Saving Seats

[sirdizzy]

First off I don't understand this to begin with, where a large group of like 10-20 people will go to a movie together and they all have to sit together. Besides the two people besides me those are the only ones that I might even whisper to when the movie begins, so why would we need to sit all together. The largest group I think I have been to a movie with was like 6 people.

So I went to Die Hard last night by myself because my wife was working (another thing I don't understand is why people have to go to the movies in groups or couples, if my wife is working and I feel like a movie, I'll go see a movie. And I am fairly early to movies always as a rule expeically if I am by myself (If I am with the wife we run later behind because its impossible to get her to hurry) so I got there about 30 minutes before showtime and got a pretty good seat. I called my wife and my friend to tell them I bought them Harry Potter tickets and sat down to enjoy the movie.

When I am by myself I usually sit on the front row of the divide (there are two sections to the theatres the top part is theatre seating and the bottom part is normal seating and there is a walkway a divide them seperates them) because they have handicap rails where there are not seats you are still fairly in the middle and it insures you will only be having one person sitting next to you and usually none as people will leave a buffer seat and everyone comes as couples so nobody goes for that one empty seat.

Now these two kids 17-20 range sit behind me and are basically saving half a row and talking nonstop about how hard and wow look at how many seats we are saving. They call their friends 10 minutes before showtime and there friends are just leaving there houses. I couldn't believe it, it pissed me off so bad, I wanted to get up and go sit in their saved seats because honestly there is no way some tweeny/teeny kid and his girl are going to stop me from sitting in their seats if I want to. Half there friends showed up 1 minute before the movie started the other half 5 minutes into the movie.

I mean fuck if you show up 1 minutes before a big movie on opening night starts you deserve to fucking sit on the front row not in some of the best seats in the house. I saw all these people come in 5-10 minutes early looking for seats and I wanted to scream at them sit in the seats behind me dumbasses, there is signs all over the theatres that say you can only save one seat per person these two little fuckers were saving like 8 between them. I mean fuck you are going to end up sitting on the fucking front row because some idiot teenagers are saving seats for their friends who fucking show up after the movie starts.

I mean I don't put up with the saving shit business if its fairly crowded and some idiot is trying to save an inordinate amount of seats I sit in them. for the first fantastic four we came in about 15 minutes early and there was this one woman who was saving a whole tow, she sat on one end and her kid sat on the other end and people were letting her get away with it. So I went over the back of the seat and sat down and oh how she got pisses telling me they were saved and I informed her that their were signs that said one saved seat per person and if she didn't shut up I was going to invite people to sit next to me and she was going to lose all the seats. When my wife came in from concessions she tried to block her from sitting down and it was so damn funny because I thought my wife was going to punch her, she shoved her out of the way and sat right down.

I can't remember what movie it was but a bumch of these mexicans were saving seats and I just sat right down and then because they couldn't speak english they had their fucking 8 year old try and translate that the seats were saved. The 2 seats we took, one was a buffer and the other was for a 2 year old that sat on the mothers lap. I am early and I am expected to sit on the front row so they can have a buffer and a 2 year old a seat (they don't charge for 2 year olds so they didn't pay for that seat). Plus they don't fucking speak english and they have their fucking 8 year old as a translator.



So do me a favor everyone sit in a saved seat for me, I fucking hate people who try and save entire rows and 10 seats and I hate people that will sit on the front row rather than take those seats. If you can't be early you don't deserve a good seat.



damn that was a novel

[sezperai]

i do you a favor most everytime I go to the theater haha.

fuck multi seat savers!!

not to mention that you KNOW they are gonna be loud as all hell the whole movie.

[The Postmaster General]

Yeah, it's actually kind of cooler, IMO, to spread out your group during a movie.

That way you can shout back and forth during the movie and piss off uptight movie watchers, text message one another, play chinese firedrill with your seats, pass skittles between rows. It's a blast.

