Reply With QuoteAgreed. 9:15 movie for a 3 year old is just thoughtless.
I went to see Up last night at 9:15 on a Tuesday night. That means the movie doesn't get out until 11:00 at night or so. I did this for a few reasons, but mostly because I didn't want to see the movie with a bunch of screaming, crying children. I figured that late at night on a weeknight, there will be a bunch of stoner high school kids, and dorks like me going to see this. I guess I underestimated how horrible parents are. There were 2 sets of screaming kids on both sides of the theater. Luckily for me, the loudest and the one talking throughout happened to sit right behind me. Right when the movie began, the little girl started screaming at her mother because she didn't want to wear the 3D glasses that are necessary for seeing the movie in focus. Now, I understand children are difficult. I understand being a parent is hard. What I do NOT understand is why you would drag your difficult child to a movie that this 3 year old could care less that she is watching. I know this girl liked the movie (I know this because she was very vocal about the parts that she did like in a volume that was impossible to ignore), but she would have been just as happy to stay at home at watch the exact same videotape/movie that she has probably seen 300 times by now. You know why I know this? Because I was a kid and I listened to the same records a million times. Children are very easy to take care of because they do not have sophisticated tastes yet. They like fun, pretty things. They like to dance and sing and jump around while watching these things. In today's society there is absolutely no reason for children to go to the movie theater. Home theaters are pretty good, and you can watch a bootleg version of any movie for $5 what would cost you $30 at a theater. On top of that, these movies then can be watched ad nauseum as kids tend to enjoy anyway.
This is not to say kids should not go to movies in the theater. I believe they should. I also believe every person of every age should see this movie UP in particular. I also believe there is a time and a place for everything. The time for a child to see a movie is before 6PM. Period, end of story. A three year old child should be in bed by 9:00 at the absolute latest. They should probably be in bed well before that. I cannot tell you how many times I almost yelled at the woman behind me, but really that is not my place. I can't teach common sense to parents, I can just rant about it on my blog and hopefully when I have kids I can keep my common sense and not act like many bad parents do.
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Agreed. 9:15 movie for a 3 year old is just thoughtless.
Originally Posted by Glixy:
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Totally agree. But its not as brainless as those parents who take their 7 yo to the latest horror flick.Originally Posted by Jim T.
That happened to me once in the past too. Crying baby during 28 days later. The entire movie theater screamed at the parent until they left. I thought that was awesome.
Sometimes I doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion.
Total agreement. If you can't get a sitter, wait for the DVD. Them's the breaks when you have a kid. It's supposed to stop being about YOU.
Can I also use this thread as a place to rant about Horrible Pants?
I'm going to an 8PM showing tonight. Hopefully because it's a schoolnight that most of the kids are home. Epecially the really young ones.
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When my fiancee and I went to see Star Trek, some folks at the bottom of the "stadium" part of the theater brought their baby.
Yeah.
A baby.
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I went to see UP, and RIGHT BEHIND ME, was, I guess, a couple and their 3 or 4 year old kid. Kid wasn't too bad, but the father was LOUDLY talking to the kid, just explaining the movie away for a good part of the beginning, i.e, the more emotional part of it. Which really put a damper on my weeping.
And the mother, Jesus Christ. Once Dug and Kevin showed up, it was the loudest, most obnoxious cackling I have EVER heard in a theater. And it wasn't even a packed theater with a lot of other people laughing. It wasn't even 1/3 full.
When I saw Drag Me to Hell at 945 on Saturday a couple brought their small child (I would guess 2-3 yo) and was surprised by how well-behaved the child was. The kid even laughed at a few of the louder more intense moments. Babies that giggle instead of crying are pretty great.
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