As an acoustic engineer who would tune movie theaters, 2/3 of the way back in the center of the room. If it is a Dolby certified theater there will be a chair with a small plaque that is where the measurements are taken and the room is tuned to that seat.
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The entire theater is designed around the center seat. Anything else is objectively wrong.
Right behind the crossing lane and the never-used handicapped section so I can put my feet up. It's six rows from the front. Only downside is every yahoo with a tiny bladder that insists on parking on the far side of the theater from the exit has to parade back and forth constantly in the movie, breaking the emersion.
Bonus: a couple of airplane bottles to add to my coke and some raisinettes from the drug store where they cost 1/5 as much. Just carry them in my bag. No one working in the theater gives a crap if you bring in your own food.
Wherever is easiest to get up and out and go pee because I snuck in beer and I have a small bladder.
I've been going to the same theater for the past 15 years, the largest/best equipped one in my city. I always sit about half way back from the screen (row 6 of 13), in the center of the room. Rows 5 and 7 work too, but 5 is slightly too close and 7 too far. My SO still thinks I'm weird for having a favorite row and seat, and I keep trying to explain why it's important.
Will be seeing Oppenheimer in my favorite seat today!
High up in a corner where people mostly never sit. Though I don't go to theaters and movies by myself. Never. So I just suggest it to the person going with me.
Middle Middle. The "True Neutral" of movie theater seat preferences I suppose.
OP is more like Neutral Evil.
Only right answer
Regular theater: in the center, about 1/3 back from the screen.
IMAX: in the center, very back row against the wall.
why very back in IMAX? wouldn't that be too far?
Center seat, about a third of the way to the back. This is where we setup to calibrate the surround systems back in the 90s and I'm not aware of any change to this so I still sit there.
Dolby standardized to 2/3 in 2005 and everyone copied them.
Thanks for the info, I'm going to have to start sitting farther back.
I prefer to sit on the chair.
I prefer to sit on my butt.
Gross.
Always in the back. I get a better view that way. I've tried sitting in the front before, but I always had to have my head tilted up. I've tried sitting in the middle before and my eyes had to zoom around the screen still to try and catch everything.
So, the back it is for me.
I've tried the back and hate it due to you get a view of the entire audience and all the yahoos who refuse to not light up their phones mid movie. We live in a society of entitled twats. Getting this confirmation a half dozen times during the movie I paid for just makes my BP go up.
Way in the back, on my couch at home.
Even for Oppenheimer.
I'm going to the late showing of Oppenheimer. Probably sometime in November.
It doesn’t show in November…
Oppenheimer isn’t currently available to stream, but we expect it to arrive on Peacock by November 2023.
Universal has an exclusive streaming deal with Peacock, which means new releases must arrive on the platform within four months of release. So, with the film hitting cinemas on July 21, it’ll be available by mid-late November at the very latest.
https://www.dexerto.com/tv-movies/oppenheimer-streaming-digital-release-date-2214030/
Between the sticky Coke spill and the teen giving TikTok movie updates, and right behind the dystopian row of popcorn shrapnel.
Ya'll can afford movie tickets?
Far away where I don't have to pay to have my experience ruined by screaming teenagers
As a kid and most of the way through my 20s, I pretty much always wanted to be in the back row of a stadium seating theater (although the long, sloped plane theaters 🤮 I definitely didn't sit at the back because you were a mile away from the screen).
But over the last few years I've reevaluated my "always in the back" stance, and found that I, like OP, am happiest when the screen completely fills my view. Both of our theaters have leather recliners. At one of our premium/large format screens, I'll sit in about the 4th row of 30 because the recline is so substantial that I can sit so close without craning my neck to see the screen. In any of the other standard screens at that theater, I'll sit in the front half for sure.
We've also got a theater with two IMAX screens - one of them is so enormous and the seats are so vertically stacked that I've been pushing further and further back in the theater, almost to the back row. Because the screen is almost 80 feet tall, it positions you basically in the center of the screen and the recline in the chairs is very limited, so sitting too close means you are craning your neck.
We've also got a theater with two IMAX screens
Which theater is that? I've been looking for one but there isn't one near my location, apparently there are only 30 of them? EDIT: Clarification, only 30 in the entire world that project 70mm. I was looking for one to watch Oppenheimer in.
There are only 30 theaters that project 70mm IMAX film. There's plenty of others that do digital IMAX.
Unfortunately, both of my IMAX screens are digital projection - I did look into it and saw that I had a 70mm IMAX screen around 4 hours away, but never could make it work with my work schedule. But my premium format IMAX screen was incredible all the same, no regrets!
I haven't seen a movie in a theater since... forever. Probably 20 years.
I do watch a lot of plays though. Would throw money for that any time.
Then where do you sit?
At the plays? There are ticket numbers here, you don't just get to pick where you sit, you sit where the ticket says you should sit. You can't always pick and choose, depends if the play is sold out or not, but if I get to pick, middle, 5th, 6th row, not too far, not too close.
I often go to plays to. For me, the best seat is on the stage with the other actors. Bwahahaha. 😝
Even if I'm not accepted for a role being a stage hand is still a thrill.
Nah, I just like enjoying them. I did act for a short while, while I was in uni, amateur theater, but that was just for fun, I never saw myself as an actor.
Edge seat nearest the door. A lot of the movies I'm willing to spend money to see are over 2hrs and I typically have to piss somewhere in that time. A quick convenient exit lets me get in and out with no fuss. I wish movies still had intermissions.
Bonus: Bit-o-Honey, just stick a few in one of your pockets. The body heat warms it up so it's not rock hard. No loud wrapper, not particularly messy.
Do you have the RunPee app?
Flip phone, so no apps. Just pick my dash spot by need and feel.
Most movies have a 2-3 min slow spot I can dash in. Then I do my best to peel porcelain.
Farthest back row, dead center. The screen still feels huge, I don't have to move my neck, and most importantly I have no one behind me.
The screen size doesn't change depending on how far or close you sit to it though.
But the angular perspective does. It "looks" smaller the further you are away.
I really hope this doesn't need to be explained...