@Cobaltasaurus said:
It's possible @HelloRaptor, that the child had some sort of special need that might have made it difficult for the parent to contain that sort of behavior. If so I'm not really going to stand behind a "don't bring them to the movie theatre" attitude. Parents of special-needs children often get stuck at home, isolated, and very little help because their "problem children" receive responses like "you need to get your child in line" or "that child just needs to be whooped".
Of course we want to be considerate of everyone, so if that were the case she probably should have found a spot to sit where they wouldn't have bothered anyone else (too much). Such as in the last row, or at one of the outside rows, etc.
Yeah, this was third row back, just off center. On the opening weekend. And there sure as fuck were seats open towards the back. And it's a theater where you pick your seats out when you buy tickets, so it was about as deliberate a positioning as you can get. All of which adds up to me being okay with being the monster who tells the prents with the special needs kid to gtfo, I guess.
That's assuming that's even what it was, and given how many parents I've seen just let their kids do whatever they want (up to and including just running around in the aisles between the seats all across the theater) it's just as likely that they're just assholes.
@Ganymede
if the kid was kicking somebody in the head,
To clarify, I didn't mean kicking people IN the head, just that the way they were slumped down (head low, hips forward) they were kicking their feet around at head level, which put them right in line of sight or peripheral vision. The rows are far enough apart in this particular theater that nobody's head was really in danger, except maybe their parents. But a lot of thrashing motion in front of you (or out of the corner of your eye) while you're trying to watch a movie is just aggravating as fuck and not at all cool to just let go on for nearly half an hour, on and off.
