"Me" Culture Killing Movies
Via Hacking Netflix, via Scripting News…:
Ultimately, though, the worst thing that ever happened to movies happened when audiences began treating theaters like their living rooms. Their chatter destroyed the essential thrill of sitting in the dark sampling the Zeitgeist with hundreds of other people.
So here’s a message to Hollywood: You want us back? Bring back the usher. Not clueless, giggling teenagers but real ones, scary ones, like the chap in the picture above. The meaner the better, too, with full powers to evict talkers and other noisemakers. With an army of ushers, who will need roadblocks?
When we saw Batman Begins? A sea of cell phones and babies. So yeah, I’m agreeing with the WSJ.
[Edited 2005-07-19] Gothamist’s got its own bit of movie-goer fun joy to share. Not to dig up the usual are-a-parent/aren’t-a-parent clashes, but it certainly seems like most parents don’t know how to handle their crying children in public spaces these days…