I'm really just kidding about the second part. The part about spreading out though - I enjoy that. It's like everyone has to regroup after the movie before you can talk about it. When I went to see Blow with a group of probably 10 people, everyone was lollygagging in the lobby, so I just blew in and snagged that one lone wheelchair seat that you find in stadium seating theaters. All my friends passed me as they came in, but it was packed and there was no way we'd all get to sit together, so I just held tight. It made no difference. It isn't like I wanted to hold their hands, share sodas, or make out with them.



Hey, this is off-topic, but I just thought about this when I said sharing sodas -- Have any of you guys ever gone to a theater with a friend, who doesn't buy a soda, but then asks for a sip of your during the movie? Man, I never really thought about it, but that fucking pisses me off to no end.

GALI MAA!

[Raoul Duke]

Probably what angers me the most is when the usher tells everyone in the theatre that they have to move down the row and make sure there are no empty seats. I like sitting at the end of a row if there are a lot of people around. I don't see why after paying for the ticket and arriving on time that people should have to move from their preferred seats in order to accommodate the happy ass retards that show up late. Fuck them hard in the ass, in my opinion.

[sezperai]

Originally posted by Raoul Duke
Probably what angers me the most is when the usher tells everyone in the theatre that they have to move down the row and make sure there are no empty seats. I like sitting at the end of a row if there are a lot of people around. I don't see why after paying for the ticket and arriving on time that people should have to move from their preferred seats in order to accommodate the happy ass retards that show up late. Fuck them hard in the ass, in my opinion.

i've never had an usher pull that with me.....but if they ever do i'll be sure to punch them in the balls and scream RAOUL DUKE SAYS FUCK YOU!!

[echo_bravo]

Great rant sirdizzy! I totally agree about the whole saving seats shit. Especially when its such an enormous group like that...just ridiculous.
But thats the Myspace Generation for ya.:rolleyes:

And I definitely agree with Bubba, that if you come in with an enormous group its always beneficial to spread out. And yes I hate free loaders that try to sip off your drink or ask for some popcorn. You got Daddy's credit card...USE IT!

[LordSimen]

Me and my friends save seats for each other all the time, that way we can talk to each other during the movie without disturbing the rest of the audience.

[The Pin]

Originally posted by BubbaStrangelove
Hey, this is off-topic, but I just thought about this when I said sharing sodas -- Have any of you guys ever gone to a theater with a friend, who doesn't buy a soda, but then asks for a sip of your during the movie? Man, I never really thought about it, but that fucking pisses me off to no end.

GALI MAA! Haha same here my friend, the cheap bastards.

Superperfundo on the early eve of your day!

[PackBacker]

Best rant I've seen in awhile. Kudos!

In a similar vein are the folks (usually in a group of 8-59) who show up after the movie has started, mill around looking for 59 seats together, and then ask you, the couple on the 2nd row, and the three elderly people if they'd mind moving so all their late asses could sit together, giggle incessantly, and basically fuck up the whole movie going experience.

[sirdizzy]

Originally posted by LordSimen
Me and my friends save seats for each other all the time, that way we can talk to each other during the movie without disturbing the rest of the audience.

if your in a large group no you can't talk to each other an not disturb everyone else because you will be talking to each other which means yes you will be disturbing everyone around you. I am sorry if someone is 4 seats away from you and you talk to them everyone is fucking going to be disturbed.

Where if you were seperated you would be forced to shut the fuck and watch the damn movie. I mean why is it so hard to shut the fuck up for 2 hours and enjoy a movie, I might whisper to my wife maybe half dozen times during the movie but otherwise I sit there and fucking watch the movie, I don't need to comment on every scene in the movie, I don't need to talk to her, I am there to see the fucking movie not talk to my wife, not to talk to my friends.

[Badbird]

I don't like to be asked to move in either - but when a movie is going to be crowded, I hate it when people put the "one seat buffer" between them.

