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To think the parent who let her ds (6) talk through Star Wars

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Higge · 22/12/2015 21:29

needs to teach her child some manners or remove him from the cinema till he can shut up for longer that 2 secs!

And not only did her ds rabbit on constantly, she was accompanied with a friend who's dcs took glow lights with them! And they chucked the glow lights into our seats. Who the hell takes glow lights to the cinema. Why don't we have an employee in each screening monitoring behaviour!

I complained and got a refund - but I'd have preferred to watch the film in peace!

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moonbells · 23/12/2015 09:39

We went at the weekend together with DS (8) and as he has form for talking loudly in films at home and fidgeting, he was threatened beforehand with instant removal if he started talking or asking questions, and told that as we hadn't seen it before either, we couldn't answer even if we wanted to. The only thing he was encouraged to ask was to go to the loo.

He was fine. A few whispers but nothing a shh or a finger on his lips didn't solve. (Thank goodness!) The cinema was pretty silent - not even cheers or claps at bits. Slightly boring audience!

angelos02 · 23/12/2015 09:55

The cinema was pretty silent - not even cheers or claps at bits. Slightly boring audience

Erm....this is how an audience should be.

LondonKitty · 23/12/2015 10:09

We took the kids to the cinema last night. Had to take 5 year old as the babysitter fell through at the last minute, even though the plan had been for us to go to Star Wars. In the end, DH took our teen and 10 year old to Star Wars, which they've all been looking forward to for years. My 5 year old would have loved to have seen it but in our view '12a' refers to 9,10, 11 year olds and certainly not to 5 year olds. Given the content of some previous SW films (especially epiii), we didn't think it was appropriate that a first viewing would be on big screen and not safely at home.. And of course thee was the enjoyment of everyone else to consider. There was nothing else suitable showing, so 5 year old and I went for pizza.

See, I sacrificed myself so you lot could watch Star Wars without the distraction of an excited 5 year old!!!

ConstantlyChristmaslyCooking · 23/12/2015 10:35

A few years ago, DH and I went to the cinema and an oldish couple arrived, sat in front of us and .... Opened up their fish and chips from the shop next door. Lots of rustling, asking each other for sachets of vinegar and smell of food throughout film (of course once they had eaten they just stuffed the papers under the seat). I was amazed the cinema staff did not interfered. The cinema was packed and it was not a loud film so the noise was v obvious.

Crazypetlady · 23/12/2015 12:17

I haven't been to a cinema in years too much of people behaving badly in our localish one.It's 40 minutes each way not worth it.

OhWotIsItThisTime · 23/12/2015 13:51

My four and seven year old behaved themselves. The man next to us, on the other hand, loudly slurped his ice cream and ate fucking crisps. What sort of a cretin eats crisps at the cinema?

SistersOfPercy · 23/12/2015 13:51

The cinema was pretty silent - not even cheers or claps at bits. Slightly boring audience

Save it for after the film not during it.

DH and his friends did a few troops at various cinemas round our way over the first few days (a friend holds the record for 8 troops in five days across five cinemas LOL!)

We did three nights and were shattered. Leia has it easy in her dress, but myself and DH were knackered (he's Boba Fett and his jetpack is 3kg alone).

The ones we worked we had great fun with the audiences. As the credits rolled and it started to empty DD and I went into the screening, I (Stormtrooper) ushered out the audience with a 'Move along' and DD (Princess Leia) waved her hand Jedi mind trick style with 'You will not spoiler this movie'.

They all loved it.

MuddlingMackem · 24/12/2015 01:21

SistersOfPercy Wed 23-Dec-15 13:51:29

We did three nights and were shattered. Leia has it easy in her dress, but myself and DH were knackered (he's Boba Fett and his jetpack is 3kg alone). The ones we worked we had great fun with the audiences. As the credits rolled and it started to empty DD and I went into the screening, I (Stormtrooper) ushered out the audience with a 'Move along' and DD (Princess Leia) waved her hand Jedi mind trick style with 'You will not spoiler this movie'.

Ughnotagain · 24/12/2015 01:49

I've told people young teens off for chatting before but I'm not a fan of it.

I have gone to find a member of staff before as well and they were clearly so pissed off at having to come and say something (as in, they seemed pissed off at me).

This incident happened fairly local to me though so it's always put me off saying anything metro.co.uk/2009/08/03/teen-charged-over-cinema-bleach-attack-315624/

SevenOfNineTrue · 24/12/2015 15:52

I simply loathe parents like this. They have no consideration for others.

carabos · 24/12/2015 17:04

We saw it last night. Three women and a man immediately in front of us had half a dozen what appeared to be 10-13 yr olds with them who they parked across the aisle further down. Those kids seemed to take it in turns to go to the loo, go to the cafe, come up and talk to their parents and generally wander about. There wasn't a moment in the film where one or other of them wasn't on their feet. They weren't running about or shouting, but they were very distracting and apparently oblivious to the fact that it was dark and they were spoiling it for the other 150 people in there .

Why do people do that? Completely give up with the parenting in situations where their kids' behaviour needs to be good and socially aware?

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