{"id":39847,"date":"2025-04-10T17:26:59","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T21:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=39847"},"modified":"2025-04-10T17:26:59","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T21:26:59","slug":"vinay-menon-a-minecraft-movie-is-a-minefield-for-non-gamer-moviegoers-should-we-endure-the-flying-popcorn-or-teach-the-kids-to-behave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=39847","title":{"rendered":"Vinay Menon: \u2018A Minecraft Movie\u2019 is a minefield for non-gamer moviegoers \u2014 should we endure the flying popcorn or teach the kids to behave?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/67f7f94da586a.image_.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">What are cinemas to do about bad behaviour at \u201cMinecraft\u201d screenings? Kids will be kids, but paying customers deserve to enjoy an outing that does not involve ducking snack projectiles and soda tsunamis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/entertainment\/a-minecraft-movie-is-a-minefield-for-non-gamer-moviegoers-should-we-endure-the-flying\/article_e6d2294c-1d94-4835-a7b1-a35179d3f039.html\">Vinay Menon: \u2018A Minecraft Movie\u2019 is a minefield for non-gamer moviegoers \u2014 should we endure the flying popcorn or teach the kids to behave?<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>article mentions &#8220;Rocky Horror Picture Show&#8221;, where squirt guns made rain (during the arrival at castle) or throwing toast during the wedding scene, etc.  these wewre pretty harlmess, relatively easy to cleanup (and the rhps crowd seemed like they&#8217;d help); i think the current trednd here would be less disruptive if they stuck to popcorn and other dry  stuff, like with th rhps toast it&#8217;s realtively easy to clean up.  but you add splashing pop and sluchies  around and the celnaup is much more diff icult.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What are cinemas to do about bad behaviour at \u201cMinecraft\u201d screenings? Kids&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[168,1607,1482],"class_list":["post-39847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-games","tag-kids-these-days","tag-minecraft","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39847"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39850,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39847\/revisions\/39850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}