Goddamn it, just sit down next to them. Cooties aren't lethal.

I did this once and this woman gives me this pissy look, but sure enough the whole theater was full within five minutes.

But anyone expecting to find more than two seats together on opening night is just a douche bag. You shouldn't be allowed to save more than one seat at a time. If you can't do that, you need to get with your people and get that shit coordinated.

[sirdizzy]

if they had been there 30 minutes to the movie they would have fine, hell even at 20 minutes to the theatre was only half full

its always that last 10 minutes where it gets packed, I mean is it that hard to be early, it gives you time to get you concessions, get a good seat and get comfortable before the movie, plus if you feel you need to talk with the people you came with its the perfect oppurtunity. Me and wife talk before the movie, hell we figure out bills sometimes but once the movie starts thats it I am done, I ain't talking to you anymore.

[LordSimen]

Originally posted by sirdizzy
if your in a large group no you can't talk to each other an not disturb everyone else because you will be talking to each other which means yes you will be disturbing everyone around you. I am sorry if someone is 4 seats away from you and you talk to them everyone is fucking going to be disturbed.

Where if you were seperated you would be forced to shut the fuck and watch the damn movie. I mean why is it so hard to shut the fuck up for 2 hours and enjoy a movie, I might whisper to my wife maybe half dozen times during the movie but otherwise I sit there and fucking watch the movie, I don't need to comment on every scene in the movie, I don't need to talk to her, I am there to see the fucking movie not talk to my wife, not to talk to my friends.

We've never had problems. We're usually very quiet with our whispering, into each other's ears, over each other, it's part of our experience of going to the movie. We don't disrupt anyone's enjoyment of the film and, to be honest, I think saving seats is simply a common courtesy you grant your friends.

And we are watching the movie. We are watcfhing every minute of it, we usually have long discussions about it afterward and have a blast debating things about the movies. For me, going to the movies isn't merely a singular, one person experience. It's a social experience, otherwise why not just wait and watch it home alone with the lights out in your own little corner.

[bigred760]

Originally posted by LordSimen
We don't disrupt anyone's enjoyment of the film . . .

How do you know?

I get pissed as hell when I hear people whispering around me; it breaks my attention off from the movie and makes me think, "I wish these people would shut the hell up." In other words, it disrupts my enjoyment of the film.


and, to be honest, I think saving seats is simply a common courtesy you grant your friends.

Courtesy to your friends, sure, but it screws other moviegoers who want a seat of their choice. I think I've saved a seat once or twice in my life, and those times were for free movie screenings, and my friends made it in plenty of time - both were coming off work and couldn't be there when I got there.

Saving multiple seats may be for your convenience and for your friends' as well, but it's disrespectful to others.

Good rant.

[BorderEevilIII]

Every movie goer should KNOW the unwritten rule when going to a movie theater..........

GO EARLY DAMMIT!

When going to a movie like Live Free Die Hard on Opening Weekend


GO SUPER DUPER EARLY!


As for the saving of seats...... As long as it BEFORE the movie I can see. A jacket does not constiture THESE SEATS ARE RESERVED....:mad:

If a human being is not there to re-direct other patrons converging

SNOOZE YOU LOOSE



What I hate most is ppl asking you to scoot over to accomodate them

[Quigles]

I feel bad for you guys having all these problems.

I usually go with about 5 friends, usually more, get there about 10 minutes early, and STILL get seats easily.

Are there not many theaters where you guys live?

Because the theaters where I live are hardly ever packed. If I had to deal with the shit you guys apparently do, I'd probably just wait a couple of weeks for movies to be out. Ah, who am I kidding? No I wouldn't.

[echo_bravo]

Originally posted by LordSimen
Me and my friends save seats for each other all the time, that way we can talk to each other during the movie without disturbing the rest of the audience.

