When Movies Were as Feared as GTA
At Stephen Totilo's MTV Blog today, he writes about some seemingly unrelated movie reviews from the early 20th Century and how he realized just how related to games they are....
1916 article: "85 percent of the juvenile crime which has been investigated has been found traceable either directly or indirectly to motion pictures which have shown on the screen how crimes could be committed."
1932 article [...]: "To us, the question of whether film is art or not seems misplaced, and ought to be replaced by one regarding the degree to which it might become art."
The top critic of the day called people who went to the cinema as "movie morons."