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There are plenty of annoying people in public places. Some are children, some are adults. Coming online to complain about annoyances is one thing; actually doing something IRL to solve the problem is another.
I think they're just so frazzled by being home with the screaming kid that they don't care who else has to deal with the noise.
It is irritating and I would have asked the theater for a refund. Movie tickets are just too expensive to have the whole experience ruined like that. I've seen some theaters that have a minimum age for evening showings, I think that's a great way to make sure you don't have to put up with it.
And for people who will say I don't understand, my kids went through the screaming stage too. And I took them out of wherever we were when they started crying, except for the doctor's waiting room when they were sick. Once I took my oldest to the movies when she was three. It was the dollar movies and we were watching a kid's movie. She got restless about 30 minutes into the movie and started running up and down the aisle. I followed her, opened the door to the theater, she ran right out, and we went home. We just started taking the kids to movies again a year ago, and my youngest is 8.
This is exactly what we did as parents. Ruining the movie for everyone is a terrible thing.
When my ex GF and I would take her 3 Grandkids to the movies two of them were a little older and behaved, but the little one was only 3 and a terror. If he started to act up I quietly took him by the hand and we went to the lobby and sat there. He would say "I want to see the movie", and I told him "When you are ready to behave we will go back in." He would then calm down and we would go back inside.
People are just so inconsiderate any more. One time the same GF and I went to the movies and a bunch of teenagers were in the back row causing trouble and sitting with their legs over the seats in front of them of no one else could sit there. I went out and told the manager and they ejected them on the spot.
It is because of idiots like those that makes me not want to go out any more.
There are plenty of annoying people in public places. Some are children, some are adults. Coming online to complain about annoyances is one thing; actually doing something IRL to solve the problem is another.
I agree.
On the commuter trains to Chicago they have what are called quiet cars during rush hour. The idea is that if you're in the quiet car you can't talk on your phone, talk to your friends, or otherwise make noise. Most of the people who sit in the quiet car are daily commuters that are sick of hearing one side of a loud person's phone conversation and purposely seek the quiet cars out.
About once a week there is someone in the quiet car that doesn't realize what the quiet car is. I never hesitate to speak up and tell the person that they need to either stop making noise or move, yet I have never seen another person do that, including the train conductors. Why is everyone else so shy? I'm not rude or mean, I simply say "you may not have realized, but this is the quiet car so you can't talk in here." Done.
Alamo Drafthouse in Austin has a strict rule, which they enforce, of no talking and no texting in the movie or you will be required to leave. They're famous for it (or perhaps infamous among the ill-mannered).
They also have clips before the movie such as this one:
There are plenty of annoying people in public places. Some are children, some are adults. Coming online to complain about annoyances is one thing; actually doing something IRL to solve the problem is another.
Yeah, really, hello??? Anyone home?
Someone said another thread in here was the dumbest thread they'd seen in here...my vote goes to this one.
I have not seen a movie in at least ten years because of people who don't respect other people mostly teens but some adults as well and even during the week we used to try and go and oh no the grown folks were just as bad so we no longer go to the movie theaters we wait for the dvds to come out . I don't see theaters lasting very much longer because of the attendance going down because people don't want to deal with idiots .
Adults in theaters are ten times worse than kids, in my experience. Worked in a theater for years...the adults are ten times more often the perpetrators.
Alamo Drafthouse in Austin has a strict rule, which they enforce, of no talking and no texting in the movie or you will be required to leave. They're famous for it (or perhaps infamous among the ill-mannered).
I only go to Alamo Drafthouse these days because of this. Soooo glad they opened one in Dallas.
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