May I ask what the hell you and your friends talk about DURING the movie???:confused:

[Cronos]

never come across this myself since i generally wait a few weeks before going to see films so fewer people are there, if i did come across someone saving a whole row or something i'd sit in one of the seats (only if it was a middle seat around the 7 or 8th row which is where i like to sit in the local cinema) and tell them to go fuck themselves if they started bitching

never had to save seats myself since whenever i go with friends we always arrive at the same time or wait for everyone before going in

[LordSimen]

Originally posted by bigred760
How do you know?

I get pissed as hell when I hear people whispering around me; it breaks my attention off from the movie and makes me think, "I wish these people would shut the hell up." In other words, it disrupts my enjoyment of the film.


Because no one's turned around and told us to shut up and no one's looked around angrily during the movie because they heard whispering around them. We whisper softly during the movie to each other and it doesn't disrupt anyone. No one's complained to us, if they had, we would be quiet and it would all be fine. Plus half the time we can't even hear each other, so I doubt someone else in the theater can hear us.

Originally posted by bigred760

Courtesy to your friends, sure, but it screws other moviegoers who want a seat of their choice. I think I've saved a seat once or twice in my life, and those times were for free movie screenings, and my friends made it in plenty of time - both were coming off work and couldn't be there when I got there.

Saving multiple seats may be for your convenience and for your friends' as well, but it's disrespectful to others.

Good rant.

It doesn't screw anyone. You guys act as if every movie is always sold out, which it isn't. We usually take up half a row or less and we save seats for our friends and then we enjoy the show. We've never screwed anyone out of anything. It's simply common courtesy to save seats for your friends. They're your friends, you're going to see the movies with them, it'd be nice if you save them seats. What if it were your wife or your wife and kids, would you not save them seats? "Oh no, sorry honey, can't save you seats, I might screw others out of a seat!" Fuck that. You'd save them seats just as I would save seats for my friends. It's disrespectful to others to get MAD at them when THEY are saving seats in my opinion, not the other way around.

[SkyNet]

well... saving like 10 seats is a little ridiculous. But i am a seat saver.... because i always get to the movies early, regardless of whether i am there with just one other person or with a group of people. If i get there, and a few of my friends are running late, i will save seats. And i am a bigger built dude... so i have never had anyone question it. I like to sit with my friends, whether it be 1 person or whether we have a group of like 15! I have never saved over pry 6 seats. But i will save them.

BUTTTT... i also have a rule... if i am saving seats, and previews have started and my friends are still not there... then those seats go up for grabs. SOmetimes that works out for some hotty womens to come along and sit next to me (Ex GF used to HATE that... but its not like i was touching these other hotties)!

Actually it wasnt until recently (Knocked Up) that i felt like an ass hole... i was saving 2 seats for 2 friends... of course these were hot commodity seats... and i kept saving them... until i got the call that they werent coming;.. so after like 20 minutes of saving them, and lookin like a douche, i had to give them up... but that was one of the cases where a hotty came and sat next to me! (Of course her BF was on the other side... stupid hotties with boyfriends)!

[RustyRazor]

Oh yeah.
This one is pretty close to home for me.

See, Rusty is a fairly large individual and while my form fits in one seat comfortably, I enjoy letting my wingspan spread out. If I catch a movie with my wife, I can at least put my arm around her chair.

When we attend premieres (it's horrible parking the limo afterwards;) ), the theaters are usually packed to capacity and when we pick a nice, clean row, HERE COMES THE BREAKFAST CLUB AND THE CREW FROM ST. ELMO'S FIRE!

Judd Nelson to the left of me, Rob Lowe and his saxophone to the right.

Normally, we're forced to move up front, where you must look directly UP to watch the movie.


That's why we wait til after the debut to check out the film.

[echo_bravo]

Originally posted by RustyRazor
Oh yeah.
This one is pretty close to home for me.

See, Rusty is a fairly large individual and while my form fits in one seat comfortably, I enjoy letting my wingspan spread out. If I catch a movie with my wife, I can at least put my arm around her chair.

