Reserved seats at the cinema. Who else hates it?

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Anonymous wrote:

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.

Oh well, we just went there a few weeks ago. That sucks. I mean I'm glad it's being renovated, but I have had very little luck with reserved seating options Have an autoimune disease and prefer not to pre purchase and select seats away from people as well not not be any where near obviously sick people.

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...because some jerk always buys the seat right next to me, or sticks their sick kid right behind me and I feel like I can't change seats.

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Another reason I VERY rarely go to the movies anymore.

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Hate it. 3 times someone has been sitting in my seat. And I hate not being able to pick the person who is near me. Especially when so many people are sick. Blech.

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University mall theatre in Fairfax is the best theatre in northern Virginia in my opinion. Cheap tickets, cheap concessions and you pick your seat when you get there. We went a few weeks ago and got up and moved seats after a large group sat in front of us with cell phones and acting annoying. It was so nice to have the FREEDOM to choose our seat again and again if we needed to. With the prices they charge for movie tickets, you shouldn’t have to be stuck in some reserved seat that might make your movie miserable. I guess it’s worth the wait to see a movie if I can choose to sit where I want. If they switch to reserved seats, well, I may quit going to the movies period.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Gross. Where are there rats? PG County?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Gross. Where are there rats? PG County?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:University mall theatre in Fairfax is the best theatre in northern Virginia in my opinion. Cheap tickets, cheap concessions and you pick your seat when you get there. We went a few weeks ago and got up and moved seats after a large group sat in front of us with cell phones and acting annoying. It was so nice to have the FREEDOM to choose our seat again and again if we needed to. With the prices they charge for movie tickets, you shouldn’t have to be stuck in some reserved seat that might make your movie miserable. I guess it’s worth the wait to see a movie if I can choose to sit where I want. If they switch to reserved seats, well, I may quit going to the movies period.

Thanks for posting this. Now the crazy people who drive around (spending time and money) looking for a Theater with non-reserve seats; will start going there.. And then they will be crowded. And then they’ll be more sick or people to annoy you. But so crowded that there’s nowhere to move seats. And then the theater will make so much money, that theylll renovate and install reserve seats.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I went to see a movie today 3 hrs ahead of time, and as AMC has reserved seating, the screen said the AMC movie I wanted was sold out. So, I bought a ticket for the next showing at 4:15pm from a screen that showed only one available seat left. When I arrived, the seat was fine, although I noticed three seats open on the front row, then later after the film had begun I glanced backward to a number of double seats, and a few single seats still open. So why hadn’t these seats come up on the screen when I chose my seat? I do not have an answer, other than the auto seating mechanism chooses to consolidate seating? I felt annoyed. I could have been out of row 2 and higher up all along. I now wonder what seats would have showed if I had chosen for two people instead of one? This seems pretty suspicious to me. But my biggest criticism of this process is that I want to decide whom I sit next to. When coming into a theatre, I and my friend or family member survey our choices and usually choose seats that suit us - quieter seats without teens or children. Reserve seats take this choice away. When I asked an AMC ticket rep what had happened, he brought up the screen which still showed the film sold out. I told him the theatre had not been sold out - people were even placing their coats on a number of seats. He didn’t believe me, instead he believed his insipid screen. And therein lies the problem. Keep your reserved seating AMC, I won’t be back any time soon. I hate it. Serve the sheep.

You again? Resurrecting an old thread.

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Maybe people
Who bought the tickets for those seats just didn’t show up. I’ve bought tickets before and then had a change in plans and had to be a no show.

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"Whoever arrives first deserves the better seat."

-Bill, One Mississippi

I hate reserved seats. I feel like its coddling late people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"Whoever arrives first deserves the better seat."

-Bill, One Mississippi

I hate reserved seats. I feel like its coddling late people.

Coddled late arriver here - I hate the ads and previews and like taking my seat right when the movie starts.

[Anonymous]

Who knew? People hate reserved seating? DCUM, you never disappoint me.

As for somebody sitting in your seat, here is a technique that I have found effective.

"Excuse me" (while holding up ticket as evidence) "sorry, but you are sitting in my seat"


I realize this technique is both bold ambitious, however I have found it to be effective 100% of the time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:University mall theatre in Fairfax is the best theatre in northern Virginia in my opinion. Cheap tickets, cheap concessions and you pick your seat when you get there. We went a few weeks ago and got up and moved seats after a large group sat in front of us with cell phones and acting annoying. It was so nice to have the FREEDOM to choose our seat again and again if we needed to. With the prices they charge for movie tickets, you shouldn’t have to be stuck in some reserved seat that might make your movie miserable. I guess it’s worth the wait to see a movie if I can choose to sit where I want. If they switch to reserved seats, well, I may quit going to the movies period.

Thanks for posting this. Now the crazy people who drive around (spending time and money) looking for a Theater with non-reserve seats; will start going there.. And then they will be crowded. And then they’ll be more sick or people to annoy you. But so crowded that there’s nowhere to move seats. And then the theater will make so much money, that theylll renovate and install reserve seats.

They are already crowded. They run a good business. Also, they just installed new seats a couple of years ago, so I think we’re good.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Who knew? People hate reserved seating? DCUM, you never disappoint me.

As for somebody sitting in your seat, here is a technique that I have found effective.

"Excuse me" (while holding up ticket as evidence) "sorry, but you are sitting in my seat"


I realize this technique is both bold ambitious, however I have found it to be effective 100% of the time.

I like your style.