When you have the money to have a great cinematic experience at home any time you want, any movie you want, then its easy to take potshots at the theater and be oversensitive to every little transgression. I don’t go to a lot of movies but when I do it’s mostly been pretty chill, and as others have mentioned, watching in the theater can also be a positive social experience, but if you’re overly rigid about absolute silence, that can’t develop and you might as well just see it at home.
When you have the money to have a great cinematic experience at home any time you want, any movie you want, then its easy to take potshots at the theater and be oversensitive to every little transgression. I don’t go to a lot of movies but when I do it’s mostly been pretty chill, and as others have mentioned, watching in the theater can also be a positive social experience, but if you’re overly rigid about absolute silence, that can’t develop and you might as well just see it at home.