Reserved seats at the cinema. Who else hates it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I detest, I mean really loathe reserve seating. I cannot choose whom I sit next to, and meeting others at the movies is a god awful experiment. You do not know what tickets are still available, and if you can sit together until you all line up at those weird little AMC kioske boxes. Takes all the spontaneity out of movie going. I am relegated to whomever bought the seat next to me - whether it’s the family with kids who have their feet up my back, or the row of teens to my right who are all on their cell phones. Whose idea was this? There was no problem to fix. If the row didn’t suit me, I simply moved. And then we were all happy. We all found our place. Movie going is not musical theatre. Today I decided on a whim to take myself to see a movie all by myself, and the only seat that came up was down on the second row in the corner. But once in the theatre, I surveyed a number of empty seats throughout the theatre, doubles and singles. Obviously, the seat choice I was shown were self selected by some sort of computerized auto seating. I’m done AMC. Keep your theatre experience, I am no longer your customer. Serve the sheep, and keep your cushy red seats. I could care less.

You're the poster at 19:58, since you even use the same "sheep" reference. Right? We get it. You hate reserved seating. AMC surely will regret losing your business. Did you bother to contact AMC to tell them that or did you just post here, where most of us don't have time to arrive three hours early like you did today?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Best thing to happen to theaters in forever. No more going 40 min early for big releases just to make sure you get a decent seat.

+1

Love it. It makes it so much easier.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Best thing to happen to theaters in forever. No more going 40 min early for big releases just to make sure you get a decent seat.

+1

Love it. It makes it so much easier.

+100
People who hate it are just odd. It makes it easier for everyone.

[Anonymous]

I hate it too, I really don't want to be forced to sit next to sick eople who should have stayed home. Or, a bunch of teenagers. I'd much rather be able to move seats.

We've been going to the movies in the kentlands in MoCo, just so we don't have to reserve seats.

[Anonymous]

Main reason I hate it is because if you get stuck next to someone coughing you can’t change seats. Or next to someone using his or her phone.

Reserved seats are another reason to not attend movies. I’d rather wait until a movie is on demand and not deal with rude people and people coughing all over me

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I hate it too, I really don't want to be forced to sit next to sick eople who should have stayed home. Or, a bunch of teenagers. I'd much rather be able to move seats.

We've been going to the movies in the kentlands in MoCo, just so we don't have to reserve seats.

This.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I've liked it in the past, but this past weekend I had the WEIRDEST situation.

So I went to see a movie that had been out a long time at AMC in Tysons, expecting no one else to be there. I had to kill time while in the area so I got a ticket just for me.

So I look a couple of hours before hand and it's only me and a couple of other people in different areas.

Then, 30 minutes before the show, people had booked seats DIRECTLY next to me on both sides. There was all this empty space, but they reserved the seats directly next to me....

I thought that was so bizarre. The whole point of reserved seating was that you can AVOID sitting next to people.

So I had to hear this older guy munch on popcorn to my left and the guy to my right taking out his soda and taking on and off the cap so he could take a sip.

It was kinda ridiculous.

Actually, the whole point of open (non-reserved) seating is to avoid what you experienced. With open seating you walk in and sit. And if/when an annoying or rude person comes and sits near you, you can change seats!

Yep, you're right. I'm just shocked that the people didn't have the wherewithal to leave a one seat buffer between them and me when there are ... 100 other seats available. Nope, had to be DIRECTLY next to them.

And, this is why I hate reserved seats. And I've been searching out theaters who don't have them. I'm the kentlands movie goer, just because I don't want to go to the trouble of reserving seats to sit next to a jerk or a sick person.

[Anonymous]

Some system don’t let you leave a single seat empty between groups.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I hate it too, I really don't want to be forced to sit next to sick eople who should have stayed home. Or, a bunch of teenagers. I'd much rather be able to move seats.

We've been going to the movies in the kentlands in MoCo, just so we don't have to reserve seats.

I don't understand this. If there are empty seats left for reserved seating, you can move into them. If there are not empty seats left with reserved seating, then you probably wouldn't have been able to move anyway.

I mean, I guess if you came super early with open seating, you could have moved multiple times to avoid people, but honestly I rarely have needed to move away from people in theaters unless it was totally packed, or if people kept making noise after the movie started. (If packed, nowhere to move anyway, and if not packed, then just move into a seat left open).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I hate it too, I really don't want to be forced to sit next to sick eople who should have stayed home. Or, a bunch of teenagers. I'd much rather be able to move seats.

We've been going to the movies in the kentlands in MoCo, just so we don't have to reserve seats.

Well Kentlands theater is closed for renovations for nine months or more, and becoming one where reserved seats are sold.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Some system don’t let you leave a single seat empty between groups.

Where you the person next us yesterday who was sitting on our reserved seat and complained that the system wouldn't let you leave a single seat empty between groups? Why would the system let a single seat go unsold? I don't understand this logic?

[Anonymous]

luxury recliner reserved seats got me to go back to a theater. Before the seats were crowded together, you had to get there early to buy a ticket and get a seat. Now I just go on line, reserve my seat and I walk in 5 minutes after the "start time" so I can skip most of the previews. Sure, it's more expensive, but it's worth it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Some system don’t let you leave a single seat empty between groups.

If you don't want someone sitting next to you buy an extra seat.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Last year I took my son to see a movie at AMC Tysons and I was super annoyed by how slow the line was moving to purchase tickets. When I FINALLY got to the front of the line I discovered why. They forced you to reserve your seat before going in. I was super annoyed and decided I wouldn't be seeing movies there anymore. Well, today we went to the Regal Cinema at Fairfax Towne Center and we were forced to reserve our seats again! I'm not going back.

It's annoying because I prefer to choose my seat when I get there. What if I get stuck sitting beside someone who is doing something really annoying and then I can't switch seats because somebody else already reserved the seat. It's annoying to be put on the spot like that when I'm purchasing my ticket. I wish they would stop doing this. Does anyone know if the cinema at fairfax corner does this? Does anyone know any cinema in fairfax county that doesn't have reserved seating? I will not go to these reserved seating cinemas anymore.

At least there aren't rats running across your feet during the movie.

[Anonymous]

I HATE reserved seating. Its awful.