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Leyra
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States1222 Posts
July 10 2013 21:21 GMT
#21
Sounds like you were a dick to me. If you want perfect theatre viewing with no disruptions, build your own home theatre, otherwise, you act like a normal human being to other normal human beings.
Iyerbeth
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
England2410 Posts
July 10 2013 22:11 GMT
#22
If the cinema was so full that she had to ask someone to move so they could even sit down, and you didn't move because you believe you're more entitled to the seat than she is, then yes you are in the wrong. If she just wanted to sit near the middle and there were plenty of options (which it sounds like there weren't) then you were fine.
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Qwyn
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
United States2779 Posts
July 10 2013 22:20 GMT
#23
Holy crap, does one seat over make even an ounce of difference? As a frequent movie-viewer myself I could care less WHAT seats I get, as long as they aren't in the very front. Side, middle, back, come on man it's not as if it makes an ounce of difference when all you're doing is sitting for 2 hours anyway. Hardly strenuous.
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radscorpion9
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Canada2252 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-07-10 22:48:07
July 10 2013 22:46 GMT
#24
Fundamentally...I don't think anyone has a responsibility to make others happy. So no one should be calling you a dick for not moving; you don't have to move for anyone and it doesn't make you a bad person. We can be nice to each other if we feel like it, and do things out of a sense of altruism, but it should never be mandatory that you do good things for other people. It would be akin to suggesting that if you don't wave hello to everyone who stops to wait at the same bus stop as you, you're a bad person. It would be more correct to say that you're morally neutral by keeping to yourself.

You could argue that in this case, by not moving, you are actually causing harm to another person. But I think its more correct to say that the lady caused harm to herself by coming into a movie 10 minutes late and expecting people to be nice to her by shuffling around to make room for her. I would think that's she's the insensitive person here. Even if coming late was not her fault, she shouldn't expect others to move for her and get angry when they don't. I certainly wouldn't, I would feel like an ass if I did, because I have no right to force people to move for me.

Much about this is subjective though. I think most people would feel better moving for someone else than they would in having the perfect seat at the theatre; so to them it would feel "wrong" not to move. But if the seats were really magical and you liked them, then I think what you did is perfectly fine.
AnachronisticAnarchy
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
United States2957 Posts
July 10 2013 22:50 GMT
#25
No one was in the clear in this situation. You guys were jerks for not moving over since you obviously don't need five seats and she was a jerk for making a massive scene and necroing the issue after the movie ended.
Next time, move over. Being early doesn't entitle you to good seats, it entitles you to a good seat. As in, the one you actually planted your ass on.
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run.at.me
Profile Joined December 2011
Australia550 Posts
July 10 2013 22:51 GMT
#26
Na brah stand your ground should have farted on her and pushed her down the stairs on the way out
Tobberoth
Profile Joined August 2010
Sweden6375 Posts
July 10 2013 23:06 GMT
#27
I honestly can't understand why you didn't move over. "Uh, we were here 15 minutes ago, which is like, a really long time, so we won't move ONE FUCKING SEAT OVER to let you sit comfortably".

Read that sentence a few times and think about the situation. If you come to the conclusion that it was worth it, ask yourself why you go to a cinema which is so ridiculously badly designed that moving one seat makes any form of difference what so ever.
7mk
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Germany10157 Posts
July 10 2013 23:26 GMT
#28
Here's how you find out that a movie is not worth buying on DVD:
If 30 minutes in you're thinking to yourself 'man I really would have preferred to sit 50 cm to the right' then it sucks and you shouldn't even torrent it
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felisconcolori
Profile Blog Joined October 2011
United States6168 Posts
July 10 2013 23:46 GMT
#29
I thought you were wrong when you used the word "cinephiles". You only dug yourself deeper after that.

Remember this if you ever find yourself asking someone to move so you can sit down - you've already indicated that courtesy is not required.
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Kotreb
Profile Joined June 2011
Croatia1392 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-07-10 23:52:31
July 10 2013 23:48 GMT
#30
Meh, you didn't come up too shining from that situation, but i would've done the same thing. Age card is not something that i accept anymore. Besides, it's a dickwad move from her. Hey, i'm gonna come whenever the f i want and i'll just demand good seats. I support your decision.

edit: radscorpion9 worded it best.
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SnipedSoul
Profile Joined November 2010
Canada2158 Posts
July 10 2013 23:49 GMT
#31
You and your friends sure showed that old lady what for. I want to high five you so bad right now.
Corrupt61587
Profile Joined September 2009
United States366 Posts
July 11 2013 01:25 GMT
#32
Long story short (this is the the only important part) you and your friends are assholes
LaNague
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Germany9118 Posts
July 11 2013 01:33 GMT
#33
why are they the assholes when someone comes 10 minutes after the movie started, demanding people to switch seats just so they can sit with friends.
Its not like they could not find a seat, they just wanted better seats.



