And if they’re not, Hilde Kate Lysiak will get the story.
https://orangestreetnews.com/2017/10/
Two years ago, Columbia Journalism Review did a profile on Hilde as she was beginning her career at age 8.
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She’s back and still badass:
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I just came here to post the same story. Yay, Hilde!
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Update:
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I loved her report on this. Great write up.
Personally I see this as being bigger than a cop picking on a girl, though. Cops seem to bully journalists and concerned citizens recording their overreach all the time.
This time, though, the reporter’s age and mode of transport amplified just how absurd police bullying is.
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How to start…
At some point last week, I agreed to take Kidd Jr. and his good friend to A Minecraft Movie because both my son’s friend’s parents refused to go and the boys desperately wanted to go.
OK, fine, we’ll go after school Friday if you can get your friend dropped off to school instead of riding his bike to school (they’re both 15, in the US).
So, we get to the theater multiplex with not a ton of time to spare for concessions, which was required because giant, growing boy children. Got the popcorn (no collector buckets, much to the boys’ disappointment), got to the imax theater I agreed to…
All was pretty normal until the green-band trailers - the kids in the room were not settling down.
Then the feature began.
Collectively, they yelled out dialog before the opening title made the screen, then they cheered when Jack Black first appeared on screen. They applauded when the title finally made the screen…
The kids in the audience had memorized the dialogue from the trailers, and shouted it out as the time arrived. They also loudly cheered at moments when key gameplay were introduced.
There were well-done homages to several prominent Minecraft gameplay YouTubers. Including a pretty nice tribute to a young man who died from cancer. Other Easter eggs along the way, too. (Kidd Jr helpfully explained these events later Friday night.)
As the closing credits appeared, they gave the movie a standing ovation! I have never experienced this before. Wow!
First post-credit scene…oh, it’s that guy from Jumanji and Fallout, neat. When the second post-credit scene finished, the kids screamed! There will be a sequel!
It was a thing. I am certain this is GenZ’s first, legit, Cult Classic. Why? Well, I’ve gone to experience Rocky Horror Picture Show…several…times. Allowed to throw things at the screen, and not. Same vibe, if not even more positive.
Explanation time…These kids have been playing Minecraft at least half their lives, and have been fed a steady diet of Jack Black movies (Kungfu panda, for starters, and very recently, the Mario Bros movie). They’re huge fans of both. The decision to make this movie, with this actor, is Hollywood kismet. The adult supporting cast is just icing on the cake. Oh, and Kidd Jr. informed me this afternoon that Dave Grohl, yes, that guy played drums on an original song that appears just before the end of the movie. Somehow, I suspect that Kidd Jr. isn’t the only kid out there basically born into Foo Fighters fandom.
Is it a great movie? Hells no. Is it a ton of fun if you manage to get a super excited tween/teen crowd? Hells yeah! Recommend otherwise?.. Do you get a kick out of “being there” when positive history unfolds before you? If so, go experience this movie with the rowdiest tween/teen crowd you can find.
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The kid is only 8 but we were considering going. She’s been into playing Minecraft with me and Jack Black is pretty awesome. I think we’ll be going 
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My boy (12) had been ambivalent about going. He was worried about it being a movie more for parents of Minecraft players than for people who love the game.
The trailer with this snippet set his mind at ease. He’s looking forward to it.
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I still read the BB emails from SS - Rob took his 8 year old on Saturday, presumably in Pittsburg, and had the same experience I did. Now I’m questioning if this is organic, or if the nation’s kids have decided to make this movie a thing. Doesn’t matter, it was fun.
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If you mean PA, it is Pittsburgh. Any Yinzer will have a cow if you try to take their “h.” If you mean some other “Pittsplace” then OK, I guess… 
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Apparently, not everyone enjoyed the trend as much as you did…
We go to a thrice yearly event at an indie cinema downtown, and people regularly cheer, laugh, etc, during the films they’re showing. It is a ton of fun! Some people need to get over themselves.
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OK, first off you’re expecting an engineer to spell stuff correctly all. the. time. I’m here to tell you that. is. never. happening. Second off, shame on my stupid phone for not flagging that as an incorrect spelling and/or autocorrecting wrong. As it does. A lot.
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People do need to get over themselves. Rather than piss off the kids the movie was made for (and who made this movie serious bank over the weekend), post disclaimers on the movie theater website and hang signs at the ticket counter warning patrons about what to expect.
It’s not a movie that’s going to win any of the high-profile Oscars, FFS. Let the kids have their fun in the theater, and those with sticks up their butts can stream it on Max in a few months, so they can watch this movie in the dead-silence of their own home. Good grief.
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Maybe your phone is from the Eastbay (Pittsburg, CA)?
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I agree… people whinging about decorum need to get over it…
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Oh yes. So much so.
In David Byrne’s “How Music Works”, he describes how prior to the 20th century, it was common for people in music halls (where they were playing what we now call “classical music”) to be talking, commenting out loud, cheering, complaining, tossing peanut shells, etc. It was only once music started getting much more complex in the late 19th / early 20th century that the audience was expected to sit quietly and listen attentively, or they’d miss the important bits.
The Minecraft Movie feels like an art work that can absolutely be enjoyed without reverent attention. If anyone has forgotten how to do that, the kids can show them.
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IIRC the descriptions of the crowds at the Globe and other theaters was not one of passive silence either…
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