Seen reports of people going to empty, nearly bought out theaters. Me thinks someone is inflating the numbers on this movie trying to convince the naysayers that the movie is popular when it is not. Brie Larson is clearly SJW and her comments over the past weeks/months have turned off many folks, myself included. Will not be going to see this film.
Alita, Battle Angel, however, kicked butt and was a great movie!
With sites like Fandango should be easy enough to check, if a cinema does reserved seats. Some enterprising journo can buy tickets to a few close to sold out showings and see if there are real butts in the seats.