Why do movie theaters have a row of seats at the very front

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Why do movie theaters have a row of seats at the very front right next to the screen? No one wants to sit there. Whenever I go to the movie theater that row is always empty. So why do they bother putting in that row?

That's the one thing in the world that I was never able to figure out. I like to sit in the 10th row on a slightly higher plane.

If they took out that first row, then the second row would be the first row, and no one would sit in that row. This would continue until each row had become the first row, and ultimately there would be no seats. It is unlikely that people would pay money to view a movie in a theater in which they had to sit on the floor.

Me & a friend sat in the 1st row 1ce when I was little but I don't remember any of it.

I sat on the front row when I saw Pulp Fiction... the only seats left. I remember John Travolta and Samuel L Jackson had jaws 12' wide and tiny pin heads... and I got a pain in my neck halfway through.

Well actually those seats do get filled when the movie and the time its shown are popular enough. Plus, there will always be a front row; if the first row was taken off the second would become first etc. Front row is also where the places for people with wheelchairs often are 'cause it's easier that way.

I overheard some guys talking about this very issue this past weekend at the Avengers. They were wondering if they should have just waited for a later show instead of the front row seats. But someone said there weren't up to waiting another 45 minutes for the next show. I showed up early enough to grab the last 2nd row seat. Which, for me, is a lot better than a front row seat. The front row is too loud at the theater I go to.

They're for people who like to watch movies through the wrong end of binoculars.

Good question. I hate those seats. Last time I went to the cinema they only had available seats left for that movie on the third row and even that was too close for me. My neck wasn't happy about it!

I could think of nothing worse than sitting to close to the screen, i like to sit at the back up high.

I think it's a prehistoric throwback like the human appendix.

Beats me, why do stadiums have a "nosebleed section" where most people avoid sitting if they can it's so high you can barely see what's happening on the field, and is particularly unpleasant if you're afraid of heights? Or get nosebleeds? Although I've never heard of anyone actually getting a nosebleed just from the height.