Mildly Interesting

17486 readers

465 users here now

This is for strictly mildly interesting material. If it's too interesting, it doesn't belong. If it's not interesting, it doesn't belong.

This is obviously an objective criteria, so the mods are always right. Or maybe mildly right? Ahh.. what do we know?

Just post some stuff and don't spam.

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

483

Checking to see what movies were playing tonight. Didn't even know this movie existed. Decided to check and see how packed it was in my rural Eastern NC town. This is for the showing starting in 30min (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

99 comments fedilink hide all child comments

And even further, only those exact same two seats are ‘taken’ for every single showing.

I thought for sure the after church showings tomorrow would be at least somewhat full, but nope.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Reasonable reason: pre-2020 theaters would be packed sometimes and it's helpful to have assigned seats. It resolves seating disputes and gets people to go straight to their seats. When I saw Avengers End Game (or maybe Infinity War), they had to have employees spotting empty seats for everyone walking in.

Cynical theory: they're logging seat selection trends and going to move to tiered pricing like airplane seats