Posted by Ursula Hitler at 1:20 AM on Septem

I don't even want to think about what movie-going may be in 5-10 years, when these kids take it for granted that all movies are an entirely interactive experience. Going to the movies in 2013 can already feel like an ordeal. But the danger of a show like this is that the idea may escape into the wider movie ecosystem, and spread. There's a place for kiddie screenings where toddlers shriek and stomp and carry on. They were there to see the show, not be the show. Even during the days when kids would spend entire afternoons taking in cartoons and serials and a couple of B-movies, I doubt they were making a lot of noise during the movie. Sure, the really little, dopey kids talked during the movies sometimes, but they were shushed, as they should have been. Kids actually sat in dark rooms, in rapt attention, watching Chaplin, Pinocchio, Forbidden Planet, Star Wars, et al. We shouldn't expect, or even encourage, children to sit in a dark room and quietly watch a screen.įor generations, that's what the movies were supposed to be. Some jackass smashed our door ($600), broke into the shop, left a $1500 laptop, a $1000 computer, a $300 float, and made off with The Little Mermaid.Īlways wondered if he was crazy drunk and jonesing for the flick or had promised his kid the movie for her birthday and panicked when he realized it was out of print and impossible to find. I look at the spine, punch the number into the computer. On the counter that morning was an empty case. The system we used to have was that a person would bring the empty VHS box up to the counter-the box had a number on the spine and we'd match that to the correct tape, which we kept behind the counter, which we'd then rent the customer. So I call a cab and head into the store at 3 in the morning and take a look around while the glass people fix the door. I was pretty pissed because I happened to leave my laptop there that night. I worked in a video store in the 90s and one night the cops called me and told me the store had been broken into.

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