When we attend premieres (it's horrible parking the limo afterwards;) ), the theaters are usually packed to capacity and when we pick a nice, clean row, HERE COMES THE BREAKFAST CLUB AND THE CREW FROM ST. ELMO'S FIRE!

Judd Nelson to the left of me, Rob Lowe and his saxophone to the right.

Normally, we're forced to move up front, where you must look directly UP to watch the movie.


That's why we wait til after the debut to check out the film.

"...Rob Lowe and his saxophone to the right"

Hahaha you kill me. I actually laughed out loud about that one.:D

[bigred760]

Originally posted by LordSimen
Because no one's turned around and told us to shut up and no one's looked around angrily during the movie because they heard whispering around them. We whisper softly during the movie to each other and it doesn't disrupt anyone. No one's complained to us, if they had, we would be quiet and it would all be fine. Plus half the time we can't even hear each other, so I doubt someone else in the theater can hear us.

Ooooh; so just because nobody turns around and tells you "Shhhhhhh" or "shut the hell up" that means you're not bothering them. otcha. :rolleyes:


It doesn't screw anyone. You guys act as if every movie is always sold out, which it isn't. We usually take up half a row or less and we save seats for our friends and then we enjoy the show. We've never screwed anyone out of anything. It's simply common courtesy to save seats for your friends. They're your friends, you're going to see the movies with them, it'd be nice if you save them seats. What if it were your wife or your wife and kids, would you not save them seats? "Oh no, sorry honey, can't save you seats, I might screw others out of a seat!" Fuck that. You'd save them seats just as I would save seats for my friends. It's disrespectful to others to get MAD at them when THEY are saving seats in my opinion, not the other way around.

Well no shit, of course it doesn't screw anybody if there's only five people in the theater. sirdizzy is talking about saving 10 seats in a crowded theater. Saving one or two seats, I wouldn't call it a courtesy, but nobody's going to raise a fuss over that. But saving something like five or six seats on opening night for the LOTR: Return of the King is disrespectful. Take your wife and kids with you (I don't know why you wouldn't to be honest - though I can't say too much because I'm not married). Nobody's going to raise a fuss over two, three, or maybe five seats, but a whole freakin' row - that's a bit much.

[LordSimen]

Originally posted by bigred760
Ooooh; so just because nobody turns around and tells you "Shhhhhhh" or "shut the hell up" that means you're not bothering them. otcha. :rolleyes:
.

Yes. Exactly. I have been in theaters when people have whispered loud and/or done loud things, and typically, they get yelled at around here or an usher comes and asks them to quiet. That has never been the case for me and my friends. So no, I havn't bothered anyone. You do not know, so you can not say who we bother or who we don't. Stop pretending you do.

Originally posted by bigred760
Ooooh; so just because nobody turns around and tells you "Shhhhhhh" or "shut the hell up" that means you're not bothering them. otcha. :rolleyes:

[Quote]
Well no shit, of course it doesn't screw anybody if there's only five people in the theater. sirdizzy is talking about saving 10 seats in a crowded theater. Saving one or two seats, I wouldn't call it a courtesy, but nobody's going to raise a fuss over that. But saving something like five or six seats on opening night for the LOTR: Return of the King is disrespectful. Take your wife and kids with you (I don't know why you wouldn't to be honest - though I can't say too much because I'm not married). Nobody's going to raise a fuss over two, three, or maybe five seats, but a whole freakin' row - that's a bit much.

I don't care if it's a crowded theater or a big one, I'll save seats all I want. It's common courtesy to do so for friends and/or family, five, six, seven, whatever. I'll do it. I don't see a problem with it and I simply don't care who does. A whole row sometimes if there's a lot of friends, but, usually it's more like half or 3/4s of a row.

[Digifruitella]

I have to agree with you there. This kind of thing happened to me with 300.

