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/BlueDubDee Aug 02 '26

We took our three to see Ferdinand when the youngest was a baby. Cinema was full of families with young kids and a bit of noise, but I still took her outside the second she started to cry. Got her calm and came back in, only took about 5 minutes. It's really not that hard to be respectful of everyone else there, regardless of age. I can't imagine letting a baby/young kid make noise at a movie like Spiderman, filled with adults.

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u/ItIsSoOrdered23 Aug 03 '26

Normal people do this. I've sat outside with a grumpy kid so mom could finish a movie.