consider you eating, drinking, and releasing nature before the movies, in fact before you go into the theater itself. These rules are imperative and I’m trying to get your money’s worth. After all, we are pay money for this.