Where Do You Prefer To Sit In A Movie Theater?

[arwalden]

Assuming you get there early enough to have a decent selection. Do you usually try to pick the same location? (Aisle? Center? Front? Back? Balcony? Near an exit?)

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. I prefer.....

my family room!

Don't go in theaters any more.......


:kick:

[flvegan]

2. If it's stadium style seating

I like the back, center.

However, if there's a balcony, I'm all over that.

[Rabrrrrrr]

3. Inside, on the bottom, in an upright position roughly on the same axis

as the earth's gravity vector, facing the screen.

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

4. 1/4 - 1/3 from the left

about 3/4 up.

(Although if I go to the piece of shit cinema in my town I get an aisle seat because otherwise I can't fit in the seat)

I worry about the people who sit in the very front row.

[Robb]

5. I like to be close enough to the big screen

to where there's no mistaking it for the home experience. I like to turn my head to follow things. :)

[LeftyMom]

6. About halfway down and slightly right of center

However I have to make sure nobody's in front of me to have any hope of seeing, due to my rather hobbity proportions. As a result I take what I can get.

[henslee]

15. Me too.

[greatauntoftriplets]

7. On my butt.

Seriously, about 2/3 of the way up and on an aisle.

[hickman1937]

8. Where I prefer to sit is irrelevant. I alway end up

right behind tallest(from hip to head)person on the planet, so I'd have to say the lobby.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

9. Depends on the movie.

If it's not a horror movie and we're in a stadium seating place, we'll sit up front. Mostly to be away from the children. If it's a horror movie, we go early to get as far back as possible.
Duckie

[Cannikin]

10. I prefer the center for surround sound purposes

[ScreamingMeemie]

11. Right hand side, by the steps, behind the railing so I can stretch

my little ole arthritic legs out...

It's about halfway up. :hi:

[arwalden]

13. There's Extra Room There For Your Folding-Walker Too.

:hi:

:hide:

[ScreamingMeemie]

14. HEY NOW!!!!

You are lucky that I like you...:mad:


:hi: :hug:

[arwalden]

16. Yes I AM!!

:hug:

[KitchenWitch]

34. Hey, I also resemble that!

X(

[Orsino]

12. On the center line, fairly close.

I look for my sweet spot, where the screen just fills my field of vision.

[tanyev]

17. Aisle.

Otherwise I have to count how many rows I will have to climb over on my way to the exit when the fire breaks out. Need I add that I'm not a very good flier either?

[Left Is Write]

18. On the right side, in about the middle row.

Otherwise, middle row, center.

If any theaters I went to had a balcony, I'd definitely check it out.

[Metta]

19. In the back, center.

Preferably away from people.

[-..__...]

20. Movie going tip...

Get there a little early and smuggle in a 1 liter bottle of water (why pay exorbitant 'rape me' prices at the concession stand).

Pick your favorite spot to sit and stealthily empty the contents on the seat in front of you (repeat as often as necessary for the number of people in your party).

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

21. As far away as possible from the sound of crunching popcorn

I know it sounds like blasphemy to criticize the highly traditional eating of popcorn at a movie theater but I just can't take eating noises coming out of people's mouths around me when I'm trying to enjoy a movie. Therefore, I usually end up sitting in the last row in the back, in the middle and I try to go when possible to matinees when there are fewer people.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

22. Middle left to right and front to back

I saw Austin Powers in the front row of a megaplex in Manhattan and hated the experience.

[tibbir]

23. About 1/3 down toward screen

and on the center aisle.

[caty]

24. Last row

on the aisle. I hate to have to look up to see the screen.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

25. Has to be center. Fifteen rows or so apart from the screen.

Edit: a bit farther back in the now nearly extinct huge theaters.

[sundog]

26. as close to the exact center as i can get without being closer than 5 ft.

to anyone i don't know (on either side, excluding rows front & behind)... i have personal space issues

mostly for sound reasons - i always got off on the whole dolby thing

[SarahB]

27. Way in the back.

That way if I want to make out during the movie, I can do so without offending anyone. Likewise, if it's not with my significant other, but with my kiddos, I just tend to feel more comfortable in the back. :shrug:

[ComerPerro]

28. Front row of the staduim seating, in the middle

So I can put my feet on the rail in front of me.

[nickgutierrez]

29. Back row.

Especially in a crowded theater - there are bound to be idiots, but at least this way I can see them.

[The Whiskey Priest]

30. Aisle

The back rows.........stigmatism……

[trackfan]

31. I like the 2nd seat from the aisle on either the right (preferred) or

left wing (facing the screen) about 2/3 to 3/4 of the way back. My wife likes 2nd or 3rd row center. We seldom attend a movie together. If we do, and it is an "important" movie, we sit separately. If it is a "lighter" movie we find compromise seats, usually on a wing about 1/2 way back.

[KitchenWitch]

32. In stadium seating theatres, back row center

so noone can kick the back of my seat.

[bigwillq]

33. Back center

Right smack dab in the middle!

[wildhorses]

35. in the center

[terrya]

36. In the back, on the aisle.

That way, there's less of a chance that someone will sit behind me.

[eyesroll]

37. I prefer the back center, but when I go with my BF, we're middle, left

due to issues with his vision. (His ability to see the screen trumps my purely frivolous preferences.)

[China_cat]

38. No choice for me

There's usually only 2 wheelchair spots.

[swimboy]

39. Centerline, 1/4 to 1/3 from the front.

And I can't bring myself to pay the price of the concessions. I might occasionally get some junior mints or sno-caps, but the popcorn and drink prices are insane.

The last time I got a drink at a movie it was too enormous. I only saw three of the weddings and the funeral!

[jmowreader]

40. I always choose to sit between Cell Phone Man and Screaming Baby

No, really.

Every fucking time I go to the theater, there's always some asshat screaming into a cell phone, and some asshat trying to calm a screaming baby that's screaming because its breeders were too dumb to realize that babies' delicate sensibilities are too delicate to sit through a triple-feature of Robocop, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Terminator.

So, since I'm not going to be able to hear the movie anyway, I just plunk my ass down right between the screaming cell phone asshole and the screaming baby asshole. That way I get it in full surround-sound.

[Beaverhausen]

41. I've heard from cinematographers

I used to work where lots of editors and cinematographers worked and they say to sit 2/3 of the way up a little left of center.

so that's where I try to sit. In stadiums I sit pretty close to the top.