AIBU to think it’s ridiculous to watch movies in your garden!

[Naithnira]

Spotted in a magazine. What fresh hell is this?! AIBU to think you’re a selfish entitled shit if you erect an outdoor cinema screen in your garden?!

About 5 friends have publicised their newly purchased outdoor projectors this week on social media. All of whom live in terraced or semi detached houses in tightly packed estates. All of which are watching films at 9/10/11pm. No one in these photos is wearing headphones?

I am agog. I can’t understand how anyone can think this is okay. If it’s not bad enough that we seem to have become a nation where your own choice of wanky music is shoved down your neigbours ears, now we have to have their wanky films too?? And flashing lights?

If you live in a field, fine, 80% of the population don’t though. And before anyone suggests I should - I would love to. If anyone could find me a house in a field, miles and miles away from the radio/music/film projecting wankers that is also within my suburban budget and within commute of my shift working job, please let me know.

Playing music or having a film on outside are equally horrible.

I once started a thread asking if I'd been unreasonable watching a loud action film in my living room.

I was being sarcastic, my neighbours had just complained about the noise, which I felt was unreasonable.

But the consensus on MN was that I was being unreasonable watching a film in my own living room. So surely a film in the garden is really taking the piss?!

Seems to me you’d need a very big screen to make it worthwhile? We already have a 50 inch TV so it would need to be bigger than that!

How is it a problem for you if they have headphones?

Yeah but the problem is most inconsiderate arseholes don't see a problem with imposing the noise of a film on everyone else, why would they get headphones?

Fuck me OP you are getting a hard time

If my neighbours decided to play Grease or any other shit movie or video n their garden with everyone to hear that’s a big hell no

Anyone who says crack on, give me their address and I’ll come round and project Grease 2 in your garden

People won’t want to use headphones, it makes it less of a communal experience doesn’t it?

It’s ridiculous and antisocial. People just have no consideration for anyone but themselves.

I've never done it, but have been thinking of getting a projector so we can watch a movie on our tent on our next camping trip. If I had a white wall like that and a garden that wasn't cold and north facing so we'd get more use our of it I'd definitely watch movies in the garden. I don't see how the noise level is much different to having a barbecue or talking in the garden? Since when are gardens meant to be more silent than a library? There is so much hysteria about garden noise at the moment.

Maybe it depends where you live. I live in a terrace, but there is constant low level noise. Heavily populated area, people walking down the streets either side, music, radios, traffic, sirens, people arriving home all times of day and night. I honestly don't think anyone would notice a couple of hours of noise that is more quiet than music from a party. People I know who live in quieter areas have more spaced out gardens though so I don't see how intrusive it would be then either.

@user3274826 please don't 😭 we always end up stuck next to the tent with the tv/dvd/projector all the gadgets setup and it really ruins the evenings (and early mornings when the parents want a lie in and stick cartoons on for the kids). No matter how quiet the campsite, there's always a noisy tent next to us! Camping is for star-gazing round a fire, telling stories and drinking hot chocolate. The racket of someone watching a movie can be heard all round the campsite and really takes away the fun from other people.

If one lives close to neighbors, it is unreasonable.

Not everyone has a tiny garden.

We did this for my birthday last year, bloody loved it.

You may be horrified to know it was after having a BBQ

Very common here. But we don’t all live on top of one another so the noise is not so much of an issue.

You seem like fun...NOT

Oh we did this at our old house. Not got it set up here yet as the garden not done.

I used to wheel our TV out into the garden through the french doors when I was doing revision at school (mid 1990’s) -hardly new!

Really wish you hadn’t brought this to the attention of most of the people on this thread. Instead of me going inside while you watch a film outside here’s an idea - why don’t you go inside and make your noise there and leave all of your neighbours in peace? That’s how society works.
Agree with PP that Mumsnet is a weirdly contrary place.

I'm with you OP, people who do things like this are annoying as shit.

If you want to make noise, go and live in the countryside where you're not annoying anyone.

As long as all wearing headphones otherwise selfish

Daft in our climate it’s very chilly as soon as sun gone

I don't see the point in the UK. But then I don't see the point of BBQs either.

Having said that, I have a large garden, and with a bit a lot of money could set this up. The DC would live it --and then be board after two films and never used it again.

I'm curious about what to project it he film on to. Surely if it's a wall it needs to be very smooth.

I am amazed by the smug anti-social attitude of some CF posting on here. No wonder there are so many threads about people at their wits end because of the noise that surrounds them.

If your neighbours can hear it, it's too loud and it's rude. Why do people insist on making others life as miserable as they possibly can is beyond me.

Yes, it's life, so send your kids screaming in the garden from 6am, put loud music on all day so no one else can enjoy their garden, watch a movie so others have to put with a stupid background noise , have late parties, leave your kids scream on their trampoline until at least 11pm, have a karaoke in the garden to entertain the street with drunk and out of tune shouting..

If no one can hear you, that's a complete non issue.

Surely the weather isn’t good enough here, I know we have had a couple of good weeks but they are few and far between, it would be surely difficult to watch in the sunshine, as you would not see the picture very well and chilly at night apart from the 2 hot weeks we occasionally get in JulyAugust and packed away when it is raining.

It is an awful idea. Just one step worse than the trend for completely opening up the wall into the back garden - because of course we all want to hear absolutely everything that's going on in their house while sitting in our own back garden!