Why do movie theaters have assigned seating now...

Likely this too. You could mostly get away with it so long as there were still seats empty up front, as the showing isn't sold out. But now they'll just get a manager to kick you out.

>it was way too easy to sneak into a theater before
you can't sneak in now?

Man these are identical to the ones Studio Movie Grill has nearby me.

Did anyone else use to get to the theatre super early to make sure you had a good seat

You can, but not for full showings. Sneaking around during the weekday is super easy.

It's better than arriving to the theater to find the showing has been sold out

Its better than getting tickets and then entering your theatre and seeing all the decent seats are taken and only the shit seats are left

Its better than arriving as a group and not being able to find seats together

no because the tickets are pre sold and the seats are reserved. the way we snuck in was by buying 2 tickets then sitting down, 1 guy walks out with the 2 tickets and gives the other 1 to his buddy, repeat.

I love it, it takes a little bit of planning ahead but you can guarantee good seats and show up right before the movie starts

It's meant to reward the pre-planners. You buy the tickets a few days out, get all the best seats together, and never have to worry. The people who show up last minute and expect good seats? Tough luck. It also rewards the pre-planners because they can arrive whenever the fuck they want to and never have to worry about throwing jackets over seats or having John attempt save this entire row by himself while everyone else gets concessions.

>This is such a horrible fucking idea because you can't really sit where you want
t. can't read a seat map
Sitting where you want is exactly what this guarantees. Also, they do it because now instead of just showing up 20-30 minutes early to get good seats, you'll book the tickets 2-3 days early, or 2-3 weeks early for bigger releases, then you're committed. Much easier to flake if you have vague plans of maybe going to the movies Tuesday.

>Sitting where you want is exactly what this guarantees
not if some incel took it before you did

nothing better than walking into a theater and going to my assigned seat and having some cuck with his legs kicked up on top have to put them back down and deal with me belching and sharting my way through the kino

>it's better being told what to do so you don't have to think for yourself
Single mother's are a mistake.

Then pick another decent seat or showtime. The whole point is giving you control of your seat well in advance of the screening. And combining with the trend of wider recliners, you're not ontop of your neighbors like you used to be with smaller seats. Theaters are better now.

These are great, loser.
The closer seats are big like a bed at some theaters.
We got those seats and took a big blanket.
Halfway my gf started touching my penis and then it led to us fucking. She said it was super sexy being on top and looking at the other rows and having people stare.
We saw war for the planet of the apes. It was cool

What if it sometimes makes it harder to find seats as a group because you can't ask people to move to a nearby seat so your group can sit together because that person might end up moving to a seat someone else reserved.

YES GOY DON'T COME IN RIGHT BEFORE THE MOVIE ACTUALLY STARTS TO YOUR PERFECT SEATS, COME IN HALF AN HOUR BEFORE AND WATCH ALL OUR INTERRACIAL ADS

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Please do not bring your blankey and recline all the way back in public

On this point, for big release days with general admission, you'd often have to get into the theater right as the previous showtime lets out and sit through 40 minutes of garbage BEFORE THE PREVIEWS.

those seats make it hard for a girl to give a blowjob

I had to sit behind some guy who smelled like he hadn't showered in over 3 days when I saw Shazam because I had a reserved seat and didn't switch seats because I was worried I would be sitting in someone else's seat and they'd arrive and ask me to move after a lot of the other seats had filled up.

then you'd move back to your seat

Another benefit of recliners being the distance between rows. No feet, no view blocking.

What about single people that go to the movies? I don't want to sit right next to someone or a couple, that's super fucking awkward.

Suck my dick boomer. Bet you wish you’d go back to your shitty system of watching movies in a car while the audio is pumped through a speaker hanging on your window. This is our time faggot

>Watching Capeshit
There's your problem

This thread is just stockholm syndrome. You are defending an objectively worse system purely because it's what you're used to. Bizarre.

There's literally no point in going to the theaters except for social reasons, it's unsettling and unpleasant. There are also many social settings where you can go that are superior to theaters now.

>book a nice isolated seat so i can sit by myself
>some fucking cunt picks the seat next to me
every time

I'm not a boomer, and never been to a drive in, but you enjoy your shitty modern movies

Why would your brain damage that causes you to be miserable and hate everything affect me?

what?

if you pick a nice seat in the middle someone is gonna sit next to you

i don't care where i sit as long as no one is next to me. there should be an option for that

It's the best you can pick seats ahead of time, smoke a blunt in the parking lot and not worry about getting stuck with a shit seat

You experience the movie more viscerally on a big screen with loud sound and no distractions

Why would a theater adopt assigned seating? The people who book seats in advance are already committed to seeing the movie. You'll get them regardless. It completely discourages people who are thinking about maybe seeing a movie today, and it's just more work and awkwardness and distraction for everyone when somebody takes a seat they weren't supposed to.

damn who's that girl with a fatass?

i just lay on the floor and use a mirror so I don't strain my neck

Absolutely patrician media consumption method.

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