A 3-year-old at Casino Royale!?

[Darth K'Trava]

just throw milk duds at the offenders until they leave...

Those are EXPENSIVE milk duds you're talking about!!!

 

[Infiniti2000]

- The fact that they were so inconsiderate of the other people that wanted to see the movie.

That's about half the movie theater. It's the main reason I just don't go to the theater anymore.

 

[Simplicity]

As the father of an almost 2-year-old, I haven't been out to the movies in ...oh... almost 2 years. Have some sympathy for these parents, they're very likely to be in the same boat. And they probably didn't expect graphic violence and torture in a Bond movie (the last torture scene I remember in a Bond film had a giant laser in it... hardly unwatchable).

There comes a point in every kid's life where you have to say: "Okay, what is this child going to do if we try X like normal human beings." X may be going to a restaurant, going to see a movie, or whatever. It may very well be that these people had no idea how their kid was going to react.

Taking a toddler to an R-rated movie is probably a bit extreme for me, but I do have every intention of raising my kid on the films I loved as a kid. Good, old fashioned sci-fi and horror flicks. I had a Dracula/Frankenstein/Wolfman lunchbox in elementary school. I watched Aliens in the theater when I was 8. When one of my friends told me that their parents only let them watch G-rated movies, I felt nothing but pity for them.

Personally, I think it's a bigger crime to only allow a child to be exposed to talking animals and feel-good christmas movies than it is to let them watch a good horror movie now and then.

Now Hellraiser... maybe they should be a little older for that one.

 

[Harmon]

Taking a child into a none children movie is rude. Rude to those that got a sitter and did not bring their kid.

I have spoken to people in the theater about it, most of the time the people take their kids out of the theater so as not to be rude, but some see the world in the light that- "hay, this is my world and you should be thankful that I am here to make it exist."

 

[BOZ]

we just watched Saw 3 on Friday, and someone brought their kid(s). what's worse was when someone brought their kid to Dawn of the Dead a couple years ago... the kid was crying loudly after that first scene with the little girl, and they had to leave.

 

[DonTadow]

sadly i see this type of thing all the time. The last time I was in line to see saw 3 at 11:20 at night and a lady had her two kids with her. they couldnt have been no more than 7 or 8 years old. Parents wonder why we're breeding the generation we are.

 

[jaerdaph]

It's too bad the drive-ins are a thing of the past. You could take the kids, and not disturb the other patrons. I remember falling asleep in the back of the car while my parents watched The Fantastic Voyage - it's one of my first memories.

 

[Aeson]

Kill them and take their stuff.


Seriously, I don't think your overreacting. I would have been upset. There was a couple with 2 small brats when I went to see Superman Returns. The mom at one point left with the infant. That's right they had an infant that would not stop crying at the movies. I can't blame the kids for their parents stupidity. I'd still kill them and take their stuff.

 

[Simplicity]

sadly i see this type of thing all the time. The last time I was in line to see saw 3 at 11:20 at night and a lady had her two kids with her. they couldnt have been no more than 7 or 8 years old. Parents wonder why we're breeding the generation we are.

Yes, yes... We've been breeding the generation that is going to cause the utter downfall of society. Oh, woe is us. How stupid we were to let children listen to rock and roll, watch violent movies, play D&D, listen to hip-hop, play violent video games, and go on the MySpace. I expect there will be no doctors or lawyers in this generation. No scientists or librarians. They're all too stupid, too lazy, and too foul.

 

[Simplicity]

Taking a child into a none children movie is rude. Rude to those that got a sitter and did not bring their kid.

I have spoken to people in the theater about it, most of the time the people take their kids out of the theater so as not to be rude, but some see the world in the light that- "hay, this is my world and you should be thankful that I am here to make it exist."

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?

Taking a child on an airplane is even ruder, but when you have a small child whose grandparents are far away, you have to occasionally do it.

Having a child is a very rude thing to do in general. They scream, they stink, and they're covered in snot. Everyone would be happier if they just weren't around to mess things up.

I find much more of a "Hey, this is my world" attitude in those who demand silence from children and hermitage from parents, than in those trying to show their kids a good time.