I'm not giving up my seat

[enipla]

@artemis

It’s not at all commonplace here for latecomers to ask other people to move rather than just quietlysitting down in whatever open seats are still left. (Before the show starts, yes, but that’s not disrupting anyone.) I suspect regional differences account for part of the differences in viewpoint we’re seeing in this thread. Areas where theaters are routinely crowded are going to have slightly different customs than ones where theaters are almost never packed.

I’ve been thinking the same thing. I’ve never been asked to move. And I always get there early to get what at least I consider good seats.

[l1I235]

@Asimovian

mademoiselle, you know I tend to share your view on the etiquette side of this issue, so please take this as a friendly comment.

I don’t know if you’re calling people out on the “you still haven’t left yet?” issue because you’re having fun and are in the spirit of this Pit thread now, but in case you’re still trying to argue seriously at this point, that ain’t helpin’. It’s really detracting from any worthwhile commentary (although how anyone on any side of this issue could still have anything worthwhile to say, given the length of this thread, is beyond me).

Asimovian, fair enough.

Mean old lady was extremely rude in this thread, indulged in name calling for pages ( I seem to remember being called a dickhead and an asshole several times by her), and then declared she was leaving. So, I find it interesting that she is not following through.

[MeanOldLady]

@Asimovian

mademoiselle, you know I tend to share your view on the etiquette side of this issue, so please take this as a friendly comment.

I don’t know if you’re calling people out on the “you still haven’t left yet?” issue because you’re having fun and are in the spirit of this Pit thread now, but in case you’re still trying to argue seriously at this point, that ain’t helpin’. It’s really detracting from any worthwhile commentary (although how anyone on any side of this issue could still have anything worthwhile to say, given the length of this thread, is beyond me).

I thought you were leaving.

[Giraffe]

@l1I235

Would you like to get my bloodwork, see my apartment lease, and then perhaps my drivers license next?

Yes, but I’ll settle for knowing what movie it was you talked through the first few minutes of.

[kayaker]

@MeanOldLady

Did we ever find out what movie it was?

That’s the only reason I’m reading this, hoping to find out. Then, when it comes out on Netflix Streaming, Ima gonna watch it in my living room and sit wherever the fuck I want.

[VinylTurnip]

@MeanOldLady

Did we ever find out what movie it was?

Either Dildos Unchained, Gangbang Squad or Zero Dark Thirty Inches. The marquee changes frequently.

[Asimovian]

@MeanOldLady

I thought you were leaving.

I never made such a claim, and even if I had, rubber and glue and sticks and stones and neener neener, and shit.

[Giraffe]

@kayaker

That’s the only reason I’m reading this, hoping to find out. Then, when it comes out on Netflix Streaming, Ima gonna watch it in my living room and sit wherever the fuck I want.

Until I come knocking on your door and ask you to move into the kitchen so I can have your seat. Then if you don’t move, I’m going to call you an asshole.

[Giraffe]

@VinylTurnip

Either Dildos Unchained, Gangbang Squad or Zero Dark Thirty Inches. The marquee changes frequently.

I went ahead and made a Like button out of a post-it and stuck it next to this post just so I could click the fuck out of it.

[GrandWino]

@MeanOldLady

Did we ever find out what movie it was?

I don’t think so. Let’s try and figure it out, Inspector Parker style…

Here’s the list of all current NYC movie listings. Some of these will be new releases and probably not what she saw.
At some point in this thread, she said that it was almost 3 hours. So that narrows it down to:

Les Miserables
Django Unchained
Lincoln
Zero Dark Thirty
The Hobbit

Based on the description of the people she got into a fight with (though vague, we can go by their manners at least), I’d say that Lincoln can be eliminated from contention. Also Les Mis.

ZDT seems like an action movie from the trailers, so that’s a possibility. Also, The Hobbit and Django have broad appeal.

She never mentioned 3D glasses*, which might have come up in the discussion, so I’m going to eliminate The Hobbit.

That leaves Zero Dark Thirty and Django Unchained.

She’s mixed race, so boom - Django.

How does my math look?

