Is This What Ruined Movies?🍿 Agree or Disagree?
Summary
Reserve ticketing killed the movie theater, according to a rider who thinks audiences lost their spontaneity the moment they could choose their seats online. Before reserved seating existed, you'd just show up on a Friday night and take whatever was available. Sometimes you'd sit nowhere near your friends. That didn't matter. Now? People see the middle seats are taken and bail entirely. Kareem pushes back, defending his preference for recliners and good seats, but the rider isn't buying it. You never had that option before, so why does it matter now? It's a nostalgic argument for inconvenience as the price of keeping cinema culture alive.
Full Transcript
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're 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.