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?
Middle Middle. The “True Neutral” of movie theater seat preferences I suppose.
OP is more like Neutral Evil.
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This is the way.
You, sir, are a psychopath. I always sit about halfway up as close to the center as I can get.
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.
I prefer to sit on the chair.
I prefer to sit on my butt.
Gross.
Distance from screen: 1/2 to 3/4 back (2/3 back being ideal)
Horizontal position: as centered as possible
Very back row, dead center.
Unless it’s a huge movie on opening night, I usually have all the leg room my tall ass needs, have a perfect view of the entire screen so I can take the whole movie in, sound is usually the best there, and there’s just something about the back row and having all of that free space for activities. I can use set my bag down, get up and stretch without interfering with other viewers, and something about it is just very soothing for me. It’s like a comfort thing.
Same feeling I get when I go camping and have everything within arms reach in my tent, or in my car on a roadtrip. Something about that feeling just does things for me. Most comfortable feeling in the world lol.
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.
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.
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!
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 entire theater is designed around the center seat. Anything else is objectively wrong.
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.
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
I haven’t seen a movie in a theater since… forever. Probably 20 years.
I do watch a lot of plays though. Would throw money for that any time.
Then where do you sit?
At the plays? There are ticket numbers here, you don’t just get to pick where you sit, you sit where the ticket says you should sit. You can’t always pick and choose, depends if the play is sold out or not, but if I get to pick, middle, 5th, 6th row, not too far, not too close.
I often go to plays to. For me, the best seat is on the stage with the other actors. Bwahahaha. 😝
Even if I’m not accepted for a role being a stage hand is still a thrill.
One or two rows before the last one, in the middle, I thought it was the preferred position, I guess I’m wrong.
