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Originally posted by PhiPsiRuss
People should leave their kids home AND turn their cell phones off.
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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.