Saw the movie last night and wanted to tell a little story about my experience. I wasn't sure whether to put this here or on the reserved seating thread, as both are applicable.
So, the wife and kids get a call last night around 6pm inviting them to see Despicable Me 3 at 8 o'clock. I check the Cinemark site and see that there is a coinciding showing of Baby Driver. Perfect. I can see that while they go see DM3. I select one ticket for Baby and move to the screen to choose my seat. To my surprise, there are only two remaining seats to this showing (well, except for the first two rows directly under the screen, which are completely empty and I refuse to sit in those). One seat is on the very end of my favorite row (the first row when you walk in) and the other is on the last row about three seats in from the far end. I choose the first row solitary seat.
We get to the theater and I walk into my screening with about five minutes before previews. I walk down the hallway and turn the corner to go to my aisle and seat. There are literally five people in this almost sold-out screening there........including two young, attractive blond-haired college girls who are sitting in seats 2 and 3....and I have seat 1.
They look up at me, I freeze and make eye contact with them. I must have turned beet-red and stammered out a weak "....I uhhhh, think I have that seat next to you. It was one of the last seats left." In an almost empty theater, I sit right down next to the two cute girls, feeling like a total perv. Thank God for cell phones, as I pull mine out and start browsing Texags. I almost started posting my situation right then. As the minutes ticked away, no one else was coming in and I felt like maybe they thought I was lying and that there were plenty of other seats. The theater didn't start filling up until well into the previews.
The movie ended, the girls got up an left, I waited a few seconds for them to leave and I went outside and joined my wife and kids. I saw the girls walking in the parking lot and pointed them out to my wife and told her the story.
She laughed and said "you must have felt really embarrassed!" Yes, yes I did.
So, I'm still a big supporter of reserved seats, but I felt like a real perv last night.
Oh, and I really enjoyed the movie last night. I felt like it may have been a little overhyped. Not a complaint, just an observation. Great performances, good music, would rank it maybe Edgar Wright's third best movie (which is still a great list to be on).