*She may have left out mention of it being 3D as that would make the five empty rows even more undesirable and would hurt her argument a bit, I think. For now, we’ll assume she would have told us if there was 3D involved as I wouldn’t want to accuse her of omitting details that hurt her position.

[l1I235]

@MeanOldLady

Did we ever find out what movie it was?

You really think at this point that I will open myself up to you making fun of my movie choices?

[kayaker]

@Giraffe

Until I come knocking on your door and ask you to move into the kitchen so I can have your seat. Then if you don’t move, I’m going to call you an asshole.

Jokes on you dude, the fridge is stocked!

[l1I235]

@Bob Ducca

I don’t think so. Let’s try and figure it out, Inspector Parker style…

Here’s the list of all current NYC movie listings. Some of these will be new releases and probably not what she saw.
At some point in this thread, she said that it was almost 3 hours. So that narrows it down to:

Les Miserables
Django Unchained
Lincoln
Zero Dark Thirty
The Hobbit

Based on the description of the people she got into a fight with (though vague, we can go by their manners at least), I’d say that Lincoln can be eliminated from contention. Also Les Mis.

ZDT seems like an action movie from the trailers, so that’s a possibility. Also, The Hobbit and Django have broad appeal.

She never mentioned 3D glasses*, which might have come up in the discussion, so I’m going to eliminate The Hobbit.

That leaves Zero Dark Thirty and Django Unchained.

She’s mixed race, so boom - Django.

How does my math look?

*She may have left out mention of it being 3D as that would make the five empty rows even more undesirable and would hurt her argument a bit, I think. For now, we’ll assume she would have told us if there was 3D involved as I wouldn’t want to accuse her of omitting details that hurt her position.

Mixed race = Django. Very good. :rolleyes:

I am not saying what I saw. Perhaps in pm to someone who has not declared they’re were poking me with a stick for fun, or called me a dickehead, cunt, asshole…you get the idea.

[Larry_Borgia]

@Larry_Borgia

After rereading the op, I’m curious about how the other patrons were reacting to the great seat war of 2013.

I’m still curious. Did I miss the answer to this upthread?

[GrandWino]

@l1I235

You really think at this point that I will open myself up to you making fun of my movie choices?

You do seem to relish in the abuse seeing as how you’re the only person truly keeping this thread alive. If you stopped posting in it, it would drop like a rock.

[l1I235]

@Bob Ducca

You do seem to relish in the abuse seeing as how you’re the only person truly keeping this thread alive. If you stopped posting in it, it would drop like a rock.

Thanks, I’ll write that note in the pamphlet you handed out earlier.

[GrandWino]

@l1I235

Mixed race = Django. Very good. :rolleyes:

I am not saying what I saw. Perhaps in pm to someone who has not declared they’re were poking me with a stick for fun, or called me a dickehead, cunt, asshole…you get the idea.

BTDubs, I’m fairly certain I haven’t called you a single name in this thread. I may have questioned the veracity of your story, but I never called you a cunt or an asshole or a dickhead.

And if you didn’t laugh at my “movie math,” you truly are dead inside.

[Giraffe]

@Larry_Borgia

I’m still curious. Did I miss the answer to this upthread?

FYI, this is why I don’t believe the couple actually came in during the movie itself, since the OP describes multiple lengthy exchanges between herself and the couple that I wouldn’t imagine a considerate person would have while other people are trying to watch a movie. Maybe during the previews. Or maybe the OP feels it’s OK to have conversations in the theater during a movie as long as someone else initiates them?

[l1I235]

@Bob Ducca

BTDubs, I’m fairly certain I haven’t called you a single name in this thread. I may have questioned the veracity of your story, but I never called you a cunt or an asshole or a dickhead.

And if you didn’t laugh at my “movie math,” you truly are dead inside.

True. You did call me a liar many times though.

I am lying about dyslexia…My boyfriend…etc.

[l1I235]

@Giraffe

FYI, this is why I don’t believe the couple actually came in during the movie itself, since the OP describes multiple lengthy exchanges between herself and the couple that I wouldn’t imagine a considerate person would have while other people are trying to watch a movie. Maybe during the previews. Or maybe the OP feels it’s OK to have conversations in the theater during a movie as long as someone else initiates them?

Um…wow.