I have just read about certain age groups to be shown certain films without being interuptted by the under 15. Your views please!!!

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Enlarge PhotoGreat news for adult cinemagoers who hate seeing mainstream films like the new Bond flick and Harry Potter series ruined by screaming kids - a cinema chain is to have over-18 only screenings for certain films.
UK cinema chain Vue are to show a series of selected PG, 12A, 15 rated movies to adults only in their cinemas after a successful trial last year. Quantum of Solace (pic), which is rated 12A, will be the first film to get the adult only treatment starting from today.
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Vue's Mark de Quervain said, "These screenings have been launched in direct response to overwhelming positive customer feedback obtained from extensive research studies and trials carried out over the past year.
"This confirmed a significant number of cinema goers wanted to see PG, 12A and 15-rated films in screenings that could avoid unwanted disruptions that can sometimes be caused by audiences under the age of 18."
Forthcoming movies like The Day The Earth Stood Still and Australia will get adult only screenings.
Vue's website is asking cinemagoers which future films they would like to see in age restricted screenings, including the final Harry Potter chapters

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A cinema near here used to have a premier screen which was over 18s only. It was set out like a pub with bar area, comfy armchairs, tables etc. Showed all sorts of films, not just 18s.
Was lovely, but you had to pay almost doulb for a ticket and people didn't bother. so it went.

I think/though our local cinema did this already.

I am not a cinema goer though so could be wrong.

Sounds nice but over-18s can be chatterers too. Enforcing silence in cinema screens during a film is very hard.

I can see where they're coming from though. Now can we ban smelly food and popcorn rustlers too? .

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Seems fair enough to me. They are not saying all screenings of the named films will be over 18 only, just a few. Its catering for demand.

If I had time off from the kids to go to the cinema I would hate to be sat next to other peoples loud children or pre-teens.

what a good idea.
so if you get a baby sitter and want to go and see a film, you don't have it ruined by other peoples dc's

Fair enough I think - at least they won't be in with us and moaning about the kids