Last night Daft Punk's film Electroma screened at the Uptown theater. Their midnight movie slot is usually reserved for well-known flicks like The Big Leboswki and A Clockwork Orange -- essentially repertory cinema for dummies. But I think I'm starting to get why they're not screening Takashi Miike or even Russ Meyer movies. Their audience just isn't ready.
The mostly college-aged crowd were rowdy, which I can forgive in a late night screening. But they were also stupid. Granted, the movie was glacially paced and didn't contain a single note of Daft Punk's music. But that hardly accounts for the bonehead behavior of the audience. They couldn't even heckle the movie properly. I'm thinking this is because many of them were drunk rather than tripping their hairless little balls off. Silly younglings. If you're in your early 20s and you're not watching these movies on acid or at least stoned you're doing it wrong.
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