Crank it up to a medium and you’re up to about 430 calories and 20 grams of fat. For example, a small popcorn, without butter, from AMC weighs in at 225 calories and 11 grams of fat. We took a look at some of the calorie counts from movie-theater popcorn sold at national theater chains via MyFitnessPal, and the results are pretty shocking. When we microwave a bag of Orville Redenbacher’s at home, calorie counts seem generally reasonable, so we assume that the same deal applies in the theater. We’re not going to attempt to get into the psychology behind munching on popcorn during a movie (even though it’s actually supremely annoying to those sitting around you), but the fact of the matter is that it’s really unhealthy. Even when we’re watching movies at home, there’s a base instinct to pop a bag of popcorn in the microwave, and lots of video stores, especially the chain ones, sell them along with rentals (or used to before they shut down, at least).

Not only does just about every movie theater in America sell it (and if they don’t, there’s something wrong with them), just about everyone who’s ever gone to the movies has eaten it while watching a film at some point in their lives. If there’s one food that years and years of history has taught us goes hand in hand with movies, it’s popcorn.

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