I just got back from seeing “Gladiator” at the cheap theater. A half hour into the movie, in comes a couple with two little kids - the older one can’t be more than 5, and the younger one is probably not even 1. The older one is wandering around the theater the whole time, except for when he’s watching people get hacked to bits. The younger one is making noise on and off, then finally starts crying. At least these people had half a clue - just before I was about to ask them to take the kid into the lobby, it dawns on them that there are other people in the theater who are actually trying to watch the movie, and they go out into the lobby on their own without anyone having to ream them a new one.
Excuse me, but the fucking Pokemon movie is next door, why the hell don’t you go over there? Or better yet, go to your local video store and rent something appropriate for kids. Hell, rent “A Clockwork Orange” - I don’t give a shit.
That’s what you get for going to a cheap theatre. :: insert smiley here ::
But seriously, I hate that. Fucking morons! I have three kids and if they even started to talk or whine, they were in the lobby poste haste. What I hate more nowdays is the giggling teenagers, which are far more prevalent at the movies. Wait, I’ve always hated that.
I feel your frustration. 2 weeks ago, I took my mom to the movies. (coincidentally, it was ‘Gladiator’) A few rows in back of us, a couple are having a conversation. People are shuushing them, to no avail. They keep on chattering. The fellow has the balls to say ‘Hey, I paid to get in here’, as if this gives him the right to disturb all of us.
If I hadn’t been their with Mom, I’d a dragged him out by his hair and…
I was at the movies and the couple behind me (40ish but obviously on a first date) were talking loudly and explaining the plot to each other. After they’d been “hushed” a few times, I was about to state the obvious that they weren’t at home, where they could talk as they pelased.
But then the lady surprised me by yelling to the hushers that “This isn’t your living room you know! You should expect noise in a theater.”
That’s not how I was brought up, but I realized that I DO expect noise in a theater. So now I come with “lowered expectations” and get less excited about it.
Hey, just today a friend and I went to see The Art of War (which was actually pretty nifty, albeit confusing) and some lady had an infant with her. Maybe twenty minutes into the movie, the kid suddenly started bawling… luckily, it only went on for a few minutes 'fore the mother took the kid out.
Try working in a theater when there’s a kid oriented movie playing. You would be shocked at the number of parents who think theater employees are there to provide a cheap babysitting service for their five and six year olds- drop them off, do the shopping, pick them up again when the movie lets out. I always wondered what they would do if something happened to the kids while they were in our “care”. Fortunately, nothing did, but I was shocked that anyone would just drop a kid that young into the hands of strangers who had jobs to do and couldn’t actually watch the kids.
But…But…I LIKE to run around. T
he show’s boooooring!
Can we go home now? Can we? Can we?
Skooter pushed my moonpie into somebody’s neck.
Do you have money for the videogame in the lobby?
Can we go home now?
My stomach feels really bad.
Why are people bringing little kids to PG-13 and R-rated shows? This has alot to do with parents treating children as equals! I’m 39 damn it! A 5 year old child is not my equal! They shouldn’t be in that theatre in the first place.
These kind of people will whine that they need a night out and couldn’t get a baby sitter!:rolleyes:
AWWWWWWWWWWW! Too bad!
My wife and I have 3 kids, and if we couldn’t get a sitter, we didn’t go out! I would have never dreamed of taking my child to an adult oriented movie!
You must be kidding. Next time there are unattended kids there, try calling the cops and telling them you have some abandoned children in your theater.
Are you allowed to do that? Could your manager do it? I sure would. Hey, why not? Kids under 12 left alone, no parents in sight, what are you supposed to do? After all, you were worried about those poor abandoned kids…
What kind of moron leaves young children in a theater by themselves? Honestly, y’all need to call the cops. If your manager doesn’t want to alienate customers, bring up the liability issues. (Liability is the magic word to get managers to do anything)
Back to the OP, this is one of my major pet peeves. The only time I get to see a movie is when I’m lucky enough to find somebody to watch my kid for the evening. It’s pretty disheartening to have a night out and have to spend it listening to other people’s kids act up. And we usually go to the 9:30 show which means it doesn’t get out until 11:30…I’ve seen young children there on a school night.
