Jesus, you really have to be a cunt to come up with an idea like that.
this post was submitted on 17 May 2025
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What is actually the point of it? Just to get even more screen time/ad time in?
"People can't leave their phones alone as it is, why don't we lean into the shitty behaviors?"
"cuntier" sounds like an old french word for a gynecologist
Pronounced - Coon-tea-ay
Are you kidding me? You telling me now the trend will be watching a movie in theaters with the seats in front of you lit up with phone screens most of the time?
"Why aren't people going to theaters anymore?"
What's the opposite of Poe's law? I see an article like this and I can only interpret it as satire.
It’s a chatbot that encourages people to tap, tap, tap on hand-held small screens as they watch films on a big one. Users gain access to exclusive trivia and witticisms in real time (synced with what’s happening in the movie).
So like live-tweeting (why was that a thing?) but with bots. Got it.
Uhm, so they can make worse movies and nobody notices?
Blumhouse deemed the experiment worthwhile. “The enthusiasm we saw from fans — especially younger ones — shows there’s real interest in finding ways to enhance, not replace, the fun of going to the movies,” Karen Barragan, a spokeswoman for the studio, said in an email on Thursday.
Blumhouse and Universal, however, have no plans to offer Movie Mate at screenings of new movies, including “M3GAN 2.0,” which arrives in theaters on June 27.
So if this experiment showed ″real interest″ why is this gimmick not continued?
I don't even like having my phone on during a movie. Not that I've been to a movie in like... 6 years now? Wait I think we saw one movie since the vaccinations first came out.