Text messaging at movies shows boredom

Kids text messaging while watching a movie becomes critics' tool to measure audience interest.

At a screening of 'The Polar Express', a film critic at The UK Telegraph writes: "This is a film that invokes awe, but totally fails to induce it. At the screening I attended, most of the young audience spent the second half text-messaging friends."

emily | 1:22 PM | SMS and The Movies |
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