Great news for adult cinemagoers who hate seeing mainstream films like the new Bond flick and Harry Potter series ruined by screaming kids - a cinema chain is to have over-18 only screenings for certain films.

 

UK cinema chain Vue are to show a series of selected PG, 12A, 15 rated movies to adults only in their cinemas after a successful trial last year. Quantum of Solace, which is rated 12A, will be the first film to get the adult only treatment starting from today.

 

Vue's Mark de Quervain said, "These screenings have been launched in direct response to overwhelming positive customer feedback obtained from extensive research studies and trials carried out over the past year.

 

"This confirmed a significant number of cinema goers wanted to see PG, 12A and 15-rated films in screenings that could avoid unwanted disruptions that can sometimes be caused by audiences under the age of 18."

 

Forthcoming movies like The Day The Earth Stood Still and Australia will get adult only screenings.

 

Vue's website is asking cinemagoers which future films they would like to see in age restricted screenings, including the final Harry Potter chapters.

 

What are your opinions? ^_^ - IMO I think it's a good idea!

On the surface, it seems like a positive and sensible idea.

 

But, it probably won't make much difference to me. I've had significantly more films ruined for me be over 18 year old who don't know how to behave (the dickheads in the row behind who grunted all the way through Cloverfield spring to mind...) more than any kids.

I think its quite good.

How often do ya get teenagers n kids moving around, making noise and throwing Popcorn/Skittles etc LMAO.

Then someone complains and someone comes in to tell them off, which is also distracting!!

Happened to me a few times now. The worst was when I went to watch 'The Dark Knight'

It's not going to make any difference, you still going to get a tw@t sitting next to you, playing with his mobile phone, texting messages throughout the film which is more annoying than having kids around. When I went to watch Shooter, I had an adult sitting next to me playing with his mobile he wasn't paying his attention to the film, in the end I told him to either watch the film or get out, as I'm watching the movie. Some adults just act like kids. People go out to watch movies, why would you take your mobile with you inside the cinema no one is going to ring you, leave it at home or in the car for god sake.

 

When I go to watch a movie, I leave my mobile in the car. I go to watch a movie without listening to other people's sound effects of texting, or using it as a light to see the time on their wristwatch, there should be a new law where people are not allowed to take mobiles inside the cinema, what's the point of it, you can't talk on the phone.

 

My mini rant over

To be honest, it's fukkin' CHAVS that are the bigger problem that kids per se... You come up with "No Chavs" screenings, and I'll vote for that in a heartbeat.... :lol: Or indeed, as people have already pointed out, tw@ts with mobile phones going off... PUT THE BUGGER ON SILENT YOU ARSEHOLES!!!!!!!! Isn't there something that cinemas could do to dampen the signals of mobile phones in the theatres....?

 

Kids are only really a problem when their stoopid parents take them to see films that are clearly unsuitable for them, why the fukk would anyone take an 8-year old to see "Casino Royale" FFS....?? I mean, sorry, but is the kid actually going to 'get' most of what goes on in that film...? "Casino Royale" wasn't some kid-friendly Bond film like "Moonraker" or "For Your Eyes Only", it was very much a more adult-oriented Bond, and really should have been made with a 15-cert in mind... Kids going along to that film were getting bored, not really their fault, it aint exactly "Harry Potter" or "Shrek" now is it...? Every time I've seen a Harry Potter film, I swear, you can hear a pin drop during the quiet scenes, not a single kid making a sound, AT ALL..... At the end of the day, I dont really believe that it's kids that are the problem, it's parental lack of common sense in not taking them to see the appropriate film, which is more suited to them, that's more of a problem in my opinion....

I think its quite good.

How often do ya get teenagers n kids moving around, making noise and throwing Popcorn/Skittles etc LMAO.

Then someone complains and someone comes in to tell them off, which is also distracting!!

Happened to me a few times now. The worst was when I went to watch 'The Dark Knight'

 

It happened for me also when I went to see The Dark Knight. This drunken (?) mentally unstable middle-aged couple came in after the lights had gone down. Of course they had their seats in the other end of the row. The woman was pushing herself towards their seats screaming people to move two places right so that they could take the seats from this end of the row. No-one moved so she went to her seat only to notice the man had stayed at the stairs and sit on there. So then she pushed herself back to him and for about 20 mins they were speaking very loudly. It really didn't distract me that much since I was in the middle of the last row and there were probably some 150 people between me and that couple but it must have been quite terrible for people close to them. Finally someone complained and the staff came but then the woman started screaming that she cannot find her shoes and won't leave without the shoes. And finally when they were just about ushered out from the theatre the man started screaming something like "long live Osama Bin Laden" over and over again.

