So, Haruka leans over to me at the movies and says, "I sense a DU thread in the making."

[LostinVA]

Yes, somebody took an infant into the movie theatre. Naturally, the baby was the loudest during the most sensitive scenes in the movie. We saw Harry Potter and, while there were small kids in the theatre, everyone was quiet, except for the infant. It's a very loud movie, so there's no way a baby could sleep through it.

Who the hell brings small infants to the movies? There were two adults with them infant, so one could have stayed home as a babysitter. I'm not blaming the baby. I'm blaming the parents.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

1. I blame the baby.

:hide: :P

[LostinVA]

3. That's what Baby Benadryl's for

[Starbucks Anarchist]

5. Or a nice joint.

[Gormy Cuss]

2. This post demands ...

:popcorn: :popcorn:
:popcorn: :popcorn:
:popcorn:


Hey, it's a movie theater story. We don't have a nonpareils smiley.

[LostinVA]

4. I already melted extra butter

[SharonRB]

22. Here you go -- enjoy!

[Gormy Cuss]

24. Thank you! Better than popcorn any day! n/t

[SharonRB]

26. They're my hubby's favorite

[AlCzervik]

6. if that baby only had a gun.

nice post Hitler.
:hi: :rofl:

[BlooInBloo]

8. Baby's got a gun... Whole world's come undone...

[LostinVA]

9. If Haruka had her way, that baby would have a gun

In fact, all babies would have guns, as per, her interpretation of the 2nd amendment.

:eyes:

[AlCzervik]

10. ***snort***

:spray:

[LostinVA]

12. Yeah -- she even insisted on playing the hunting arcade game in the lobby

I was so appalled that I had to play it after her. She does appear to be good with a shotgun, though.

[rug]

7. Only a deatheater would say that.

[Haole Girl]

11. Nice to know she thinks about us...

...when she hears the sound of crying babies! j/k

;-)

:hi:

[LostinVA]

14. Seriously -- it was like something out of a movie

Everyone on our side of the theatre just stopped and stared at the family, as they walked in.

Haruka says hi.

[Haole Girl]

20. Ha-ha!

Hey... Hi back!

:hi:

[Guava Jelly]

13. She should have sent them to my daycare.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x6716822
:D

[LostinVA]

15. Well, send her a buisiness card, boyo

[Guava Jelly]

17. Will do :o)

And how are you and your trophy fiancee? I hope very well..
You do know that it is about time for a new picture of her :D
I beg..it is just what i do :hi:

[LostinVA]

18. Well, we'll be getting the wedding rings this week

I'm planning on taking a photo then. Her hair's so long now!

And we are doing very well.

[SharonRB]

23. Please be sure to say hello to her for me

We miss her around here.

[Karenca]

27. Please do post the pictures!

And yes, she is missed very much. :-(

[RetroLounge]

31. And you too can come to mine

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x6717985

:hi:

RL

[LostinVA]

52. God, I'd come there just for the library!

[DS1]

16. nothing an enchanted pillow of silence wouldn't fix

:hide:

[LostinVA]

19. That's one of my favorite Harry Potter spells

I believe it was first introduced in, "Harry Potter and the Horror of the Noisy Theatre HALLOWS."

[SharonRB]

21. Too funny -- there's a lot of that going around. My daughter and I went to see it last night

There was a woman there with an infant and a toddler. For the first half hour or so of the movie the toddler kept talking and the infant kept crying on and off. Then towards the end the baby started crying again. People were getting really pissed, but no one wanted to go out and get the manager because we didn't want to miss any of the movie.

Before the movie started, I looked around and said to my daughter, "Well, at least there aren't a lot of kids." Little did we know.

About a minute before the movie was over, she got up and left with her kids. She knew we were all going to mob her afterwards and she got out. A bunch of us talked to the manager afterwards. They'd get sued if they didn't sell tickets to people with little kids. They come into the theatre once during the movie and at the time they came in, the kids were quiet, so they had no idea. They should post a way to text message the management in case of crying kids, etc. so they are aware of it and can come in and remove the offending parties.

People have no business bringing infants to the movies, especially at night. If they do, they should at least be considerate enough to leave if their kid is noisy.

[MissB]

28. On the news tonight, they were showing these little remote thingies.

They looked like a basic remote control with four buttons. They were basically little tattle-tale contraptions. I don't what the all the buttons said, but I think one was piracy, one was disruption and one was "other".

I googled up a link for you.

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20061129/224028.shtml

[SharonRB]

29. Thanks for the link -- that's exactly the kind of thing they need

The manager told us they couldn't have staff in each auditorium or they'd have to charge $20 for popcorn to make any money.

In addition to the crying baby there was another woman sitting right near them who kept texting on her phone and you could see it light up every so often. People can be so rude.

The manager told us that when he was at a different theatre in town once a patron punched him when he asked them to turn off their cell phone.

[Midlodemocrat]

36. They should have been tasers to make them truly effective

:hide:

[LostinVA]

43. I had no idea they made baby tasers

Interesting.

