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Message: <blockquote data-quote="takyris" data-source="post: 2361391" data-attributes="member: 5171">Fine, infants and toddlers. I can see not showing "Saw" to a 2-year-old, but there is a fairly large difference a) between "Saw" and most of the movies up there and b) between a 2-year-old and a 5 or 6-year old. The degree of interaction with the screen is fairly different, and while I'd probably have the 2-year-old in my lap facing me so that he didn't see any scary stuff on the screen, but you can still convince a 2-year-old that a spaceship battle is just a lot of pretty colored lights.As for you highly doubting that people with babies will be the only ones there... uh, really? You really think that people are going to say, "Hey, I'm free during the day, and while I don't have children myself, I've decided to spend the afternoon in a movie theater at a showing specifically designed to be accessible to babies, complete with nursing mothers and screaming infants and kids spitting up all over the place... yeah, that's a wonderful idea. Let's do that." And if they do, what exactly does it have to do with your point?I'm guessing that you think that babies shouldn't be at those movies, despite a) the vision limitations of the very young, b) the attention spans and sleep schedules of the slightly older ones who COULD see the screen from that far away, and c) the lack of interaction with the people on the screens, which they don't really identify as living people until they're older.I await your backing for such a claim, which I'm sure will be much more enlightening than "Well, if a 6-year-old couldn't handle a movie like that, a 6-month-old shouldn't be able to handle it either," and which might very well reference American Baby, Baby Center, or any of the other baby-advice sites, several of which mention not plunking the child down in front of the screen as a substitute for paying attention to them yourself but suspiciously few of which mention not allowing your sleeping, nursing, or burping baby into the theater of a movie whose sound has been lowered to be less disturbing, for fear that they'll suddenly develop an attention span and improved visual faculties and become deeply scarred by watching Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt flirt on the dance floor.The movies aren't for the kids. The movies are for the parent (usually but not always the mom) who is stuck with the child all day and who might really appreciate the chance to see a grown-up movie in a theater that won't be full of people griping at her because her baby is crying or nursing. It's possible, just possible, that the movie folks did a little research and thought about things beforehand and decided which movies were ones that parents might want to see and that weren't wall-to-wall carnage and violence, such that parents who wanted to ensure that their baby didn't see a lot of violence during the Bourne movie could cover the baby's head with a blanket during the graphic parts.But I'm sure you've thought about it more than they have, as a theater professional and as a parent.</blockquote>

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