TL;DR: Family brings multiple crying infants to late night, violent movie and gets butthurt when they and their crying kids are jeered out of the theater. Then the dad tells me to "Choose a different movie" because, you know, it's my job to avoid his rudeness.
I am so pissed right now. Fi and I both had a hard day and I decided to take him out to see the Captain America movie (I know, we're super behind). The movie started at 10:10pm with previews, so the real movie didn't start till like 10:30. Pretty early in the movie, we heard a baby sort of babbling and talking. Nobody said anything for a little while, and the baby quieted down. Then it happened again... and again... and then the baby was crying. Mom brought the baby out into the hallway, then brought it back in. Soon enough the baby is crying again, she brings it out, then returns.... You get the drift. It also became clear there was more than one baby and they were all sitting together.
Probably the second time a baby cried, a few people started piping up. At first it was just "Well, excuse you!" or "Take the baby outside," then later on it escalated to a few people yelling "Shut that kid up!" I admit that I joined in with, "Your child does not belong in this movie!" Meanwhile the parents (probably embarrassed now) just sat there letting the baby cry. Finally two women, each holding a crying baby, got up and walked out of the theater. Practically the whole theater clapped and cheered.
After the movie, the group was hanging out outside the bathroom and Fi and I went to talk to them. It was a large extended family or group of friends, mostly 40-something parents, with literally 8 kids between them ranging from tiny infants, to toddlers, to maybe a 5-year-old. Fi was way angrier than me and started making snarky comments loudly to me within their hearing, like, "Wow, glad I spent $11 to hear a baby cry." I turned to the parents and said, "Do you realize how inconsiderate you are of everyone else in that theater?" A mom says, "But she brought the kid out." Me: "Yeah, but then brought her back in again and again and she kept crying. Once the kid starts crying, just leave!" The dad jumps in with: "It's not your business." Me: "Yes it is, once we pay for a ticket and you ruin the movie for the whole theater."
So the dad says: "So you should CHOOSE A DIFFERENT MOVIE. You won't teach me anything." Seriously WTF? You get to swagger all around the place being inconsiderate of everyone else, and the whole rest of the world is just supposed to avoid your assholery?
Out of respect because they did have their kids there and I had not interest in getting into a yelling match with strangers, I just said, "You're right. I won't teach you anything and you won't change. You'll just always be rude." and we walked away.
But really dude??? Seriously???? This is a movie that runs from 10:10pm-12:30am. It's an extremely violent, loud superhero movie full of explosions, machine guns, and loud sound effects. Why would you bring an infant to this movie?
I think sometimes it's okay if you think your kid will sleep through, and then the minute they start crying, you just decide you've forfeited your ticket and you leave. I can take a crying kid if you leave immediately. Meanwhile Fi thinks it's totally unacceptable to even try to see if your kid will sleep through at a 10pm movie. Regardless, I think these jerks were totally out of line. My blood is just boiling!
"I'm not a rude bitch. I'm ten rude bitches in a large coat."
Babies at nighttime movies? 77 votes
Late at night, it's never okay to bring an infant to the movies.
Late at night, it's okay to bring the kid but you should leave if they cry.
It's okay to bring a kid to a 10pm movie, even if they cry.
I think it's less clear-cut than that, maybe depending on the type of movie.
Just pour me a margarita.