No Surprise

Jeff Jarvis of BuzzMachine takes his teenaged son o see the New Woody Allen movie and notes:

The entire audience was geriatric. There wasn’t a person in the theater — in a decent crowd, by the way — who was under 50 and most won’t see 60 again. Not one hair follicle — those left — carried its natural color of youth. My son personally lowered the mean age in the place by 30 years.

Insty linked to it, but I can't say that I am surprised at all. I was playing a party game a few years ago with people slightly younger. I forget the game. But the card would say "kinds of cheeses" and your team would shout out answers as one member furiously typed them into a computer.

Every topic was a race of furious typing with the buzzer cutting off answers. Until our team got "Woody Allen movies." I got "Sleeper" and "Bananas," somebody got "Annie Hall," then we sat in stone silence waiting for the buzzer.

These folks were all younger, hipper, and more liberal than me, yet his movies meant nothing to them. I've seen "Sweet and Low" since then. The jazz was nice, but Woody's dour view of life pervades it, and Sean Penn is not one of my personal faves either.

Anybody going to defend the great director around here? I'm guessing not, but, you ever know.

Posted by jk at July 31, 2006 11:19 AM