Me and my best friend, and two others planned on going to see 300. I like going in early, and knowing that 300 is a movie that any IDIOT would KNOW will have a huge line before we can enter, I came in like an hour and 30 minutes with my best friend. We were first in the line, and we only expected to save about 2 seats = cool. by. me.

Here's what ticked me off. Those two friends of mine call me and say there's OTHER fuckers coming with them that I haven't even MET in my LIFE and they expect us to now save almost an entire freakin' ROW. about 9 total including us. I was so ticked off. Not only because it's so UNRESPONSIBLE for them to be running fuckin' LATE on a movie like 300 - but also expecting us to save a fuckin' ROW for OTHERS i dont even KNOW. Fuck, they got lucky because they got there quickly and we didn't have to hold the seats for a long time. Not to mention nobody really asked to sit in the seats we were saving.

But point being, I can save you a seat - but dont expect me to be your bitch, relying on my "safeness" to come early to a theatre knowing it will be packed to save entire rows (even SEATS too) just so you can run late, and bring some other unplanned people.

[bigred760]

Originally posted by LordSimen
I don't care if it's a crowded theater or a big one, I'll save seats all I want.

Thank you for proving my point.

It's common courtesy to do so for friends and/or family, five, six, seven, whatever. I'll do it. I don't see a problem with it and I simply don't care who does. A whole row sometimes if there's a lot of friends, but, usually it's more like half or 3/4s of a row.

Of course you don't see a problem with it; you're not the one getting seats you don't want because one person decides to get there early as hell and save it for his friends who would rather get there later rather than sooner.

I'm glad you respect your friends and family enough to disappoint others who got there before your pals. But the previews have started, it's a packed house, moviegoers want the good (or better) seats you've "reserved" for people who aren't there yet. It's common courtesy to your friends, but not the others who paid admission before your friends got there.

[LordSimen]

Originally posted by bigred760
Thank you for proving my point.

[b]

Of course you don't see a problem with it; you're not the one getting seats you don't want because one person decides to get there early as hell and save it for his friends who would rather get there later rather than sooner.

I'm glad you respect your friends and family enough to disappoint others who got there before your pals. But the previews have started, it's a packed house, moviegoers want the good (or better) seats you've "reserved" for people who aren't there yet. It's common courtesy to your friends, but not the others who paid admission before your friends got there.

I reserve the right to give courtesy to my friends before others. They are my friends. They've earned my right to courtesy more than anyone else. As well as my family. I've gotten crappy seats in a theater before, it happens and I don't care if someone else is saving a seat because of it. It's just life. I give courtesy to the other movie goers by allowing them to save seats when they need to. That's courtesy in my book.

[echo_bravo]

I have no problem with people saving A COUPLE of seats but if they are saving 8 or more, I'll just laugh in their face and sit down. What the hell are they gonna do about it?

[sirdizzy]

Originally posted by LordSimen
I reserve the right to give courtesy to my friends before others. They are my friends. They've earned my right to courtesy more than anyone else. As well as my family. I've gotten crappy seats in a theater before, it happens and I don't care if someone else is saving a seat because of it. It's just life. I give courtesy to the other movie goers by allowing them to save seats when they need to. That's courtesy in my book.

I think it proves you are a jerk but I also think it proves your friends and your family are bigger jerks than you are. At least you have the courtesy to show up early although a jerk for saving seats, they are assholes for thinking they can show up during the previews in a packed house and get good seats over people who were early or on time. Thats why my theatre has signs that say 1 saved seat per person, its not your right to save seats the house governs that rule, so doing so despite the rules if those were the rules of your theatre would make you an asshole as well.

And trust me if you are saving 3/4 of a row and you don't have any help saving those seats, good luck in trying to stop me from sitting in them because I will be sitting in them. Many movie goers take it in stride that saving seats is an ok and natural thing, its not and they should not allow others do it.

The point of saving seats is that they are in line for concessions or using the restroom, this I have no problem with. If they are not in the theatre then that seat is free game.

