Thread 214247874

Remember when you could just walk in and sit down?

>>214247874 (OP)
I prefer choosing my seat before hand. People wandering around looking for what's available was awful

>>214247874 (OP)
A lot of pre-smartphone era things were better but this wasn’t one of them. I can show up to the theater five minutes before the show starts, I don’t have to get there two hours ahead of time to wait in line so I can get a halfway decent seat.

>>214247874 (OP)
then that ronald mcdonald dude got controlled via vibrating buttplug by the CIA to kill all those batman fans... now we're stuck with fatmedowns reclinomites because it's more safe

>>214247937

I agree. Necessary change. This guarantees you get the seat you want, provided you do it early enough.

>>214247937
You could barely see the people shuffling to get seats because they used to dim the lights even before the trailers. Now it's bright as shit.

>movie was shit
clean it up

Unfortunately I cannot remember the last time it really would have mattered either way.

>>214247992
They should replace the floors with some steel with holes in it and then put a den full of pigs down below it. They eat the corn, the theater kills the pigs, gets bacon and also renders butter into fat which can be used on more popcorn to feed more pigs to turn into butter

I prefer reserved seating honestly

>>214247956
>I don’t have to get there two hours ahead of time to wait in line so I can get a halfway decent seat.
Good morning

>>214247874 (OP)
My local cinema is usually almost empty.

Reserved seating is based. The walking in and grabbing any seat thing sucked when you tried to go with friends or family.

>>214247992
>>214248042
It's about sending a message.
You don't make the main character bad ass I trash the theater. Simple as.

>>214247874 (OP)
the advantage of this is I don't need to show up early to get a good seat and can just come in 25 minutes before the movie listing time to skip the ads and trailers

>>214248042
The stench of pig shit and the cacophony of their nonstop squealing in the darkness below would be somewhat disruptive to the movie.

>>214248208
A small price to pay to avoid this to our local popcorn monkeys.

>>214247982
Unless they went down your row looking for a seat. Then you'd hear the constant "excuse me"s and shuffling during the trailers.

Is it unethical / socially irresponsible to book the single open seat between two reserved seats?

>>214247874 (OP)
>>214247992
So you pick your seat and prepay with a credit card right?
Why not start charging a clean up fee if you leave trash in your seat? I know kids will fuck up the seat behind or in front just to fuck with people but it would probably stop a lot of this shit. Being framed would be the only reason not to do this but 1 camera could solve that problem.
Surprised it's not a thing already

>>214248363
It's perfectly fine because this fuckface is saying that its acceptable to have three reserved seats without even sitting in one, basically
More power to the guy choosing the seat in between

>>214248161
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qEPExWp8nE
>"Herbie: Fully Reloaded: The AMC 4D Experience"
>music starts blasting
>plastic backs of chairs vibrating violently with the bass
>"GET READY"
>Herbie peels off
>engines revs like five World Trade Centers being hit at once
>sonic boom throws old woman out of her seat
>fists flying
>nothing but blood and corn

>>214248363
yes, urinal rules apply

>>214248423
>Sir you're being charged an additional fee for littering
>ticket buyer puts a stop payment on his card for that transaction
>theater loses the entire ticket sale
Amazing

>>214248499
that's why you don't say anything, dingus, you just charge them and them give them a 1-800 number to burn time on

>>214248042
Butter comes from cow's milk actually, not pigs.

This board just gets dumber and dumber. Who are you people and why are you stupid? No schooling? Are your parents divorced and they didn't teach you anything? WTF happened??

>>214248478
>he doesn't walk up to the urinal next to someone and put your arm around him and give him a side hug and ask him how life is going while urinating next to him.
>ngmi

>>214248208
>The stench of pig shit and the cacophony of their nonstop squealing in the darkness below would be somewhat disruptive to the movie.
But enough about urban youth!

>>214248423
You put the trash in the bag you sneak the snacks in. Is it really that hard to not leave trash behind?

>>214248543
Theater owners should just rape the audience members, since they apparently are exempt from all laws.

>>214248564
>he thinks popcorn butter comes from cows
bless your heart

>>214248459
Like a true 4chan troll. I suspected as much.
How can an incel ruin a couple's good time? Got it!!

>>214247874 (OP)
You can't now? I haven't been in ages since the internet exists, but it's no wonder people don't go if they have to participate in spyware shit even for that.

>>214248564
you really think these fat fucks are going to notice melted butter vs melted pork lard? they already eat a diet of 90% corn

>>214248600
Sorry, you cannot justify being a disgusting slob and getting away with it.

>clean it up, wagie

Yeah, you're not a king or rich or worthy of being waited on. You're a bitter manvirgin who wants to ruin everything for normal, adjusted people. The bums will always lose.

>>214248600
what do you think "ACCEPT THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS" means? truly nigger behavior

>>214248611
My local theater, Cinema 21, uses real butter. But your retort doesn't make lard into butter, so fuck off. You lose.

