People, Leave Your Kids At Home When Going To The Movie
 

Especially for a 3.5 hours movie. This one kid behind me kept on asking on and on about the plot of the movie to his dad. Then, the little kid decided that the sound effects in the movie is not sufficient, so he proceeded to add his own.

So, parents, leave the kids at home. Especially for a movie longer then 1.5 hours.

Co-sign.

The movie theater here has just started a new policy-no children in rated R movies after 7:00. That's cool, for those of us who don't want to listen to them. Of course, I get pissed at those people anyway-why are you bringing 3 year olds to see scary/bloody/steamy movies??? You think they don't know what they are watching, but it does get into their little minds!

Agreed. Little kids usually can't sit still that long. Get a babysitter, or wait for the movie to come out on DVD so you can take an "intermission" when junior gets restless.

As for R rated movies, I still can't get over the number of little kids whose parents took them to see the South Park movie a few years back... (That was the ONLY time I've ever seen movie theatre staff card people for an R-rated movie!)

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Awww, did some wittle wugrat wuin your Dorkfest?

i'm sorry Arya.

;)

Kitso
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i got carded for both American Pie 2 and American Wedding, and i was over 21 for both of them! i just had to laugh, b/c i was never carded when i was under 17.

I never was carded. When my brother and I went to see South Park he was in uniform (he is a marines, atleast untill the 29th) and they carded him!!!! But I was standing right next to him and the guy just looked at me. My brother is 4 years my senior.


Christia

Yesss the kiddies need to stay at home. There are just some movies that they don't need to see.

I was carded once. I was 20-something and the kid carding me was younger than I was. Almost made me drop my snacks looking for my ID. :rolleyes:

I couldn't believe how many people brought their small kids to a 6:30 p.m. Saturday showing of an R-rated movie (Kill Bill)! A gunshot early in the movie had a babyperson behind us crying, and once ole girl (The Bride) hit Tokyo, the theater started clearing out because parents finally wised up!

I am going to go against the crowd on this one, kind of....

I think it depends on the kid. My husband and I have been taking our oldest son to movies with us since he was a month old. When he was that little, I always had a bottle ready in case he even looked like he was going to cry. It he looked like he was going to make a sound one of us would take him outside.

However, my youngest son isn't always the quietest in the movies, we realize this and don't usually take him. If he goes we make sure it is a movie that he will be entertained with. If he gets bored, to the hallway we go. We always sit closest to the door when the kids are with us also.

My oldest son (5yrs old) has been to 2 or 3 movies a month for his entire life. He does fine. So fine in fact, he went to see Lord of the Rings this week (opening night). He did not make a sound. He sat there and ate popcorn and drank a pop. He distrubed no one!! If there would have even been a chance that he would have-he would have been in the hall before his mouth opened up.

I do agree, some kids should not be in movie theaters--they can't handle it. But then again, I have sat next to a few adults that should not be in theaters either.

-wendi

There is a theater in New York City that has Mommy & Baby day at the movies.

That disgusts me that people brought their children to see "Kill Bill". I don't think kids under the age of around 14 should be allowed in to see that movie, period. It disturbed me, and I'm a well-adjusted 20-year-old. I'd hate to think how that would mess with the minds of children!
Besides that, I would gladly pay extra money to go to a showing with no small children allowed. Most movies that I go to, they have no business being there anyway.
And if some dumb little kid had started yapping when I was at Lord of the Rings (I'm assuming that's what your 3.5 hour movie was...), I would have ever-so-politely told that kid and his parents to shut up or get out.

Wendi-
Kudos to you for being a courteous & thoughtful theater goer. I don't have a big problem w/kids in movies, per se. Its the parents who bring kids who make a fuss & expect the rest of us to just deal with the noise & irritation.

When I saw Titanic in the theater, there was a lady there with a baby-about 9 months old. He started fussing about 45 minutes into the movie, and instead of taking him out, she started swatting him & saying "shut up" in the most hateful tones. Soon, she was actually hitting him on the mouth--like that's going to make a baby be quiet.....That was not a good move on her part, since the girl I went to the movie with was an abused children's advocate & the lady kept doing it AFTER my friend warned her to stop. When she left the auditorium, CPS was waiting for her.
Like you said, sometimes the adults don't know how to act either....

People should leave their kids home AND turn their cell phones off.

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... and while you're at it, leave them at home when you're out shopping (kids throwing tantrums in the middle of the aisle isn't exactly fun, esp. if you have to manuever your way around him/her)

Do they play a reminder in the theater before the movies starts, like during the previews, for everyone to turn off their cell phones if they have them? They do it in Germany, and that's helped me remember, too. I wouldn't intend to be rude and leave my cell phone on, but I've forgotten a few times until that ad popped up. I haven't been to a movie in the States for so long that I can't remember if they play something like that or not, but they defiinitely should.