I usually have all the sympathy in the world for my fellow parents, but this is just unacceptable. If you can’t afford a sitter, why not swap with another parent? Heck, it’d save them money, what with all the dollars they spend on sodas and candy in a foolhardy attempt to shut their little darlings up.
When I saw The Cell, a few people behind me brought a 7(-or-so)-year-old into the theater!!! That movie was very loud, very intense, and very gory. The whole times I was watching the movie I was thinking to myself, “WHAT THE HELL ARE THESE PEOPLE THINKING!?”
I am promising myself now that if I ever have kids, I won’t take them to adult movies or adult restaurants.
I am blown away when the wife and I get a night out during the week, go to a late show after dinner starting about 9:00 PM or later, and people show up with young kids. It’s a freakin’ school night! The kids are too young to see R movies with loads of violence. Shouldn’t they be at home asleep?
The grand-parents visit maybe twice a year and offer to watch our kids sleep while we have a night out, so I don’t get to do this often, but if I can’t get a good sitter then we don’t just bring our kids with us. Teacher friends tell me about kids falling asleep in class due to this type of thing, but it is just too weird. What are they thinking? Is seeing the movie that important? Maybe it’s just professional movie critics whose employers won’t pay for sitters. That the only explanation I can come up with that makes any sense.
Leaving young kids at the theatre too? That’s insane. I think the world is much safer than it appears to be in the media sometimes, and I try not to scare my kids so much that they distrust everyone, but that is just asking for trouble. Big dark rooms with lots of other kids yelling and screaming coupled with lots of soundtrack noise coupled with no one watching out for an individual kid’s safety, and the parent takes them their intentionally? Wow. CPS should know about that because I would bet that the pedophiles do.
I went to the 9 o’clock showing of Blair Witch on opening weekend, and there were a LOT of kids in the theater. Granted, it wasn’t a gore-fest or anything, but kids don’t go outside into nature enough as it is. I just don’t think that taking them to a movie about how scary the woods are is a good idea. This one woman had three kids with her. The kids were probably 11, 7 and 4.
I expect noise in my living room. I expect a theater to be quiet. Once, just once, I would like to turn around to a person who has the audacity to say something so stupid, and grab them by the throat, just to see the reaction.
I used to work for Regal cimemas, and nothing was worse than the Rugrats movie. On the weekends, out biggest theatre would pack with children, and parents would go to another movie. The movie theatre would take three times to clean because everything from juice boxes to cheez-its are ground into the carpet and seats. The kids wandered in and out in droves to the bathroom. They would ander into ohter theatres to find their mommy’s and daddy’s. It was incredulous! I’ve never seen such a trashed theatre, and I know I wouldn’t let my kids have free reign of a dark theatre. :rolleyes:
When I saw the Cell, I also noticed a couple with a small child, maybe 5 years old. This kid will probably grow up hang himself over bleached corpses and whack off on 'em.
I made the mistake of pointing out the crude subject matter in “American Pie” to a mother waiting in line with her two under-6-years-old children. “And this has WHAT to do with you?” she snarled.
I’m sure I would have despised that craptacular movie anyway, but her kid’s constant refrain of “I don’t get it” after every punchline didn’t help. <sigh>
One time I was in the video department of a Pick-n-Save grocery store. I noticed a 6 year old asking his mother to rent him the movie “Kids”. She was in line to do so. In a very friendly manner I said to her: “Excuse me, mamm, I don’t mean to intrude, but I noticed that you are checking out the movie “Kids” for your child”. She snapped at me “Yeah, so what”. “Well, I replied, I saw that movie and it’s for adults, full of drugs and sex”. The cunt rolled her eyes and snapped “Oh, yeah. Mind your own business, ya facist”. Facist? I thought I was being friendly.
The kicker is, the day I returned my movies she was in there with her husband bitching at the manager about this awful movie named “Kids” and how her own children saw half of it before she realized what filth it was. No shit! Can you believe this idiocy? I think I would have torn into her if her monster of a husband wasn’t there.
THESE are the same kind of jerks who have their young kids in the theatre. Stupid, selfish, rude, classless assholes!
I thought I was being friendly.