> Apparently, modern-day American moviegoers don't relate well to silence.

I saw Contact in the theater twice. The opening scene -- from the studio logo onwards -- was completely silent until the radio sounds suddenly begun. In each movie-going experience, there was inappropriate laughter when the silence went on for more than thirty seconds.

This is partially why I don't go to movie theaters all that often -- they let just *anyone* in.

-Faux "When I have some free time, I'll go into how good the Buffy The Vampire Slayer episodes 'The Body' and 'Hush' were in their use of silence." Pas