Comments on: Theatre Seating

By: Tina

Tina — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 20:47:44 +0000

Well, I’m not a native English speaker but… Am I really the only one who thought that Theatre and Cinema are two different words?)
*just read a couple of comments xD*

By: honestly

honestly — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 07:08:38 +0000

ah, the wonders of living in a small town. You’re generally alone. My cousin got pregnant in one.

By: stick2012

stick2012 — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 22:44:40 +0000

True

By: ittehbittehkitteh

ittehbittehkitteh — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 06:08:27 +0000

I would’ve done that…unfortunately it was a three year old that was kicking my seat.

By: Bcteagirl

Bcteagirl — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 22:00:23 +0000

Was thinking the same thing.. they are under the impression they have the freedom to be as idiotic as they want (true) even if it harms others (not true)

By: ittehbittehkitteh

ittehbittehkitteh — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 01:56:18 +0000

If I could edit this graph, I could. That’s a good suggestion.

By: ittehbittehkitteh

ittehbittehkitteh — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 01:53:11 +0000

The previews go for about 15 minutes, so the actual movie starts at 9:15. A cinema 40km away does that but I don’t think the smaller cinema does that.

By: ittehbittehkitteh

ittehbittehkitteh — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 01:49:06 +0000

I normally go with my brother. Most of the circles apply to that general direction.

By: ittehbittehkitteh

ittehbittehkitteh — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 01:46:25 +0000

That’s novel.

By: JR

JR — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:48:40 +0000

same graph works for airline seating except swap the Melon Head for a screaming baby

By: Mesh

Mesh — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 07:30:16 +0000

Cuz then people will start yelling about their “freedoms” and such and probably sue somebody. Sometimes I’m embarrassed to be from this country…

By: Jeditigger

Jeditigger — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 04:30:30 +0000

Many LOLz were had. Well done, cheers.

By the way, I can pick the most remote seat ever and right when the lights go down for the previews, Melon Head will plop directly in front of me. EVERY TIME.

By: Is a person

Is a person — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 02:51:06 +0000

I went to see Up when it came out and there was a toddler who was kicking my seat and making annoying comments.

By the way you should add toddler who makes annoying comments through out the movie.

By: aaron m

aaron m — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:29:23 +0000

lolz u go to the movies with no one else

By: Muse

Muse — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 23:31:29 +0000

Australia always has movies showing that early – fab for avoiding annoying kids and teenagers. Bugs the heck outta me that they don’t do it here in the UK.

By: holidaylover

holidaylover — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:26:04 +0000

Now THAT’S an idea…
I know what you mean about seat-kickers. Now matter how much I turn around and tell them to quit, they just laugh. Why didn’t I think of the drink plan?

By: BlackDaisy

BlackDaisy — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:41:10 +0000

You forgot incredibly fat dude that breathes really loudly and takes up half your seat along with his.

By: Feisty

Feisty — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:41:42 +0000

Not necessarily. Maybe Ittehbitteh likes going to the movies alone.

By: Feisty

Feisty — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:40:32 +0000

And yes, I am aware that it is your graph.

By: Feisty

Feisty — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:39:14 +0000

Who has a movie theatre that starts showing movies at 9:00 am?

By: Feisty

Feisty — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:36:38 +0000

I’m American and I always spell it theatre. Either spelling is correct regardless of your nationality.

By: Feisty

Feisty — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:33:57 +0000

The seat kicker is touching the middle circle because it’s kicking its seat.

By: Pablo

Pablo — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:20:24 +0000

Getting a babysitter was a whole lot easier before they started charging $12 a head for theater/theatre/cinema admission and before the F’in babysitters union decided that $10/hr was the going rate. So parents are looking at a $54 MINIMUM investment for movie night.

It still doesn’t excuse taking your kids to Brokeback Mountain, but then they went to see Brokeback Mountain for christ’s sake, so maybe judgement isn’t their strong suit.

By: Xaqtly

Xaqtly — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:33:03 +0000

5/5 just for using the term “melon head”. I laughed.

By: FadedLY

FadedLY — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:04:19 +0000

Why, why, why can’t we get the same law in the US?!

By: rickybobby

rickybobby — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:47:08 +0000

Yup.

How I deal with seat-kickers, after asking, and usually then telling them to stop, I turn around pour my drink in their crotch. I really hate seat-kickers.

By: CDthe

CDthe — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:28:56 +0000

It’s why I love the UK – it’s actually illegal to take a child into an adult-rated film. The cinema staff at our local multiplex got the win from me the day that some daft cow was trying to take her 5 year old in with her to see one of the SAW films. They told her to bog off.

By: G'Day

G'Day — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:22:55 +0000

I’m from Australia mate. We call it a wizzle-wazzle.

By: schnell

schnell — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:56:42 +0000

You forgot “Really Strong Cologne Guy” over to the front left somewhere.

By: teezboy

teezboy — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:39:54 +0000

best graph in weeks

so tru!

