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!!

i think it depends on the child i took my daughter who,s 3 granddaughter who,s 4 and son 8 to watch mama mia they are well behaved kids they loved it i,m also taking the to see hsm in the theatre and in the cinima please don,t tar all kids with the same brush !!come look how some "older kids behave "

I don't think children of any age should be allowed to run around the cinema, but to ban children under 5 seems unfair, my dd1 would sit through a film at the cinema when she was 3, so unfair to ban her IMO.

BRING BACK THE AUTHORITIVE 15YO!!!

Age is irrelevant imo. I'm lucky enough to live in a city with two 'art house' cinemas, where people go to appreciate film and watch it in considerate fashion.

I simply wouldn't go to a multiplex - what with the texting, the munching and the yelling, what's the point. I'd rather wait for the DVD.

The worst experience I ever had was at 'Mystic River', a solemn and atmospheric film. Two old women near me kept nattering through all the tensest, most absorbing parts. I leaned over and said, 'excuse me, do you mind' twice, and both times they ignored me.

My dp was raging, and had a word with them after the film. They looked at him with genuinely blank expressions. They honestly didn't think they had been talking. AAARGH!!! Was in a multiplex.

BTW the art house cinemas don't exclude kids, in fact it was in the art houses that they started 'the big scream' and similar, where you can only get in if you have a baby, but to see a grown up film. Brilliant idea, gives parents a chance to see a decent film at a civilised time of day, without feeling awkward about taking a baby.

And lets the rest of us see films baby-free

YABVVVVU

You seem to have 'forgotten' that your 11 year probably pissed off people plenty when they were below 5 and I'm sure you weren't so sanctimonious then?

I would rather have a chattering 4 year old at the flicks than an 11 year giggling inanely, checking their mobile every 5 minutes and saying Oh my god lots like they are from the valleys (not the welsh ones)

Tweenagers are as annoying as under 5's.

But not as annoying as huffy tutting mothers in a cinema eh?

This thread has got be thinking the last time I as slightly annoyed (well thats a bit strong, really) in a cinema was because of some people were waking so slowly down the steps it was so off-putting.

It was Harry Potter and they got up to go to the loo or something and took a bloody age to walk down the steps in the dark. They were pensioners.

Cinemas should be for MNers only.