Karen Andreas of Merritt Island says kids have a name for spilled soft drinks and other sticky stuff sometimes found on movie house floors. "My husband and I overheard a couple of teen-agers at the movies," she said. "The girl stepped in something and told her boyfriend it was 'cinemuck'" […]
1993 April 29, J. Michael Tisdel, “Re: I went to a movie theatre again ....”, in rec.video, rec.video.releases[1] (Usenet):
The resulting texture accurately simulates that of real cinemuck.
1996 July 22, Sara M., “Re: Tom Selleck's size”, in alt.showbiz.gossip[2] (Usenet):
I always tend to hold my stuff in my lap too. This avoids having to put it on the floor (which is usually *covered* in cinemuck).
He's never been much of a movie-goer, objecting to both the price and the stuff you walk in ("cinemuck" as I've heard it called) to get to your seat.
1997 July 12, Dave, “Re: Happy Barefooting”, in alt.lifestyle.barefoot[3] (Usenet):
Because of the cinemuck on the floors, I tried to keep my feet up, kind of wedged in the back of the armrests between the seats, […]
1998 December 6, Death [username], “Re: WC movie toys... and Whiskey-Tango-Foxtrot?!”, in alt.games.wing-commander[4] (Usenet):
Quite frankly, I haven't seen much to make it worthwhile to go slogging through the cinemuck at the local "premier" theaters and plunk down 5 bucks for.
2003 — "Where have all the Fort Wayne movie theaters gone?", Fort Wayne News Sentinel, 10 March 2003:
It only makes me wonder if there's any market at all for people who require only a clean theater - not too much cinemuck on the floors - that's not too far from home and doesn't make you wait in the cold too long to buy a ticket.
Noun: "(informal, pejorative) cinematic material considered to be of low quality"[edit]
2001 — Denise A. Raymon, "An inch too far to go see '3,000 Miles to Graceland'", Press Republican, 1 March 2001:
Crawling on your knees to the real Graceland over shards of broken glass would be less painful than sitting through this cinemuck.
2001 — Chris Garcia, "Hated It", Austin American-Statesman, 6 December 2001:
Pith and poison are twin barrels in his war against cinemuck. Star ratings are traded for explosive devices, from a solo bomb ("Almost tolerable") to the last-resort atomic mushroom cloud ("A festering wound in the (rear) of cinema").
2012 — "Summer Movie Guide", Rapid River Arts & Culture Magazine, June 2012, page 25:
With The Avengers, Men In Black 3 and other big budget CGI fests already mopping up the cinemuck at the cineplexes, the summer block buster season is upon us.