Are you still the old fuddy daddy who doesn’t believe in or support smart phones and movie tickets apps/services and always gets a physical movie ticket when you make the drive to the theatre and go to the box office?

Or have you adapted and have a program like AMC A List, Regal Unlimited, Alamo Drafthouse and book your tickets online or days, weeks in advance and have a QR code when you arrive with everything booked especially your seat set.

Or is it 50/50 and sometimes you do when you see something on a whim.

I subscribe to Alamo Drafthouse Season Pass. I walk straight to my seat and show my ticket (that appears through the app) to my food server.

But, if on a whim and the theater has a kiosk that prints a ticket, I'll do that.

I hate my cell phone so I get physical tickets when I go to a movie. I only do it rarely unless the wife decides to go and its easier here to just go to the window and get a ticket. Nothing ever sells out because its a small town I think if I lived in a bigger city like Glasgow or something I would use a Digital ticket just to know it was available.

Even when I have a QR code, I take it to the kisok and print a physical ticket most of the time. Some of the theaters in my area actually make you do that, and I just do it out of habit at all of them.

Nope.

I have a membership to my local theater, so I just go up to the counter, tell the person, "I have a membership, here's my driver's license," and they hand me two tickets...

All the theaters here require reserved seats and I have to buy my tickets online. I have a confirmation code and sometimes the ticket counter person will take care of it and sometimes it's the ticket taker (who enters the code into a device and doesn't give me a physical ticket). Lately I've been entering my code at the kiosk in the lobby and sometimes it prints my tickets and sometimes it glitches.

Physical tickets. I don’t buy in advance because I’d rather not sit next to some schmuck in his jam jams with his blanket.

I usually pick up physical tickets in advance for any movie I think will be very crowded like opening night so I can still get in if there's a problem scanning tickets.

If I go to the movies, it's usually on a whim during non-peak hours. So I'll go the kiosk and get a printed ticket.

I almost always get my tickets in advance via the cinema's app, so no physical tickets most of the time.
However, there's a weekly horror movie club every Friday night, and I've gone enough times to earn free admission to only those shows for a year. One caveat is that it means I have to get my free physical ticket at the box office, and it doesn't show up as a purchased ticket in the app.

I have the Regal Unlimited but come in for a ticket since I can avoid the extra fee they would tack on otherwise.

Tickets very rarely sell out to movies where I live so there’s no reason for me to really buy in advance. My theater doesn’t have reserved seating. It’s just as easy for me to buy a ticket at the concession stand and I usually go there anyways to get a drink and have my popcorn bucket filled. I don’t necessarily care about getting a physical ticket since they’re only printed on receipt type paper though.

This. I’ll occasionally pay the 50 cent surcharge if I want to pick my seat early, but that’s rarely an issue.

How does buying them at the box office prevent that exactly?

Because when I go five minutes before the movie starts, I can choose my seat away from seats that are taken. As opposed to choosing my seat days in advance only to find out that I have a neighbor come show time.

Nope. What's annoying is that when I approach the entryway of the theater - the lobby and ticket buying booth tend to get flooded with people scrambling for tickets. I buy my tickets in advance - set it and forget it! The theater apps work perfectly.

Now if I'm rolling solo to a film and someone happens to buy a ticket sitting right next to me, well, then that's their problem for not doing their due diligence. I'm not fucking moving.

I pay the 50 cents everytime. I have never gone to the window to avoid the fee. I like knowing what seat i'll be in before i leave my house

I never pay any extra fee to book a ticket online. My theater loyalty cards take care of that for me.

I almost always use the app and buy digital tickets, but I did go to the box office fairly recently. That's because I had gift cards attached to my account, but one of them had about $3 on it, and I wasn't sure if the app was smart enough to take that amount from one GC and deduct the balance from another one.

I recall a while back that the app could only take one GC per transaction and that any outstanding balance had to be paid for using a debit or credit card, so I figured it'd just be easier to go to the box office rather than monkeying with the app.

Like a few posters who've mentioned that they print out electronic tickets, I'll do the same if I have more than one bar code for the usher to scan. It's just faster than having to pull up a different BC for each ticket.

When I go to the movies, last time though was Avengers: Endgame I think, yes I get physical tickets.

Yeah, I might not wait in line just to avoid the surcharge, but my theater doesn’t even staff the ticket windows most of the day, I use the kiosks. And my theater is rarely crowded, so getting my preferred seat is never a problem.

I still get physical tickets. I have a scrap book that I keep them in.

Most chains charge an extra fee for buying online, which I hate, so I buy them at the theater and they get printed out whether I like it or not. But if I pre-order for a big movie, nope! I just use the email/QR code.

I've saved nearly every ticket for the past 21 years, have them in a photo album with plans to do something one day. I do still get physical tickets when available but I've noticed that the ink is disappearing faster now. I have tickets from 20 years ago that you can still clearly read, yet ones from last year are totally faded.

I also have done the same for concerts, I pay to have physical tickets sent to me.