Cinema seating

freakboy1610

Halfway back and middle for me too. We have a new Empire that has reclining seats but they cost twice as much as the regular ones so I've only looked at them longingly. The other good thing at Empire is that most seats have an arm rest on both sides which keeps you a reasonably safe distance from the rest of the audience. This can be a real bonus in Ipswich!

munckee

BRISTOL86 said:

I don’t go right for the back as if you’re going to get a group of morons this is where they’d normally be. I normally go for about 3/4 rows
from the back, and centre. 

Yeah but then you will be directly in front of them in direct firing line for popcorn, spit, bayonet attacks etc.

I was at a showing of Blair Witch when it came out and a bloke in a trenchcoat pulled out a baseball bat and twonked the bloke nearest to him who he didn't know.  Showing got stopped and the police came.

Slightly off topic though sorry.

freakboy1610

"Patrons are reminded that the right hand side of the cinema is reserved for smoking only."

It's hard to believe that smoking was allowed on one side of the cinema. I remember the anouncement on the screen, along with the Pearl and Dean tune and the one that told you you still had time to get a crappy hotdog in the foyer. Now it's just, please turn your phone off.

BRISTOL86

munckee said:

BRISTOL86 said:

I don’t go right for the back as if you’re going to get a group of morons this is where they’d normally be. I normally go for about 3/4 rows
from the back, and centre. 

Yeah but then you will be directly in front of them in direct firing line for popcorn, spit, bayonet attacks etc.

I was at a showing of Blair Witch when it came out and a bloke in a trenchcoat pulled out a baseball bat and twonked the bloke nearest to him who he didn't know.  Showing got stopped and the police came.

Slightly off topic though sorry.

Did that actually happen?! Top stuff. 

jellyroll

How bored does one need to be at work in order to read a thread about other people's favourite cinema seat?


I'm off to the knitting thread......

57Deluxe

jellyroll

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0tETySgU5A

munckee

BRISTOL86 said:

munckee said:

BRISTOL86 said:

I don’t go right for the back as if you’re going to get a group of morons this is where they’d normally be. I normally go for about 3/4 rows
from the back, and centre. 

Yeah but then you will be directly in front of them in direct firing line for popcorn, spit, bayonet attacks etc.

I was at a showing of Blair Witch when it came out and a bloke in a trenchcoat pulled out a baseball bat and twonked the bloke nearest to him who he didn't know.  Showing got stopped and the police came.

Slightly off topic though sorry.

Did that actually happen?! Top stuff. 

Yep that really happened, bizarrely he was sitting right at the front.  Great choice though during creepy bit of a horror movie, aside from the dude who needed medical treatment everyone cacked themselves.  I think some people though it was a prank stunt until the lights came on and it clearly wasn't.

Grangousier

Last year I got to a screening of Inland Empire - the famously impenetrable David Lynch film - and settled into one of the last seats left, which was right at the end of the front row. So not the ideal viewing position. On the other hand, the cinema was completely packed with people who really wanted to see the film and were totally into it and it was an amazing experience. So there's that.

(Obviously, if Lynch isn't your bag, then it would have been quite different.)

On the other hand IMAX (especially 3D), I wonder why they bother with 70% of the seats, and won't usually buy a ticket unless the seat's in the 30% where I can actually see things. And only then for spectaculars like the trippier Marvel movies or Dunkirk. 

Philly_Q

Depends on the cinema.  I personally like to be fairly close to the front, but not so close that you're actually looking up the screen like a cliff face.  And I like an aisle seat, in the centre block.

A bit further back if it's an IMAX screen, though.  I don't understand how anyone can cope with sitting in the first few rows (or indeed the back few rows) at an IMAX.

ftumch

Im 5 min from a showcase xplus
Every seat in every screen a large leather recliner with more leg room than ill ever need.
Not too fussed about location, normally isle seat somewhere in the middle as far away from everyone else as possible.
Never had a movie ruined because i couldnt see the massive fckn screen in front of my face, plenty ruined by loud inconsiderate chav wnkrs.

Axe_meister

I only go to the local picturehouse, small intimate cinema with sofa seats at the back, a bar and can take your alcoholic drinks in. And seems to be filled with adults rather than teenagers, who seem to want the pop corn experience a big place brings.

ftumch

Axe_meister said:

I only go to the local picturehouse, small intimate cinema with sofa seats at the back, a bar and can take your alcoholic drinks in. And seems to be filled with adults rather than teenagers, who seem to want the pop corn experience a big place brings.

I like these places i went to the Electric Cinema on portabello road to see 'intestella' when that came out. Big bed right up the front, it was great!

scrumhalf

Last time I went to the cinema there was some conbfusion over tickets.

I wanted a ticket to see the film. They appeared to be charging me for buying the entire bloody building. Let's charge a fortune for a mildly comfortable seat, sound that's too loud and the delights of having some phone-toting, drink-slurping,  evil-smelling-food-eating, unable-to-watch-a-film-without-continuously-talking idiots behind.

Yes, that's a great night out.

gubble

The new cinema in Bournemouth (our local cinema) has got some snazzy seats at the front. 2 seat sofa jobbies which recline and have a table - they're quite good.

I could take in a pint too.

I had a lovely time, drank my beer then nodded off for an hour during the film

beed84

jellyroll said:

How bored does one need to be at work in order to read a thread about other people's favourite cinema seat?


I'm off to the knitting thread......

We do try to keep things fresh and entertaining round here. Next weeks' thread will be: do you use a coaster for hot drinks?

Hope the knitting chat will inspire you to knit a tiger jumper or something 

Anyway, it's seems middle for diddle is the general consensus. Makes you wonder why all the other seats exist.

Myranda

The place to sit is the middle of the middle row.

You are then sat where everything is aimed - sound, 3D picture, etc. You will likely have TV the best visual and audio experience possible at that screen. 

Though you run the risk of a twat kicking your chair. 

ICBM

In the middle/middle usually. Slightly off to one side is OK, or slightly further back.

In my nearest local cinema this used to be near the front row of the cheap seats behind the expensive ones, which was absolutely ideal.

But now they've converted the entire cinema to those horrible fake-leather reclining couches - not just the expensive seats, the whole thing - which I hate, and the capacity of the cinema has now been reduced by about half, so even if I wanted to go there it would probably be hard to get to good seats. I won't be going there again.

Neil

Last time I went to the cinema we were guided to a seat by an usherette with a torch. 

scrumhalf