The viral popcorn bucket has become a shining beacon of hope for the theatergoing experience in an otherwise underwhelming year at the movies. The pandemic drove people inside, and the concurrent rise of streaming services kept them there. Then last year’s actors’ and writers’ strikes delayed films originally slated for 2024. This summer’s box office slipped 10% compared to last year, when Barbenheimer ruled theaters. And yet every month or so, moviegoers take to social media to extol the virtues of or poke fun at some new popcorn receptacle.
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00:00This is an eyesore.
00:19It looks gross.
00:20I mean, it feels weird, right?
00:22So I wouldn't say I enjoy putting my hand in the dune bucket.
00:27If someone handed me this, I would be furious.
00:31It's sexy down here.
00:34It's giving like...
00:35ASMR.
00:36Yeah, it's cool.
00:41It reminds me, there might be some sports analogies in this, I'm sorry, but of like
00:45the hockey mask, the hockey goalie mask.
00:47I'm a little annoyed that there's no popcorn in it.
00:51I have to go through.
00:53Okay.
00:54I guess.
00:55And it's also like a lot of resistance on the way out.
00:58I don't really connect to Wolverine as much as others.
01:02But I will say if I was a Wolverine fan, the annoyance of this and getting hands stuck
01:07on popcorn would make me perhaps hate him and the whole franchise.
01:12This is just, this is Looney Tunes, no offense to this, but like functionality zero.
01:20This is also, how are you supposed to eat this in a movie theater?
01:22This is so obnoxious.
01:25Trying to open this thing and not spill your popcorn all over the place, I would think
01:28would be a challenge.
01:31So okay, there we go.
01:34There we go.
01:35Now, should I have done that?
01:36Obviously.
01:37But like, I wasn't doing that on purpose.
01:40I just thought maybe there'd be a protection here or something, or I don't know.
01:44That was dumb.
01:45First of all, there's no popcorn in it.
01:50What?
01:51What is this?
01:55Honestly, this gets function zero.
01:59But my girl Cynthia Erivo gets, ah, there we go.
02:03This is not for popcorn.
02:05This is for a drink.
02:06I need this for the movie.
02:08Are you kidding me?
02:11So I love this little guy because I'm a hater and I love anger.
02:15I don't really think that's a great way to grab popcorn.
02:18So unfortunately, I'm not a fan of that because it's a little awkward for your hand.
02:24Oh, is there an on-off?
02:29Aw.
02:31I think that's cute, but that would really be an issue in a movie theater, I think.
02:36Yeah, Gladiator, I know, huge, huge original.
02:42The only person maybe not to see it.
02:45The aesthetic is quite fierce and kind of fun.
02:49Okay, that's a little violent.
02:52I don't need a shield on my popcorn when I'm hungry in the movie theater and want to eat.
02:58Aesthetics are great.
02:59Unfortunately, I don't really think this will fit on most adults.
03:04Ouch.
03:05Pretty simple.
03:06I think a good grab ability.
03:08However, I can imagine this could be a little difficult to deal with.
03:13We all know that decorum cannot be found these days in the cinema.