Flaunt. Flounce means to storm off in a huff.
Is it really illegal, or is it just against the cinema rules?
A) US of A is big and different locations have different laws (public drinking is verbotten in most places)
B) When I was a kid two people got arrested for bringing their own popcorn into the theater. They are private property and can set the rules the way they want.
And where’s the Pulp Fiction quote people?
They sell cans of beer and beer on tap, here. There are bars in the waiting areas of theatres that you can get a cocktail, or order a bottle of wine. Some of the newer places have premium seating where you get cushy seats with a small table to put your food and drinks, and a waiter brings everything for you…Sorta cool.
-Tcat
What Rodgers01 said. Opening a beer at the movies is against societal norms, and when people break societal norms you don’t know what other societal norms they’re about to break. If a guy walked around naked at the store I’d keep away from him, and keep any children I happened to bring with me even further away from him, and not because being naked causes someone to do bad things.
Addition to clarify: at a movie theatre where it was allowed to drink beer and/or which served beer, I would have no problem with it. It’s not the beer in itself.
Minus the waiters, it’s the same here. Concession stands all sell beer in addition the other snacks, and some of the downtown theaters sell wine as well. Every restaurant from the five-star gourmet joints to back-alley noodle stands to McDonalds sells alcohol as well.
Anyway, to the OP, if I happened to be in a theater that didn’t allow beer, I probably still wouldn’t care about someone else having one if they weren’t getting obnoxious.
:smack: I knew that. Thanks.
No, of course I wouldn’t say anything. And the folks who are saying, “He’s drinking a beer! Who knows what depravity he is capable of?” strike me as a mite uptight.
When I used to drink, I’d regularly bring a couple of beers to the movies. Or a flask. I remember taking my flask to the opera and the ballet, so I assume I’d take it to the movies! The most troublesome thing about beers in the theaters is if you bring bottles and happen to knock over an empty - no telling how far that sucker is gonna roll.
Of course I remember a depraved youth lighting up during “The Kids Are Allright.” And one time my 2 buddies and I snuck a case into “The Electric Horseman.” You know the scene - middle of summer, but we are wearing and carrying heavy jackets chock full of beers. My one buddy and I got through no problem, and I remember the 3d man got stopped. They took all his beers but let him in the show. And my other buddy and i were jerks and wouldn’t give him any of our beers (we only had 18, and needed to make them last for the entire show!) for the longest time. Strangely enough I can’t quite remember what the show was about…
Way back when - in the 60s, I remember there was no prohibition against bringing in food or drink at the local theater (The Will Rogers). My parents would give each of us a quarter, and we’d stop at the Walgreens and get a pretty decent amount of candy for that amount.
My brother had that happen to him- only it was a bottle. :eek:
He tried to get a pissed-off look on his face and turned to glare at the folks a few rows back… but it didn’t work, because they were laughing and so was he.
It’s probably better that way! 
I’m curious about this. I can see them kicking you out of the theater, but having you arrested? That seems a bit extreme.
As I recall they refused to leave or throw it away. I even think they lost the court battle. It was a long time ago in Denver…I can’t google-fu it.
-Tcat
Um, I think you both meant “flout”.
I once got hassled about smuggling booze into a movie theater, so I went out the next day and got myself a Beerbelly!! 
Wouldn’t bother me in the least. I wouldn’t care if he got falling-down drunk, as long as he stayed quiet and in his seat, and had a ride after the movie was done. Some people smuggle candy into the movie. Do the same people who are trembling at the thought of someone drinking a beer because of how it flouts the rules have a similar reaction to a soccer mom doling out contraband M&M’s to her kids? Sheesh.
Damn straight. One minute it’s M&M’s, the next she’s passing out roofies and Mitsubishis, and before the coming attractions are halfway finished, it’s bedlam. Human sacrifice, cannibalism, tax evasion, tags ripped from mattresses, all erupting around you when you’re struggling not to miss any of the Byzantine intricacies of “Scary Movie 12.”
It’s a very slippery slope, my friends—and all the more so when it’s drenched with spilled Rolling Rock.
I hear that you can get a glass of Beer at McDonalds in Amsterdam; I’m not sure about Burger King though… I don’t know anyone who ever ate at Burger King.
Uhm… can I eat my almendras garrapiñadas? (Sorry, don’t know how to say it in English, they’re a sort of hard-candy-covered almonds) They’re even from the concession stand, and no wrapper, but for some reason they use these bags that are kind of noisy. Sorry! When I know beforehand I’m going to one of the theaters that sell those, I bring another bag with me to pour them from the original one to the silent one.
If they were making a lot of noise I might say something. I’ve been in theaters where a cellphone rang and was met with a chorus of “that phone!”… at which point several people took theirs out and there was a second chorus of tirulirus that should have happened before the movie started 
So long as they’re not making noise, no problem.
We take our own junk food into the movie theater all the time. Yeah, it’s against the rules, but no one’s ever said anything to us. I can’t imagine that taking a beer in would be any worse.
I’d like to see the theater’s get less uptight about stuff like this (although at our local theater, they kinda wink and smile about it) and more uptight about assholes talking and playing games on their cell phones during the film.
We used to take a bottle of wine and two glasses to the cinema.
Treat the place like Glyndebourne.
I’ve done that, too…makes a nice romantic kind of picnic theme!