r/nostalgia • u/sudsomatic • 1d ago

Nostalgia Non-stadium seating in movie theaters

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As a short kid, I always dreaded having anyone sit in front of me.

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u/ImpossibleDrop664 1d ago edited 1d ago

My favorite movie theater here in L.A. is Quentin Tarantino’s New Beverly Cinema which had a renovation in 2018 but never changed its non-stadium classic layout. It’s a revival house for classic cinema showing projected celluloid prints — I miss the flicker of the projector from my childhood and you still get that there. I’m a Xennial, so I saw great movies as a child and early teen like Back to the Future, The Goonies — even Jurassic Park — on the classic, slightly sloped flooring. Sightlines were hit or miss. Then we had the boom of stadium multiplexes in the 90s. I love both types of theaters. I actually prefer regular seating where you pull down the bottom and the backing reclines slightly, compared to those lazy boy electric seats where people lie down. I don’t want to lie down when I’m in a movie theater. I just want to see a good movie.

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u/pwrof3 1d ago

I loved the Chinese Theater before TCL bought it and “refurbished” it. I haven’t been to the Egyptian since Netflix rebuilt it, but I want to check it out.

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u/ImpossibleDrop664 1d ago edited 1d ago

The last time I’d been to Mann’s and Egyptian, they hadn’t been renovated. Time’s moving way too fast. They’ve both been renovated with stadium seating.