 

So, it is not just the under-agers that make all the noise in the movie theatres, the older ones are often even worse since they seem to think since they paid the ticket price they can do whatever they like.

We had some twatty chavs in the cinema today who were like 'Ah dunno wha I come to a cinema, I nevah watch it an only talk through all of it. Whats happenin? I aint been payin attention. I WANNA DRINK. GET ME A f***ING DRINK WILL YA? Oi look at that c**t turning around, what the f*** does she want. She's well asking for it, stupid c**ts'' and went to throw drinks, popcorn and mutter throughout until they left coz their mate said ''f*** this lets go to the park, we'll get drunk better than this $h!te!''

 

This was in a screening of High School Musical 3 as well and the person turning around was a mother to a young child. :/ Takes the p***.

'Ah dunno wha I come to a cinema, I nevah watch it an only talk through all of it. Whats happenin? I aint been payin attention. I WANNA DRINK. GET ME A f***ING DRINK WILL YA? Oi look at that c**t turning around, what the f*** does she want. She's well asking for it, stupid c**ts'' and went to throw drinks, popcorn and mutter throughout until they left coz their mate said ''f*** this lets go to the park, we'll get drunk better than this $h!te!''

 

JESUS... Was this at one of the Cinemas in Wood Green...??? :lol:

 

Both this and JackJones' post is pretty much the final evidence that it's not young kids that are the main problem....

 

I think going to the cinema on a night other than the weekend can help you out - people aren't drunk and it's past the kids bedtimes. Also try to use independent cinemas where you can as the kids simply don't go because the choice of food is less.

 

But yes, simply posting an arbitrary age limit won't help.

 

Must admit that most of the films I go to see aren't blockbusters so it rarely affects me, but it will when I go to see Harry Potter next year...will just need to go a week or so later and enjoy it.

I think going to the cinema on a night other than the weekend can help you out

 

Agreed... It's usually what I do tbh... I get a day off during the week, so that's my designated cinema day, the cinemas are mostly empty tbh at 2pm on a Wednesday afternoon, so precious few distractions or rude, drunk people....

 

Im all for this tbh... I hate it when i go to watch "scary" films (The Strangers is a BRILLIANT example in my case) and there are people screaming for no f***ing reason... When i went to watch The Strangers, there was a group of girls screaming at a hand reaching out for the guys shoulders!!! I WAS LIKE WTF?!

 

I was at VUE the day this was implemented, and I of course didn't go to the screening because I am 17...

 

But as previously stated, the noise mostly comes from 'chavs', about 20 years of age and often in a large number, going to the cinema probably after a few drinks before they left, and off for a few when the film has finished. These are usually the most boisterous in the cinema audience than actual kids!

 

It'll also be pretty difficult to implement properly, most cinemas are quite lax with age limits in my experience anyway...

 

 

^I was able to go watch Saw V and im 16 and in no way do i look 18...

Kids are only really a problem when their stoopid parents take them to see films that are clearly unsuitable for them, why the fukk would anyone take an 8-year old to see "Casino Royale" FFS....??

 

It could be worse - because it had a 12A rating*, people were taking their kids to see The Dark Knight. Now that's SERIOUSLY f***ed up.

 

* - It easily should have been a 15.

It could be worse - because it had a 12A rating*, people were taking their kids to see The Dark Knight. Now that's SERIOUSLY f***ed up.

 

* - It easily should have been a 15.

 

Yeah, I would say that "Dark Knight" is similarly very adult-themed film, but it DOES have plenty of action... I mentioned "Casino Royale" because, for a modern Bond film, a lot of it is dialogue and character based, stuff that kids could easily be bored by...

JESUS... Was this at one of the Cinemas in Wood Green...??? :lol:

 

:lol: and its a pity that across town in Wood Lane - the new cinema there at westfield is gonna be a showcase...would have been a good place catch a few films in between the shopping (and i see there's a vue round the corner - but we'll forget where that is - please adapt bush and arse joke here - and think of the positives of a new shiny shopping centre)

Yeah, I would say that "Dark Knight" is similarly very adult-themed film, but it DOES have plenty of action...

 

That's true - but it's violent action that isn't suitable for a 12-year-old*, rather than action.

 

* - Jo's sister has a 12-year-old, and she refused to take him to see it. (Largely cos of what Jo told her about said film.)

Edited November 29, 200816 yr by DitzyNizzy