CPTKIDD13
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i agree with you when i go to the theater i pay to experience a movie not a daycare
Bringing your baby to the movies is a GREAT idea!
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Scareb
Sr Member
I guess i've been pretty lucky with kids so far. Only one time has the theater had a baby in it. It cried for maybe 5 seconds, the mom packed up shop and left. I don't think she even came back.
I've been to several CGI kids movies and all the kids were quiet, only once did a kid actually pipe up and say something (during Kung Fu Panda 2) and truth be told, it was cute and innocent and the entire theater laughed.
As for teenagers, well when you're 6'3, 250 pounds and covered in tattoos, they tend to listen when you tell them to shut up/get off phone/stop kicking your seat.
I think my most shock moment at a theater with a kid though was when a mom brough her 3 kids ranging from 5-10 to Hangover 2. I was shocked and you can't play ignorant about the content of the film, it's a sequel after all.
I've been to several CGI kids movies and all the kids were quiet, only once did a kid actually pipe up and say something (during Kung Fu Panda 2) and truth be told, it was cute and innocent and the entire theater laughed.
As for teenagers, well when you're 6'3, 250 pounds and covered in tattoos, they tend to listen when you tell them to shut up/get off phone/stop kicking your seat.
I think my most shock moment at a theater with a kid though was when a mom brough her 3 kids ranging from 5-10 to Hangover 2. I was shocked and you can't play ignorant about the content of the film, it's a sequel after all.
rodneyfaile
Sr Member
That is going to be my epitaph.
Or how about talky toddlers? I understand Junior is still learning what are appropriate talking times, but it really irks me when the parent doesn't use the opportunity to TEACH THEM. The ones that answer his questions rather than telling him to be quiet only encourage him. ARRRGH
El Duderino
Sr Member
My theater here, Mon-Thursday is only $4.50 for a ticket, so I do that, during the day time, a few weeks after the movie is released. I sit in the dead center, in an almost completely empty theater, and it rocks. You weren't over reacting at all, I hate parents who are inconsiderate for those around them.
rodneyfaile
Sr Member
That is why I love midnight releases. Most parents are not going to pay full price, or have a kid out that late. Most people there are big movie fans. It's usually a great environment. Even more so if it's in 3D and even more expensive. Trying to find cheaper tickets and less crowds is are just taking you to the same places and times the people who don't care as much are going.
jamiemcshan
Active Member
WOW... I have a very similar experiance with this same move. Went to see it with some buddies and there was a family there with a 4-5 year old girl. During the brain scene she was crying... daddy I don't like that... daddy I'm scared... what the hell people!!! No wonder our country is going down the tubes. Kids need to be kids, not little friends we take places and dress them up to look like adults.
Cobalt60
Active Member
depends on the baby. I took a 5 month baby to see attack of the clones. she heard so much star wars in the womb that it didn't phase her at all. she stared in wide eyed wonder, until she fell asleep and dreamed of galaxies far away. she slept through most of the film. didnt make a fuss, not even a single peep. which was totally expected, tbh, because this kid never cried. evar.
(like I said, it depends on the baby - we knew our baby, so we knew it wouldn't be a problem - if you've got a fussy kid then I wouldn't recommend it).
(like I said, it depends on the baby - we knew our baby, so we knew it wouldn't be a problem - if you've got a fussy kid then I wouldn't recommend it).
There's three things I hate more than anything when I'm watching a movie at the theather. Screaming babies, cell phones, and people talking during the movie. The last time I went to see a movie, I first told the manager about it, the person got a talking to from the manager, then they came back in to watch and not more than 5 minutes later they were at it again these were high school kids chatting with each other and I could hear thier ringtone everytime they got a message. I finally got tired of it walked up to them 6 rows behind me and told them, "If you don't shut off that damn cellphone and shut up that mouth I'll cram that thing down your ******* throat" in a theather where it's just about pitch black I could swear the one I yelled at turned white as a ghost. I did'nt hear them or thier cell phone for the rest of the movie. They did'nt leave the theather after being yelled at, they just shut up for the rest of it.
nightwind1
Well-Known Member
I wish I lived in Austin, TX. I'd go to the Alamo Drafthouse for EVERY film-
Don't Talk - Angry Voicemail (Uncensored) - YouTube
Don't Talk - Angry Voicemail (Uncensored) - YouTube
That is awesome.
