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[telophase]

For you guys who don't like reserved seating at theatres and wonder how it works now that a large group can't show up and get their tickets and be sure to sit together...this is how it works, quoted from a friend's email:

So, I'm looking at going to a 2d showing of the Hobbit 3 on Sunday, Dec 21 at 5:25 pm at the Studio Movie Grill at Royal on and Central. I will be purchasing the tickets for any of us who will be sitting together Thursday (tomorrow) night at about 9pm, so if you'd like to come and be seated with the group, please contact me before then. If the seating at the 5:25 show is terrible, I will look into the 3:35 show. Please let me know if you would be unable to make the alternate 3:35 show.

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[tool-of-satan.livejournal.com]

It'll be interesting to see if places that have reserved seating gain more business from people who like it than they lose from people like me. I don't object to it in principle, but based on my one experience with such a theater so far I won't go to one unless I know exactly which show I am going to far in advance (in that experience I didn't and ended up in a very uncomfortable place). I know this close to 0% of the time.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I expect the former, by extrapolating from the Movie Tavern chain nearby. They've been trialling reserved-seating-only in several of their theatres for a few years now, and have just expanded that program to more theatres. Including the one nearest to our house, which is handy for us as previously when we wanted to see a newly-opened movie we'd drive half an hour (20 minutes once the tollway opened) to the one near downtown that offered reserved seating.

We went to the closer one when seeing older movies, but feared having to sit in the first six rows too much to risk it for opening weekend. We'll be going to it more often now.

These are dinner theatres, not regular ones, so that introduces another factor. I don't know how it'll pan out for regular ones.

[tool-of-satan.livejournal.com]

I think it makes more sense for dinner theaters. The one I went to was just a regular theater, although in addition to reserved seating they had also replaced the seats with larger ones which I guess were supposed to be luxurious (I thought they were less comfortable than the old ones).

[telophase.livejournal.com]

We went to one complex in Dallas that had some theatres where they served you dinner, that had recliners with footrests. I enjoyed those, though they weren't worth the ticket price for prime time weekend, which is when we went. If we go again, we'll hit them at the matinee.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Oh, also: the Alamo Drafthouse trialled reserved seating and then expanded it to most, if not all, of their theatres. But it's also a dinner theatre, so there's that.