Grrrrr!!! Movie Theatre VENT!!!!!

[Marseeya]

Maybe I'm the weird one, but I would NEVER do that.

I'm weird too then!

 

[Tigger_Magic]

I don't think I've ever seen anyone walk into a theatre and stand there and calculate where the exact middle seat is in a theatre.

Then I should invite you to come with me to the movies this Friday. You can then watch me calculate the middle seat (my favorite spot). It's actually fairly easy once you line up with the projector!

 

[Marseeya]

Then I should invite you to come with me to the movies this Friday. You can then watch me calculate the middle seat (my favorite spot). It's actually fairly easy once you line up with the projector!

You won't be fighting me for seat space! I like the ends.

 

[Crankyshank]

I like ends with leg room

 

[Tigger_Magic]

At our multiplex, there are some larger theatres that have 2 levels of stadium seating. My favorite spot is dead center, 1st row of the 2nd level. Perfect view of the movie, plus the aisle is super-wide -- plenty of room for me to stick my legs out but not trip people walking by in the dark. (If someone walks by, I pull my legs in -- not that they are that long to begin with.)

 

[cardaway]

I was just going by what you said -- "near empty." Near empty to me isn't 10 couples, it's only 5 or 6 people altogether.

Ten couples would be twenty people. Assuming the theater holds at least 200 people (even most of the small ones are at least 200) that's 10%. That certainly fits my definition of near empty.

Quite often I've seen all twenty people near the middle. And why not? Some people like the aisle, but very few would ever sit in the side,front, or back unless they have no choice. While twenty people isn't a lot, it's enough to cause other to sit on the side, front, or back if the expectation is that there should be a standard numeber of buffer rows or seats between everybody.

Yet another reason I rarely go to the theater. You can't win.

When it's full it's too rowdy. When it's empty it's full of full of people expecting others not to sit where they want.

 

[luvflorida]

Then I should invite you to come with me to the movies this Friday. You can then watch me calculate the middle seat (my favorite spot). It's actually fairly easy once you line up with the projector!

I think I'll pass, but thanks anyway. I'm all movied out and I'm going to back away from this thread now.

 

[cardaway]

At our multiplex, there are some larger theatres that have 2 levels of stadium seating. My favorite spot is dead center, 1st row of the 2nd level. Perfect view of the movie, plus the aisle is super-wide -- plenty of room for me to stick my legs out but not trip people walking by in the dark. (If someone walks by, I pull my legs in -- not that they are that long to begin with.)

Same here. Sorry to the folks who chose the second row, but if it's open, that's where I'm sitting.

 

[Tigger_Magic]

Same here. Sorry to the folks who chose the second row, but if it's open, that's where I'm sitting.

I knew there was some redeeming quality about you!

It's funny that at many movies this area tends to fill first, then the ends. Once all that's taken, you start seeing the sides fill in. But it's never bothered me to have people sit right behind me... until they start kicking me.

 

[mickeyfan2]

Isn't there enough middle to skip a row?

You could just bring crime scene tape and tape off your area and sit in the middle.

 

[Chattyaholic]

I completely agree with you!! I absolutely HATE having someone sit right behind me in a theater, or in front of me, if it's a near-empty theater.

For that very reason, we usually get there early enough to sit in the back row (and I definitely sit there when I go alone).

A few years ago I went to a movie alone, sat in the back row and just before the movie started a couple came in and the tall guy sat directly in front of me. Hello? There is no one else in the theater but me, am I invisible? Not one to confront people I surprised myself by asking them to move down. The guy looked at me like he hadn't even seen me. The house lights were still up, there is no way he could have not seen me. The woman he was with looked guilty. And he did apologize and move down, but I just don't understand why people even WANT to sit directly in front of, behind or beside someone else when they have the ENTIRE THEATER to pick from!!

 

[Captain Brain]

Why do people insiat on bothering others at theaters?

I think that some people go to the movies just to bother someone.If they want to bother someone,get married.

 

[Marseeya]

You could just bring crime scene tape and tape off your area and sit in the middle.

Maybe I could lick all the seats and claim them for my own! Everytime someone looks like they'll sit within a row or five seats to my left or right, I'll run over and lick the seat.

 

[LindsayDunn228]

Ok, how about you people be thankful you can sit in the middle ANYWHERE in the theater, while the handicapped seating is always the ends, and forget about sitting in the back row!!!!!!

 

[mickeyfan2]

Maybe I could lick all the seats and claim them for my own! Everytime someone looks like they'll sit within a row or five seats to my left or right, I'll run over and lick the seat.

That would work, but what about all the others how have licked the seat before you?!?