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?
Way at the back, for 2 reasons. First, it’s easier on my neck. Looking up when sitting in a lower section is hell for me. Second, I really dislike people sitting behind me.
Rear-center sitters unite! There’s literally 2 of us!
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Usually about halfway between the back and the front.
More or less in the middle.
Same. Middle kind of meets OP’s need to be “in the movie” while still being far enough away the you’re not looking up throughout the film. Middle == Goldilocks
You, sir, are a psychopath. I always sit about halfway up as close to the center as I can get.
Distance from screen: 1/2 to 3/4 back (2/3 back being ideal)
Horizontal position: as centered as possible
You sit in the absolute middle (middle of the middle row) of course. Why would you sit anywhere else?
All the way to the back since i had had bad experiences with people kicking my seat in the back even after you ask them multiple times to stop. In more than 2 movies btw. So i rather avoid it and go all the way to the back. Its kindda annoying since every time some ashole takes their digiclock or phone out i get my face blasted with their brightness. But it has been becoming better as time passes, since when cinemas where reopened just after the pandemic, people where real jerks by talking loudly, having their phones out constantly be it for recording parts and posting them or whatever else, having their hellspawn (children) playing with their phone/tablet all movie long with the sound on, and some asholes even goin as far as taking selfies of their own fugly faces with multiflash on. But as i said its been getting better ever since, theres still some asholes but way less now.
The ideal viewing position is the center about 2/3 of the way back.
Between the sticky Coke spill and the teen giving TikTok movie updates, and right behind the dystopian row of popcorn shrapnel.
Middle Middle. The “True Neutral” of movie theater seat preferences I suppose.
OP is more like Neutral Evil.
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Ya’ll can afford movie tickets?
For $25/mo I can see all the movies I want. That’s like a single IMAX ticket where I am, so even one movie breaks even.
The theater by my house is only $11. That’s worth it to me.
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.
Middle on one of the edges. Best distance to screen but also easy to get up for the bathroom.
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?
The screen is giant. Giant isn’t even the right word for it. And with stadium seating, you don’t have to worry about people sitting in front of you.
It reminds me of how the movie screen seemed to me when I was 5. If I’m too close, my field-of-view won’t include the edges of the screen.
