I heard someone else bitching about this in a movie theater the last time I went to a show. Someone asked them to budge up one measly seat, and they were audibly complaining about having to lose their "choice" of seats.
Without meaning in any way to support such obnoxious behaviour as that of the women Peg post about, it's possible, particularly in fairly small cinemas, for people with particular kinds of bad eyesight to only be comfortably able to see the film from a relatively small range of seats, and there are cinemas in town where I personally might well not be able to move a single seat - particulary a single seat back - without no longer being able to focus on the screen for the length of a movie without getting a headache. I do my best not to be rude about this, but I think it's legitimate for me to be firm in refusing to move if asked. Particularly because I usually make the effort to be fifteen or twenty minutes early in order to get the specific seat in question.
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Date: 2007-01-04 04:02 pm (UTC)Without meaning in any way to support such obnoxious behaviour as that of the women Peg post about, it's possible, particularly in fairly small cinemas, for people with particular kinds of bad eyesight to only be comfortably able to see the film from a relatively small range of seats, and there are cinemas in town where I personally might well not be able to move a single seat - particulary a single seat back - without no longer being able to focus on the screen for the length of a movie without getting a headache. I do my best not to be rude about this, but I think it's legitimate for me to be firm in refusing to move if asked. Particularly because I usually make the effort to be fifteen or twenty minutes early in order to get the specific seat in question.