If only they'd upkeep the recliners.. my theather converted around covid, and half of the them are non functioning now. Broken buttons mostly, but it's especially bad around the center positioned seats everyone always takes.

[–] doug@lemmy.today 10 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I used to be an usher a while back and cleaning the basic foldy seats are no bueno, especially on kid/family movies— people are slobs. Shrek 2 was the WORST by far to clean up after, and it was in theaters for so long.

I cannot imagine how long and how much work it would take to thoroughly clean some of the recliners I’ve seen.

Coupled with that, nearly every chain cinema near us has cut staff/concessions down to combining concessions and tickets into the same booth/register, and the ushers are a skeleton crew.

They’re looking for a quick-fix/lowest effort draw for an audience and are only halfway there ‘cause uhhh ineptitude or greed or both. And it sucks ‘cause I’d hate to see all of these places shut down.

…although, one of them shut down near us and got bought by a local guy who has spruced it the hell up, so. We’ll see what happens.

[–] mushroommunk@lemmy.today 2 points 10 hours ago

I've heard from a few friend's kids that cleaning the recliners is basically easy mode. They're not cloth like the old founding seats so everything just wipes right off.

Dunno if that holds for all, just local anecdotes

[–] IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago

Came here to say pretty much the same thing. There are a few AMC theaters near us that my wife and I enjoy going to from time to time. But it’s clear they aren’t doing anything when it comes to maintaining & repairing their seats. They were awesome when the theaters were newly renovated, but the last time we went one of our seats was broken so badly we couldn’t sit comfortably in it. Luckily there were plenty of empty seats so we could move easily.