Yes they do, and some people still leave their phones on. Now, I'm not normally in favor of capital punishment but...

lol

atleast turn it on vibrate and then you can still get your call. But keeping it on? That's just plain rude.

While we are on movie etiquette...PLEASE use your deodorant before going to the movie - there were some smelly skanky people in that theater! UGH!

Amen and testify!
 

I remember the seeing on the movie screen "Crying babies should be taken to the lobby"...

I wanted to edit it and say: "Crying babies and small kids need to have their asses home with a babysitter!" :p

Especially after 6 PM

Movie theaters play a short film about turning off cell phones. They make an announcement at plays requesting that the audience turn off cell phone and unwrap any candy or lozenge they might need before the play begins.

this especially goes for the ones who bring their 3 month old to the movie. i am sorry but it has to be said- moron:rolleyes:

yeah, but don't actually answer it in the theater and continue to carry on a conversation.

yes, thats happened to me.

Okay I went to the 10:30pm showing of the Last Samurai last night and what did my ears hear for half of the movie. Two not one but two loud babies and the idiot parents who kept trying to shush them. WTF???? It was a long movie. This is not a happy fuzzy bunny movie and the amount of violence that went on in the battle scenes was not at all appropriate for them. It's bad enough that these knuckleheads, who were too cheap for a babysitter , have gone and had children. They were also too lazy to go to the Baby and Parent movie during the day. They do that in Chicago too Peaches n Cream. I can only imagine the type of therapy their kids are going to have as a result of their stupidity.


okay I'm going back to visions of sugarplums.....

Me too! These people just amaze/appal me!

"Yeah, I'm in the movie right now. What? What? I can't hear you, the movie is too loud... and all the people around me are yelling at me to shut up. Now they're all throwing stuff... and getting out of their seats... and beating me... aaaah..."

I confront people in the movie theater now for having conversations on the phone, or with each other. It beats being annoyed for an entire movie and not being able to enjoy it. I'm proud to say that I embarrassed a group of 5 teenage girls into leaving Lost in Translation 30 minutes befire it ended for having a cell phone conversation for the second time during the movie.

Oh my, do I hear you all on this! I don't mind the parents who bring kids to movies (plays, conferences, etc...) who are polite enough to immediately get up and go for a walk when their baby starts to cry. I can handle that as long as they sit on the end of the aisle so they don't have to shuffle past 5 times. I'm totally cool with responsible parents.


I don't normally have to deal with crying babies. What I seem to get are the kids in the 3-8 year old range who like kicking the back of my seat repeatedly. You know the ones I mean? They swing their feet back and forth and tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap the back of my seat through half the movie. I might turn around and look at the parents and then at the kid's feet to give them a clue. Sometimes the parents don't get it. I might then ask them to not kick my seat. Sometimes that works and the parent tells little Billy to stop doing that. However, some parents don't keep a watch on their child. After 20 minutes, the kid gets antsy again and starts swinging his feet. Tap tap tap tap tap.....


.....Kelly :)

Wouldn't it be nice if the theaters provided childcare facilities?

They could make a fortune!!! Show kids movies, give them some popcorn, keep them from wandering the theater---- Brilliant idea!!!

-wendi

Ok, I HAD to bring this thread back up.

I have a 3 month old son. (Smiley, I am sure you think I am a moron...) And, we took him to the movies. He slept right through. If he had so much as even whimpered we would have taken him out IMMEDIATELY... (Easy since we sat on the aisle seat!)

But, right in front of us was a couple with a 3-4 year old little girl. The little girl would ask, "What happened," everytime the movie got quiet! Then, the mother started ENCOURAGING her and agging the girl's talking on!

I started to say something to her and simply ask her if she would try and quieten the little girl down. But, before I could, a lady a couple of rows ahead turned around and asked her to take the little girl out.

The mother had NO class. She started cussing and screaming at the lady while the little girl was in her lap crying. Then, the mother tells the lady that no one else is bothered. Myself and about 20 other people all say that it bothers us. Then, the lady starts swearing so lud you can't hear the movie for about 2 minutes. She tells the woman who complained that she's gonna come beat her face in...

My mother (who like myself, doesn't put with with any crap) gets up and gets the manager. The manager tells the woman that her and her family have to come talk to him outside the door. You could still hear her swearing through the whole thing.

As the mother is told to leave the whole theater, the mother screams that she'll be waiting for her outside of the theater so she can beat her ass into the ground...

Finally, they escorted her off of the PREMISES and banned her from coming back. (The manager was watching out for the lady and my mom since they told on her. The manager advised that she isn't allowed to come back or the police will be called!)

