Addressing the didn't-see-'em factor

This little nugget of insanity has been making the rounds on the Web lately.

These are some of the best movies that the filmmaking culture is turning out now. Every year there are at least 20 or 25 films that are somewhere between excellent, very good or good enough to watch and think about later. If regular people in Boston and Saskatchewan are living such insulated and cut-off lives that they can’t be bothered to go to some of these films unless it has an advertised ‘happy pill’ vibe then the hell with them. They’re children. I have no time for childishness, and neither does anyone else of any worth. Life is short.

While I suppose it’s comforting to think that movies are some great piece of the human experience, or whatever, consuming them really isn’t all that necessary to being a decent human being. Why does going to see a movie have to be a chore? What’s wrong with people wanting to go see a movie for pure escapism?

Seriously, this high-minded contempt of the so-called philistines of middle America is getting old. Living in a cultural capital doesn’t make people any better than the rest of humanity. It just apparently makes them snobs.