Well, i would probbaly have SHHHHHHHHD her.
DanLee
Profile Joined January 2012
Canada316 Posts
July 11 2013 01:43 GMT
#34
On July 11 2013 05:25 Manifesto7 wrote:
You were a jerk for notmoving over and leading by example.
Your friend was a jerk for being abrupt with a woman who wants to find a seat in a tiny theatre.
The woman was a jerk for talking about the problem after sitting down, and giving you the deathglare afterwards.

All in all, stress was injected into a situation where you should have been having a good time, so much so that it probably took away from the movie a little bit, and caused you to dwell on it long enough that you wrote a blog. Take that stress out of your life man, it isn't worth it.

Moral of the story? Lie and tell her you have another friend coming who is running late.

He planned his DAY around finding those seats, his DAY manifesto. Are you really about to tell the man he is a jerk for not moving? His DAY...
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Epishade
Profile Blog Joined November 2011
United States2267 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-07-11 01:50:03
July 11 2013 01:49 GMT
#35
^ I was agreeing with most of the replies in this thread until I saw that part (That LaNague posted). I missed it when I read the op. I didn't realize they came 10 minutes into the movie. That's rude and they shouldn't have even asked the op to move. They should have been courteous and just split up with the 3 seats in-between. Someone else said they should just be thankful to even see the movie. I agree. They don't have the privilege of sitting together when they come that late.

I personally still would have moved though, because it's still just one seat over.
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-Kaiser-
Profile Blog Joined November 2011
Canada932 Posts
July 11 2013 01:57 GMT
#36
On July 11 2013 04:48 SwizzY wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 11 2013 04:35 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:
I'm also puzzled about how you guys were sitting, when you three were taking up five seats. Was it:

X _ X _ X

?

I'm generally a fan of the whole "I got here before you, so this seat is my seat", but if you're purposely isolating single seats that you're not using, I have a problem with that. I've never purposely left empty seats between my friends and me.

There's three of you, so you can use up 3 seats. Taking up two extra seats is a little inappropriate.

I probably would have moved over and let them sit together (as long as the new seats still had a good view of the screen), since it was just one seat over and all three of you could still sit together.

I don't think her making a scene was an appropriate response either, but that's ex post facto.

EDIT: So it was "_XXX_Wall"

How the hell are those the best seats in the house? You're not even in the middle of the row/ theater!

Could you have just moved your group one seat over to the left (away from the wall)? That way you didn't have to worry about the neckbreaker angle?


So it was a small theatre with an odd seating arrangement:
30 or so seats in the front space, then 3 rows of 5:
Screen
~30seats
Railing
StairsOOXXXWall Ramp to front <---- She ended up sitting here (O's)
Stairs_XXX_Wall Ramp to front <---- We were here
StairsXXXXXWall Ramp to front

Can't implement spacing so this is the best I can do, and then pretend the middle seat of the upper seating was perfectly in line with the screen and its borders. It was fucking magical seriously.


You guys are assholes.
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zergnewb
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
United States816 Posts
July 11 2013 02:05 GMT
#37
There were other seats open. You guys are not required to move. It wasn't nice but it wasn't mean either. You guys would be assholes if you yelled at the lady or something. I say what you did was fine.
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Manifesto7
Profile Blog Joined November 2002
Osaka27150 Posts
July 11 2013 02:19 GMT
#38
On July 11 2013 10:43 DanLee wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 11 2013 05:25 Manifesto7 wrote:
You were a jerk for notmoving over and leading by example.
Your friend was a jerk for being abrupt with a woman who wants to find a seat in a tiny theatre.
The woman was a jerk for talking about the problem after sitting down, and giving you the deathglare afterwards.

All in all, stress was injected into a situation where you should have been having a good time, so much so that it probably took away from the movie a little bit, and caused you to dwell on it long enough that you wrote a blog. Take that stress out of your life man, it isn't worth it.

Moral of the story? Lie and tell her you have another friend coming who is running late.

He planned his DAY around finding those seats, his DAY manifesto. Are you really about to tell the man he is a jerk for not moving? His DAY...


Dude needs to find more shit to do haha.
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brian
Profile Blog Joined August 2004
United States9620 Posts
July 11 2013 02:44 GMT
#39
This is mind blowing. In a packed theater, yes you all were being dicks. If you think you're such a 'cinephile' and need a particular seat you shouldn't be going at a busy time for so many different reasons. Not the least of which being you clearly don't know how to behave around people.
decafchicken
Profile Blog Joined January 2005
United States20022 Posts
July 11 2013 03:24 GMT
#40
What the christ is wrong with you? It's literally no inconvenience for you three to shift over one seat so that they can sit down. This blog makes me sad in humanity.
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