Do you prefer assigned seats at the theater?
- Thread starter Katrina
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I like/hate the assigned seats!! I like being able to choose my seat at times, but not if I have a family with boisterous children seated behind me and I am not allowed to move my seat.
That's another issue why I don't go to theaters anymore. People have no respect for boundaries and will just sit there and talk and be obnoxious throughout the entire movie and do not care if they ruin it for everyone else. I've gotten up and walked out a few times over it.
My husband had a kid kick the back of his seat for a while and it wasn't until he turned around and actually growled at the child that the parent finally put an end to it. It shouldn't have to get to that point.
It's just gotten worse this last decade. In fact, it's reached an all new low. Parents aren't teaching their kids boundaries. Teachers are quitting because of bullying from students, kids think it's okay to freely trespass on your property in the neighborhood, kids openly mouth off if someone is inconveniencing them in public, they're abusive to workers at restaurants, and most of all they never shut up at theaters. They're just downright rude and demonstrate a lack of morals. Today's parents are too easy on their kids and the smallest ounce of discipline is seen as "abuse". Parents are hurting their kids by not teaching them to respect their elders and the boundaries of other people.
I think it started with my generation (Gen X) in babying our kids and making them feel extra important. We gave them too much power over us and now their kids are even worse. But I think every generation thinks the younger ones don't have respect.
I definitely prefer assigned seats, I haven't been to a theater that didn't have assigned seating in a very long time. I never had an issue with people trying to take my seat, though one of my coworkers told me recently that him and his wife went to our local theater with assigned seating and someone tried taking his seat even though he paid for it already.
Were the seats different prices?
I don't believe they were. They guy was a elderly man and my co worker eventually got a worker involved and they kicked the man out.
I have to agree. I haven't been back to the theatre this century for the same reasons. In fact I've just checked, the last movie I saw at a theatre was in 1998.
The Raven92
Up-and-Coming Sensation
I prefer assigned because I am sure nobody will take it or even come and pretend by saying: That sit is taken. I will avoid boring conversations.
Assigned, for sure! That's how all the theatres are here in Norway, and thank God for that. Whenever I see the old "My friends are inside the theatre but I went to the bathroom and now I can't find them"-trope in American sitcoms etc. I get super stressed out, it seems like the worst!
Demon_skeith
Paragon
Phoenix theaters does it, but usually I wait till the movie is almost done in theaters and when I go there is hardly anyone in attendance so I just sit wherever.
I have never been to a cinema where they assigned seats to anyone. Personally, I wouldn't have it because I wouldn't be forced to sit where I don't like simply because others have booked for other seats.
svjiminfxv
Reputable
Yes, I prefer assigned seating.
I like it as you can pick the seat you want and it will be your seat for the movie. I just don't like it when someone tries to take your seat even though you paid for that assigned seat.
I like it as you can pick the seat you want and it will be your seat for the movie. I just don't like it when someone tries to take your seat even though you paid for that assigned seat.
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