>>214248742
how are you certain it's not pork lard

>>214248804
Becuase its called Real Butter™

>>214247982
That was so kino. In today's bright ass theatres it also means you gotta wait until the movie fucking starts so you can pull out all the junk food you stuffed in your pockets that you bought at the dollar store.

>>214248895
I don't think I've ever met someone so fixated on butter before

>>214248742
Should we tell him bros?

>>214247972
it has its draw backs too. Now if i pick my seat days in advance, i could end up in the middle of two fat families, where as before I could just get up and move but now im stuck in that seat.

>>214247992
>clean it up!
>NOOO!!! Why is it taking so long I want to sit down!!!

>>214248161
pic related wasnt so bad, i used to be an Usher. The worst shit was when people left their dip cups in the seat. if it was my theater you would be banned for a year for that.

>>214249798
>dip cups
As in chewing tobacco spit?

>>214248363
lol. hey, if its that important, But the buffer seat. Sometimes i unironically buy 3 seats (since i get a free one every month) if i think it's gonna a packed showing.

>>214247874 (OP)
Remember when you couldn't see fuck shit before stadium seating and had to look past someone's head

>>214249831
Yes

>>214247874 (OP)
>Remember when you could just walk in and sit down?
no, the past was a horrible time of worrying about finding a good seat

>>214249895
>before stadium seating
fellow old head recognized. those were weird times. Sticky as fuck floors too

>>214248611
Contains: Milk
I don't eat sloppa either but come on

>>214249933
>the past was a horrible time of worrying about finding a good seat
*cracks open a Monster Energy* yup. you would send someone ahead of time to get in line and then they would save seats for you and everyone else. toward the end of the 00s it was getting awkward with people going in and instantly saving 5 seats like it was the freaking Oklahoma land rush.

>>214249983
pig's milk, hence the lack of the kosher markings

My local theaters website doesn't have bot protection, so i wrote a script that enters gift card information until it finds one that works.
free movies for me.

>>214250107
nice. do you buy popcorn and sodie with the savings?

>>214250107
>kid receives gift card for their birthday
>excited to see a movie
>go all the way to the theater only to find that the gift card has already been redeemed

you're a cunt

>>214247874 (OP)
I would like to see the names of who sits where so I can avoid certain people

>>214247874 (OP)
My favorite part of this is calling the usher to kick people out of your seats right as the movie starts and then watching them walk out of the theatre super pissed off like their an innocent victim.

>>214250288
it's well-earned, you only give kids gift cards if you're worried about them buying drugs with cash

>>214250288
Guess they should’ve bought bot protection huh

>>214249895
My local single screen theater doesn't have stadium seating so it's always a gamble when watching a foreign film that someone's head will block the subtitles.

>>214247956
When did you ever need to do this unless you were watching some garbage "blockbuster" opening night?

>>214251704
My arthouse theater usually gets 3 or 4 people tops so I always just sit front row.

>>214248656
Melted pork lard sounds fucking delicious. I bet that popcorn would be 10x better.

>>214252282
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgXx_ZoclVE
it's apparently a real thing, it's the next step in evolution

>>214251867
When I saw Ran the other week, I got there right before it started and it was completely packed. I saw an empty seat with no one sitting in front of me and grabbed it. Right before the lights went down a dude who must have been 6'5 sat down ahead of me. There were no other empty seats around me. I just had to watch the films visuals and infer what was going on.

>>214247874 (OP)
To get a good seat you had to wait in a hugeass line.

>>214247937
I prefer to be able to move seats if some annoying person sits near me.

>>214248363
How is the stranger supposed to know those two people are together. Weird to do if there’s plenty of other seats though

Reserved seating is retarded. If you happen to get seats near some unsavoury "people", you can't just get up and move somewhere else.

>>214248095
This.

I started going to the movies again last winter, going about once a month, mostly just to get out of the house more.

I go on weeknights, for the last show of the day, usually starting at 9-30. Every single time I've gone there's been at most 20 other people there, sometimes as few as 5. For context I live in a city with 5 million people in it. I assume its busier on weekends, but I still have no idea how these theatres are surviving.

>>214253483
>I go on weeknights, for the last show of the day, usually starting at 9-30.
this is creepy

>>214247982
>>214248956
Are they really bright now? What the fuck and why?

>>214253854
hello femanon

>>214247874 (OP)
My theater is still like that, no dystopian bullying for us

>cinema wants to charge $18 for a ticket AND $2 for an "online booking charge"
>wonders why nobody goes to the cinema anymore

>>214253483
Wouldn't morning be pretty deserted as well?

i literally haven't been to the kinoplex since covid. prob a years before.

>>214247874 (OP)
The first time i saw a seating plan, i was already a man.

Phone booth.
Red dragon
Saw
Phantom menace
Anaconda 2 ( that was a fuck up, i regret it deeply)
And so many others.
No seating plan.

Then the dark times came.

Captain america
Vice
Oppenheimer
The dark knight.

Seating plan.

You can really tell the state of cinema when seating plan happened.

Rubbish.