Is This What Ruined Movies🍿 Agree or Disagree
Summary
Reserve ticketing killed the movie theater, according to a straphanger with a nostalgic view of cinema's past. The rider argues that back in the day, you'd just show up on a Friday night and take whatever seats were available, even if that meant sitting apart from your friends. It didn't matter. Now people check the seating chart online, see the middle seats are taken, and decide not to go at all. Kareem pushes back, defending his preference for good seats and recliners. The rider's response? You never had that option before, so why should it matter now?
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So what's your take? I think reserve ticketing killed the movie theater.
That's an interesting take. Why do you think that? Before the days of reserve ticketing, you would just go to the movies on a Friday night and you wouldn't say like, "Oh, where are the best seats?" You would just say like, "What do you have tickets for?" Still, I can tell you the amount of times I was a kid going to see a movie, I would sit nowhere near my friends 'cause there were no seats left, but it didn't matter 'cause you still seeing the movie. Now you go on the website. What do you do? Oh, the middle seats are taken. I'm not going to go see the movie.
So you think people should have to suffer through movies with bad seats? I think you stopped going to the movies the second that you didn't have your choice of seat.
Yeah, 'cause I want—I want the good seat. I don't want the recliner. You never had the option before.
I only go to movie theaters with recliners. Oh.