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Blade Runner: 2049 and Cinema Etiquette  Cinema Etiquette  Misophonia. The hatred of sound. I, and I imagine a fairly large number of readers will have this to some degree for certain sounds. Classic examples would be burping, lip smacking, snorting, gulping that sort of thing. Well now imagine you are in a cinema trying to watch Blade Runner: 2049 when the stranger next to you decides to do all of these tics every 15 minutes throughout the film. It was enough to drive me  out of the screening for a few minutes as any longer and the only noise people would hate would be me gently simmering in repressed British rage. If cinema etiquette was graded, the selfish bastard next to me would've been expelled post haste. Although having said that, I am somewhat of a cinema etiquette Nazi when it comes to this. And so, I've made a simple list of rules to ensure optimum film satisfaction. 1. No late entry. You know what time the film starts. You can get your ticket ...