over 18s only screenings

Agreed.

I couldn't believe how many kids were at the screening of Quantum of Solace when I saw it the other night (At the Odeon, nee 'UCI' at Lakeside).

If I had kids I don't think I'd want them watching that sort of stuff until perhaps 14 y.o. There were kids much younger than that in the screening. And that's before I even start on about little kids getting up to use the loo all the way through the film.

Bring on the over 18s showings......Scratch that, bring on the over 30s showings!

I went to a late showing of something a while back. maybe 10pm or something and was surprised at how many kids were about. I thought they should all be at home by that point. Fortunalty they went to see some pish and we got to avoid them.

Over 18 showings are a great idea though. Preferably on wednesdays so i can use my orange 241 code!

timwileman:

i have read that vue cinemas have started (in 58 cinemas) over 18s only screenings of 12a and 15 certificate films...

darn good idea if you ask me, its so annoying settling down to watch a film only it to be ruined by kids larking about

Agreed. I haven't been to the cinema since Star Wars Episode Two was out. I went with my gf and ended up sitting next to a man and his ten year old. The man proceeded to "explain" the plot to him throughout the first hour and then left. Never been back, but I would go now they have these screenings.

You grumpy old LOL

Most cinemas near me operate a  no under 18's after 10pm where I am. But being a parent I love going with my kids, especially enjoyed Star Wars Ep3 with My 8 years old son both taking our FX-Lightsabers (sad I know but we enjoyed it)

Yeah but then you get people like me and my girlfriend who are responsible but get the same punishment as the yobs. It's not fair IMO, what they should really do is have a person in there at all times and if somebody messess about, they get thrown out and fined £60.

D.J.KRIME:

You grumpy old LOL

Most cinemas near me operate a  no under 18's after 10pm where I am. But being a parent I love going with my kids, especially enjoyed Star Wars Ep3 with My 8 years old son both taking our FX-Lightsabers (sad I know but we enjoyed it)

Don't get me wrong. I think taking kids to see (suitable) films is great, but I think that we should be able to choose to be 'subjected' to screenings with children, or not, for certain films (I'm not talking Disney here).

This is a great idea.  What they should do next is search everyone going into the cinema and anyone found with their packed lunch (in tupperware and/or pre-packed sandwiches) and bags of rustley sweets and crisps and more rustley sweets should be flogged to the point when they can sit quietly and refrain from shoving food down their irritating necks like it is their last meal!!! I go to the cinema every week in the day time and there are never kids there as they are at school, but I still have to endure people rustling their werther's originals (other sweets are available) and generally annoying me with their own surround sound. It would be nice to go to the cinema and relax and forget about everyone around me and just get absorbed into the film.  I'm calm, deep breaths, out with the anger..........

Isn't this why we have home cinema?

Hughes123:

Yeah but then you get people like me and my girlfriend who are responsible but get the same punishment as the yobs. It's not fair IMO, what they should really do is have a person in there at all times and if somebody messess about, they get thrown out and fined £60.

Couldn't agree more.

I don't bother with the cinema much myself these days. Prefer to watch at home, hence my intention to purchase a BDP-S350 in the near future.

matthewpiano:

Hughes123:

Yeah but then you get people like me and my girlfriend who are responsible but get the same punishment as the yobs. It's not fair IMO, what they should really do is have a person in there at all times and if somebody messess about, they get thrown out and fined £60.

Couldn't agree more.

I don't bother with the cinema much myself these days. Prefer to watch at home, hence my intention to purchase a BDP-S350 in the near future.

Nah...you should meet this guy:

Why stop at cinemas?

If there was a buggy-free coffee-house chain it would get my business.

There's even ankle-biters in the pubs now - wrong, wrong, wrong (on so many levels).

Sorry, rant over 

 

 

Clare Newsome:

Why stop at cinemas?

If there was a buggy-free coffee-house chain it would get my business.

There's even ankle-biters in the pubs now - wrong, wrong, wrong (on so many levels).

Sorry, rant over 

Principle of posterity- if your parents don't have chldren,neither will you.

Second principle - if you have them ,make sure they behave in society.

It's not a question of the children,it is the ability of the parent to control the child in the given environment.If they run wild in pubs ,it is not their fault.Tackle the parents,not the child.After all ,thats where most of our behaviour comes from.

  

 

 

 

without wanting to sound cheap, a lot of people seem to have missed the fact that the likes of Vue are charging an extra 75p a ticket - but for what?!

Golly, don't these threads go all Daily Express...

Andrew Everard:

Golly, don't these threads go all Daily Express...

I hope you are not referring to me,Monsieur Everard. I cannot read.