And even further, only those exact same two seats are ‘taken’ for every single showing.
I thought for sure the after church showings tomorrow would be at least somewhat full, but nope.
It’s been so long since I’ve been to the movies that I didn’t even realize that theatres now have assigned seats.
Many have upgraded to extra comfy recliners, some with pairs of seats you can raise the center arm rest and get cozy. With less than half the seats that they used to have, it’s far more comfortable.
Lol it’s funny to me that theaters think that’s what’ll save them. I don’t go to movies, not because the old seats, but because movies are all terrible remakes and reboots that I don’t want to see, and you have to take out a second mortgage just to be able to afford tickets and snacks. Why would I go? I’ll wait until the torrent pops up if I even want to see it at all, thanks.
I mean, not entirely. I went to see Longlegs recently, that was amazing and not a reboot rehash. When Makoto Shinkai releases an anime film my theater will have it there. I never thought I’d be able to see anime films on the big screen.
Studio Ghibli did a Ghibli Fest last year showing old movies again in theaters, I watched Spirited Away and it was great. Tickets are usually like 14 bucks, and yeah, buying snacks at a theater is for dummies, just sneak something in or have the self control to not snack at the movies.
You have some valid points, but are being very hyperbolic. Not all movies are reboots and it doesn’t cost all that much compared to other date ideas and such as long as you have some self control.
Long legs is one of the like 6 movies I’ve wanted to see since about 2010. Still gonna wait for the torrent though as I mentioned because I don’t feel like selling a kidney for some buncha crunch.
I like it even less as a date idea. I want to talk to my date not sit quietly next to them for 2 hours, and if it is something that will hinder conversation let’s at least go see some live music or a theater production or something like that. Personally I’d rather go to the nearest botanical gardens.
The last movie I saw in theaters was 9 lmao, which came out 09/09/2009. Probably going to stay that way for a good long while, too.
For about 5 years, I ignored theaters and said the same things as you. Now I’m back to going a few times a year. You don’t have to buy the popcorn - I never have it at home, so why do I need it there? You don’t take a date to a movie to talk during the movie, you go to share entertainment and have something easy to talk about from a shared experience later. There are many new movies, they just don’t get the hype compared to movies with existing universes. It’s not necessarily a bad thing to reuse existing IP, either, because it can help skip the initial exposition and put more action and development in the screen time. Obviously, there are plenty of examples of poor writing and weak attempts to keep some IP rolling.
What brings me to the theater (usually on a Tuesday with a discount) is the immersion. It helps me really get into the characters’ experiences. It’s not required because I certainly get into plenty of movies using my phone on planes (work travel), but it’s something I choose to utilize. I’ll also try to see movies where I expect dramatic cinematography. Movies like 1917, Dunkirk, and La La Land come to mind for originals while I’d include Bladerunner 2049, Dune 1+2, and Mad Max Fury/Furiosa in the reboot list. Anything Wes Anderson, too, if that’s your flavor. I’m indifferent about superhero movies because the CGI is so overwhelming that it’s indistinguishable from a video game to me, so it loses value. I understand your aversion to reboots, but I’d say one I missed and absolutely wish I had seen in theaters is Tron: Legacy because that has become one of my all-time favorite movies. It’s nothing groundbreaking, but it’s a beautiful crossroads of my visual and audio interests at the time with the score by Daft Punk. It’s as if it’s a sequel to Interstellar 5555, their album anime movie.
Pixar has some bangers, too. I realized at some point I was ignoring them because they seemed too hard to get into, when in reality I just wasn’t trying. I thought I was too old, ignoring that I obviously already knew about the deeper themes in my childhood Pixar films. They’re pretty original. Inside Out 1 was an emotional trainwreck and Coco and Soul were enjoyable as well.