[LordSimen]

Originally posted by sirdizzy
I think it proves you are a jerk but I also think it proves your friends and your family are bigger jerks than you are. At least you have the courtesy to show up early although a jerk for saving seats, they are assholes for thinking they can show up during the previews in a packed house and get good seats over people who were early or on time. Thats why my theatre has signs that say 1 saved seat per person, its not your right to save seats the house governs that rule, so doing so despite the rules if those were the rules of your theatre would make you an asshole as well.

And trust me if you are saving 3/4 of a row and you don't have any help saving those seats, good luck in trying to stop me from sitting in them because I will be sitting in them. Many movie goers take it in stride that saving seats is an ok and natural thing, its not and they should not allow others do it.

The point of saving seats is that they are in line for concessions or using the restroom, this I have no problem with. If they are not in the theatre then that seat is free game.

There's usually atleast 3 people saving seats for atleast 3 other people in most cases I've been in and I'm not always the one doing the saving, sometimes others are doing the saving for me. We're not jerks, we just care more about each other than we care about some jerk who doesn't give a shit about us. It's all about perspective, my friend. You think it's more courteous to care about people you don't know, while we care more about the people we spend most of our days with and get through hard times with. Personally, if you yourself were TRULY courteous, you'd allow us the same luxary we're allowing you, the right to save a seat in case something comes up with one of your friends or family.

YOU are the jerk my friend, not us.

[sirdizzy]

see your missing the point your not allowing me a courtesy because I don't save seats because its wrong to save seats. I don't expect you to allow me to save seats. If my family and friends can't be on time then they don't deserve to have good seats. We show up to the theatre on time and together, if we are saving seats its because someone is in the restroom or in line for concessions. Its that simple, it would be wrong for me to allow my friends and family to show up whenever the fuck they want and it would be wrong for them to expect me to save them seats so they can do so.

[LordSimen]

Originally posted by sirdizzy
see your missing the point your not allowing me a courtesy because I don't save seats because its wrong to save seats. I don't expect you to allow me to save seats. If my family and friends can't be on time then they don't deserve to have good seats. We show up to the theatre on time and together, if we are saving seats its because someone is in the restroom or in line for concessions. Its that simple, it would be wrong for me to allow my friends and family to show up whenever the fuck they want and it would be wrong for them to expect me to save them seats so they can do so.

And that, my friend, is why you are the jerk, not me. I don't see world that way and your opinion will never change my view. I look out for my friends and my family, I don't think they don't "deserve" seats because they got off work late or because traffic was being a bitch that day, or what the hell ever. I still think they have every right to sit in the theater and watch the movie with me and my other friends or my family regardless of that because they ARE my friends and family and I care more about them than anyone else in the theater. I will save seats for them. It's courtesy, it's nice. I will also allow you the same courtesy and whether or not you take that courtesy is irrelevant to me, because I simply don't care what you choose to do in the long run. That's your choice. Just as it's my choice to allow my friends the right to sit next to me and watch a movie by my side. I don't think it's wrong, I think it's completely justified and right.

[ListersParanoia]

I used to encounter this all the time on city transit "sorry, it's saved" like that simple term is in some way validated by anything solid. I save seats for friends who are purchasing candy in the lobby but if they're 20 minutes away and the theater is filling I say tough luck. The seats are public and do not belong to anyone aside from the theater owner, the bottom line is that you have the right to sit wherever you damn well please. Square your shoulders and plant you ass straight down into their "saved" seat and ask em what the Hell they plan on doing about it.

[ilovemovies]

Some people really need to lighten up.

I really don't get why this is such a big deal. I have no problem with people saving seats for friends or family.

[Country1969]

My wife,son and I show up for a movie like 30 minutes and get our seats. We like to sit in the middle and middle, perfect seating. Once I get my seat, i don't move. My wife gets up to go to the bathroom,before the movie starts,we keep our soda on the left side of her so no one sits in her seat when it gets crowded. The hell with these late comers.

