Would you take a 3-year-old to see a 3D film?

babysteps24

My 5 year old was terrififed at brave, not the 3d just 2d, we had to leave after the first hour

delain

Got to admit as well it gave me a headache (i have a squint and my eyes don't work together) and made my eyes water before I started blubbing, so I agree not the best for eyes.

onlyroz

Well the alternatives are The Lorax (which gets mediocre reviews) or Tintin.

themull1

onlyroz wrote: »

I would have thought that if you go to a day-time viewing of a PG film during the school holidays then noisy kids would be the norm.

If you think Brave is unsuitable, what about The Lorax? That's on in regular boring 2D...

I didnt say noisy kids weren't the norm, i said they were annoying!

indebtinsussex

we tried taking my son to a 3d film a couple of years ago, it really wasnt worth paying the extra for. all he kept doing was taking the glasses off because they hurt his nose and made his eyes itch and then spent the rest of the time complaining that the film looked funny!

Tiddlywinks

themull1 wrote: »

There's nothing more annoying than a kid yakking on at the cinema. Three is far too young.

Absolutely agree.

onlyroz wrote: »

I would have thought that if you go to a day-time viewing of a PG film during the school holidays then noisy kids would be the norm.

If you think Brave is unsuitable, what about The Lorax? That's on in regular boring 2D...

But WHY is it acceptable for noisy kids to be the norm? If they can't keep (or be kept) quiet then don't take them - simples!

Why should the rest of us have to put up with the grizzling, roaming around, banging on seats etc?

daska

IMO 3 is far too young for this one. We took DS2 (5) to see Brave (2d) yesterday, if one of us had seen it first I really don't think we would have gone. The evil bear is genuinely scary, DS2's legs were running, literally running as fast as he possibly could, even though he was sat on his dad's lap! How he would have reacted to the additional scariness of being in 3D I dread to think. To put it in perspective DS2 will happily watch all other children's films with the exception of Toy Story 3.

GobbledyGook

I tend to find that it is adults that are more annoying during films than children. If it's not a mobile phone, it's chattering amongst themselves and if it's not that it's rummaging around for sweets, faffing about with wrappers and making that annoying noise you get when you keep sucking through a straw when there's nowt left.

Janepig

OP, does your local cinema do kids club screenings? We've got Vue, Odeon and Apollo locally and they all do. They're slightly older films but they're between £1-£2 to get in (depending on the cinema) and as the showing is full of children (obviously!) nobody really notices if children get up and wander about a bit, you kind of expect it! Maybe that's an idea to get your LO used to the cinema and to see how they get on, then you also haven't wasted too much money. We've seen Pirates (Adventure with Scientists) and Mirror Mirror this holiday in Kids Club.

My DS(6) is a complete livewire with the attention span of a gnat, but he loves the cinema, and doesn't even so much as get up to go to the toilet (which certainly isn't like him). I don't think he's seen a film yet that he hasn't come out of and gone "can we see that again".

As for Brave, I've heard it's scary - DD(9) and DS have been to see it with DH, but they like being scared stupid so they were fine. They didn't see it in 3d though. I'm not hugely keen on 3d so we usually stick to 2d if we can.

As for Bambi, which has been mentioned, is there anyone who didn't cry when Bambi's mother was shot? How traumatic!!! Even my dad, who is 78, cried when he went to see it when it was first released when he was a boy (in 1942 ).

Jx

daska

GobbledyGook wrote: »

I tend to find that it is adults that are more annoying during films than children. If it's not a mobile phone, it's chattering amongst themselves and if it's not that it's rummaging around for sweets, faffing about with wrappers and making that annoying noise you get when you keep sucking through a straw when there's nowt left.

I agree the teens and adults are often the worst offenders in the regular cinema, most of the kids tend to still be screen-struck. BUT...

Tiddlywinks wrote: »

But WHY is it acceptable for noisy kids to be the norm? If they can't keep (or be kept) quiet then don't take them - simples!

Why should the rest of us have to put up with the grizzling, roaming around, banging on seats etc?

we take DS2 to the autism friendly screening and they are wonderful, not as loud, lights on dim and full of kids walking around, making animal noises and shouting at the films And everyone is tolerant.

But it raises the question: why should disabled children and adults not be able to go to the cinema on a normal showing just because you want everyone to be quiet?