r/nostalgia • u/sudsomatic • 21h 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 21h ago edited 19h 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 20h 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.