Simple poll based off some other discussion in light of the tragedy in Colo. Is it OK to bring small children.... toddlers... babies... or even 6-year-old kids to a movie at midnight?
It's inconsiderate to those around you. So long as everyone realizes the act of bringing kids to the theater has nothing to do with why the children in Aurora got shot.
poll should ask if it is cool to allow your child to be shot while attending send movie, seriously, i dont understand how people keep blaming the parents
NOBODY IS BLAMING PARENTS AND KIDS FOR GETTING SHOT. This thread is about bringing annoying kids to a movie theater and having them cry/yell/scream throughout the length of the movie. This has nothing to do with the Aurora shooting. Entirely separate discussion.
There was a little kid at TKDR last night running around and talking. It was a little distracting, and definitely annoying. To me, if the kid's too young to sit still for 2 hours, he's too young to go to the movie theatre.
For a midnight showing? Never. I can't imagine taking anyone under 12 or 13 to a movie that late. Taking a small child is generally very inconsiderate regardless of the time. Depending on the movie and the theater, it may be appropriate to bring smaller children.
leave them at the trailer, just make sure to block the air vents in the floor so the don't crawl in and get trapped with coons. or leave them in mema's room.
That's another thing. This wasn't some animated, dreamworks produced version batman. This was a PG-13 movie that clearly wasn't intended for young children.
wish the was a public poll. authorities should be notified for everybody who thinks this is "completely ok".
what are you, the thought police? Agreed if your kids can't be quiet through the show they shouldn't be there, but... lighten up francis.
it's just about the biggest pet peeve that i have. and if an infant keeps quiet for 3 hours of max volume gun violence in The Dark Knight Rises, their parents probably funneled a bottle of Benadryl down their throat before it started.
It is ridiculously inconsiderate and irresponsible. Taking a six year old, or younger, to a midnight showing to a movie they shouldn't see anyway means you are getting back home at 2am or later. No young child should be watching that movie, in my opinion, much less at that time; especially in a theater where people pay more than they should to watch the film with the expectations of a decent experience. You might as well set a robot cell phone loose in the theater to run around and ring for two hours.
Thanks for making this thread. People should be flaming me here and using the other thread for making fun of the guy who Costanzaed his family. I would have liked to have seen some detail on age in the poll though, since some posters less familiar with children don't know how a 4 month old would act compared to a 2 year old compared to a 6 year old, and just see them as a monolithic crying baby population.
Some things are definitely easier with a 4 month old than a 2 year old - they're portable, immobile and probably more likely to sleep at any given time, though less likely to sleep through the night - but bringing them to the Batman premier at midnight is definitely not one of them that's significantly easier, for your own and his/her sake, let alone the hundreds of other people there to watch the movie.
Man it wasn't a midnight showing but I went to a movie once and this couple had a baby with them and it started crying during the movie and they just sat there ignoring it for 5 god damn minutes before people started yelling at them to take the kid outside. Like seriously how is your first reaction to not grab the kid and get them out of there immediately? I thought that was the common sense thing to do if you bring a baby into a movie.
this is how the vast majority of idiots respond to their crying baby in the theater. very rarely do i see them rush to take the baby outside.
