Kids under six not allowed in cinema

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I tend to agree with you here Colonel 'specially' regarding the fireworks...

Yes, I too think the best solution for adults wishing to watch films generally intended for kids, it would be best to go at the times when most of the little kids will be at home or in bed.

Going to any theater/cinema show is more often a trial than enjoyment these days anyway....

You see,,,if you are of smaller proportions, invariably, your seat will be right behind the biggest/tallest person (sods law), usually a couple, so no amount of neck stretching will be of any use... Besides, if you do try and adjust so you can actually see,,, the person behind you, will make it known they also cannot see the screen....!!

Conversely, if you are of larger proportions, then you have to put up with the Hoohah from those of smaller proportions, that demonstratively ( seat kicking etc) make it known, that they (fair enough) also, cannot see....

Never mind sitting behind the blabbermouth that has already seen it and proceeds to let all and sundry nearby 'in' on the plot,,, WITH a running commentary, till the very end...!

Cell phone ringing/answering, crisps/chips munching aside...

These days,,, (I think) it's not much fun trying to have fun anymore...

I know,,, I'm getting old, I sound just like my parents!!!

42
Topic: enjoying movies with kids in Switzerland

Beamer: 700 CHF

Simple external speakers: 60 CHF

Membership in GGG library: 60 CHF (for baselland) for renting DVDs at 2 CHF/week

Connecting the above to my office laptop to project movies on my pristine whitewashed wall and lying on the carpet with my family and a bucket of popcorns when its raining outside=priceless

Oh BTW, feel free to send over your kids too, we have lots of space,DVDs and popcorns to go around

43
That's a cracking idea. Although I did think 'a BMW for CHF700?!' for a second...

44
I took my boy to the Cinema at Bellevue in Zurich to see Sinbad when he was around four, totally unaware of the rules that the Swiss so dearly love to inflict pain with. The lady selling the tickets wouldn't sell them to me. Her reason was that my son was probably too young to enjoy the film, my response of "Probably due to all the sex and violence eh?" fell on deaf ears.

Currently we have The Simpsons Movie (age 10), Harry Potter (Age 12) and I'm pretty sure that my (now) eight year old will be pissed off to find that he won't get in to see Transformers either. All of which have been merchandised to hell. That really gets to me. As an example, Spiderman is clearly a film for older kids and upwards but all the merchandise is aimed at the kids that can't hope to see the film. Not that I'm saying that they should. The same thing with Transformers, you can't move for the bloody things at the toy shops but the film will probably be rated 12.

Fortunately, I have the beamer with the surround sound so when all of these come out on DVD we can enjoy a home cinema experience.

45
It's almost as if the Swiss are asking 'hey, why don't you go and buy the pirate DVD and watch it at home?'

46
Luckily Canada is a bit relax, Harry Potter, The Simpson's and The Transformers are rated "PG", that means if a parent allowed it, their kids can see the movie.

47
2.5 yo in a cinema? I wouldn't want to be in the same theater.

If I spend the cash on a film, no matter which, it would be a waste to hear kids running around and talking. We have twins 2.5 and a 4 yo. They couldn't be quiet for 2 hours and sit so everyone else spending CHF 16-20, per ticket could enjoy their movie.

Buy the DVD, and save some cash. I am sure that watching it once would not suffice anyway.

48
Wouldn ́t both you and your (very young) kids better benefit from a couple of hours book reading together rather than sitting in a dark cinema. You could then control what they learn from the experience and check their understanding of the story-line.

49
Oh no,

this might cause problems

50
Bit late to this thread, but this topic has made me add 'My cinema room' to the list of things in my UK life that I'll miss when my family & I move to Basel this October! Some lucky people that rent my house will be getting all the benefits of my hard work !

Hoping to get to meet some of you lot in due course... ( I happen to make really very good onion gravy with bangers & mash, so that'll be my first ice-breaking effort )

On with the ISB forms, etc,

JC

51
Hmmm,

what has this got to do with this thread. I believe it should be with the "things I miss" thread. no?

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I would be well-impressed if you could control what children learn.

You can try and control what they are exposed-to, but you cant control what they learn ..

As the word "control" sounds almost creepy to me, it reminds me of that scene from Addams Family Values when the two youngsters with an Additoood-problem are locked away in a cabin and forced to view Disney videos...

dave

53
nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

54
Fair Point, I was utterly off-topic.

I have a 5.5 year old and a 2.5 year old. I have only taken them to a cinema once, and they behaved really well. That in itself surprised me, since I was quite prepared - as others here have suggested - to leave with them both if they started being too noisy.

I would never expect them to learn anything from visiting a cinema.

JC

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Well, if you can sit with a child reading a book you are sharing the experience, you can use that to "see" what they really learn from the experience - as opposed to sitting in a cinema, gotta be quiet, no chance for shared interaction. But hey, if you think that the screen is a better teaching tool.........

56
So you assume that these parents don't sit with a book and read to their kids just because they might take them to a cinema once in a while

57
My Mom is really mean. All my friends have gone to see the Simpsons, but I am forced to stay at home and reads books about like a swiss treatise on social integration. I prefered that epistomology stuff they taught me at school, you know: 1000words, motivation, all that stuff.

dave

58
Well, we like to give our little 'un a trip to the cinema occasionally. It's not like we take her to see 'Chainsaw Fisting 3' or anything, so I've no problems. Hell, it's not like I don't read at least three Mr Men books along with that bloomin' "little rabbit gets eaten by a buzzard, it's ok though as mummy rabbit has another thirty babies already this year".

I have no intention of turning her into some sort of 'Mary-Ann Bighead'-type offspring (Intelligencia (7) and Brainella (3)) and I'm very happy with her being a kid while she's still a kid.

Actually, on that note, you didn't recently stop working as a columnist for The Times , did you?

59
AND I wouldn ́t take em to McDonalds either!

60
do you have them locked up in a cupboard?