To think that the person who took a baby to the cinema is very selfish and inconsiderate

[ProletarianMum]

Went to Cinema today to a 12A movie and a couple took their baby along. It cried reputedly through the film.

Aibu to think this is selfish, unexceptable and inconsiderate.

You're not torn at all.

You have a child. That changes some aspects of your life. If that means you have to get a baby sitter or wait for the dvd then that's how it is.

The last Avengers film was spoiled for me (and everyone else in the packed cinema) by some arsewipes who'd brought two toddlers and a 6 month old. The toddlers ran around for 2 hours and the baby cried all the time.

I once went to a 9pm screening of Django Unchained - yes, that's right, a violent QUENTIN TARANTINO movie - and there was a couple there who had taken their 2 year old along in her stroller. That really blew my mind. To be fair, she was quiet enough and only cried a couple of times - unlike my 2 year old at the time who would have had the cinema dismantled brick by brick at that hour of the night.

I was more concerned about the amount of violence in the film really. At that age they can understand some things and aren't just oblivious like a baby. I couldn't fathom how on earth the parents thought it was a good idea. Just bizarre!

NBU at all, you simply don't take children to the cinema until they are ready for it. DS2 was awful during his first trip to the cinema to see Wreck it Ralph, he lay on the floor eating questionable sweets off the floor and shouting "It's too dark in here" so I left with him halfway through and DS1 stayed with DH to watch the rest. It's part of having children; you have to either book a babysitter or be prepared to leave early/miss stuff.

Surely cinemas should be enforcing age limits more stringently if a small child is going in to see something like Django?

I've lost count of the amount of times I've taken tiny babies to the cinema it's usually the only time I go when I have a little one until they are old enough to sit through a film themselves.

I've had to leave once in 22 years the rest of the time usually on leaving at least one person has commented that they didn't even realise a baby was there.

If you are prepared to leave if a disturbance is caused no matter what your age it's ok to do.

It's not a new modern thing and I've never even heard of a baby screening

"You just don't know their circumstances."

Erm, yes we do. We know that the baby cried repeatedly "throughout" the film. It's not like they took the baby there but ducked out the moment the baby started crying, which might just possibly be acceptable--they sat there and went on watching while the baby cried.

I don't care if this is a "rare treat" for them--it's also a rare treat for a lot of other people in the cinema, who have just paid quite a bit of money to have their own experience ruined.

It is extremely selfish, Yanbu.