Grown man at cinema on his own

You lead a small life. Expand your horizons.

And you don’t own the cinema. So keep your eyes on the screen and ignore perfectly normal people watching a movie.

No, a single man alone doing something odd or suspicious whilst watching a kids' film may be weird.

A single man watching a film has every right to be there. She doesn't say it's specifically a children's showing.

This is how these arguments get obfuscated.

well my autistic nephew would do this .it’s a shame some people in the world would judge him for it.

my gosh, that's a lot of thoughts going into a complete non-event that most people wouldn't even notice.

But you WERE judging him. Nasty.

Lots of people, men and women, go to the cinema on their own. I gave it up only due to the behaviour of a minority of the audience spoiling the experience (including jerks who use their phones when the cinema is supposed to be in darkness).

Virtually no one lives to 120, thats world record level and well past standard 'middle age'.

Middle age is 35 - 45 (expected life span of between 70 - 90 years).

I think you know my BIL!

YABU. Totally.

I often go to the cinema on my on, and I don't appreciate your nasty curtain-twitching tone, @Littlebluecreature

What on earth are you on about? I believe men can’t become women but a man is perfectly fine to watch an animated movie on his own.

I pity the small mindedness here. And as a pp said, the original L&S came out 23 years ago, so kids who saw will not be grown men and women and will watch the sequel.

Add it to the list of stuff "grown men" aren't allowed to do.

Like go out walking without a dog.

Fortunately if you are an ungrown man then you can do pretty much anything.

Well I’m definitely not a ‘cool’ girl. But when I lived overseas I regularly went to the cinema on my own to watch kids films because it’s a really good way to learn a language. Plot lines are generally easier to follow, so if you don’t understand every word, you still get the gist. For people with any kind of language disability children’s films or films like ‘Mr Bean’s holiday’, are brilliant. I think it odd that you think it’s odd, but then life would be dull if we all thought the same.

My BIL is a massive, massive movie buff and often goes to the cinema during the day if he's not working. There isn't a film he won't watch, even cartoons. But he's there to watch films and not to ogle children as OP seems to be insinuating that's what single men must do if they are going to the cinema by themselves.

There’s a few horrible small minded people on this thread. Cinemas are empty most of the time anyway. They need as much custom as possible.

He is clearly a dangerous predator. Police, immediately without any hesitation and evacuate any children out of the building who are at any risk of getting into his clutches. Put a Facebook message out for good measure with a clear picture of this dangerous man to warn other parents in the vicinity in case the lilo and stitch watching man approaches.

I go to the cinema and theatre by myself quite often.

what is the issue?

There are probably hardly any kids there on a Monday afternoon.

It’s sad that people are judging and looking sideways at others who just happen to be alone in a public space. When you get to my age a lot of people have to get used to being on their own - they still have lives to live!

It could be worse though. I went for a walk without DH the other day and someone asked me where my dog was. Apparently she didn’t know that people without dogs went walking…

Yeh. It’s weird. Ignore the holier than thou bunch. They are the reason why the trans lobby were able to exert so much power and influence, because liberal people were falling over themselves to prove how accepting they are that they couldn’t bring themselves to call out weird behaviour. And by the way, I’m a liberal. I’m one of the so called metropolitan middle class elite. Only difference is I’m happy to call a spade a spade. A man dressed as a woman is still a biological man. A single man alone watching a kids film is weird.

I don’t think it’s odd. I can think of plenty of perfectly normal reasons for him - or anyone else - to be at the cinema alone watching whatever they want.

I go to the cinema on my own a lot and sometimes to kids films.

I would love to see it, because it was of those kid films our young family actually all loved and watched together. It has good memories for me. I won't see it in cinema, because I don't have a spare child to take, but I wouldn't think it was odd to see a line adult watching it!

Oh, you're so edgy and cool, taking the opposite viewpoint from everyone else. You don't have the faintest idea why the man's at the cinema. Maybe this kind of film or earlier ones remind him of someone who's passed. It could be anything, and you don't know, but you choose to ridicule the man.

I know a middle aged man with a cinema pass who has made it his life's mission to see every film that is released.

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