A 3-year-old at Casino Royale!?

[Simplicity]

Well, with a kid who doesn't know the movie it's more likely to go like this:

Vader: I AM your father.

Kid: OH NO!

Luke: NOOOOOOOOOOooooooooo!

 

[Aeson]

Help control the people population have your children spayed or neutered.

 

[delericho]

Well, with a kid who doesn't know the movie it's more likely to go like this:

Vader: I AM your father.

Kid: OH NO!

Luke: NOOOOOOOOOOooooooooo!

Sorry, that wasn't what I meant. Imagine if you walked into a movie theatre at the start of "Empire Strikes Back" in 1980, with an audience who didn't know the big secret. Now, imagine you shouted out "Vader is Luke's father!"

You can see how that one disturbance would have a disproportionate effect on the movie experience for the rest of the audience?

So it is with kids making a noise in the theatre - 99+% of the time it's a non-issue (unless they keep making lots of noise). Indeed, sometimes it's a good thing (wouldn't want to see the likes of "Cars" in a theatre without the appropriate audience). But, there's also the possibility that the kid makes just the wrong noise at just the wrong time, and that could be a problem.

So, yes, if offered a choice, I would always choose to see adult-oriented films in a kid-free environment.

 

[Ranger REG]

I see no good reason why cinemas cannot designate some showings as adult-only, and let the customer decide.

Such adult-only cinemas are located in the red-light district of your neighborhood.

 

[Aeson]

Such adult-only cinemas are located in the red-light district of your neighborhood.

Depends on where you live. If I wanted to go to an adult oriented cinema I would have to travel a long way. My county does not allow such things.

Maybe having a adult-only viewing of movies isn't so bad.

I heard of a chain of theaters that had shows for parents with brats I mean children. The kids were allowed to run around and make noise. They even let the parents change diapers in there instead of going to the restroom. Granted these were kid movies in the middle of the afternoon but it was kid friendly.

I say have an adult only time with beer and wine sales.

 

[Simplicity]

That reminds me.

I went to London once and their theaters perplexed me. In the UK, you can drink a beer in the theater. You can buy beer at the theater and then take your beer in with you to watch the movie. Then when you're IN the theater, everybody tries to get the seats in the back.
All the seats which in the US are considered "good" are totally empty.

It's like watching movies in the Bizzaro universe or something.

 

[Jesus_marley]

All the seats which in the US are considered "good" are totally empty.

It's like watching movies in the Bizzaro universe or something.

Now you're just starting a whole new argument. What exactly are the good seats? what if *MY* good seat isn't yours? Hmmm??? well? what's your answer?

 

[Olaf the Stout]

That reminds me.

I went to London once and their theaters perplexed me. In the UK, you can drink a beer in the theater. You can buy beer at the theater and then take your beer in with you to watch the movie. Then when you're IN the theater, everybody tries to get the seats in the back.
All the seats which in the US are considered "good" are totally empty.

It's like watching movies in the Bizzaro universe or something.

What do you consider the "good" seats to be? And are US cinema seats elvated so that ones at the back are higher than row in front of them, which are in turn higher than the one in front of them? Seems like a stupid question but then I am one of the people who likes sitting near the back of the cinema. Must be due to the time when my aunty too me to see "Big" at the cinema when I was a kid and we had to sit in the front row! He sure was big and the front row sure did seem a little too close to the screen.

Olaf the Stout

 

[Harmon]

Yes, taking a child to a movie theater is rude. I'm willing to bet, however, that virtually everyone here has been taken to a movie theater as a child. So who are you to complain, having been in that child's shoes?

Nope- when I was a kid I was taken only to drive ins. My drunk ass drug addicted parents were conscious enough of the world that they refuses to take us to the theater until we were old enough to sit in front of them in the theater (where our heads could be thumped for making noise, and we could be shushed without a problem). I recall hearing a man compliment my parents on how good we (my elder brother and I) were during the course of the movie we had just seen- I was like seven and it was my first theater movie.

My 42 week old daughter has kept my wife and I from the theater, and will keep us (as a couple) out of the theater until such time as we have reliable sitters or until she is old enough to behave.

Peace all and find thanks for something in your life tomorrow.

 

[Simplicity]

What do you consider the "good" seats to be? And are US cinema seats elvated so that ones at the back are higher than row in front of them, which are in turn higher than the one in front of them? Seems like a stupid question but then I am one of the people who likes sitting near the back of the cinema. Must be due to the time when my aunty too me to see "Big" at the cinema when I was a kid and we had to sit in the front row! He sure was big and the front row sure did seem a little too close to the screen.

Olaf the Stout

The optimal seat in any movie theater is five rows from the front and dead center. And I will brook no argument! Well, except for maybe at Big Newport. There you could live being a couple of rows further back than that.

Most US cinemas have some amount of slant to the theater. Some are elevated such that each row is above the row in front of it (though that's much more rare), but most have just a gentle slope. Either way, it doesn't matter. Frontish and center is where it's at.

Oh... But if it's an elevated theater, you want the front center seat above the middle walkway (because there's almost always a walkway between the lower half of seats and the upper half).