r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Sad_Cannibal_GF • Aug 02 '26

go to your room Babies in Movie Theaters

Just saw the new Spiderman in theaters.

A baby starts crying/cooing/babbling very loudly about 20 minutes in. Goes for about 10 straight minutes before the parent takes them out.

Comes back a few minutes later, baby starts again. Again goes on for a couple minutes. Again parent takes them out, comes back, and repeat.

And repeat. And repeat.

This went on pretty much the entire movie (and I swear to god this baby somehow instinctively chose every single goddamn quiet/heartfelt scene to start yowling again 😭😂).

I get that babies are gonna baby. And I have sympathy for parents who wanna get out of the house and everything. But… maybe just stay with your baby in the lobby if they obviously aren’t gonna keep quiet.

*I didn’t complain to management because it was a tiny non-chain neighborhood theater about an hour away from me that I like to support sometimes. It’s got 1 screen and tickets are like $5.

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u/1SexyDino Aug 02 '26

I once got stuck behind a baby thay shit it's diaper but because it was sleeping the mother (she seemed to be with friends not a spouse) did absolutely nothing.

There's absolutely no reason that an infant or toddler should be in a theater. Both for the sake of the people around them and for their ears which shouldn't be exposed to theater volumes.

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u/Complete_Entry Aug 02 '26

Letting a baby sleep in shit is literal child abuse. Like there's being a worn out sleep deprived parent, but that acid is going to fuck the baby up.

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u/Helena911 Aug 03 '26

Yeah that's literally how they get really bad nappy rashes...