AIBU to suggest waiting for the DVD if your child needs a running commentary on a film?

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Went to see The Life of Pi this afternoon. Good film but my enjoyment was marred by the woman sitting beside me as her four year kept asking loud questions, which his mother answered. She sometimes even pointed things out to him which stimulated even more why questions. Not once did she shoosh him or ask him to lower his voice.

I was with DS2, who has a horror of confrontation, so didn't speak to her directly, just made eye contact with the little boy and put my finger to my lips a few times. I eventually did a loud, passive aggressive sigh and she then answered his loud questions in a slightly quieter voice.

I don't get it, since when did it become acceptable to speak over films?

Do some people think its bad for children not to answer questions immediately?
We always have a good discussion in the car on the way home, young brains seem to have no problem remembering the plot.

Why would you take a 4 year old to life of pi? If it's a kids showing of a kids film I think you should expect people talking, crying, bing taken out for wees etc, but at an adult film??! WTF?

yanbu. That is why I refuse to take my DC's to the cinema. 6yo DS asks questions non-stop, even The Snowman is pretty hard going with him.

It's a PG but I think a four year old would have trouble sitting through Charlie and then chocolate Factory without a million 'what's that?', 'who's he?' Etc questions.

YABU.

This is why I don't go to the cinema - because a significant portion of society are unable to sit in a seat watching a film without talking, texting, eating, getting up to pee and any other manner of annoying things.

I don't go to the cinema as it is a dead cert that I will get stabbed one day by some haloof who can't keep their bloody gob shut, stop texting/faceacheing, slurping and munching loudly, or hissing at their kids to shut up/get them a beer.

Yanbu. I would have said something.

Why am I being unreasonable Santa?
I didn't take DS 3 to the cinema for ages as he always tried to play with the seats and when I later took him on "training" trips to the cinema I took him to children's matinees so that he was unlikely to disturb adults who had paid a lot for their tickets.

Haha moomin, my DH won't come any more because he ends up wanting to kill half the watching audience for exactly the behaviour you describe. He'd rather wait til it's on DVD. :)

YANBU.

YANBU if an 'adult' film for a mixed audience. I expect this at the weekend cheap kids' screenings but otherwise, bad form. Sadly, as has already been said, cinema audiences now don't know the difference between it and their own front room.

I was glad DH was at the other end of the row, he would have been very grumpy and that really would have spoiled the treat ( our first outing since all coming down with flu on the 23 rd).

When my sister was a student she got a job in the local cinema.

With inly her trusty tourch, she used to terrify the local neds (and my sist is tiny) and keep order in the cinema with her steely stare, blast of the light in the eyes, and her hiss "shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, or do I have to throw you out?!". I miss usherettes...

I hate the cinema for this reason. I am Glaswegian and find it painful not to talk for two hours. Also it is a hotbed for passive aggressive people. Also it's like £5 for a diet coke. Also people laugh, irritatingly, at bits that AREN'T EVEN FUNNY. like the adverts.

Remember the smoking sections? I suppose it could be worse...

YANBU unless it was a kids screening - although adults an be as bad as kids for this and it drives me mental. The other things is people silently checking Facebook etc on their phones - the light is really annoying. Not at all grumpy, me...

YANBU. This is why I avoided taking my twins to the cinema for years. They annoy me with their constant questions on what is happening (if you actually shut up and listen you'd bloody know what was going on!) so no way did I want to inflict them on others. I still only take them to kids showings now so it's not so bad if they talk - I always shh them if they're too loud though.

i go to the cinema at least once a week (sometimes up to 3 times)... the amount of people that talk is unreal and bloody annoying! i have told people before to stop talking, but there are times where im scared to, as im by myself usually and worried the other person would do something. also hate that people cant stay off their fucking phones too. i often sit at the back and still get blinded by someone 8-10 rows in front

i really wish they would bring ushers back. im sure it would be extremely boring watching the same film multiple times each day... but id blooming do it.

GAAAH! I had this, watching The Davinci Code! The older teen explaining EVERYTHING badly that was going on to the younger teen. In the end I just turned round and said "WILL YOU PLEASE SHUT UP? i'M TRYING TO HEAR THIS"! Thankfully they were pissing their mother off too and she backed me up!

The women in front of us at Nativity 2 (had no kids with them - why would you put yourself through that?!) munched the WHOLE way through, only pausing fifteen minutes in to declare "This is shite!"

I might have tutted, if she hadn't been so right!