SOME PEOPLE...

The Village was sold out on Friday. The 10:45 showing.

There was a lady with her crying baby 10 feet in front of me. What can you do? You can give a person responsibility but you can't teach them courtesy or consideration.

Yeah J,

This was The Village, too. So, you can imagine how irritating it was... The theater actually CLAPPED when she was escorted outside! :)

Ugh. I went to see The Village on Sunday and there was a group of four older women and a toddler off to my left. About a third of the way into the movie, the kid starts getting fussy and instead of taking the baby into the lobby, one of the women picks him up and just takes him down to the front of the theater where he screams even louder!! These same women spent most of the movie talking and laughing with each other. I still haven't decided which was more annoying.

I still remember going to the midnight showing of the latest Lord of the Rings and being appalled at how many parents brought their little kids. The movie didn't even get out until 4am and most of those kids got CRANKY.

And don't even get me started on little kids in nice restaurants.

I had a bad experience with the toddler behind me this weekend when I went to see The Village, also. If he asked what something was once, he asked a million times. Of course, because I was annoyed by the kid, the people I was with thought that I have a kid vendetta. I don't hate all kids, just all ANNOYING kids.

In certain communities it's OK to talk during movies.

-Rudey

I went to see the Harry Potter movie a few weeks ago & I had the worst time. I made the mistake of seeing it during a matinee thinking I'll avoid the crowds.
Instead, I have a group of 6 kids with their mom sitting behind me & her kids are kicking my chair, throwing popcorn at people, & when I turned to ask their mother to please control them, she's gone! The kids watched all the previews alone and the beginning of the movie. It turns out that their mom wanted to see something else so she walked them in, sat them down, & took off to see her movie! I was the person who complained to the manager & when I last saw them when the movie let out, the kids were with the police & people I thought were with child protective services & the mom was yelling & screaming that she just wanted one night away from the f*cking kids!

Of course, then the sitter can't get up with you too easily if there's a problem. That's why I never get cellphones without a vibrate function. (And I always have it on vibrate -- never on a ring tone.)

I may piss some folks off, but as far as I'm concerned unless it's a movie for kids, and unless it's a daytime or very early evening movie, kids have no business being in a movie theater. Part of it is a behavior thing -- it's a rare child who can sit through the movie without disturbing others. But part of it is a common sense thing. I've been amazed at the movies I've gone to at 9:00 or later -- Lord of the Rings (all three), Matrix (all three), Braveheart, Terminator 2 -- where I've seen a child who couldn't be older than five. A five year old simply does not need to see the violence (and sex) in these and many others movies intended for adults. What the child does need is to get a good night's sleep.

As for babies, many babies can sleep or nurse through a movie. If a parent has one of those and is willing to leave the theater if the baby gets fussy, then go for it. A lot of movie theaters now have "baby night" one night a week, so that parents of baby's can come to the movie and anyone coming that night does so knowing they will have babies around.

Don't hate the kids. They're just doing what kids do, which in the context of sitting in a movie theater is very annoying.

Hate the parents -- they're the ones who seemingly lack the common sense or common courtesy to refrain from taking their children to inappropriate places or to take them out of the theater despite the fact that everyone around them is annoyed.

Why in god's name is a 3 year old child seeing the village????

Why are they allowed in. What's rating on these films.

When I was 16 my mother tried to take me to see Pulp Fiction. I was 16, capable of sitting in a theatre for 2 hours quietly and watching a film. They still wouldn't let me in. I had to be 18. Okay, so I waited for the video. How does a small child get into these films??!!

I remember going to see Troy and I was sitting in the middle with my friend. On his side a woman answered her phone during the movie and proceeded to have a 10 minute long, LOUD conversation. On my side, some punk ass teenager's phone kept ringing. He would cancel the call everytime it rang, but he wouldn't turn it off. WTH is wrong with people?!

Oh, I hate their parents, too. There's enough hate running around in my head to share with most stupid people who decide to breed more stupid people.

I feel compelled to mention that I have met some kids that I like, so as to not make myself seem like a cruel, heartless, childless wench.

Oh, I have the ultimate bad parents in a restaurant story. I went out to lunch a couple of months ago at a fairly nice restaurant. Seated at the table next to ours was a couple and their two kids, probably aged 3 and 5. Well the older child spent a good portion of his meal banging together everything he could find. The parents didn't stop him, instead they just tried to carry on their conversation over the noise! Then, after they were finished eating, the parents were sitting and finishing their drinks and they told the kids to "go play." So the kids got up and started playing right in the middle of the main path for the servers. And the game they were playing involved spinning around in circles until their pants fell down. Seriously. At one point I saw the parents laughing and cheering on the kids. Parents like that should not be allowed to breed.