movies

[JoeMcKim]

Who else has bought tickets to see Last Jedi yet? I'm going to the 2:10 show on that Friday afternoon. Love that this year that Ronnie's now has assigned seating to the theater so I don't have to show up extra early to get a good seat. Online ticket buying with assigned seating means literally no lines to have to stand in at all. You can literally show up to the theater as the opening credits are rolling and have a great seat(though I'm sure for Star Wars I'll be there early).

[Tim]

So I am not a big Star Wars fan. I enjoyed the originals as a kid, couldn't make it through the Jar Jar Binks one and subsequently skipped the other prequels. I did watch Rogue One and Force Awakens this weekend while wife was away. I thought they were excellent.

Zero chance I see The Last Jedi in theaters, but it looks cool

[go birds]

Who else has bought tickets to see Last Jedi yet? I'm going to the 2:10 show on that Friday afternoon. Love that this year that Ronnie's now has assigned seating to the theater so I don't have to show up extra early to get a good seat. Online ticket buying with assigned seating means literally no lines to have to stand in at all. You can literally show up to the theater as the opening credits are rolling and have a great seat(though I'm sure for Star Wars I'll be there early).

recliner seats?

i went to see IT last weekend and they made us pick our seats beforehand and it was very confusing. It was so weird too because no one in the building would explain to us the situation. We asked why we had to choose our seats and why there were only six rows. We ended up taking aisle seats in the last row because we didn't want to be stuck sitting right next to someone in a theater that wasnt sold out as that would have been extremely awkward. Also because there was a [expletive] line forming behind us and we panicked. The whole experience was bizarre.

Then when we walked into the theater IT ALL MADE SENSE. IT WAS BECAUSE THERE WERE SIX ROWS OF RECLINERS. WHY THEY COULDNT RELAY THIS TO US I dont know.

With all that said, the viewing experience was amazing. 10/10 would do again

[JoeMcKim]

Yeah when I first heard about theaters in California having assigned seating a few years ago I was all against the idea of it but I didn't realize that recliner seats would be a part of the deal back then, now that we got it here in St. Louis not sure if I can bring myself to go to a non recliner non assigned seating theater again if I don't have to. I literally only buy my tickets through Fandango now. If you get the Rewards card at the Marcus Wehrenberg theaters you don't have to pay the convenience fee when purchasing the tickets online.

[ghostrunner]

Assigned seats/recliners are great. Most of the theaters here in Indy seem to have converted. Seems to greatly reduce the number of seats, but I guess they're trying to pull people back in theaters and raising admission to cover it.

I worry about lower income people being priced out of theaters though. Tickets are more expensive with the new seating arrangements, it favors people willing to pay online service fees, and matinee pricing seems to be less of a deal than it used to be. I've noticed they now stagger pricing through the day, with the earliest show being the cheapest and then increasing with each show until the evening. Back in college and in my 20s I used to go to matinees all the time, and it was about half the cost of a nighttime ticket.

[MrCrowesGarden]

I'll never forget going to see Interstellar in a theater with assigned seating. It was uncrowded and someone still bought the seat next to me. WTF.

[stlouie_lipp]

I'll never forget going to see Interstellar in a theater with assigned seating. It was uncrowded and someone still bought the seat next to me. WTF.

Same thing happened to me when I saw Dunkirk. I got up and moved.

[JoeMcKim]

I'll never forget going to see Interstellar in a theater with assigned seating. It was uncrowded and someone still bought the seat next to me. WTF.

Same thing happened to me when I saw Dunkirk. I got up and moved.

If the movie has begun and its clear that no one is going to be sitting in that seat obviously you can then change seats.

Wehrenberg theatres have $5 Tuesdays for all shows so theres ways to see movies now that won't break the bank.

[ghostrunner]

Loved Blade Runner 2049. It's a good movie/good sequel. Doesn't try to mimic the old one too much. I like that it doesn't try to retcon the world into being like ours - i.e Atari is still a big company, the USSR seems to still exist, there's apparently no internet, and the video/imaging technology seems to have advanced in a mechanical way rather than digitally. Reminded me of the Fallout universe in that respect.

It bugged me a little bit that the replicants seem to cling to human concepts of life, birth or independence.


There's sort of a B story that treads the same ground as Her, but in a way I found more interesting and compelling.

I've heard very polarized responses. Read secondhand reports people getting up and leaving or saying it's boring, which - whatever. Are you going to a movie simply to digest plot as efficiently as possible? Lots of beautiful stuff in there and interesting things to think about.

Thing I missed most was the score. Vangelis' music was almost sweet at times, and worked in some piano and sax along with the synth. Hans Zimmer sometimes seems most interested in blowing out speakers with his BRAMFs.

[vinsanity]

I recently saw Into The Wild and was curious what others thought.

I like Sean Penn but I think every movie I've seen from him could be like 20 minutes shorter. I didn't find McCandless to particularly likable or relatable and they seem to kind of gloss over the real epiphany of the movie.