To confront two kids in the cinema

[CookieDoughKid]

Who were continuously kicking the back of my and dc's chair during the movie? They looked to be about 8 and 10. The second time I turned round and told them to stop, they sniggered. I couldn't see their parents in it was so dark. Then near the end, their dad swapped seats and sat behind me. The kicking stopped.

At the end of the movie, I raised to the dad how throughout the movie and telling his sons to stop twice, they were still kicking and sniggering. I said it politely so that he was aware. He launched into an attack saying his kids don't do this kind of thing and that they are not little kids. And he said I should have raised it with him first (difficult to do as I couldn't identify him easily and didn't want to make a scene more than it was). He really wasn't up for listening to my side so I walked off. Literally.

I would pay more - much more - to go to a naice cinema with sofas, wine, nibbles and a nice grown up atmosphere! Just a shame there aren't more of these kind of cinemas about!

I never forget my first experience in a US cinema.

I was horrified. A man in the front row fell over getting his popcorn halfway through the film, and people applauded and heckled him. People were openly screaming and laughing. There was that low level of white noise you get from lots of people talking. It was bizarre!

If you can't behave appropriately in a cinema, you shouldn't go. Whether an adult or a child. If you can't not check Facebook or whatever for a couple of hours, you need help. I love being unable to check social media. Had a holiday in a remote part of the UK recently & was unable contactable. Was wonderful.

wigglybeezer thankyou - I hope it isn't too annoying, we are very excited that we can finally all go to the cinema together, without one of us having to stay at home with ds!

Wigglybeezer - I think you have hit on something there. I go to the cinema very regularly. What I have really noticed in recent years is the amount of parents taking very young children (sometimes as young as 3 or 4) to a film rated 12A.
Parents really need to start understanding the 12A certificate and doing research into the film before taking young children. All too often the tone and plot is just not suitable for young children. As a result the children often then get bored or scared and start to ruin the film for others.
It's interesting that a superhero type movie was mentioned earlier, because I'm willing to bet that it would have been rated a 12A as well. Whilst you have to obviously use your own judgement and the parent knows their own child best, it's pretty rare that a 12A certificate is ok for anybody under 8 years of age in my experience. From what I remember the BBFC also states that in their guidance.

Sadly it's not just young children that misbehave at the cinema nowadays. I went to see The Martian last week. All the rows of teenagers in front of me behaved perfectly. Two sets of very elderly couples though spent much of the film looking at facebook etc on their phone, with the brightness turned up to max.

I once sat fuming in a cinema as a group of teenage girls sniggered and talked in non-hushed voices all the way through the first 10 minutes of a film.

Then a massive bloke got up, walked over to them and shouted 'shut the fuck up!' before hurling his cup of coke all over them and stalking back to his seat.

They sat as silent and still as stones for the rest of the film.

Actually a felt a bit hardly at all sorry for them.