I’m not trying to say you’re wrong. It’s your opinion. I’m just seeing what I used to think and want to offer some insight on where I am now. It’s easy to miss the original titles because there’s so much rehash out there. There’s always another formulaic Marvel movie and a shoddy DC film coming up. We’re flodded with content, so it’s harder to get attached to a particular movie. I saw a meme or tweet that said something like “what ever happened to having families develop entire cult followings of some mediocre film because they only owned 15 VHS films?” and it stuck with me. Marvel is flooding theaters with mediocre superheros, Netflix is flooding streaming with mediocre everything, and Disney is flooding their platform with 80s-90s rehash. I get it. I was rolling my eyes when I heard Alien: Romulus was coming because I thought “yet another Alien?” and, when complaining, I looked up the list and found there’s way less Alien movies than I thought. But the gems are still out there, even if you never visit a theater again. I keep a list of loose recommendations, torrent them, and will randomly press play on one and let it rip.
It kind of makes sense. People who love Trump don’t exactly have the patience to watch a documentary to begin with.
Why watch a movie, when you could get a random screed from the source himself at 3AM, which you can read in about 30sec?
which you can read in about 30sec?
Only if you’re not a Trump supporter.
Sorry, I forgot that you gotta know all the secret cyphers to decode his supergenius messages about how the storm is coming or how he has a secret moon base where there’s only the whitest people.
(/s)
Idk, you ever wonder who bought/read all those Killing x books that Bill O Reilly wrote?
Those books were always in Costco but I never saw their stacks get short. My guess is a couple organizations collaborating with O’Reilly buy copies of it in bulk and ship them straight to a landfill.
Ha, hahaha, oh shit that’s a good point
I find your laugh interesting. It’s like a small bit of the humor hit your brain early. So you let out the innitial ha. Then the full humor hit, and it became more of a full laugh.
Kind of like when you’re holding in a fart at the thanksgiving day dinner table, and you let out a small bit of a fart, but then everyone looks at you, and the jig is up anyways, so you let out an ass ripping fart. Then grandma yells at you.
That’s pretty much exactly what happened.
I typed the first “ha” cause it was a great slap, then I typed the next “hahahaha” because it was hilarious, and at that point I was committed anyway, so I just added the last revelation that it was actually not far off from reality
Just two bros chilling in the movie theater, 5 seats apart because they’re not gay!
“Kevin, how did you meet your husband?”
“Well, it’s a funny story, but we meet at this dumb Trump movie in NC…”
Are those seats blocked cause they’re defective?
Yeah, usually shows for a broken seat.
To be fair it is for 6:30. If you have work and a family, a 6:30 showing is not all that viable an option regardless of the film.
It’s Saturday?
Timmy has sportsball practice, you need overtime to pay for keeping up with the Joneses, and supper is at 6.
Plenty of reasons why an adult can’t make a 6:30p movie on a Saturday.
The best one being “Damn, this looks stupid”.
That is the obvious answer for the majority of people, but it is always the motivated minority of ignorant and opinionated that speak so deafening.
Ok? If not on a Saturday, when do you think people are seeing 6:30 showtimes? Do you think theaters just don’t open before 8pm or something?
I would say the majority of 6:30p patrons are kids, single, dating, and DINKs. There are the outlier degenerates, but for all we know OP is showing a theater that is in San Francisco where nobody would bother with such a nonsense waste of time.
You might check all the other images other people are posting of empty theaters in their area. Including places like Texas.
Lmao in a city with ~300k, not much better lol
I got curious. This showing is in about 90 minutes, in one of the reddest counties in the country.
There is another show tonight that has about 10 tickets sold.
This looks like Megaplex. You also in Utah, my friend?
If this is in one of the reddest counties, then that means NONE of this means anything, other than this movie did a terrible job advertising. Even to their base. Nobody knows the movie exists.
How is a piss poor documentary with zero marketing making it into so many theaters?
One of the reddest places in a major Texas metropolis, on a Saturday evening, an hour before the showing:
Colorado Springs, fairly conservative area:
Who chooses to sit right at the front on one end?
