to read on my phone in the cinema?

[teaandakitkat]

Just that really, taking the kids to see Captain Underpants at the cinema this afternoon and am wondering if I can read a book using the kindle app on my phone? Or will the light annoy people? I would still have it turned off so it won't ring or anything.

My youngest is only 5 so I feel he's still a bit small to sit in the cinema without an adult while I sit in the cafe in the foyer, which would have been my number one choice.

Why bother taking the dc's to the cinema if you're not even going to try and watch and enjoy the film with them? If you want to sit on your phone for 2 hours just rent them a movie to watch at home. At least you won't be spoiling it for other people too.

in all my many trips to the cinema I have honestly never noticed anyone on their phone

God, I'm envious! I've pretty much stopped going because it was starting to seem like every time I went, I had to ask at least one ignorant fecker to stop talking/switch off their phone/both.

And yes, of course it'd be out of order to read a kindle with the light on.

Anyway, Captain Underpants is meant to be good –for adults as well as kids, I mean. Just watch it and you never know, you might enjoy it!

To be fair its a kids movie and its the summer holidays. I suspect it wont be a room full of people sitting perfectly still in absolute silence.

Typical selfish and entitled idiot

OP has said she's not going to use her phone, so everyone can stop bollocking her now.

Fucking hell your kid is FIVE! Why can't you watch the movie with him? Do you not talk about things he has done? Because it's likely he will talk about the film afterwards. He won't forget your disinterest in him

Come off it. I'm sure OP's 5 year old won't be that psychologically scarred if OP doesn't give 100% attention to Captain sodding Underpants. And I really don't think you can generalise that this means that OP doesn't show interest in her child

I winced when I read the OP. I knew exactly what kind of response OP would get. MNetters are rabid about cinema etiquette. I was hung drawn and quartered for defiantly stating I would never turn my phone off in the cinema as I would need to check it periodically as both my children are disabled and I need to be available for them 24/7 even if in the care of others. I said I chose my seat to minimise the possibility of anyone seeing the screen and would also only check inside my bag. I was still roasted

YABU - Has no-one on this site heard of the Moviegoers Code of Conduct???

MsGame, it's not just MNetters who are 'rabid' about phones in the cinema. Every cinema IME shows a screen or ad about switching them off before the film starts. In places that are properly staffed, staff also come and tell off/hoick out people who disregard the rules or think they don't apply to them.

If you always sit in the back row and not next to anyone else then it's just about acceptable to occasionally get your phone out. Otherwise, it isn't.

I think there should be a law where you HAVE to use your phone if you're going to see the Emoji movie. It really is complete and utter shit.

whattodo2017 I said I wouldn't care if somebody else was looking at their phone with the brightness turned right down during a children's film.

If you think this makes me selfish then you must be living on a knife edge. I can't relate.

@JoshLymanJr I came on to preach the gospel of the good Church of Wittertainment too, but plenty have beat me to it - see upthread

Talking of taking a nap, my youngest often resentfully reminds me of the times I fell asleep in Cloudy with a chance of meatballs 2 and then again in some Monster High debacle. It was impossible not to! Those movies were just awful, nothing to engage an adult at all, sat in the dark, how could I not fall asleep?

Listen to podcasts or audiobooks. You put an earphone in the ear facing away from the kids and they'll never know. Gets me through all sorts of events!

It wouldn't bother me OP, if you sat at the back or in a corner.
I don't see why people are critical of parents who don't want to watch kids films. I'm sure the OP wouldn't be ignoring her child but it's entirely reasonsble imo if you've driven them to the cinema and paid a fortune for tickets and snacks, to take your own quiet entertainment rather than be forced to watch the bloody smurfs or cars3!
I seriously doubt that any kid would have their enjoyment ruined by the OP quietly looking at her phone. Not judging by the amount of noise and disruption that kids cause in cinemas

How the hell can someone sitting in the very back row with their phone on a low light impinge on anyone in front of them? Not like the cinema is going to be packed out.

MargotMoon

Hello to Jason Isaacs!

you can however listen to an audiobook or the archers omnibus with headphones. helped me thriough the chipmunks movie

Please don't. It's fucking irritating. I was in the cinema recently with someone who couldn't stop checking their fucking HR on their fitbit. Until they were told to stop fucking doing it.

Yabu, don't do it.

whattodo2017 I said I wouldn't care if somebody else was looking at their phone with the brightness turned right down during a children's film.

If you think this makes me selfish then you must be living on a knife edge. I can't relate.

Okay, fair enough; I read it wrong. You would only be selfish if you were doing it yourself.

Don't get the knife Edge comment

"How the hell can someone sitting in the very back row with their phone on a low light impinge on anyone in front of them? Not like the cinema is going to be packed out."

Well ShelaghTurner it won't distract anyone in front of them, but it will distract anyone in the back row alongside them. I have been distracted by someone in the same row as me twice recently - on one occasion she was sat next to me so I politely asked her to stop, on the other occasion he was about 6 seats away on the same row but lit up like a Christmas tree

You lot really haven't heard/read the Captain Underpants reviews, have you?

i actually don't get the love for going to the cinema and very rarely do it. Stupidly expensive and full of people clutching gallon size tubs of coke and popcorn, or hot dogs or burger ffs. all of which they then slurp and chew all through the film. Add in the rustling, fidgeting, talking, kids and its pretty much my idea of hell anyway.

I've seen Captain Underpants. It's not great.

I always found the kids films had stuff for adults too - loved Madagascar, Ice Age, Happy Feet etc, and cried buckets to Up. Too late for you now probably, but how about watching and enjoying? Cos how do you talk to your kids about it after if you didn't watch?