Grown man at cinema on his own

Please remember there are youth and adults with developmental disabilities who enjoy films. Not suggesting every person who attends a family film with no children have a developmental disability but they do exist and they have as much rights to see a film. In fact just this weekend a neighbour's autistic son with learning disabilities and a cognitive disability, who happens to be 30 went to see it. I hope he had a great time.

I look at things like this, if someone is doing no harm let them do what works for them. Maybe he was feeling really low and seeing this film made him feel better. Maybe he was supposed to meet someone and they failed to show up for whatever reason. Maybe the film reminds him of someone he lost who loved Lilo & Stitch. The latter is true for someone I know whose son died by suicide. It was the first film she took him to when he was little. He died as a teen. She plans to go see it and wants to go alone.

I always believe if we had all the facts we'd question less and embrace more. We don't need to know all the facts to think kindly.

"cool girls', really?

But well done for illustrating one more time how bitchy women can be. That's what I find so cringy, so there you go

Nothing wrong with going to the cinema on your own.

His film choice slightly odd but maybe he’s neurodiverse? Or just really likes Lilo & Stitch. Up to him.

DH (now aged 70-) also loves animation. (His specialist subject would be Studio Ghibli). He sits there on a Saturday watching Scooby Doo (and has alot to say about the more modern versions and their inadequacies). He has a PhD and used to be an auditor before he retired. He adores going to see 'children's films' which was very handy when the Dcs were small.

Its not about being 'cool girls' (kudos for being simultaneously misogynistic, rude and ignorant all in two words) but perhaps about being vaguely emotionally functional adults who have more life experience, perhaps.

Gosh, a lot of people seem to be unfamiliar with the concept of Disney adults / adult fans of Disney.
Wait until you all find out about adult fans of Lego (AFOL) 😁

Granted, I’m not a man, but I often go to the cinema alone & in the middle of the day, especially kids films. In the main the kiddo’s are at school so it’s usually a bit less noisy.

Theres no rule that says he cant?

I know a guy who goes to kids films alone all the time, not because he enjoys them particularly but because hes actually an award winning writer/director and part of his job is seeing the competition and noting what works/doesn't work on the big screen. But he always feels uncomfortable by people staring and whispering about him being alone at the cinema.

My Dad has recently been widowed at quite a young age. My parents were together since they were nineteen. He's navigating life on his own without his wife and he's gingerly starting to get out and about and, generally have some kind of life doing things like this on his own. I'm cringing at the thought of some thoughtless, judgemental so and so starting a thread and calling him weird on Mumsnet, as that man at the cinema could well be in the same boat as my Dad. Not a nice thread, OP.

Not odd at all , my adult daughter would go to a Disney movie but it be fair she’d prefer to go with someone for company

Look I'm rarely pleased to be put in the position of defending men but seriously, let the man live.

It isn't weird for a man to go anywhere he is permitted to be. The time to worry is when they start behaving weirdly when they're in a place they're permitted to be. Or when they try to get into places they're not permitted to be.

You're okay and perfectly fine. 💓

I dropped my partner off at the cinema to watch a Tolkien thing recently and a documentary about pink floyd I think.

I don't mind LOTR but it finished late. I had work and he didn't so he got himself back.

He had a great time. And nothing wrong with it.

It's great not feeling so insecure that you must be accompanied all the time.

23 years ago not 5.

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2002 is 23 years ago!

We went to see Lilo and Stitch at the weekend. I thought it was ok, the DC enjoyed it and DH thought it was brilliant! 😂

Maybe this man has no one to go with? I didn’t think it was a movie just for kids.

Sometimes when it's just you vs 100 people, you just have to admit you are the one who is wrong.

Get off your high horse, OP. Look at you, hobnobbing with the elite. Did I miss your coronation?

A man that DH works with has taken himself off to see it. He’s around the age where he would have been a child when it first came out, and he just likes Disney. Not my cup of tea, but life would be very boring if we all liked the same stuff.

The original film came out in 2002 meaning the children who loved it are now adults Some of you are seriously bad at maths. 2002 was only five years ago. There is no way children then would be adults now 😩

No it's isn't odd. Perhaps he likes lilo and stitch. Perhaps he has one of those passes where you can watch as many films as you want in a month and he goes to see every film. Perhaps he is writing a review about it.
There could be any number of reasons why he went to see it.

It is real people mainly?

Ah this makes me sad. I go to films alone and would hate to feel judged

I’d think the choice of film a bit odd for a grown man, but I’d assume he had a cinema pass or something where he just watches every film that comes out.

Think about it, if he was a paedo, I’m not sure sitting in a dark room where you can’t actually see anyone would be the venue of choice…

He may be an animator seeking to learn or an animator that worked on it or whose contract expired before delivery and never saw it completed in crew screenings.

i think it’s quite common for artists to go and see these types of films to view the work quality.

Not odd at all there are lots of adult Disney fans who go to the parks and watch the films . Plus there are people who have the cinema passes that literally go to every film that comes out .