Movie Theater Suck

[AnaKhouri]

I was around 15 when it came out, and loved it. My son has asked to see it but I say no for another couple years or so; he is almost 6, and I've heard many people who saw it as kids say it terrified them. He has a VERY active imagination, so...

I seriously want to kick people in the throat who bring babies and small children to movies. If I am paying $10 a person, and got a babysitter for my two, I don't want to deal with other people's little kids at a movie aimed at older kids or adults. I can tolerate at a Pixar movie but not a regular movie.

[notalwaysright]

I was one such traumatized child. Must have been about 7 when it came out, and I have no idea if I saw it in the theater or at home. Freaking Velociraptor, am I right? This is one more reason I haven't seen a movie in a theater in... It's been years now. I'm just too cranky, and can't enjoy myself. I will pay to "rent" it from Amazon, turn off my apartment lights, make popcorn, and use these awesome headphones with the volume up loud. Yup, it's good.

And it just makes my brain hurt when a kid is trying to actually be good, and the parent ignores them. I know someone who's kid is amazingly stubborn about potty training, will say he doesn't need to go and then right after that pee/poo in his pull ups. I know it's completely the fault of his parents (they are not great examples of parenthood) but I still get irritated when I hear stuff like this. When I worked nights I would often hear little kids say "mommy I'm tired!" and the mom would flat out ignore it and shop until 9 PM.

[Monterey Jack]

If you take kids to a movie, even a midnight showing of Spongebob, you need to not let you kids be a dick to the rest of the people there.

I can understand midnight showing of a highly-anticipated geek movie like The Avengers or something...but a cartoon aimed at five-year-olds? And I know that SpongeBob has a loyal adult following as well, but still...can't people wait another twelve hours and see it when they're not bleary-eyed and half-asleep?

[EvilEmpryss]

Yeah, and the how didn't let out until after 10 pm (previews started at 8 pm).

Now I know some families have skewed schedules, and they can only go out to late shows, but grown ups go to these later showings to get away from the smaller kids who might get dragged to the earlier showings. If you take kids to a movie, even a midnight showing of Spongebob, you need to not let you kids be a dick to the rest of the people there.

[Monterey Jack]

Jurassic World is not a movie suitable for kids that age anyway.

Doesn't matter...if it has dinosaurs, kids will whine at their parents until they take them, regardless of rating or subject matter. The original Jurassic Park traumatized many a kid back in the day.

What's even worse is that woman was taking a gaggle of under-fives to an eight PM showing...those kids should have been tucked in at least an hour earlier.

[Sapphire Silk]

Jurassic World is not a movie suitable for kids that age anyway.

[Monterey Jack]

At one point one of them starts trying to let the mother of the year know she had to use the potty. It started out soft enough, but when mommy dearest didn't listen, she got louder. And louder. And Louder.

"Mommy! My tummy Hurts! I need to go to the bathroom!"

Ugh...nothing pisses me off more than parents who ignore increasingly-urgent pleas from their kids to use the bathroom, especially kids under the age of five. Kids that young can not "just hold it"...by the time they actually ask, they're usually already full to bursting. Gee, sorry lady that you had to miss a few minutes of Jurassic World to prevent your kids soiling themselves in a dark room filled with strangers and scary dinosaur footage and earsplitting surround sound, but take some fucking responsibility.

[EvilEmpryss]

Two short and not so sweet

Potty Time. I just knew there'd be a problem when I saw two women shepherd five small children into the theater. Multiple two- to five-year-old kids to see Jurassic World starting at 8 pm. At one point one of them starts trying to let the mother of the year know she had to use the potty. It started out soft enough, but when mommy dearest didn't listen, she got louder. And louder. And Louder.

"Mommy! My tummy Hurts! I need to go to the bathroom!"

I'm not kidding, I was leaning forward in my seat to actually yell "Take your kid to the bathroom!" when the sterling example of parenting finally huffed about missing the movie and got up to take the kid out. Of course she was loud about it, and loud coming back, and didn't take a crying baby out right away later. I have kids, and I know it can be inconvenient to be able to go to the movies when you have kids, but if you're going to try it, be prepared to be a decent freaking person and be a responsible parent who doesn't inflict your kids on the rest of the audience.

The Belcher. This guy sat behind me and every ten minutes or so let out the most disgusting rumbling belch. The kind that sounds like it bubbled up from someone deep, deep, deep in his gut. I didn't start counting until after he'd done it a few times, but what I did count came to 13. And then he snorts, nasty mucus-heavy nose noises. Not as prolifically as the the belches, but enough to be truly frakking annoying when you're trying to watch a movie. The pig was oblivious to disgusted glares and comments about how much of a pig he was being. Some people have absolutely no class.