To have found this a bit excessive at the cinema?

[mrsmilesmatheson]

We went to the cinema last night to see Wicked. Obviously lots of teens/tweens there.

We sat on the end of a row as I knew I may need to pop for a wee at some point and I would rather not disturb others.

There was a family of 9 in our row who made a big fuss on arrival and arrived in 3 separate groups, faffing around, shoving past, making a lot of noise etc.

The young teenager/maybe 10 year old with them climbed over us (and back again) 8 separate times to go out during the film. She stood on my handbag, elbowed me in the face and knocked over our popcorn in her impatience to get out each time. The adults with her did nothing. I asked her to wait while we made space and she just sighed, rolled her eyes and shoved past.

Surely at that age, it's not unreasonable to expect a child to sit through most of a film without all this fuss!? She was not being accompanied by an adult on these trips so clearly mature enough in some ways!

There were plenty of spare seats in other rows. I realise now we probably should have just moved, but really why should we have to... I'd never have allowed my child to disturb people to this extent. I'd have moved her to another row or stopped her doing it.

Pathetic parenting, not just in cinemas. Total lack of discipline ... kids just do what they want.

I have a 7 year old DD who can sit through a whole movie at the cinema without needing the toilet. At most she'd go once, with an adult. You're not being unreasonable. People have no manners or awareness of others these days.

Totally. I’m on a David Lloyd fb group and some woman put a message on today raging that some members in the pool had politely asked if her kids could be a bit quieter. Raging saying she told the other members to leave, that she’s sick of people expecting kids to be seen and not heard.

now I don’t think children laughing, etc and playing are going to be silent but as a member of David Lloyd who sees parents allowing their kids to rampage around the place shrieking and screaming I know where my sympathy lies.

We tend to go the first showing on a Saturday morning, if it's a couple weeks after release we find hardly anyone there. We went to the cinema Sat and had the place to ourselves for a 9.40am showing.

@FeegleFrenzy this is why we left our David Lloyd gym! Stuck out the contractual year but regretted joining after a few weeks. The entitled behaviour we witnessed was off the scale. Huge SUVs all rammed into the disabled spaces (without stickers) or just parked at the front door, people on their phones and shouting in the spa, kids running riot through the social space, adults emptying their nostrils in the plunge pool, things stolen the minute they were put down, I could go on...it was like a haven of entitlement. I did wonder if it was just people who had no idea to behave in a gym or spa as I'm in an area that doesn't have many leisure facilities so this was kind of a novelty when it opened. I always left feeling more stressed than when I arrived.

@mrsmilesmatheson I can’t see where you said you spoke to a staff member - I think you were a bit rude to reply to @ShortyShorts as you did!

@Heatherbell1978 totally. The thieving is off the charts. Lockers been broken into left right and centre. Friend of mine had his £60 triathlon swimming trunks stolen which is really disgusting. Another friend had brand new trainers and an expensive Owala water bottle taken. Dd used to work behind the bar and said 80% of members spoke to her like shit and would try and scam stuff like paying for a small wine and then screaming at her that they’d asked for a large one, same people every single time! She just used to give them a large one without charging as she couldn’t be arsed so was making a rod for her own back to be honest 😁

This. Weekdays are much quieter and with a slightly older more refined crowd usually. As someone else said, the movie is going to be available on streaming services in next couple of weeks, so can be enjoyed in comfort of own home😂

For the life of me I can't figure out why people would rather rant online about something that has happened to them rather than just deal with it at the time it happened, and then not have to stew about it for hours afterwards... I don't get it.

These days you are being very unreasonable to expect a child to show any consideration for anyone else, or for a parent to actually parent them.

Yes, they are also annoying although at least the disturbance tends to be momentary.

FeegleFrenzy I also plan cinema visits strategically so as to be one of very few people in there

I went on the weekend and the row in front

put a phone torch on half way through to look at a piece of paper
texting
got up at least 5 times for the loo
left early before the film ended , standing up in front of everyone blocking their view

I’m so excited it’s going to be on streaming next week. I’m going to have a sing along in my front room. 😁👍

You might want to see a doctor about your bladder if you need the loo every 25 mins. 😁

I don't have an odeon nearby so vue is usually around £15 and showcase is similar. Cineworld's is £17.99. So to me everyman is on a par with the others. I've taken a cushion before when I chipped my coccyx and had to sit awkwardly. No one said anything. And the food isnt super pricey and it's more like the food I'd like at cinemas. I detest popcorn.

Add smaller theaters so less people and I'm happy. They also do showings for children and quieter ones and brighter ones.

Choose to earn? I'm not sure people choose their low wage situation generally. They take it because that's the world we have to live in apparently.

I think you're splitting hairs now.

They've chosen the job, so regardless of the money, they're happy to do their job, which includes telling people to pipe down.

But the OP and her adult daughter chose not to move seats or ask the staff to deal with it, so 🤷‍♂️

I generally take my daughter to the first showing (about 10am) when we go at half term because I can’t control my peri menopausal rage regarding other people and their behaviour in cinemas.

We never go anymore, last time was to see Dune during the tail end of COVID and it wasn't a great experience. Also now we have MIL living with us with dementia. DH collects new 4k releases and we watch them and either keep or resell them. Means having to wait longer to see stuff but with the lights off, snacks, drinks, big screen and good sound system it's fine.

It was the people in the row in front going to
the toilet. Not that poster.

Oh sorry….ha ha, totally misread that. 🤣🙈

Some people are just ignorant and rude as shit. These were some of those people. Ignore the posters falling over themselves to make this your fault.

Cinema etiquette doesn't seem to exist anymore. We went to see Wicked yesterday and a family with a fairly small child (but definitely old enough to know better) chatted loads throughout the film, rustled a popcorn bag very loudly throughout the film, ate with her mouth open so you heard every single crunch and her and her parents all snotted, coughed and sneezed throughout - so most likely knowingly infecting everyone else in the close proximity of a cinema screening with their lovely virus two days before Christmas. I couldn't concentrate on the film as my blood pressure was increasingly going up!!

You'd have to pay me good money to go to the pictures at the weekend.