[LostinVA]

42. That is SO cool!

[CBHagman]

30. Some theaters used to have crying rooms, I think.

When I was a kid, our church had a crying room, which was where the mothers with screaming babies went during Mass. Apparently some movie theaters used a similar idea.

But frankly, it wasn't until the 1990s that I noticed people taking very young children or even babies to the movies, including to films children ought never to see (Breaking the Waves, for instance). In some areas of Europe, I've heard, children under a certain age don't get admitted at all.

But I'm not surprised the managed cited the possibility of a lawsuit for refusing to admit babies. It's a lose-lose situation for management, with angry customers and ill will in either case.

On edit: Some theaters also do a Mothers' Movie Club, with special screenings for stay-at-home moms. The babies and toddlers are welcome to come along.

[Omphaloskepsis]

49. Some theaters still have crying rooms. I had to wire one a few years ago.

We used to have a baby day. We played kids movies for 50 cents before we would normally open. These sucked for me, I was a projectionist and had to build and break-down a film for a single showing. I would normally go in at 11am, these made me go in at 7am. I hated it. But, the babies could scream forever and nobody cared. The walkways would be packed with strollers.

[AllegroRondo]

50. a local theater has Wednesday matinees for moms with small kids

great idea. I know which show to avoid, and moms can go without feeling guilty about ruining it for others.

[LostinVA]

53. TERRIFIC idea for the moms!

[treestar]

25. I do too

Said infant cannot possibly enjoy the movie, so bringing him/her is a cruelty. There is a thing called "the babysitter" which would make the infant much happier.

[flvegan]

32. What was she wearing at the time?

Just curious.

[LostinVA]

44. Haruka, you little pev?

Shorts and a T-shirt. And sneakers.

[Danger Mouse]

33. If only the mother would break down and breast feed her child, everything would've been solved.

Right? :D

[Tektonik]

37. Shhh

now you're going to make every hetero guy on DU cry at the movies so they can get breastfed

[Danger Mouse]

75. That one I haven't tried!

Thanks!

[fizzgig]

77. i'm on to you now, pal

don't think i'm gonna fall for that one :P

[Danger Mouse]

78. Curses! Foiled again!

How unfortunate!

[LostinVA]

54. OMG -- that would have made it an R-rated movie!

[Danger Mouse]

76. OMG OMG how dare she bare her breasts OMG OMG

:P

[Midlodemocrat]

34. Have I taught you nothing? That is why God made pepper spray.

:eyes:

The parents won't know if the baby is crying from boredom, exhaustion or hunger, but you, you will be secure in your knowledge that you created that child's misery.

:thumbsup:

[LostinVA]

35. Good point

You're so smart and evil.

[cboy4]

41. Hey I heard that.

:grr:

[LostinVA]

45. YOU are the evilest of them all

I thought of you yesterday: "The Omen" was on TV.

[JackBeck]

38. Just as bad is the dude who walks in 15 minutes after the movie started

and turns to you and asks, "So what just happened?"

Or maybe it's just a Brooklyn thing.

How are the wedding plans going?

[Midlodemocrat]

39. OMG. I just had the flashback from Hell.

Remember the ABC Movie of the week? (You might be too young, and I'm not being condescending)

My mom and I would always watch it and it never fucking failed that one of my brothers or my dad would come into the family room ten minutes before the end of the movie to ask what happened.

:rofl:

It got so that we could predict it.

[JackBeck]

40. Close.

But not really.

It's pretty area specific. Dude always walks in after the previews, we're 15 minutes into the movie, sits down with his cell and asks, "So what did I miss?" And then proceeds to tell his friend over the phone what's happening on the screen for the next 2 hours. There's nothing anyone can do about it because, well, that's New York.

[LostinVA]

46. Everything is going well -- alot of little things left

[MonkeyFunk]

47. we went to see Harry Potter tonight...

and the brats behind me wouldn't shut up. I kept shushing them, to no avail.

Then I cast a closus pieholus spell on them, and that finally did the trick.

[LostinVA]

51. We had a zillion kids in with us, and they were all very well behaved

Very into the movie.

The closus pieholus spell is a pretty good one, although sometimes the shutus gobus works better in a theater.

[Omphaloskepsis]

48. I worked in a movie theater for a long time...

That isn't the norm. Most people go sit in the hall until the movie is over(or the baby calms). I can only think of two complaints about a loud baby in three years of working there. I have seen hundreds of parents sitting on the floor in the hall with their baby.

[unpossibles]

55. the same thing happened to me once

but the movie was the remake of The Hills Have Eyes. This lady brought her baby, and about 5 small kids of various ages to an R rated horror movie.

[LostinVA]

57. That's what I said when I saw the little baby: "Don't they know this will be a LOUD movie?"

[LynneSin]

56. I remember when I saw "Underworld" with DUer Ramsey

It was the 10pm showing on a Saturday and the movie was "R" rated (lots of gore & violence in it).

In walks some lady with 3 kids in tow including an infant. Who the fuck takes an infant to a movie that late on a Saturday night?

We booed them out of there.

[LostinVA]

58. My sissie ROCKS

I didn't realize you were quite so evil...

