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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    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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    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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    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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      Looking at this graphic, is it still illegal to yell “fire” in a theater like that, or can we record ourselves doing so in those empty rooms for fuckyou lols? 🤷🏽‍♂️

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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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    It kind of makes sense. People who love Trump don’t exactly have the patience to watch a documentary to begin with.

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        I find your laugh interesting. It’s like a small bit of the humor hit your brain early. So you let out the innitial ha. Then the full humor hit, and it became more of a full laugh.

        Kind of like when you’re holding in a fart at the thanksgiving day dinner table, and you let out a small bit of a fart, but then everyone looks at you, and the jig is up anyways, so you let out an ass ripping fart. Then grandma yells at you.

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      Why watch a movie, when you could get a random screed from the source himself at 3AM, which you can read in about 30sec?

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          Sorry, I forgot that you gotta know all the secret cyphers to decode his supergenius messages about how the storm is coming or how he has a secret moon base where there’s only the whitest people.

          (/s)

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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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      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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    That’s not showing in my blue city, but another movie “Am I Racist?” is showing (or not? Maybe they don’t hit play if the theater is empty).

    It seems to be about a racist guy who takes on a disguise so nobody recognizes him as the racist guy and pretends to be a mentally ill progressive or something and interviews people

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      “Kevin, how did you meet your husband?”

      “Well, it’s a funny story, but we meet at this dumb Trump movie in NC…”

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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.

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      I’m sure you and everyone else understand, attendance isn’t proof of anything beyond box office numbers. Many theaters are empty that’s how they know to show something new.

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      Many have upgraded to extra comfy recliners, some with pairs of seats you can raise the center arm rest and get cozy. With less than half the seats that they used to have, it’s far more comfortable.

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    My guess might be that much of the audience buys a ticket when they show up. I know that’s probably what I would do. Especially if I saw ahead of time that I can choose any seat.

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      I think you still have to buy a specific seat if you buy at the theater otherwise it would break the system if anyone did buy an assigned seat after you.

      I just checked the 9pm showing and it’s still showing an empty theater 3 min before start.

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          Our town only has two theaters and only this one has assigned seats. It’s only showing this, that Reagan movie and Beetlejuice. I couldn’t find any seats that had been sold…

          However my wife and I went to see Deadpool a week or two ago and the theater was as full as I’ve seen a theater since Covid.

          Not sure what my point is?

          But, ‘Yes!’ Also ‘No!’…

          In conclusion, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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          For some comparison, wife and I went to a Tuesday noonish showing of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice and there were more than 8 people. So, at a time slot that would be totally understandable to have 1-2 people at a showing, there were way more than for this waste of digital space.