re: Does anyone actually sit in their assigned seat at the movies

Every time... Never had an issue

Talk about main character syndrome.

Why make someone have to come talk to you cause youre sitting in someone else's seats?

If we want to move after getting there I’ll check the Fandango app to see which seats weren’t purchased.

(Sometimes an a-hole will buy the seat next to us, even in a half-empty theater.)

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Nothing irks me more than somebody sitting 2 seats over from me in an empty theatre. Spread the frick out man

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The issue with you thinking it’s about you or inconsiderate is the fact that not all seats are equivalent. Personal preferences aside there is a fairly small region of “ideal view”

In some theater set ups it can be really about 5 seats on a single row.

If they are sitting next to you, it’s because they want the same view. You are pretty thin skinned about it if they gave you the courtesy of leaving a gap seat and not RIGHT next to you and yet it still was the worst thing a person can do to irk you.

My local theater is small; it doesn't have assigned seats.

Been forever since I went to a theater large enough to worry about it.

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I promise you there isn't much difference of view between rows 3-6.

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That’s your opinion. And might be true where you are at. I’ve certainly been in theaters that the difference in 3 rows is 20 foot. Doesn’t change my statement. Personally I like the row directly behind the main walkway. I don’t want to even see chairs in front of me. And the very front rows drop out.

So no, while it wouldn’t be the end of the world to go behind. Why should I assume someone else is hypersensitive being about people being nearby in a social element just because I sat a couple of seats away from them? Should I always go without my ideal just because some vague person who can’t manage their own feelings can be enabled?


And with your second paragraph I don’t know even how to respond because we went from “nothing irks me more” to “it really doesn’t bother me.” Even if you don’t actually move, and if you wouldn’t do it yourself, it really doesn’t change anything.

Even in non-literal, turn of phrase, colloquial language that’s a jump. But that kind of reactional knee jerk responses is typical in the thin skinned. Just reacting to the last thing as opposed to actually having a consistent viewpoint/perspective.

Anyway, have a good one. No sense going back and forth about something like this, especially with someone who isn’t self aware.

"assigned seats"?? when did that become a thing?

Last movie I saw in a public theater was Black Hawk Down so it's been a while

I wish I lived near somewhere with cool shite like that, I’d eat it up. Went to NYC last week and noticed they have a TCM only theatre which is awesome

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I had no idea it was not first come first serve anymore.

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Good lord.

You’re an a-hole. Turn off your phone, and GTFO of the left lane. I buy my tickets days in advance to not sit next to or behind frickheads like you.