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Bobby Henderson
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From: Lawton, OK, USA
Registered: Apr 2001
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posted 03-07-2011 02:21 PM
I really HATE reserved seating. IMHO, the best seats in the movie theater should go to those who arrived first. We're not watching a damned live stage play or concert performance. It's just a movie.
The only way I'm going to like a reserved seating system in movie theaters at all is if the theater had an interactive web-based map of theater seats showing which ones were available and which ones were already sold. I don't like being forced to trust a ticket seller's word over the phone that what I have bought is a good seat and then end up stuck on some far end of the auditorium.
The only logical purpose I see in reserved seating is the theater stroking the huge egos of certain douches who need to feel exclusive and special and have their seat saved for them rather than showing up to the theater at the proper time.
BTW, quite a few live stage play/concert theaters typically have reserved seating, but many also promptly close the doors to the performance hall when the show has started. Get yer butt there on time or you're not going to be seated at all.
quote: Mike Blakesley The map they show you doesn't indicate where the babies and kids are sitting, so you have no option to sit somewhere else if you want to.
That's the other HUGE disadvantage to reserved seating. It's pot luck on who sits next to you. If you end up stuck sitting next to some obsessive cell phone using douche bag you can't simply pick another seat. Some disruptions, like crying babies, are bad enough it doesn't matter where you are in the auditorium. But, damn, if that baby is right next to you the movie watching experience is all but ruined.
Much more often than ever before I have to visit theaters in off peak times, such as a week night and probably a week or so after the movie has started playing. There's too many OCD cellular phone users, crying babies, seat kickers, trouble makers and idiots talking to the movie screen to tolerate on opening weekend.
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