It seems everyone has a different sitting preference at the movies. I want the ultimate experience: the screen completely filling my vision, like I’m in the movie. Usually the third or fourth row. My wife complains we’re too close. Then I see people way in the back and it must be like watching TV the screen is so small. I don’t understand that at all. So, Lemmy, where do you sit with your popcorn and why?
Bonus question: best movie food / candy, and how do you sneak it in?
As an acoustic engineer who would tune movie theaters, 2/3 of the way back in the center of the room. If it is a Dolby certified theater there will be a chair with a small plaque that is where the measurements are taken and the room is tuned to that seat.
The entire theater is designed around the center seat. Anything else is objectively wrong.
Wherever is easiest to get up and out and go pee because I snuck in beer and I have a small bladder.
I’ve been going to the same theater for the past 15 years, the largest/best equipped one in my city. I always sit about half way back from the screen (row 6 of 13), in the center of the room. Rows 5 and 7 work too, but 5 is slightly too close and 7 too far. My SO still thinks I’m weird for having a favorite row and seat, and I keep trying to explain why it’s important.
Will be seeing Oppenheimer in my favorite seat today!
Middle Middle. The “True Neutral” of movie theater seat preferences I suppose.
OP is more like Neutral Evil.
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Right behind the crossing lane and the never-used handicapped section so I can put my feet up. It’s six rows from the front. Only downside is every yahoo with a tiny bladder that insists on parking on the far side of the theater from the exit has to parade back and forth constantly in the movie, breaking the emersion.
Bonus: a couple of airplane bottles to add to my coke and some raisinettes from the drug store where they cost 1/5 as much. Just carry them in my bag. No one working in the theater gives a crap if you bring in your own food.
I prefer to sit on the chair.
I prefer to sit on my butt.
Gross.
Regular theater: in the center, about 1/3 back from the screen.
IMAX: in the center, very back row against the wall.
why very back in IMAX? wouldn’t that be too far?
Ya’ll can afford movie tickets?
Far away where I don’t have to pay to have my experience ruined by screaming teenagers
High up in a corner where people mostly never sit. Though I don’t go to theaters and movies by myself. Never. So I just suggest it to the person going with me.
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Way in the back, on my couch at home.
Even for Oppenheimer.
I’m going to the late showing of Oppenheimer. Probably sometime in November.
It doesn’t show in November…
Oppenheimer isn’t currently available to stream, but we expect it to arrive on Peacock by November 2023.
Universal has an exclusive streaming deal with Peacock, which means new releases must arrive on the platform within four months of release. So, with the film hitting cinemas on July 21, it’ll be available by mid-late November at the very latest.
https://www.dexerto.com/tv-movies/oppenheimer-streaming-digital-release-date-2214030/
Center seat, about a third of the way to the back. This is where we setup to calibrate the surround systems back in the 90s and I’m not aware of any change to this so I still sit there.
Dolby standardized to 2/3 in 2005 and everyone copied them.
Thanks for the info, I’m going to have to start sitting farther back.
Always in the back. I get a better view that way. I’ve tried sitting in the front before, but I always had to have my head tilted up. I’ve tried sitting in the middle before and my eyes had to zoom around the screen still to try and catch everything.
So, the back it is for me.
