Technically, this video is piracy. But never before has piracy been to such a noble use.
On January 14, "Hugo" moviegoers were treated to a 3 1/2-hour comedy of errors at the Regal Theater in Union Square. The evening included the film breaking twice (and apparently, long delays before anyone noticed) before, in the coup de grâce, the film started again with Regal advertising superimposed over the film's climactic scene. The result is the finest misbegotten movie mashup since "The Dueling Cavalier."
As Ben Kingsley delivers a heartfelt address, praising Hugo Cabret as "a brave young man who saw a broken machine," that's exactly what the 21st audience is experiencing -- in 3D, no less! -- as they're treated to superimposed images of cell phones, ads telling you how fabulous it is to have a movie night out, animated candy bars and popcorn buckets, and finally, what appear to be breakdancing robots and chipmunks....To be clear, that is one hell of a crappy theater experience; it's the sort of thing that makes all the hand-wringing over declining attendance a moot point. And the irony of it happening to a film that's a love poem to the magic of moviemaking, and of the movie-watching experience -- well, if you made a movie about this, no one would believe you. Unless, of course, you saw it on YouTube.
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