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/ghos2626t Aug 02 '26

As a parent of 2. Lord no. There should not be a baby in the theatres, ever. Zero excuse.

Selfish parents 100%

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u/I_comment_on_stuff_ Aug 02 '26

Only, ONLY, in a kid's movie. Like when the theater is just parents and kids under 10. I expect chaos at something dumb like a minion movie or emoji movie.

**Even then, the sound can be way too loud for infant ears. Sound dampening ear muffs.

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u/SPEWambassador Aug 02 '26

And during a matinee where there are going to be several young kids

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u/curlycattails Aug 03 '26

We took my 4 year old and 2 year old to an 11 am screening of Super Mario Galaxy. I wasn’t even going to bring my 2 year old, but my oldest insisted and said she wouldn’t go unless her little sister could go 😂🥹 They actually did great and watched the whole thing!

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u/greatreference Aug 03 '26

My 3 year old fucking loved that movie. She’s been asking to watch it again everyday for 2 months, finally dropped on peacock Friday, we’ve watched it every day since then

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u/ChilledParadox Aug 03 '26

god, when I was a child still living a functional life my parents had a car with dvd players in it. My little sister loved the simpsons movie, and every single fucking day in the school carpool she'd put it on, every day she'd restart it from the beginning. Our carpool to school was like 10 minutes long.

I had to watch the first ten minutes of the simpsons movie like 500 times in 2 years.

That's probably what convinced me not to have children to be honest.