The New Talking Movies
A former Seinfeld writer writes an open letter to the couple who talked throughout an entire movie, thus ruining the experience for everyone else. We're not sure why we're bringing it up here, but it did bring tears of support to our eyes. Link. Excerpt:
Not that your dialogue wasn't intriguing. Twice during the showing, the man in your relationship could be heard using the word "verisimilitude." The intrigue lies in why he threw around a word that survives only on the pages of writers who try too hard. He wasn't trying to impress you, the woman in the relationship. You've heard him go mega-syllabic a million times. So, he must have said "verisimilitude" for the benefit of those sitting around him.