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thefrenzexperiment

djclarke7 wrote: »

I was in the Odeon in Cardiff to watch Super 8 and it wasn't full - probably about 75-80% full which I found surprising - not sure why you got turned away.

Yes, I've been at a couple of showings which have only been around that full but where people on here have said they were turned away. Very strange.

It might be related to people leaving random single empty seats and then sitting there like selfish idiots not moving up for people who arrive later. It seems obvious to me that when seats are short everyone should shift up to allow the maximum number of people in but it seems a lot of people don't get that these days....

thanos23

thefrenzexperiment wrote: »

Yes, I've been at a couple of showings which have only been around that full but where people on here have said they were turned away. Very strange.

It might be related to people leaving random single empty seats and then sitting there like selfish idiots not moving up for people who arrive later. It seems obvious to me that when seats are short everyone should shift up to allow the maximum number of people in but it seems a lot of people don't get that these days....

I don't get it. My wife and I arrive early to make sure we get seats together. If people turn up late then they should take whatever seats are left. If they want seats together they should make the effort to get there in good time.

geordie_ben

thanos23 wrote: »

I don't get it. My wife arrive early to make sure we get seats together. If people turn up late then they should take whatever seats are left. If they want seats together they should make the effort to get there in good time.

Couldnt agree more. I hate it when we're asked to move to let a family of 6 sit together who get there at 18:29 grrrr

Poochface

Cinema staff are quite capable of either asking people to move along a row and accommodate other people or seat latecomers in single seats. I've seen this happen several times. Apart from the odd single seat I've never known people to be turned away from a screening because of single seats being empty!

aidnolan

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Lil_Me_2

thanos23 wrote: »

I don't get it. My wife and I arrive early to make sure we get seats together. If people turn up late then they should take whatever seats are left. If they want seats together they should make the effort to get there in good time.

I disagree with being asked to move around the cinema, but what annoys me is when two people sit right in the middle of four empty seats leaving two single seats either side of them. Most of the time when asked they will move up, it just seems stupid that people have to ask when it should be common sense!

The_Old_Bag

Lil_Me wrote: »

I disagree with being asked to move around the cinema, but what annoys me is when two people sit right in the middle of four empty seats leaving two single seats either side of them. Most of the time when asked they will move up, it just seems stupid that people have to ask when it should be common sense!

At a free preview we arrived in plenty of time, and took our seats together leaving double seats either side.
By the time the sceening started, the grand total of people attending was 8....
We then spread ourselves out a bit so we had arm-rests each - iyswim.

You do not always know how full a screening may be.
I usually tell dd to move up and take farthest seats in row so others can have room..... then so few turn up that no one else sits on our row and we are squashed against the wall.

Took dd to see a film she was desperate to see one day (paid:eek:)....
and we were the only people in there.
She took great delight in moving around the room during the course of the film and trying every seat in the place;)

I agree it is very annoying when you have made the effort to get there nice and early to then have to be shunted into other seats just for the benefit of latecomers. That is why I have NEVER asked anyone to move .....only asked if the seat next to them is free.
DD and I often end up sitting separately at recent screenings as they seem especially busy these days..... even when we are 20 mins before the start time.

Occasionally people have volunteered the fact another seat is 'free' elsewhere in the row, and again volunteered to move up for us.
I am always very grateful and tell them so.
On that point I think it would help if the lights are left on until the film starts as I for one struggle to see which seats are available in the dark.(Blind old Bag!;))
Annoying when half way through a film you see loads of double seats free which you couldn't see when you first walked in..... and we are sitting seperately in the single ones we could spot.

thefrenzexperiment

thanos23 wrote: »

I don't get it. My wife and I arrive early to make sure we get seats together. If people turn up late then they should take whatever seats are left. If they want seats together they should make the effort to get there in good time.

Unbelievably selfish and typical of modern ignorance to be honest. For a start we're not talking about people arriving LATE, we're talking about people who often arrive in perfectly good time!! I've been at plenty of showings where there have only been pairs or singles seats left a good twenty minutes before the showing (Captain America last week and 8mm this week being just two examples) - are you saying that if a family of four arrives, perhaps with young children, then they should be split up rather than you or your ilk getting off your selfish !!!!!! and moving up to utilise your "special" space you left so you don't have to be too close to anyone else??? Pathetic.

I'm utterly gobsmacked by that attitude.

thefrenzexperiment

geordie_ben wrote: »

Couldnt agree more. I hate it when we're asked to move to let a family of 6 sit together who get there at 18:29 grrrr

See above...

thefrenzexperiment

Poochface wrote: »

Cinema staff are quite capable of either asking people to move along a row and accommodate other people or seat latecomers in single seats. I've seen this happen several times. Apart from the odd single seat I've never known people to be turned away from a screening because of single seats being empty!

I think perhaps you didn't read a post or are confused? The point was that people HAVE been turned away from such screenings - that was what the posts were saying? People were also turned away from Gnomeo and Juliet in Mansfield a while back when there were dozens of seats left.

And while some cinema staff do do what you describe, many don't, and therefore it is left to the goodwill of people attending, and when you're dealing with people who have the selfish attitude of the two posters on the previous page, then there will be problems fitting everyone in.