This theater seating arangement pisses me off. Why did they remove 2 seats on all the rows behind the handicap seat row? And why are there 2 seats even further to the right, but X’d off in the back row??? If anything that just shows theres enough space for 4 more seats in EVERY row behind the handicaped row! Is that just empty floor space??? Why is that there??? Like a mini dance floor in the theater???
If it’s like the theater near me the space is for the entrance and stairs. You would come in at the level with the handicapped seating and go down stairs to the rows in front of that and up stairs for the rows behind.
Truly you have done as your handle says
Well I’ve seen enough to know it’s not even worth a hate watch:
Dinesh D’Souza
Ew
See your doctor if the condition persists for more than two hours.
I think this guy wanted to be the Michael Moore of whatever side he represents, but he’s not talented.
And he usually ends sentences with an upward inflection? On top of a horrendous voice it just makes it more annoying?
From Wikipedia
Dinesh Joseph D’Souza (/dɪˈnɛʃdəˈsuːzə/; born April 25, 1961) is an American right-wing[1][2][3] political commentator, conspiracy theorist, author, filmmaker and convicted felon who received a Presidential pardon by Donald Trump for his crimes.
Surprise surprise.
All that AND a felon ehh.
I’d never heard that name before. I looked it up. I feel like I’m dumber for having done so.
Oh, don’t worry, you emphatically are. My condolences.
I did the same
My condolences for your lost time and brain cells.
I cannot wait for the Some More News episode on this movie now…
That’s cause there is no target audience. His supporters already think he can do no wrong so who is this film trying to win over?
Russian money don’t clean itself
Get real, it don’t even try anymore.
If both seats are taken for all showings, probably they are broken and locked off.
Could also be like the starter bills in a tip jar, encouraging people to book now.
With this movie, Am I Racist?, and Reagan all playing at the same time, the GOP is really going full-throttle in attempting to exploit their base.
Looking at this graphic, is it still illegal to yell “fire” in a theater like that, or can we record ourselves doing so in those empty rooms for fuckyou lols? 🤷🏽♂️
They would never tread on your free speech. You say whatever you like. Consequences are for liberals.
Aw, does nanna know you’re on her computer, puppy?
Sorry did I just become an example of Poe’s Law?
I dont know how much I believe the theater. This is tomorrow in Connecticut. 4:55 sold out but all the other times have zero to 7 people. Yeah it’s a Sunday but I would t put it past thr gop to be artificially inflating box office receipts.
Might be a thing like with Christian movies where a church buys out an entire show in one block in the expectation of their parishioners all going. It artificially inflates their box office numbers too, of course.
Because that is what churches are supposed to do - promote politicians 🙄
It’s literally illegal, but good luck getting the IRS to do anything about it.
I don’t know what’s worse, that an idiot wrote this, the only piece of trivia on the IMDB about the film, or that six people found it helpful.
Not that I think this isn’t hilarious, but to quote Trump’s own idiotic ramblings, “Nobody knows what an app is.” His redneck supporters that don’t trust such fancy lib’ral scams as “mail” and “locked drop boxes” sure aren’t going to understand using an app to book a seat in a movie theater.
In my local theater you also have to ‘reserve’ a seat when you buy the ticket in person. Don’t ask me why.
Assigned seating has been the norm here for decades. Makes things go a little more smoothly, especially when everyone expects it.
So that someone ordering online doesn’t try to buy your seat. Obviously.
30 minutes before the show?
Yes? “Hey wanna catch a movie?” “Sure, looks like the new Deadpool has a showing in like twenty minutes.” “Dope. You order the tickets, I’ll drive.”
Why would they not apply the same system to all purchases? Either seats are reserved or they aren’t.
Reasonable reason: pre-2020 theaters would be packed sometimes and it’s helpful to have assigned seats. It resolves seating disputes and gets people to go straight to their seats. When I saw Avengers End Game (or maybe Infinity War), they had to have employees spotting empty seats for everyone walking in.
Cynical theory: they’re logging seat selection trends and going to move to tiered pricing like airplane seats
So? How was it?
Ay lmao
