This is a royal take if I ever saw one. I remember being cartoonishly furious when my local theatre in my old city renovated all the auditoriums to replace the traditional seating with a bunch of recliners. Now, not only will the theatre hold a fraction of the people it used to, but a lot of showtimes were sacrificed just to get them installed, too.
It's a total sunk cost, and for what? To emulate the luxuries of home, which a theatre will not only be fundamentally unable recreate, but muddle the structural/experiential identity of the cinema by doing so? To hell with that; the cinema needs to offer something that the home cannot, rather than use the home experience as the benchmark for its own.
This is a royal take if I ever saw one. I remember being cartoonishly furious when my local theatre in my old city renovated all the auditoriums to replace the traditional seating with a bunch of recliners. Now, not only will the theatre hold a fraction of the people it used to, but a lot of showtimes were sacrificed just to get them installed, too.
It's a total sunk cost, and for what? To emulate the luxuries of home, which a theatre will not only be fundamentally unable recreate, but muddle the structural/experiential identity of the cinema by doing so? To hell with that; the cinema needs to offer something that the home cannot, rather than use the home experience as the benchmark for its own.
You said it better than I could! Here here!
my 44 year old back cannot take those old shitty cramped style theater seats
Wanna borrow this 45-year-old’s lumber pillow!? 🤪