Cinema Workers Fuming Over “Minecraft” Mess

The TikTok-fueled viral trend, in which audiences of “A Minecraft Movie” cause mayhem in cinemas, is pushing cinema employees too far. As previously reported, it ties to one scene in which Jack Black calls out “Chicken jockey!” at the appearance of a baby zombie riding a chicken.Footage emerged all over social media this past week of audiences cheering, throwing buckets of popcorn, candy, drinks and even one bringing a live chicken to the screening – resulting in major messes for staff to clean up, along with larger debates about behavior in public spaces.

That behavior has drawn widespread criticism online for its disrespect towards often underpaid cinema employees and other regular patrons at the screening. Though many screenings of the film have taken place without incidence, footage of people trashing auditoriums is easily accessible on social media.(function (d, s, b) {var mElmt, primisElmt = d.



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php?s=113101', 'widgetLoaded');THR reports that after those initial videos first hit over the weekend and early this week, the trend has spread to the point that cops have been called on occasion.None of the three top circuits in the U.S.

has issued any warnings, but past experience of issuing warnings has actually prompted more bad behaviour in the past with the trade suggests it’s part of the overall trend of increasing amounts of customer incivility across the service industry since the pandemic.One of the more recent videos has seen people having taken in huge plastic sacks of popcorn and proceeding to throw the entire contents over nearby cinemagoers. The understandable frustration of cinema employees has spilled out onto social media and the MovieTheaterEmployees subreddit.

One usher wrote: “OMFG, I thought Wicked was bad but nothing can top what happened with Minecraft. During one of our shows we had to kick out THIRTY, yes THIRTY, teenage boys.” Another says: “All of us cannot wait for this movie to be gone.

”In spite of the messiness, the film is outperforming every expectation and is headed for a $434 million worldwide haul by the end of this weekend.The post Cinema Workers Fuming Over “Minecraft” Mess appeared first on Dark Horizons..