And you’re the Trig Palin of ours.
I know, right? 
Plus-fucking-one.
No, no. The basic divide is between those who almost always get to the movies before they start, and those who are chronically late.
You can work out for yourself which type of response you get from each. 
Is anyone else getting the sense that the OP behaved somewhat like an elementary school child. It reminds me of the days where kids would be all, “I got here first! Blah blah blah…”
You seem to know all about elementary school, anonymous user.
Don’t you have a “Genghis Khan - Totally Overrated!1!” essay or some other such brainless nonsense to work on? You have no insights to offer here. Move along, now, Scooter.
And normal people can also take an available seat as quickly and quietly as possible, especially once the movie has already started.
How is it that the latecomers’ preferences* are accorded higher priority than those of the punctual, even though they are likely to be just as “unsupportable” from an objective standpoint?
*Given that there was ample seating still available, that’s all we’re talking about here - two sets of conflicting preferences.
Finally started reading your own posts for tone now?
Well done.
This is about personal space, and the on time/late issue which is such a hot button topic here.
My view is -
Where I live, it’s common courtesy to leave that buffer zone between parties/groups. I myself really don’t like to sit that close to a stranger for a couple of hours. I don’t think anyone does.
As mademoiselle stated, other people came in after her and left that buffer zone. She did not create it. If she acquiesced to the request to move, she would then be making the person that created the buffer less comfortable.
A couple of things are important here. They other couple came late. I don’t care why they came late. That they want to make other people uncomfortable because of their poor planning is rudeness on their part.
If the theater was full, that would be another story.
Simple. When you attend a cinema, you purchase a ticket for an open seat. All seats are exactly the same, so there is no “prime seat” despite human custom and preferences. Unlike a performance in concert, and arena, etc where many seats might be obstructed, far away, or have other issues that cause a change in price; or a plane where seating is usually assigned, a cinema is totally open.
So I agree, the OP can sit wherever she likes, and so can the other couple. basic manners dictates that if you’ve left “buffer seats” :rolleyes: that you budge over to make room for couples or families. It is a common, and well understood courtesy that we offer to one another to avoid having to split up groups for NO GOOD REASON. It doesn’t matter in the slightest if there were open seats in the front. The OP bought two tickets, not four. You are not entitled to buffer seats. She could have moved, or her SO could have moved and it would have been over. Instead she chose to be an entitled ass, and caused the problem. The response was handled poorly as well but she gave the first offense, not the latecomers.
But she didn’t have to move, so therefore it was not a behavior of an ass hole. She had a choice, and she chose to stay. Of course the fact that there were free seats mattered because the patrons who asked her could have sat in any of the other rows instead of pointlessly annoying her and affecting her viewing of the movie through their texting and bullying. I have never seen of heard anything about having to move seats when there are other seats available until I read this thread.
Yes. People can choose to be assholes. Is this surprising information?
Me either. And when they started texting, I would have asked management to make them to move somewhere where they could text with out disturbing others. Perhaps the lobby.
IF there were no other seats available, then she would have been an asshole if she had refused to allow access to empty seats. But other seats WERE available, it’s just that the latecomers felt that they were entitled to particular seats. The latecomers even had empty seats that were grouped together available to them, but those special snowflakes were not happy with the choice of available seats, they wanted to make someone else move so that they could have their desired seats. And this is really what it’s about. The latecomers felt that other people should accommodate their desires, without regard to other people’s feelings.
Your reasoning breaks down because obviously the latecomers felt that there is a difference in seats, that the OP was occupying a more desirable seat, and the latecomers wanted the more desirable seat for themselves. If all the seats were the same, then the latecomers could have simply plopped themselves down in the empty seats, either on either side of the OP or in a row or two in front of the OP.
I don’t think that I’ve ever had someone ask me to move over in a theater. I usually sit in the front row, because I’m quite nearsighted, and because there’s less of a chance that someone will sit right in front of me. I’m quite short, and so if an adult of even average height sits right in front of me, my view is going to be blocked.
No, but it is surprising that you can operate a keyboard.
The right to a trial by jury? My God, you are a fucking idiot! Or a troll. I agree with you that mademoiselle didn’t have to give up her seat, but Hell! It’s not a Constitutional right by any definition of the word.
Stunning. I am actually able to get to the movie on time to get the seats I like.
There are those that think that others should be able to come in later, after the show starts and ask me to move? Who exactly is feeling entitled here?
Indeed. Are we allowed to accuse people of being sockpuppets in the Pit?