[LynneSin]

59. The theater was packed - everyone was booing

it was not started by me, I just joined in the festivities

[Debi]

60. Heh, at least the damn kid wasn't smoking or talking too loud on his cel phone

Lighten up :eyes: They paid the same price for their tickets as you did...What, you think the world revolves around you?






























:hide:

[LostinVA]

61. OMG -- you've been in GD, haven't you???

[Debi]

62. Not yet - I was just warming up

:evilgrin:

[LostinVA]

63. That was an EXCELLENT warmup -- A+

[Debi]

64. Thank you, thank you - I have family in town

Snark level is at an all-time high!!! :grr:

[LostinVA]

65. Oh geez -- that is not a good thing

Inlaws? Or outlaws?

[Debi]

66. PARENTS!!!

I love em to death and do enjoy them, but we had a family wedding so it was EVERYBODY and, well, we're Italian-Catholic so the GUILT was palpable and I felt like I was five again and just got caught stealing a cookie from the cookie jar all while trying to measure up to their IDEA of me...AARRGGHHH!! But it's done and we're going to see Harry Potter (again) and then SHOE SHOPPING. So, things are looking up :P

If there is ONE SINGLE LITTLE BABY in that theater when we get there I'm gonna throw a hissy-fit! :yoiks:

[LostinVA]

67. I feel your pain

Irish/Sicilian (no longer) Catholic here.

[Debi]

69. Heh, but Haruka isn't the same age as your father

Which adds a whole 'nother level of whispering behind the back!!!

Of course your cradle-robbing ways probably gets an eye-brow raise...that and THAT YOU'RE A YOGURT EATER!!! :rofl:

It's good, the rest of the family has gone home and now it's just the folks and us. We enjoy each other's company and end up sitting and talking and eating and laughing for several hours when it's just us. I just cringe at the multi-generational thing. Everyone jockying for position and trying to outdo each other is exausting!

Debi, Jr. was teaching my dad how to play his Nintendo Wii - nothing like a 64 year-old trying to use a controller to make a cartoon image bowl on television! Got great pics of that!

:hi:

You'll alway be a raised Catholic girl - we're stuck w/it - no matter what Pope Ben. says about us and our evil ways :evilgrin:

[LostinVA]

70. You are definitely right about the "always Catholic" thing

As much as I used to say that wasn't true!

I love being a cradle robber, btw.

[Love Bug]

68. The teenage girl in my showing was louder than the baby that was also there

I saw HP yesterday and this teenage girl was in the row behind me, about 5-6 seats away. Boy, was she LOUD. She laughed and talked loudly throughout the trailers and I was prepared to tell her to knock it off if she continued that during the movie. Fortunately, she wasn't too bad but whenever she laughed it was louder than anyone else. Oh, and she laughed at things others weren't laughing at. I couldn't decide if she was high, hard of hearing, or someone who had some kind of developmental issue that prevented her from understanding the concept of INSIDE VOICE.

Oh, and there was a baby in the theatre, too, and I think I heard it once.

[LostinVA]

72. I have a teenage niece -- I understand

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

71. Take a seed outside, leave it in the streets!

Don't talk watch, Don't Talk watch
You came here watch it
If you don't like it walk out
We still have all your fucking money
Do not nudge, kick, or jiggle the seat in front of you!
I am sitting there! I am everywhere at once
And I will cut you up
If you make out here I will cut your lips and tongue from you head with a Linoleum Knife
Do not explain the plot! If you don't understand, then you should not be here!
Your money is now our money! And we will spend it on drugs!
Do not crinkle your food rappers loudly
Be considerate to others or I will bite your torso
Give you a disease
Did you bring your babies... babies don't watch this
Take a seed outside, leave it in the streets!
Run it over after the show!
If I see you videotaping this movie
Satan will rain down your throat with hot acid,
dissolve your testicles,
And turn your guts into snakes!
This is a copyrighted movie for Time-Warner
If I find you've sold it on eBay
I will break into your house and tear your wife in half

-by Mastodon for the Aqua Teen Hunger Force Movie

[rbnyc]

73. I've missed so many movies...

...because I couldn't get a sitter and there's no way I would subject movie-goers to my son. He's just not ready to sit through a movie.

I'm usually defending parents whose children are loud in the store or on an airplane. Kids are loud and discipline is tricky.

But at the movies, that's just crazy. There's no reason to bring your baby to the movies.

[LostinVA]

74. The weird thing was, as stated in the OP, there were two parents there

Two parents with several kids and the infant. Why couldn't Mom take half the kids then meet Dad outside for the baby trade off afterwards and HE take the rest of the kids?

And, I honestly am not just thinking of the moviegoers: the movie was very loud with lots of noise effects.

[hedgehog]

79. I went to see the original Star Wars back when it first opened.

The theater was filled with kids from high school on down and the crowd was noisy. Finally the lights dimmed and the curtains opened. From the darkness of the theater came a deep high school baritone:"THE FIRST LITTLE KID WHO TALKS, EATS IT!"



Not a sound was heard after that!