Okay, I have kids. I "get it" when we, as parents, are hesitant about some of the new-fangled things our kids get into, and why shouldn't we be? The old-fangle is closer to our heart and eminently more familiar, and that hesitancy may even drive us to investigate and become involved in our progeny's pursuits; to parent. Unfortunately, it's much easier to not just think about any of that and translate the hesitancy into hostility. It has happened with music, it has happened with movies, and it continues to happen with video games.
Eventually, like our kids, the generation gap grows older and leaves the home, and might manifest its maturity in statements like this from people who directed the recent Prince of Persia movie (without naming names):
God damn the gamers! Get them out of my head! The Prince of Persia movie is a great big, general entertainment with a romance, a boy and a girl, comedy, action, and a very good melodramatic story. It should be enormous, free reign entertainment. That's what a Bruckheimer movie is, and that's what this tries to do. But when the discussion turns to the minutiae of games, it begins now to bore the arse off me, frankly.
Okay it's Mike Newell. Luckily, he's just getting warmed up. When asked "at which point games become a threat to Hollywood," he continues:
Well, here we are, talking about the God damn games again. The answer is yes, of course they can become a threat to Hollywood. But
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