Movie Theatres

[Sean of the Thread]

After my recent experience at the movies I have an idea.

WHY the FUCK don't they sell seating like at a baseball game. I think it's a brilliant idea and it would do well for them. At least pull for position like in a poker tourney.. there is too much bullshit going on for seats and such.

[Atlanteax]

Originally posted by Xyelin
After my recent experience at the movies I have an idea.

WHY the FUCK don't they sell seating like at a baseball game. I think it's a brilliant idea and it would do well for them. At least pull for position like in a poker tourney.. there is too much bullshit going on for seats and such.

Just get there first.

First come, first serve... seems perfectly reasonable.

[theotherjohn]

should follow Korea's example.

When you buy your ticket it is a marked seat ticket.

[Sean of the Thread]

Originally posted by Atlanteax

Originally posted by Xyelin
After my recent experience at the movies I have an idea.

WHY the FUCK don't they sell seating like at a baseball game. I think it's a brilliant idea and it would do well for them. At least pull for position like in a poker tourney.. there is too much bullshit going on for seats and such.

Just get there first.

First come, first serve... seems perfectly reasonable.

Seems perfectly retarded. They should do that at sporting events huh?

[fallenSaint]

But then you loose the fun of standing in line 3 hours prior to the movie watching all the kids running around with plastic lightsabers making sound effects... how could you possibly want to avoid that experience?

[Parker]

It's not a sporting event.

edited to elaborate.

There's not nearly as much stress as there is at a sporting event. People aren't typically drunk, etc. Drunk people don't react well when arguing over a seat.

[Edited on 5-20-2005 by Parker]

Okay, this is why buying an assigned seat is a stupid idea.

In Poland, that's what happened. You bought a movie ticket and that movie ticket would have a different cost based on where you sat. The better the seat, the more money you shelled out.

Anyway, this was great in theory. You always sat where you want and no problems what so ever. Oh, it was fun and dandy when you had a huge movie theater, with a ton of free seats open, but the 20 strangers that didn't know each other ended up all huddled in the middle right next to each other.

It was annoying as hell not be allowed to move or even have a "buffer" seat from that super sweaty smelly Star Wars kid that still lives in his mother's basement. ugh!

- Arkans

[Parker]

Hey, Arkans wins!

[CrystalTears]

Originally posted by Arkans
It was annoying as hell not be allowed to move or even have a "buffer" seat from that super sweaty smelly Star Wars kid that still lives in his mother's basement. ugh!

- Arkans

Klaive was there?? :D

Anyway, assigned seating in a movie theater isn't really practical. As Arkans said, there would be different charges for different areas of the theater. However where you sit is all relative to the viewer. Not everyone thinks the front is best, so which area would get charged more? It wouldn't be sensical.

Besides, in sporting events, the seat determines the view you get for the game. Different areas have different perspectives. In movies, there is one perspective, one view. It would no different than either sitting at home right in front of the TV, or sitting back on the couch. The experience is the same, the value of the ticket shouldn't change.

Besides, movie tickets are stupid expensive as it is. Charging me more to let me sit up front would just severly irritate me.

[Doyle Hargraves]

Originally posted by fallenSaint
But then you loose the fun of standing in line 3 hours prior to the movie watching all the kids running around with plastic lightsabers making sound effects... how could you possibly want to avoid that experience?

Kids? Come on now, you should know that most of these people are at least 35.


Klaive was there??

:rofl: that was the first thing that entered my head too. Poor Klaive. Must suck to be truly associated with the term "super sweaty smelly Star Wars kid that still lives in his mother's basement"

Back to movies -- there's nothing that says prices would have to be different depending on where your seat is. I think most movie theaters are small enough to where they'd charge the same price regardless of which seat you bought.

I'm not really for the idea though, except maybe for occasions like big movie premieres like Star Wars.

When I went and saw Episode I a friend of mine worked at the theater and us in even though all the shows were sold out. I felt kinda bad later when I saw like 20 people standing at the entrance with tickets in their hand and being relocated to the 12:30 show because the theater I was in was already full.

I got over it after about 30 seconds though. Either there were a lot of other people that got in that shouldn't have, or (more likely) the theater just fucked up and sold more tickets than they had seats.

Then there was this one guy raising hell with the ushers because he got up at 5:30am to get tickets and had to sit in the very front row, because he decided to show up like 10 minutes before showtime. Dumbass.

[Edited on 5-20-2005 by Doyle Hargraves]