And even further, only those exact same two seats are ‘taken’ for every single showing.

I thought for sure the after church showings tomorrow would be at least somewhat full, but nope.

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    That’s cause there is no target audience. His supporters already think he can do no wrong so who is this film trying to win over?

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    To be clear:
    The ‘x’ seats are ‘taken’
    The 🟦 seats are ‘available’

    ETA As many have pointed out, since these same two seats are blocked for every showing, I believe it’s because they’re broken; not sold.

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    Totally sold out. The most sold out movie ever. You remember Titan-ick? Had a naked girl in it and it didn’t sell as many tickets as this movie. People are saying this is the best movie there is. People are watching it 4 or 5 times and saying how good it is. I haven’t seen it. Maybe I’ll see it. Deenish de-sooza did the movie. She’s hot, have you seen her? Smokin hot. They wanted me to be in it. Was I I in it? Sure, maybe. Great movie. The best.

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    Not that I think this isn’t hilarious, but to quote Trump’s own idiotic ramblings, “Nobody knows what an app is.” His redneck supporters that don’t trust such fancy lib’ral scams as “mail” and “locked drop boxes” sure aren’t going to understand using an app to book a seat in a movie theater.

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      In my local theater you also have to ‘reserve’ a seat when you buy the ticket in person. Don’t ask me why.

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        Assigned seating has been the norm here for decades. Makes things go a little more smoothly, especially when everyone expects it.

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        Reasonable reason: pre-2020 theaters would be packed sometimes and it’s helpful to have assigned seats. It resolves seating disputes and gets people to go straight to their seats. When I saw Avengers End Game (or maybe Infinity War), they had to have employees spotting empty seats for everyone walking in.

        Cynical theory: they’re logging seat selection trends and going to move to tiered pricing like airplane seats

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        So that someone ordering online doesn’t try to buy your seat. Obviously.

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            Yes? “Hey wanna catch a movie?” “Sure, looks like the new Deadpool has a showing in like twenty minutes.” “Dope. You order the tickets, I’ll drive.”

            Why would they not apply the same system to all purchases? Either seats are reserved or they aren’t.

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    With this movie, Am I Racist?, and Reagan all playing at the same time, the GOP is really going full-throttle in attempting to exploit their base.

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      I got curious. This showing is in about 90 minutes, in one of the reddest counties in the country.

      There is another show tonight that has about 10 tickets sold.

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      This theater seating arangement pisses me off. Why did they remove 2 seats on all the rows behind the handicap seat row? And why are there 2 seats even further to the right, but X’d off in the back row??? If anything that just shows theres enough space for 4 more seats in EVERY row behind the handicaped row! Is that just empty floor space??? Why is that there??? Like a mini dance floor in the theater???

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        If it’s like the theater near me the space is for the entrance and stairs. You would come in at the level with the handicapped seating and go down stairs to the rows in front of that and up stairs for the rows behind.

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      I don’t know what’s worse, that an idiot wrote this, the only piece of trivia on the IMDB about the film, or that six people found it helpful.

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    I dont know how much I believe the theater. This is tomorrow in Connecticut. 4:55 sold out but all the other times have zero to 7 people. Yeah it’s a Sunday but I would t put it past thr gop to be artificially inflating box office receipts.

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      Might be a thing like with Christian movies where a church buys out an entire show in one block in the expectation of their parishioners all going. It artificially inflates their box office numbers too, of course.

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    Every theater has about 2 seats blocked off because they squeak too much and have been complained about. I’m blown away at the amount of religious content at theaters. There is tons. Some of it is basically like going to evangelical church. They’re not movies they’re sermons in theaters.

    This one is made by a D’Souza, the same name behind that movie about ballot boxes being stuffed in 2020. It’s nonsense.