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Couldn't disagree more, I just want to show up and buy my ticket at the window, I don't want to F5 the theater website a week in advance for the showtime I want. I hate online sale of tickets for just about all in person events
I wonder if this is location dependent, I’ve really never had trouble getting a ticket at the theater right before. I basically never see a theater more than half full aside from like, opening night and I just don’t go to things on opening night.
Maybe so, but if you do this today at a theater that pre-sells assigned seats, you're guaranteed not to get the better seats which have been pre-selected, even if you are there first.
(Double whammy when people file in during the movie because they are not in a rush to get a seat)
I feel the same way about concerts. Live Nation and Ticketmaster would not be a thing if mfers from around the world did not have purchase access to the show happening down the street from me. Just let me walk over and buy from the ticket agent and let's be done with the transaction.
Sure, but before I was guaranteed to not get the better seats because to do so I’d have to get there like an hour before the trailers started
Different experiences I guess! I'm just crabbing I still love going to da movies
Oh absolutely I just thought it was interesting!
Love a movie, love a movie theater
If you show up, wouldn't they just print you a ticket for a random seat and you have to go sit in that one?
You mean in the past? No there was just no assigned seating, they sold tickets until the theater was full and that was it.
What I miss about this is that 1) there was a benefit to being early, 2) there was actual social interaction involved (eg "excuse me we have three, could you move down one?"), and 3) if all else failed sitting separately is really not a big deal. Plus 4) people knew to show up early to get good seats so people were actually on time to the showtime. Drives me up a wall when I'm sitting in a shitty seat in a half-empty theater, while for the first 10 minutes of the movie people file in to their assigned, better seats
That's my rant
Edit plus 5) like, if your plans changed you didn't get fucked over nor did you fuck the theater and another moviegoer. You just didn't go. There was no credit card refund and empty seat in the theater involved
Nah, I meant now. Like if you didn't order ahead, you just get a random seat. So it negates the being early advantage, but all else is pretty much equal otherwise. I'm the opposite on pretty much all that. I don't really want to show up 20 minutes before the showtime because it means I have to sit through about 40 minutes of ads/trailers (I've timed it to about that before). Definitely not tired of people 'saving' seats for their friends by throwing their coats over them for that 40 minutes and asking people to move. I'm in it for the big screen and sound though, not necessarily to share the experience with the other people I don't know.
I get you on refunds/not showing up though and people showing up after the movie started. Though that has kind of always happens to me in theaters without assigned seats also. I mildly complained about a group of teenagers showing up late to Nosferatu, playing on their phones, then getting up a second time to get drinks and stuff 20 minutes into the movie.