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Where do you sit in the cinema?

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Where do you sit in the cinema?
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Wooden-Bowl2953@reddit

What are the rules for cinema seats. I went for the first time in 20 years last weekend. I booked a seat in zone 6, seat number M5. It was fairly empty, I couldn't see the numbers, so took further to the right. Is it ok to do this, are you always supposed to go to your chosen chair? Or only fine to.move about when empty?
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cheandbis@reddit (OP)

Chosen seat unless it's empty then sit where you like is my rule. You may get someone ask you to move but if it's that empty, it's unlikely.
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Wooden-Bowl2953@reddit

That's what I assumed, thanks
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destria@reddit

I just try to sit as centrally and as far back as possible.
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nathderbyshire@reddit

I wasn't paying attention once and booked the wrong side of the screen so I sat me and my friends at the very front row hahaha - who can even sit there?! You have to be looking up basically the whole time. Luckily it was dead and we could move once the film had started.
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LittleSadRufus@reddit

Yes these zones don't quite work for me - back of zone 5 or front of zone 6 is ideal. But front of zone 5 absolutely doesn't feel like the same area as back of zone 5 to me.
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cheandbis@reddit (OP)

Even if that's where everyone else is sitting?
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bucketofardvarks@reddit

Well it isn't generally socially acceptable to sit in a strangers lap
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pencilrain99@reddit

Depends on the cinema
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Gazz1e@reddit

Zone 5, bottom left. I try to sit in the middle of the cinema to be equally distance from the speakers. It also causes maximum grief for people sitting on the same row when I have to visit the toilet due to having a small bladder.
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crapusername47@reddit

As close to the middle as possible in one of Vue's big VIP seats because I'm tall.
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fatveg@reddit

because I'm tall So always in front of me then
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crapusername47@reddit

If it makes you feel any better, there’s so much legroom in these seats I can slump in my chair quite comfortably. Never had a problem with not being able to see at Vue.
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samsaBEAR@reddit

Going off of this I would sit in the bottom left corner of 5. This is a Cineworld and I know that their audio checks are done from as close to the centre as they can get, so I bet somewhere around there will be where they do theirs. Other than that I don't mind, I really don't like the back but I fully get trying to get away from shitty people
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Altruistic_Hall9559@reddit

The left zone 4 or zone 6
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AttersH@reddit

1 or 4. I prefer to sit back & to the side to be honest.
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ghostly606-gmcg@reddit

4
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Apple22Over7@reddit

2-3 rows from the back, on either side border of 4&6. I like being slightly off centre, and find being right on the back row a bit too high.
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Sea-Situation7495@reddit

My eyesight is crap, so I'm a 5 every time. Not right at the front, but not too fare back.
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pencilrain99@reddit

In the middle 5 rows from front ,best for view and acoustics, any further back and the sound is off
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Chosen_Wisely89@reddit

In the rows where 5 and 6 meet. As central to the room as possible
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NotAProperAccount3@reddit

Central and maybe 4 rows from the back (top of 6 in your daigram). Could go for front of the right side 1\* if you're feeling like you'd like the fact you'll have no one in front of you, whilst also not being right in the front row. \*Why do you have two 1, 3 and 4 sections!? This diagram is too cut up horizontally and not enough vertically... You're tempting me to make my own higher effort post.
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cheandbis@reddit (OP)

The way my mind works is either front or back and then wide, not so wide and central. Maybe we need a third vertical segment and go full on Barrymore and have a top, middle or bottom. One to ponder.
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cgknight1@reddit

I only go to dolby cinema these days. There are not as many seats and a decent gap between my two seats. So that means always six and would never consider 2.
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CuntLasso@reddit

I always look for a quieter day, and I usually get a seat right at the back, right on the end. Then I’ve only ever got the one person next to me!
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ChilliMayo@reddit

That room is very wide
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ProfessorYaffle1@reddit

In this configuration, I'd g for a aisle seat in 4 . That saif, when I go to the cinema (which isn't very often) it's normally to one of 2 smaller places both of which have a central aisle, in which case I'll go for an aisle seatf airly well back . It it's busier and there's no available aisle seat I'd aim for something in the least busy area I could see. Bu to be hnet, unless it's a one-off what I would \*actually\* do in most cases is to decide to book a later date when hopefully it's less busy or I have more choice !
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mrhippoj@reddit

At the back, near the aisle. I absolutely hate having to squeeze past people if I need a piss and the odds of me needing a piss are relatively high
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saladinzero@reddit

Weak bladder people should be forcibly catheterised when going into the cinema imo.
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FelchChugger900@reddit

Aisle seat in a middle row. Most people sit nearer the back, so if I sit a bit farther forward it's usually like I'm watching on my own and I don't get distracted by dribbling morons looking at their phone. 
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