I have a few things for these people...take a seat, shut up, turn off cell phones,leave noisy kids and crying babies at home.(if you can't find a babysitter, rent a movie and stay home) ,stop asking your partner next to you "what did they say or what just happened.".

Boy, I really hate when people talk behind you. Oh wait, how about screaming. Shut the hell up. I had about 5 girls around 19,20, or 21 sit behind me and my uncle. He wanted to see THE HILLS HAVE EYES: Part 2 and no one would with him so I said I would. These girls scared the hell out of me more than the movie did with their screaming.
I just laughed it off.

[jbar1026]

i save seats for like 1-2 people and see no problem with it! however that whole row shit is a bit much. really if you all sit on the same row you cant even see each other much less think about whispering to one another. if you are not gonna sit next to the two people who you might say something to during a movie their is no need to save a seat for them. and if your that ass that talks to people 8 seats away stop going to the movies because you are ruining my movie going experience!

[Cop No. 633]

Gotta agree with the majority... saving seats for more than 2 people is pretty damned rude, especially in a packed theater. I've gotten into an argument with a dumbass kid because of it... tried saving five seats for 300. Yes, five. I took the two seats the guy had no room to put his coat over. He kept complaining. I'm 21, the guy was like nineteen, but was still acting like he was five year old: "I told him that nobody can save five seats. They have to get here on time." He kept going on till we told him to shut up. It got quiet for a moment and then the shitty commercials started.

Guess what? The guy's friends didn't even show up. What a prick. He didn't even try saying anything to us after the movie. I'm sure he was pissed off at us the rest of the night because he was with his girlfriend! The friggin' emo punk.

[I Am Legend]

I don’t see a problem with saving two, maybe three seats, but anything more than that is ridiculous. My buddies and I make a habit of showing up early so we can have the seats we want, and I’m not giving to settle for something else for a bunch of self-centered assholes who can’t show up on time.

Another thing that pisses me off is when someone in line lets all these people cut in front of him. When I went to see 300 with a couple of friends, the four dudes right ahead of us kept letting people cut in so they didn’t have to wait at the back of the line (it looked like they weren’t supposed to meet them but more like they ran into people they knew). After they let the fifth person cut in, we just lost it and snapped at them, threatening to kick their asses if they did it again. The people they let in went to the back of the line.

I’m not saying we handled the situation well, but it’s a matter of respect and common courtesy. :mad:

[The Postmaster General]

Originally posted by sirdizzy
see your missing the point your not allowing me a courtesy because I don't save seats because its wrong to save seats. I don't expect you to allow me to save seats. If my family and friends can't be on time then they don't deserve to have good seats. We show up to the theatre on time and together, if we are saving seats its because someone is in the restroom or in line for concessions. Its that simple, it would be wrong for me to allow my friends and family to show up whenever the fuck they want and it would be wrong for them to expect me to save them seats so they can do so.


This is an elitist statement, no different than vegans who call meat-eaters cruel or wrong-doers - the exception being that vegans believe they are making a moral and ethical choice to not harm animals, and you just don't like dealing with people when you go out in public. Either way, both groups think your way should be the only way.

[ListersParanoia]

I'd like to reference the official "Saving Seats Rules and Regulations" if I may....oh wait, SHIT we don't actually HAVE one of those. How about this, if you can manage to save seats for other people in your party and everyone else is too much of a chicken shit to do something about it (afraid of a fatlip or a shirt soaked with an 8 dollar soda) then fine, save the fu**in things....BUT if you've got your jackets etc draped across an entire row and the theaters filling up then your shits getting chucked off, the bottom line is I'm here and your friends aren't, the seats are public and the whole "saving seats" fiasco is spawned straight out of the 3rd grade and has absolutely no REAL merit. Well I'm glad that's settled, now save my seat for me while I go piss....