I bet parents are mad about that. There is a place in pittsburgh where kids under 6 aren't allowed in to eat and all the parents are up in arms about it. I went past the discount theater today where all the teens hang out and it looks like a dump yet the one where they're discouraged from being is beautiful. The families go there and cops are always in the parking lot. I don't care if a movie is 3.00 i'm not dealing with ill mannered savages even if it was free. Personally anyone under 18 should have a parental escort no matter the rating and armed security should be on hand to deal with trouble makers.
Alan Cross
Sr Member
Went to see the Exorcist a few years back when it was re-released in the theaters. And, yeah, there was a couple there with a toddler. A four year old I think.
That was a head scratcher.
That was a head scratcher.
sanityattack
Active Member
Whenever we go to see a film we go to the latest possible showing at the out of town cinema. Parents don't take kids to late showings and teenagers can't get out to it as the buses don't run that late.
niennumb1
Master Member
Here's a great one for today I had to share. More feel sorry for the poor 3 month old, but anyway....
Same friend as I was mentioning in the original post, at it again, only taking it another level up in "REALLY???"
Facebook status (edited names out):
"Today I was grateful for _____ not making a peep being a perfect angel while _____ and I enjoyed a train IMAX movie at the science center."
Okay so now we're bringing 3-month old babies to IMAX films. This theater mentioned is actually a TRUE IMAX and not one of those at AMC theaters where most of them aren't the true form size. My god the poor baby is gonna go deaf by her first birthday!
My son is 7 months old, love going to movies, but he is not setting foot in a movie theater until he can walk, talk, and behave in an auditorium with others.
Same friend as I was mentioning in the original post, at it again, only taking it another level up in "REALLY???"
Facebook status (edited names out):
"Today I was grateful for _____ not making a peep being a perfect angel while _____ and I enjoyed a train IMAX movie at the science center."
Okay so now we're bringing 3-month old babies to IMAX films. This theater mentioned is actually a TRUE IMAX and not one of those at AMC theaters where most of them aren't the true form size. My god the poor baby is gonna go deaf by her first birthday!
My son is 7 months old, love going to movies, but he is not setting foot in a movie theater until he can walk, talk, and behave in an auditorium with others.
Laspector
Master Member
My experience with The Amazing Spider-man was this way also. Some mom had to bring her two toddlers and just HAD to sit right behind me. "what's this, who is that, why is this, why is that, wah wah wah, I gotta potty, why did he fall, wah wah wah, who is that?"...God it was so annoying!!!....And the worst part was that I--me--myself was the one that had to keep shushing the stinking brats!!! The mom just ignored these prattling rugrats. Finally I had to turn around and say "PLEASE!! Maam, can you please quiet your children?"..Her jaw dropped that I had the audacity to do that, and she got up and left with them. GOOD RIDDENCE!!!!
Riceball
Master Member
While I agree that parents shouldn't be taking babies to movies I think that if they insist on doing so they should at least have the courtesy of sitting in an aisle seat near the exit so that if/when their baby cries they can walk out immediately and not bother anybody. I can't remember what movie it was but one time I had some family with a baby behind me that would cry and instead of walking out of the auditorium right away they just sat there trying to calm the baby instead. This would work only for a short while before the baby would cry again and I think that it wasn't until the 3rd or 4th time that the idiot parent decided to finally take their baby outside.
The only time that I ever had to endure kids and toddlers running around in a theater was in 1999 after I traveled more than 6000 km´s to see Episode 1 in a small theater. Very disappointing experience ...
The socialising happens over here in Germany, too, and one time I noticed a dad bringing his maybe 7 year old to see 13th Warrior, which is not an age appropriate movie, but that´s about it.
As a father of a three month old baby I can´t imagine taking the baby with me to the Cinema, more than stupid. Moving, blurred images, loud noises that the baby probably never heard before, I hope that baby keeps its parents up all week at night after such an experience!
The socialising happens over here in Germany, too, and one time I noticed a dad bringing his maybe 7 year old to see 13th Warrior, which is not an age appropriate movie, but that´s about it.
As a father of a three month old baby I can´t imagine taking the baby with me to the Cinema, more than stupid. Moving, blurred images, loud noises that the baby probably never heard before, I hope that baby keeps its parents up all week at night after such an experience!
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