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.

I will admit to having done this on more than one occasion so I can do revision and still take my kids out. Never once been asked to turn it off by my other users or staff. Used night mode and knocked the screen light right down.

Loosen up MN's otherwise woe betide any of your precious kids making a chuffing noise during the film or needing to go to the bloody loo (thus flooding the cinema with light as the door opens then bangs shut!) or said kids wearing those bloody flashing shoes or anything! One of our (very expensive) local cinemas has table service to your seats and that is WAY more chuffing annoying - screen blocked every five bloody minutes as they walk too and fro as well as light from outside flooding in every time they open the door!!!!

Your son should be taken to the cinema by someone who wants to enjoy a film with him.

And I don't say that in a bitchy way, I just think your DS would enjoy the experience more with someone who wanted to be there

Someone did this to me in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre a few weeks ago and it was really annoying. She was clearly there with her boyfriend's family and way out of her comfort zone.

However, in our local cinema, the raking is so steep and the seat backs are so high that you can't see onto the seat in front so, unless there is someone sitting in the few seats next to you YWNBU to read on your phone.

I can do the light sleeping too. I 'saw' Frozen twice before I experienced more than the first ten minutes.

Gin, how can that not be bitchy?
Parents take kids to the cinema, usually at great expense because the kids want to go. It really isn't a parenting fail to try and do something more enjoyable at the same time. I'm sure the OP spends plenty of time talking to her child and engaging with him because most parents do, but opting out of watching a kids film at the cinema hardly makes her a bad mother!

Appalling you need to ask. Of course YABU. Think of the example you are setting for your child- go to the cinema and annoy people with a light, why not take a torch!

she is probably ringing to find out if your are able to cater the wedding

I never said she was a bad mother at all

And I'm sure loves doing things with her children. I genuinely wasn't trying to be bitchy!

I just meant that if OP isn't a fan someone else could take her wee boy then everyone wins.

It made sense in my head, sorry.

Last time we went I was ready to batter one bloody woman with her fucking phone, it was SO annoying. It's bad enough having to endure kids movies without the constant flickering of a phone screen.

mumtotwobs. You are an adult doing something fucking annoying that you should know better than to do. Children being children is just one of those things. Not the same at all.

Wrong quote fail

AvoidingCallenetics

However, in our local cinema, the raking is so steep and the seat backs are so high that you can't see onto the seat in front so, unless there is someone sitting in the few seats next to you YWNBU to read on your phone

The woman pissing me off was a couple of rows in front, but across the aisle. Please don't be so sure your phone wouldn't be annoying someone if you used it.

Wait for it (the film, which sounds puerile) to come round on Sky!

I gad same thought yesterday but given the number of children talking/crying/running/rolling around throughout the film I decided my phone use was absolutely fine

The last time I went to the cinema a blind lady and her friend sat beside me. The friend then proceeded to describe every scene to the visually challenged lady.....someone reading on their phone wouldn't bother me at all. Someone talking through the entire movie made my blood boil!

Yes this would massively piss me off and I would complain to the staff about it.

Jason Isaacs is the reason for my DS' name. Not that I'm a particular fan (although he is an excellent and handsome actor of course) but shortly after discovering DC2 was a boy, I saw Jason on some chat show and thought OMG I totally forgot about the name Isaac. And the bump was immediately, irreversibly Isaac from that moment on.

I'm glad you decided not to do it OP. Have to say I'm mighty relieved that my DCs have never read any CU books and thus regarded the trailer like this (despite generally being big toilet humour fans).

I see so many threads, posts etc about teens or even younger DCs not being able to get off their phones/tablets, it makes sense to set a positive example I think. :)

If you have white text on black background you might just about get away with if.

I exercise my right to disagree there actually Annie - having sat next to a friend last time we took the kids she hadn't even realised I had been reading. A lot of posters are assuming that reading on a night time setting is the same as facebooking (where the full screen is white not black) and yes I get that might be annoying. Last time I was at the cinema the child in front of us was wearing a pair of shoes with soles that light up and they were flashing the entire way through the film. Surely their "responsible adult" should have been more aware and stopped that - that in my humble opinion is more than just kids being kids!

I would have stopped and turned the phone off had I been asked but;
a) I wholeheartedly disagree I was being "fucking annoying" if the person sat directly next to me hadn't noticed; and
b) think some of the other parents ought to assume the "responsible adult" status to which you refer and actually prevent some of the other equally preventable "fucking annoying" distractions (such as wearing of said flashing shoes to the cinema!).

Anyway I maintain so long as you weren't being obvious or annoying anyone OP then YANBU for wanting to read!

Just download a good play or something from the radio or an audiobook and listen on headphones. As long as the phone is in your pocket or away, you can look like an interested and good parent but actually be listening to something you enjoy instead - win win :)

I never sleep in the cinema because I know I snore!

Mumtotwobs - how very arrogant. Why on earth do you think that this very explicit instruction does not apply to you?

Odeon pre-curtain announcement

I wholeheartedly disagree I was being "fucking annoying" if the person sat directly next to me hadn't noticed;
Someone had that setting on their phone in the seat in front of me, you can see it. It was Jurassic world and I think he was scared so looked at his phone everytime the monstor came on, poor little love.

Ive had to sit through "Yugioh the movie" that was true parental sacrifice, cant believe how nowadays it is acceptable to

1, read phones in cinema
2, have feet on the back of the seats
3,talk
4 take babies to grown up films, and then entertain said baby by flashing your mobile about
5, not take out babies that are crying in the cinema (more than once) and then push the pram up and down the front of the screen
6 then there was the couple who decided to performe and take selfies of themselves kissing in the middle of the movie with feet up in the air then bow to the audience when they were finally thrown out

Cos I'm special

Don't make me laugh when I am cross with you!

Have to agree. I find it unfathomable that someone not only thinks it's OK to surf through and piss around with their phone during a film in the cinema, but also that they are irked that people find it annoying.

As has been said there is ALWAYS an announcement before the film telling you to turn off phones and tablets etc.

Like the poster on the previous page, I don't know why some people think the rules shouldn't apply to them. Very arrogant and rude. I would not hesitate for a second, to report someone I saw pissing around with their phone when I was trying to watch a film in the cinema. Some people pay a fortune if they have several kids with them; why should they tolerate some arrogant oik who thinks the rules shouldn't apply to them!

And no I WON'T 'lighten up' and you can't make me.

Get some earphones and listen to a great podcast or an audible book. There's so much to choose from I won't bother recommending anything.

Joking apart - I don't think I'm in any way arrogant and I have said has I been told to stop I would have. I tend to book the back row so usually wouldn't have anyone behind me to be annoyed and in all fairnness if I truly felt I was pissing someone off in real life I wouldn't do it. I have had to make quite a few sacrifices recently to enable me to better mine and my kids lives. I didn't think trying to treat my kids to a trip
to the cinema as well as combining some hard sought time to revise would be classed as being so "arrogant" when other evidently more "entitled parents" let their chuffing brats run amok and spoil the experience for others too. The trailer that was posted also says keep quiet too ...

Like I said if I truly thought I was annoying and disrupting they I'd not do it but being "arrogant" is the last thing I'm trying to be! I'm just saying that I'm certainly not the only one who pushes the rules and if you really want to nitpick it doesn't tell you to step away from your kindle - only your phone so I'll maybe take that bedtime and satisfy the nitpickers!

Watch the film. 'Captain Underpants' is well-made and witty.