I like sitting in the back corner. I am tall and don’t want to block someones view. I also feel safer against the wall.

Movie theater? Nope. I hate it.
Live theater? It depends on the theater. An intimate venue, sure, I like the first row. Big Broadway theater, not so much, I prefer being on eye-level with the actors.

I like the back third or so of the movie theater. I have progressive lenses in my glasses and it is better for viewing for me than looking up at the screen from the front.

@RedDeerGuy1 what do you feel safe from? Why is a wall a protection?

Always in the middle, both horizontally and vertically.

@Aster I want to keep an eye out on the crowd. I also don’t want someone kicking my seat or putting their legs on my seat. Also the back set only has three chairs and I can go pee and get connsesions easier . Less to worry about from the back and the left.

At a movie theater, I like to be toward the front. I find people in front of me to be distracting. I am tall but I don’t like to be peering over heads or around heads. I find it annoying when people rustle candy wrappers or crunch on popcorn. I don’t want to be in the front row but maybe six rows back is about perfect for me.

At a movie theater with tiered seating, I like my eyes to be even with a horizontal line ⅔’ up from the bottom, and sit in the middle of the row.

At a concert, I like to be as close to the front as possible.

At a play or musical, I like to be about row 6,far enough back to see the whole stage.

At the opera, I like to be in dress circle.

I always sit close enough to the screen so it’s in full view, but far away enough where I don’t have to crane my neck upwards

Middle. If I have kids I sit next to the aisle.

I like the back part of the middle usually, depending how large the theatre is. I try to remember to bring my ear plugs for the sound. Where I live now the sound is never a problem. When I lived in TN I was really tempted to write some sort of government authority about the decibels. It was ridiculously loud in almost all the theatres when I lived near Memphis.

My zumba classes in Memphis were too loud too. I don’t know what the deal is there. Here no problem.

I like the first row of the second section of seating. Being in the very front hurts my neck. By being in the first row of the second section I won’t have someone directly in front of me and there is more leg room.

I prefer not to have to crane my neck up to see the movie as you have to do in the front row, but I’ll take what I can get. Around here people reserve their seats at movie theaters online up to a week in advance. We don’t usually plan that far ahead so we get stuck with the dregs. It’s not a big deal.

I get motion sick when I’m too close to the screen, so the front row is definitely out. I won’t watch a movie if it’s making me nauseous…. I was talked into sitting in the front row recently for an action movie (last row available at a really small theatre) and I had to keep my eyes closed for most of it. I prefer the back few rows, but I try to go wherever my group wants to—depending on the theater’s depth, I’ll just point to a cut-off row, “no lower than this.”

At play/dance/musical theatres, I wouldn’t prefer the front row—you lose some sense of stage depth and are often looking at the performers from below…. But if those the only available tickets, I’ll take them!

Back seat, hand down. The closer I am to the front the fewer details I can see. My ideal seat is the center of the back row. But I can hardly get to sit in that position in reality. I always go to the movie theater with friends and they like to sit in the middle, or worse, front. I just try to find the most faraway seat as possible. Still I can’t do anything if they decide to choose the seats at the edge, which I find equally annoying.

I used to prefer an aisle seat, about halfway back from the screen.
Now if I go, I am in a wheelchair, so I sit at the end of yhe row, wherever is level with the entrance.

I’d never sit in the front row at the cinema. I always sit in the back row.

I do often sit in the front row at the theatre, but it really depends on the placement of the stage. In some theatres, I prefer to be a little further back.

I can’t even survive a film from the balcony. I don’t go into cinemas anymore…..it hurts me and makes me nauseated.

I like to sit around middle row. Where I live, usually the very first front rows are reserved for VIP customers. Not that I understand what’s so good about sitting there. I hate to sit too close to the screen for brightness and loudness reason, not to mention that people from back row can spy on you.

We hire the entire screening room, seated in the VIP area with ease of access for Carstairs to tend as he would at home, can’t have him tripping over our feet spilling the coffee & what not.

I NEVER sit on the front row, and rarely closer than halfway back. Kills my neck and eyes. What a ghastly way to watch a movie on the big screen.

Generally, I like to be about ⅔ to ¾ of the way back, on the aisle.

The one exception to this was the movie Twister. It came out when I was married to my ex-husband. We loved that movie and found it playing at an inexpensive theatre with a full-size screen. (As opposed to those dinky cinema screens.) We watched it four times in one week, sitting in the front row.

Ditto @ Dutchess III Middle if possible, and close to the aisle, in case one or more of the kids (Inevitably) has to go pee in the middle of the film.

I like the very back, aisle seat. No one is behind me kicking my seat.