Why do they call it a "popcorn flick"?
 

Do audiences not eat popcorn during good movies?

Its light and fluffy like popcorn.

Serious cinephiles sneak in supermarket sushi and mini-bottles of chardonnay.

Because most Americans like shitty movies and are fat??? :confused:

. . . rotflmao . . .

I did that last week. Mmmmm... spicy tuna roll. :drool:

You can safely concentrate on shovelling popcorn into your cake-hole, without fear of missing anything important.

And "popcorn" movies aren't always "bad" movies, are they? Why should I be made to feel guilty for eating a glad bag of mashed potatoes and a jumbo tub of kettle corn during The Passion of the Christ? :(

Your theater serves mashed potatoes? or am I missing some cool lingo you're using?

On a minor note, I found it funny that your handle is "cheapskate" and yet you spent a minor fortune on popcorn and other movie foods (well at least its a fortune to me at all the theathers where I live).

It's the type of movie that pork chops eat popcorn during because the only serious event taking place isn't the movie but whether or not you put enough butter on the popcorn.

It's a term used to attempt to deflect criticism of bad films. As in, "It's just a popcorn flick, man. Just turn your brain off and enjoy!"

yeah, but you did that for WALKING TALL...


Pop corn flick simply because it's a film that they will just sit back and toss the popcorn back on.

I was just kidding... it sounded like a fairly disgusting thing to do. :D

I only see about one movie a year, and if I do "splurge" on a small popcorn, I let it disolve slowly in my mouth as not to disturb others around me. ;)

That is quite possibly the most disgusting thing I've read in this forum, Pee-Wee.

Eddie Izzard has a great bit that kinda deals with this......

See "EDDIE IZZARD: Dressed to Kill"

:lol:

I told you I could only risk it once a year...

It's a term people who watch gay cowboy movies use to degrade movies that aren't up to their elite specifications.

It's the kind of movie that you bring a chick to, who doesn't care that theres a hole in the bottom of the popcorn bag and your penis is sticking through.

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It's the sort of movie that won't get in the way of your enjoyment of eating popcorn. It lets you turn off your mind and just keep stuffing your face.

If the movie's too 'artsy' you spend too much time trying to read the subtitles, figuring out if you're watching a flashback or dream sequence, and trying to understand what the person just meant when they said, "Death is Love. And Love is Nothing. And Nothing is better than Death." and then you're stuck with more than half a tub of popcorn at the end of the film which you just wastefully throw away.

Actually, Brokeback Mountain promises to be a pretty good movie, though certainly not a popcorn flick. :p

I can never have a popcorn flick experience, cuz almost every movie I see, my popcorn is completely or almost all gone by the time the previews are over.