To think that under 5's should be banned from cinemas?

[frustratedmumof3]

Just taken DD (age 11) to cinema to see High School Musical 3. Could not believe the amount of toddlers in there! I mean this a movie about a High School (quite shocking really as there was snogging and knicker flashing, pretty tame to what goes on in real high schools )so what relevance to a tiddler??

A couple of the little darlings were running round the cinema obviously bored because they could not follow the film(and I do mean right round the cinema not just in the aisles) while their parents just sat there and did not do anything), so along with the rest of them crying, wailing and screaming, it was difficult to hear at some points.

IMO from the age of 5, kids can sit quietly and watch a film and under that age, they should be denied entry!!

Yes. Also banned from:

Theatres
Concerts
Churches
Starbucks (also Costa and all other coffee shops)
Restaurants (except fastfood places that are not really restaurants)
Shops (except shops that stock children's things)
Pubs (except those horrible ones that microwave processed meals and have bears in them)
Trains (they can be allowed on buses)
Planes

I have been taking dd to cinema since she was about 6 weeks old. Frankly it's the only way to get to see a film these days and naturally would take her out if she started to kick off. She normally sleeps through it though.

So you are being a bit unreasonable...if you go to see a kids film there are going to be kids there. Otherwise go to the 10pm showing!

Oh FFS, just ban kids everywhere and be done with it!

YANBU - their parents should be asked to leave (with their kids!)

oh should add I don't want them banned as I've taken my lovely well behaved under 5's to the cinema a few times.

I'm pondering whether we should compel all under-fives to have a big C embroidered on their clothes.

Naturally a curfew should be imposed on them.

Do you think it would be a bit extreme to have specific ghettoes areas where they can live and ban them from nice areas? Kind of like what we do with poor people?

yanbu
I would have asked for my money back

Yes, SS should have been called, obviously. How very dare he. I can see why you were disgusted.

op is trying to be a cheeky monkey( i am being nice) and cause trouble.oh the fun.

FMO3 is working her way around the boards,writing inane posts seeking some sort of response

possibility has affirmation issues, feels overlooked so deliberately tries to be contentious to provoke response

I was thinking about this today. I took dd to see this at the noon showing at the cinema. SHe doesn't really care about the story, she loves HSM for the singing and dancind, of which there was plenty, and she got a glowstick into the bargain . SHe is 4 and I also had ds who is 4 months with us as well. I do agree that everyone at a cinema should be considerate to others, not just children, and she has always gone to the cinema on the understanding that if she disturbs other people then she will be taken out. Especially since ds has been born I ave reiterrated it everytime we go- if one of them makes a noise I am happy to take them out til they calm down. I have never had to do it. Ds seems happy to gaze mesmerised at the screen and revel in being bf pretty much the whole time in the dark, which is guaranteed to make him drop off, and dd enjoys the whole experience of going to the cinema, which is a special thing we have done together for a while and I didn't want to give up when ds was born (I am quite aware than him being so placid will not last much longer though). Her seat has been paid for the same as everyone elses. Our cinema is pretty child friendly though, with special kids showings every weekend. I would never take her to a showing I know would be busy, which is why for other films we tend to go on weekday mornings. And fwiw, the college students who were at our showing were making far more noise and messing around much more than your average toddler We sat right at the back and dd literally danced in the aisle at the end

I first took ds2 to cinema when he was 3, and he sat down all the way through quiet clued to the screen. However if he did run around or make too much noise he would of been taken out. Shame on the parents for letting them behave that way

We went tonight. Ds is aged 4 but looks around 2 so he was probably one of these nuisances.

We took him because dd aged 7 was desperate tyo go and he loves HSM and HSM2.

Unfortuntely he started to play up part way through but only in a quiet way, it was more of a problem for me and the giggling gaggle of girls in the row behind us from dd's class at school created more noise.

The certificta ethingy said it was suitable for aged 4 and above. At a film like HMS you have top expect noise, our local cinema got them all worked up beforehand by a dance performance from a local amdram group. Lots of screams when Troy came on and cheers when they kissed etc.

Tyhe kids lved it.

By the way, wasn;t it awful, by far the worst HSM film, think they were desperately trying to be too clever with all those fantasy sequences and why do Americans think Brits speak with a plum in their mouths all the time.

My daughter saw her first cinema movie at 3.5 and was better behaved then than many adults are in movies now! At 7 she often looks at me aghast when others start making a noise.

I find any movie aimed at kids a nightmare to endure. So many parents don't bother to teach their kids how to keep quiet and be respectful of other people. It's TOTALLY unacceptable for kids to shout, chat or generally misbehave in a public arena where people are paying for entertainment. Maybe that's why dd often has to wait til the dvd comes out to see films.

ban the little blighters

ban teenagers too

ban kissing couples

ban people who giggle through a sad movie

farking discgrace!

All the reasons I hate cinemas, if I could hire it all to myself I would, I love the big screen and the sound but hate all the other people being there.

the little shit kicking your chair.

the fucker throwing popcorn around

the once who stage whispers " WAIT THIS BIT IS REALLY FUNNY...THIS BIT COMING UP...NOW"

Oh and do you know what is worse than small children who can not whisper its blinking parents that can't either. FGS its easy enough to whisper in their ears, tends to help bring their volume down too if you speak in a hussed voice, but so often I hear parents talking to their child in normal volume in church, cinemas, theatres etc.

Jesus, how many more places do we want to ban children from? Churches, weddings, cinemas....

I know - lets keep them in sealed soundproof chambers until they are old enough to go to school

only if they soundproof the school and have indoor play only

I know its great, spend a small fortune to see a film at the cinema only to have little Quentin expressing himself next to me so I miss all the talking and see more of the back of his head then the chracters in the film, but hey you carry on, let them run wild where you like and we shall step aside to allow them the free run they require, God forbid the parents tell child to shush as others don't want to hear them harping on about dinosaurs when they paid for their own child to see HSM

Well I am taking dd1 aged 4 on Sunday, she loves HSM (well loves prancing around 'joining' in the dancing at home) shes been going to the kids club cinema sundays mornings since she was 3 and is fine 99% of the time (sometimes a bit fidgety at the end)