It is not called the Crying Room without good reason. Many parents lament their inability to go to the cinema and watch the 
latest release without organising a baby-sitter, so a crying room would seem to be the perfect solution.
Located in prime viewing within the two main auditoriums are the perfect facilities for cinema goers with babies. Comfortably seating seven people, each crying room creates a unique and exclusive experience.
My wife and I tried this once and I emphasise once. Being a man of high culture I convinced my wife to see Borat with our 3 month old daughter, with the plan being that she (daughter) would sleep through most of it.
If you think that THX surround sound advertisement at the start of a movie is annoying, it is really annoying when it wakes up a baby. To cut a long story short our daughter didn’t sleep and we tried every distraction technique possible, whilst trying to remain quiet (because another family was using the room) and enjoy the movie. The relaxing, escapism and entertainment that you get from going to most movies did not happen. I think we were more stressed after the movie.
Since then latest release movies have been few and far between and disappointingly, I haven’t been culturally enlightened by the movie Bruno.
Now personally I would never publicly admit to downloading torrents of the latest movie, I have just heard that some people, and parents of young families in particular, do this.
Mostly a DVD works fine but as readers of this post may have gathered my preferred choice of movie is not typically a quiet, educational documentary. I like action and comedy and the more car chases, gunfights and raucous humour the better. The latest Bourne something or other is perfect when the kids go to bed.
Certified – sorry your crying room experience didn’t work out. We once had one in a repertory cinema in Halifax, Nova Scotia called Wormwood’s Dog and Monkey Cinema. It was well used and viewed as a godsend by many parents who wanted to get out of the house and enjoy a flick. Another cinema is about to open one in rural Nova Scotia (Canada) and we plan to take a wheel down and check it out. I’ll let you know how it goes. Maybe you could give it another chance. No volume control in the crying room booth?
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