Why the surprise?

We went to a preview of the new Australian movie, Kenny, tonight. More on that later.

Why is it that at any movie preview, you will always find people walking into the cinema five or more minutes after the scheduled start time, looking very, very surprised and/or annoyed that the best seats are already taken?

Here’s a hint: If you don’t like sitting in the front couple of rows and putting an unnatural bend in your neck trying to see all the action; if you don’t like coming in a group of four and finding that there are no longer four seats available together in the cinema, try turning up on time or even 15 or 20 minutes before the scheduled start time like the rest of us do.

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Rodney Olsen

Rodney is a husband, father, cyclist, blogger and podcaster from Perth Western Australia.

He has worked in radio at Perth's media ministry Sonshine for over 25 years and has previously worked at ministries such as Compassion Australia and Bible Society.

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3 Comments

  • you sound almost annoyed at people like that. i remember going to see PoTC: Dead Man’s Chest on the first day about 11am. We got there 10 mins early and the only seat’s left were at the front. shouldn’t people be at work?

  • it’s funny that the first seat taken in a movie cinema always seems to be the middle seat in the back row. Whenever I go to a movie even if there is only 1 or 2 people in the cinema before me the back/middle seat is always taken. But there are generally still plenty of good seats available, sometimes i purposly turn up late so i don’t have to watch all of the advertising that goes on before the movie starts.

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