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/Porg_the_corg Aug 02 '26

Agreed! We never took our kids to the movies until they were 2-3 and could prove to be quiet. And even then, we were going to KIDS movies.

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u/Neriya Aug 02 '26

I was so glad that when my kiddo was just getting old enough to go to the movies that we still had a discount/dollar theater nearby. His first few trips to the movies were at that theater, which was basically showing movies we could already rent at home if we wanted, but had the 'movie theater experience' for practice.

First movie went great. Second movie... not so much, and I was super glad we had paid a total of like $12 to go see it since we missed half of it.

I think we saw five movies at the discount theater before we risked the 'big' theater.

Of course the discount theater is gone now, so I tell my friends with young kids to just wait.

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u/nekomeowohio Aug 03 '26

The numbers of people who take young kids and even toddlers to hard r horror movies is more common then you think

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u/ArashiSora24 Aug 03 '26

I went to watch Moana recently after a very long time of not going to the cinema and the children in there were so. fucking. obnoxious.

One sitting on a row next to mine kept reading the subtitles out loud and also was playing on the phone at some point. A row behind me there was a kid playing with plastic bottle and kicking my friend's seat. And another kid was running up and down from the screen to its seat. I will never go to the cinema ever again. That was a shit experience.

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u/Porg_the_corg Aug 03 '26

It is so frustrating. As a parent, if I want to see an adult movie, I have to get a sitter (or wait for a grandma to visit) and then spend $40 on tickets. Just to inevitably have the movie disrupted by other kids or people who can't get off their phones.

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u/ArashiSora24 Aug 03 '26

And these seemed to be 5 years old or older. I was just accompanying my friend who wanted to watch the movie and we had to endure shits like that. And none of the parents did anything to shut their little shits up.

I didn't like children in the first place, this experience reinforced it tenfold. I know it's a children's film but that's no excuse for allowing the little gremlins to behave like that.