By: Charlotte

Charlotte — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 09:38:01 +0000

Maybe Melon Head could have been replaced with “Itty-Bitty-Bladder Man”

By: Dog_lover22

Dog_lover22 — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 09:28:28 +0000

When I saw Ice Age 3, I picked the best seat, but there wer kids at the very front, reaching up to the screen playing around in that space. “It’s not a playpen!” I had the urge to throw my snack food at them.
And when I watched the same movie a couple days earlier, I was sitting next to a sulky kid and behind him was another kid, I could tell if it was him or the other kid

By: Lilly

Lilly — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 07:55:24 +0000

I usually go to violent R-rated horror movies. And believe it or not, people bring their kids to them. The kids get scared and start screaming. I’m not one for coddling kids, but what on earth are these parents thinking?

By: Letuce

Letuce — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 07:50:04 +0000

so if i have a melon head, will that mean i won’t sit behind the seat kicker?

By: Ittehbittehkitteh

Ittehbittehkitteh — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 06:03:39 +0000

I’m not ticked off by melon heads in general, more when someone stands up in front of me (often because they got a large drink and finished it during the previews)

By: Ittehbittehkitteh

Ittehbittehkitteh — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 06:01:06 +0000

You go to the movies early mornings, especially on weekends. The parents won’t be up to take that little “angel” *coughs ‘brat’* to a 9.00am screening. It worked when I saw ‘Up’

By: Ittehbittehkitteh

Ittehbittehkitteh — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 05:57:43 +0000

Note the “Seat Kicker” is the only one touching the middle circle. They are the only one directly behind you. “Melon Head”, “Bad Flu”, and “Chatterbox” can be any amount of seats away from you.

By: Ittehbittehkitteh

Ittehbittehkitteh — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 05:54:05 +0000

I’m five foot nothing. But the size of the “other people” is proportional to how annoying they are.

By: Ittehbittehkitteh

Ittehbittehkitteh — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 05:50:38 +0000

I made reference to a screen because I had just seen A Christmas Carol in 3D and when the Ghost of Christmas Present had finished his part and just before the Ghost of Christmas Future was due to appear, the three year old sitting directly behind me started kicking my seat blissfully unaware she was annoying the heck out of me. I made this in retaliation assuming worst-case scenario in seating.

It can apply to musicals, opera and plays as well.

By: Ittehbittehkitteh

Ittehbittehkitteh — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 05:42:49 +0000

G’day mate. Fair dinkum, I’m Australian. Theatre, theater, sounds the same. Centre, center, colour, color. Sounds and means the same. I was taught British Standard English as opposed to American Standard English…which I got told off for.

By: Ittehbittehkitteh

Ittehbittehkitteh — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 05:35:05 +0000

The only person directly behind you is the “seat kicker”. Every other section is in that general direction…or on the assumption that the theatre is full.

By: Hoagie

Hoagie — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 04:14:31 +0000

I made the mistake of sitting in front of the worst moving-going couple ever. The lady talked constantly about the movie and to the characters on the screen while her date/friend/whatever was sleeping in the seat next to her, snoring LOUDLY.
Of course, I think I have a melon head so maybe it’s karma…I don’t know.

By: Wolverine Girl

Wolverine Girl — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 03:14:50 +0000

Sometimes the chatterbox can be in front of you. When The Two Towers came out, I was stuck in a crowded cinema behind this woman who received a phone call then spent ten minutes talking loudly while everyone around her told her to shut up.

By: Wolverine Girl

Wolverine Girl — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 03:11:39 +0000

Cinema in Australia

By: FadedLY

FadedLY — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 02:30:05 +0000

No matter what movie you see or place you go to eat, you cannot avoid people with their happy little bundles of reproductive accident.

-I remember going to see Escape from NYC in the theatre – someone brought a 2 year old that kept loudly asking what’s going on.

-I saw Brokeback Mountain on the night of its release. There was a 5 year old in the row ahead of me asking why “2 men were doing that, isn’t that bad?”.

-Someone decided to bring their screaming newborn to the opening showing of Strange Days.

-Seeing Farenheit 9/11 with a little kid behind you that finds everything in the movie worth gasping and squealing about.

The seat kickers in theatres deserve to be tasered. I’m not cruel or vindictive, I am just.

Seriously people, just get a damn babysitter.

By: SlamChowder

SlamChowder — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:49:50 +0000

Maybe everyone else is just really fat.

By: Isildo

Isildo — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 23:47:31 +0000

They bring them to R-rated movies too. REALLY disturbing.

By: TheObject

TheObject — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 23:15:49 +0000

Stop going to G and PG rated movies.

By: meetooo

meetooo — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:17:07 +0000

Also forgotten – the teenagers who are texting each other all over the theater, the people who let their kids run up and down the aisle during the movie and the obnoxious food thrower.
Yeah – sillycon valley has some really rude people in it.

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:42:26 +0000

It’s a theatre in Canada, cinema in Britain. I’m not sure about any other places (like South Africa or Australia).