Grown man at cinema on his own

Maybe he lost a child and is gong to the movie for comfort?
Maybe he was denied kids movies/cartoons as a child and is making up for it?
Maybe he works in animation and was studying the film?
Maybe he worked on that film?
Maybe he was having a bad day and wanted cheering up?
There are a host of possibilities.

It's not even animated

Of course it is a bit odd, just not necessarily meaning its bad.

And then a man with ill intent can just stand up in a cinema, unnoticed, walk over to a child and sit next to them, also unnoticed, because the parent is so into the film they wouldn't notice any of these things? I mean come on. Surely you know how ridiculous that is.

Disney appeals to all ages. DH and I did Orlando for our honey moon at ages 31 & 33. We stayed in a Disney hotel and watched many of the live shows at Disney! Animated films appeal to all ages.

To be honest, unless it was an INSET day (which it may be for some) or kids have 2 weeks for half term (unusual but not unheard of) most kids aged over 5 would be at school today anyway, hence why it was so quiet.

Oh and I went to see Willy Wonka on my own. I must be a weirdo too.

God, I hope no one judged my late Dad for going to see Bob the Cat on his own, not long before he died. (Before Dad died, not Bob the Cat)
Dad had a wonderful trip out to the cinema, bought a load of snacks he wasn't supposed to be eating and cried his eyes out during the film.

😆 🤣 😂 very true!

I agree @Wehadfireinoureyes I love a bit of Disney. (And I'm in my mid-late 50s.) I hate the snobbery and the judgement and the mockery and derision towards adults who like Disney. It really tells me everything I need to know about these people though.

Grown adults with children, I haven’t seen any grown adults without children being excited about it personally and even then I’d wait till it came out online rather than looking odd booking a cinema ticket to be sat surrounded by screeching toddlers but maybe that’s just me

I explained in previous posts

I bet you judge adults who play video games too. Even though the vast majority of people who play them are adults. 🙄

This thread makes me really sad. So much judgement on what others may enjoy. I know it’s very cool on MN to hate Disney, based on the many, many threads stating that people would rather stick forks in their eyes than step foot in a Disney theme park, but believe it or not, Disney is marketed as family entertainment. This doesn’t just mean kids, but films for all the family.

To anyone who states that Disney simply make ‘kiddy movies’, I’d say try watching Toy Story, Inside Out, Turning Red, Soul…all, on the surface, ‘kiddy movies’, but as an adult watching them, the messages, themes, and emotions can’t even begin to be properly understood or appreciated by young kids. The creators of these films very much put these things in for adults. Hell, some of them even contain an adult joke or two! Kids get the bright colours, fun characters and interesting story, but there is a hell of a lot of depth in these films that are very much designed for the adults to appreciate, as it would go over most kids heads. Even the super popular with the kids films like Frozen, Moana and yes, Lilo and Stitch, have messages in that adults can appreciate much more than children.

All of this is, in a sense, completely irrelevant, as a man can absolutely go to the cinema on his own and see anything he wants, but I don’t even think it’s necessary for posters to be making comments like ‘maybe he’s ND’, ‘maybe he has nostalgic reasons for seeing it’, ‘maybe he’s lost a child’ etc etc. While any of these could be true, many ‘kids films’, Disney in particular, contain more than enough depth to be perfectly entertaining for adults too, without them needing a ‘special reason’ to see them. That’s why there are so many ‘Disney adults’…they have appeal to all ages, for all sorts of reasons.

Also you don't have to fight off anyone nicking your sweets and ice cream.

Those things are as expensive as gold dust.

Why? The kids will be accompanied by an adult and sitting down in the dark 🙄

I’m in my late fifties and bloody love a kids film, not Peppa Pig though! I probably go to the cinema at least once a week on my own to see something. Off to see Lilo and Stitch later and am looking forward to the new How to Train Your Dragon.

I remember my grandad being a huge Disney fan and would always try and persuade one of us grandkids to go to the cinema with him as he was worried people would think badly of him if he went alone.

Just a grown man? Or a grown woman too?

How do you know it had no appeal to him? He might , for example, be a student of film and interested to compare the two versions, or he might be a person with a learning difficulty who enjoys watching films on a big screen in a cinema but finds it hard to follow adult dialogues or story lines.

No of course my suspicions will not always be correct (and neither will I know if they are or not)

Cinema with a Disney film on is exactly the place where some would like to be

or like i said before it could be a man who just enjoys watching films that are aimed at young children

Lol surely this is a troll thread? I live in London amd there's just as many single viewers as families or couples at most screenings

DH and I love movies but since our dc was born nearly 6 years ago we've never once been together. We go separately all the time though, and often see the same film and then talk about it. I usually go after the adverts and I'm the first person out, so it's hardly a social occasion.

I feel like this is an odd parallel universe. Did you see The Lobster one time too many, OP?

I would find it unusual if a grown man was watching something like Peppa Pig on his own. A childrens film with no adult appeal.

I lived in another country for a while in my early 20s, and regularly went to the cinema alone, as watching films in another language was a good way to support me in learning the language of that country. This man could be learning English and using cinema trips as a way to while away a couple of hours whilst out and about, and also try to boost his language skills.

Just leave him be. Some people really, really love films and like to see everything.

No there nothing wrong with this.

Don't let ignorant people put you off. I find solo cinema going is great. Nobody takes any notice of you. The poor bloke minding his own, business watching the film, probably didn't even notice the nosey OP watching him.