We really need to talk about movie theater etiquette. In what should have been a great weekend for cinemas, A Minecraft Movie opened well above expectations to deliver the biggest-ever opening weekend for a video game movie – a positive sign for the theater industry and for the future of going to the movies. Instead, it was overshadowed by reports of loud, rowdy screenings with teenagers and young adults throwing popcorn at the screen, shouting lines that quickly became TikTok trends, and treating a shared movie-going experience like a living room. It got so bad that the police were called to one screening, and various theaters have put up signs reminding people not to throw their popcorn and soda at the screen.